8months and The Day Family Reunion

Can you believe Miss Rylee is 8months old! 

It just hit me, my little girl is almost one! 

Where did the time go?

Miss loves having her animal book read to her
Still has her mom anxiety
She eats anything I give her but seems to get constipated more often than not  (TMI)
She crawls all over now ends up in every room
Loves her paci and takes it wherever she goes
She grunts about everything
She has learned to "scream" but only does it while going to sleep
She has learned to kinda wink and also do high fives
She has started to rock on her knees and hands
She loves other little kids specially cousins
She doesn't like the shower but does okay in the bath
She crawls to you when you call her name
If her paci isn't in her mouth then her fingers or toes are
She sighs its so quiet and high pitched
Her Favorite things are animals alive and stuffed

Rusty and Serene's one of many items on ebay

We spent the 4th of July with my family but had dinner over at Josh and Aubrey's.
The little girls got these cute outfits from (Great) Grandma before they were even born. They were from Navoo and I was nervous Rylee wouldn't fit in it but she did! 

We spend Sunday dinners over at Josh and Aubrey's almost every week. Uncle Josh just loves to feed the babies everything you probably shouldn't give them yet. ( aka Soda)

These two pictures just crack me up. 

^Rylee is not happy and Brinley and I both look so concerned

Below they just love baby Einstein's 

1st Day Family Reunion

We started the weekend off at Genghis Grill. 

Very interesting, you got all the ingredients yourself and than they cook it. 

(I'm not a good cook so it was a bit more trying for me to know what to put for what)

Then we went to Dave and Busters (an arcade for adults)

Saturday Morning we started it off at IHOP

Then off to the Resort

Saturday was my parents 30th Anniversary 

Aren't they looking hot for 30 years of marriage?!

Started it off right at the Lazy River

Rylee did really well in her own little floaty thing that i don't have a picture of but she did not like getting close to the waterfall (She doesn't like water in her face)

Babies learned to splash the water

Rusty and I decided to try the surf thing because when would we be able to do it again.

The guy that taught us how to do it all ^ and then he would pushed us to do tricks!

We both had some gnarly wipe outs! 

My neck is still sore from this! 

We had a fan section

Grandpa was playing the drums with Rylee

Ain't she cute in her little towel shirt?

We had lots of fun and ended the night at cheesecake factory and church on sunday! 

We got to celebrate both Ashley's Birthday and My parents Anniversary and can i just say I have an awesome family! Both babies did so well even not really having a nap and being in the sun all day! 

Can't wait for the next time we have one of these! 

 We went to the bone specialiest and so far no brace! 

We just have to go in for a check up later and make sure her hips are still growing the way they need to. So the angle that your femur and pelvic bone meet is normally  24/25 and Rylee as one leg thats 27 and the other 28 so a little higher but at 30 is were they are a lot more concerned and so as long as it stays there she should be good! #fingerscrossed 

This week as also been a week from well heck.

 Rusty was down with the flu so bad i swear it was chemo all over again. He couldn't leave the room without ending up on the floor he felt so sick. He was nauseous, his head hurt, he was coughing, and throwing up. Rylee also had some bronchitist so i was doing some breathing treatments with her and she was not sleeping good. One night i ended up sleeping on the floor with her since she would not sleep every time i put her down in her bed. 

Man can this month get any worse? 

 

So she hated these breathing treatments which was just salines drops but after awhile she figured that it was calming and she was just fall asleep! 

These are a few of her favorite things the outlet that she can't get to, phones, dvd's, toys that rattle, and her stuffed animals and of course real animals (she loves poncho and tiki the dogs of the girls i baby sit-she follows them around and looks for them it is so cute). She also loves little people, being held, kicking her legs, people saying hi to her, her carseat, binkie, necklaces so she can chew on them, all kinds of food (I haven't found something she wouldn't eat), eating when you eat even if she just ate, water, and really being apart of whats going on and getting into anything and everything! 

 Some Fun Selfies with Rylee!

I baby sit for he first time in weeks this next coming week so I hope i don't get sick cuz we will need the money since Rusty missed so much. 

Have I told you that we got new couches since we sold the mazda?!

 So now we just have the 2 4runners and a place for people to sit once they get here. 

Josh and Ashley have bought a house and we have been helping them and since the carpet  desperately needed to be changed out so Ash got a blow up swimming pool for them to stay in and not get onto the carpet. 

(of course we had to blow it up as far as we could since my daughter learned to get over it)

Travis hanging with them

Rylee With Cypris 

while Frances a girl from work that colors my hair! 

We have also started "sleep training" 

I finally had enough of holding her to sleep and doing a whole routine at night. So we tried once for a nap and Rusty went to pick her up and well that ruined it and so a few days later i was like I'm just gunna do it. It ended up only taking like 45min to fall asleep the first time and now its only minutes. We still have our rough days where she wakes up every four hrs so i might have to let her cry for that but its hard when you are so tired and also Rusty has to wake up early.. She still sleeps with the binkie and puts it in by herself to sleep. 

You know, I am understanding now why you go 9months to fall in love  with the idea of being a mom and having your own lil one. You also have the first few months to enjoy this human being that you created and loving every min of it because you have to have that foundation for weeks like this one. 

Miss Rylee is about 7months old and now I really can't do anything.
Lil rug-rats are needy no doubt about that but now that she has learned to "army" crawl is what I am going to call it you can tell she gets frustrated that she can't follow me everywhere in the house fast enough. 

Rylee knows without a doubt now who her mom is and that is exciting because I used to feel low on the totem poll but now I can't go anywhere without her having a full on melt down. If I'm sitting next to her she is totally content playing with her toys or in her bouncer but if I get up for heavens sake to just go to the bathroom she starts crying so hard she can't breath and can't make a sound till she catches up with her breath. I mean baby I am literally not that far away and sometimes I can still see her and she still has a fit.. Do i just let her cry..? This is not good those little teeth better be coming (my excuse for everything because I need some sort of explanation to keep my sanity) or something because I have dishes to do and laundry that needs to be done and don't forget my own personal hygiene..Oh and she won't really take a nap so that just makes it harder. Is this normal, does it get better? 

Some parents are like welcome to "real" parenthood because Rylee has been out of the norm for most babies but can she really have a complete 180? I may be over exaggerating a tiny bit but I seriously can't get anything done. She obviously needs her mom right now but its exhausting. The cuteness of it is a small part that you can see her excitement that mom is gong to pick her up and she looks for me..As Serene says "oh Jamee your freedom is gone and Baylee still sometimes does that"  

Babe she may just be our only kid...

Rylee went in for her "6month" check up the other day..we are a little behind because she was sick at her 4month check up so we didn't do shots till later.
HT in 27.50 88%
Wt lb 20 1.3oz 93%
Head In 17.52 91%
She has kinda  plat-toed and defiantly is not growing a pound a week anymore. She still has all her rolls but she is getting longer and the doc said she is as big a one year old and should weigh 24pounds by the time she is one.
Dr. Nielsen also reassured me her whole anxiety thing is a phase and is normal.  :/
We also didn't get the greatest news and Rylee has to go see a bone doc because one of her legs is a little fatter than the other and so Doc has not been able to see if her legs are lined up right. We took an X-ray just for the piece of mind of the doc but turns out there might be something wrong...I just started to cry when she called..I know she may just need a splint or something but she is my baby  .. Rusty hopes they don't have to break her leg and I'm like uh wow thanks for going to the extreme ..
I'll give updates next week..

We spent memorial weekend in Tucson

Grandma loves swinging with her grand babies 

The cosmetology girls got together! We were missing Andrea who is on a mission!  

I put on Kortnee's glasses 

 She makes me laugh at all the positions i find her in while she sleeps.

 We drove home on Monday and went swimming with the Edwards side of the fam

 Leah and Rylee

 I gotta say Rylee looks more and more like Rusty as she gets older then i see my baby picture and go idk she looks a lot like me too!