It seems as though every day she gets a little closer to being able to walk on her own. Aunt Laura asked me the other day how her walking was going and asked if she could see her do it, and then I realized I had not posted a video of her walking yet. Most of you saw her totting a little at Christmas, but she has gotten much better since then. -k
Rylee and I are headed to Texas on Wednesday, but we are ready to come now. This morning we went to the gym with our friends, Hank and Avery, and then to Costco. When we went into Costco it was cloudy but the sun was still trying to shine, but by the time we came out this is what it looked like outside. Needless to say we will not be leaving the house again today.
With the current writers strike we are struggling to find something good on TV. After the golf tournament was over, and the Mavericks game, Daddy found an episode of American's Funniest Home Video's, so we watched. Rylee sat down in her chair and watched with us, even laughing as we laughed and pointing at the funny events on TV. When they were doing the part dedicated to animals she was extremely excited about recognizing the puppies on the screen. She also has her own remote, don't tell her it doesn't work, that she kept pointing at the TV every time Daddy would use his remote. - k
I couldn't help but take a picture of my little mad scientist! When we take her hair out of all the ponytails it just goes in every direction no matter what we do. She is so funny when you take the ponytail holders out she rubs and scratches her head like it feels so good.
The outfit... She crawled upstairs this evening and came back to me holding two bathing suit bottoms. I had both of them on over her pants but we had a little accident and had to wash the pants and one of the swim suit bottoms. After the accident she turned into a little summer baby in her suit. Oh and it is currently 35 degrees outside!
Rylee was extremely excited to have Daddy home after work today, she couldn't get enough of him. She sat still next to Daddy and watched the golf tournament for about 20 minutes, long enough to see that Tiger Woods is still amazing! Daddy is hoping this interest in golf means that it won't be long until Rylee is out there golfing with him!
Our friend's let us borrow their extra car seat while cousin Megan was here, and I had been meaning to wash it for a few weeks. So, on Wednesday I finally brought the car seat in and washed the cover. The car seat was just sitting in the family room and Rylee had a great time climbing in and out of the car seat. By the end of the day she was able to buckle herself in the car seat. In this picture she was sitting in the seat watching an episode of Sesame Street, and she was really watching for the first time. Maybe I should bring her car seat inside for her to play in more often.
Our bear, Doodle, is upstairs sleeping with Rye, so pictures of Doodle will come tomorrow. Rylee's friend Kennedy is moving to Arizona this week, so last Friday they had a birthday/going away party for her. We went to the Gibson's house and had some pizza and cake, and then we all headed down to Build-a-Bear to make bears to remember Kennedy. We named our bear Doodle after Kennedy, it is her nickname! Trace took this picture of Rylee as we arrived at Build-a-Bear. Thank you to her for remembering her camera!!
After shoveling an average of 18 inches of snow off the driveway yesterday in my mesh tennis shoes, I wrote my husband an email informing him of my new need. I guess he felt sympathetic for me, because he took me to REI tonight and got me a great pair of boot. I will no longer freeze my toes off or slip and slide down the driveway. What a great husband I have!!
I was blogging my previous two posts, and I started wondering where Rylee had ventured off to. I was sitting at the kitchen table and I could hear her but i could not see her, so off I went to see what she want into. I found her behind the over sized chair in the family room. She had managed to wiggle herself behind the chair to play with the toys that were still behind it. Most of the toys are now upstairs, but there are a few still back there and she found them. She is currently sitting back there playing with the ice cream set that goes to her kitchen. No complaints here, she is happy and quiet! -k
Rylee is now smart enough to know where we hide things from her. Her 4-wheeler is stored in our front bathroom, because if it was out we would be chasing her on it all day. But, lately she had been crawling over to the bathroom door and asking for it. Today I was on the phone with Aunt Erica and I heard Rylee pounding on the door yelling, "dat, dat, dat!" I asked her if she wanted to ride her 4-wheeler and she got extremely excited and started smacking the door even harder. I got it out for her and we road it around for about 20 minutes, until she decided it was more fun to hop off and push it. - k
On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I go to the gym at 8:30, so generally I do not look outside before I come downstairs. This morning I woke up got myself and Rylee ready, came down stairs and opened the garage to find this. My first thought was, 'ah man I am going to have to shovel all of this.' I went to the gym and this is a picture of what our driveway/street looked like when I got home. We live in a little bit of a snow drift area so we end up with more on our driveway than most. It is still snowing right now and the Weather Channel does not project it to stop until 7:00 tonight. Sounds like fun! - k
Rylee cannot keep her hands off of baby Lucas. He is such a good sport to let her play with him. She tried so hard to be soft and sweet to Lucas, but she just gets a little to excited around the baby. - k
These two kids are trouble when they are together. They have so much fun playing together I wish they could do it more often! On Sunday the two of them climbed the stairs and started playing in Grandma and Papa's room. We kept checking on them on and off all evening, but every time an adult went into the room Bryson would tell us to leave! After a while the two of them had made quite a mess in Grandma's room, but they had fun doing it. - k
This picture just makes me smile every time I look at it, so I thought I would share it with you. - k
