Saturday, January 8, 2011

...19 months...

I kind of figured that once Rylee turned a year I would stop with the monthly updates, but she is still doing so many new things that I don't want to forget!

Yep, Rylee is 19 months now, and not a little baby anymore.
She for sure doesn't look like a little baby anyways, and she for sure doesn't need any ones help anymore either! She is our Miss Independent and we just cant seem to get enough of her!

New Things at 19 months

In the morning when she gets up she yells, " Mom" over and over again until I go in and get her. Then she lays on my shoulder and gives me a kiss. The first thing she asks for is milk in a ba ba. (Milk can mean anything to drink and a ba ba is her sippy cup.) We get her a drink and then go lay on the couch and watch some Mickey Mouse clubhouse! Its the perfect routine! 

She is starting to say so much. I love her little voice, and the way she talks with her hands. 

When a song comes on that she likes she says, " dance momma dance." She stops what she is doing and starts spinning and clapping and dancing. 

When our cat scratches the couch Rylee runs over and tells her, " No No Moe Moe." 

She always has a baby in her arms, or she is pushing one in the stroller. She likes to give put blankets over them and tell them night night.

When I pull out new clothes she has to try them on. We were going through a bin of clothes that will fit her this summer, clothes I bought before she was even born, and sure enough by the time we were done she had layers of dresses and leggings and shoes on! She will stand there until you tell her she looks cute and then you have to clap. 

As much as it bothers me at the time, I love when we are driving and she says mom mom mom mom mom until I look back at her and say what. I cant just say what I have to look at her too. 

Every fruit is an apple. She will ask for an apple and hand me an orange to peel, or grapes to be put in a bowl. She also knows where her bowls are, and hands me one when she is hungry.  

She is a little ball of energy! I don't know how she goes and goes and goes, especially when she hardly eats anything during the day! She makes me tired by noon everyday!

When we go to Chevron to get a drink she has to get one too, but she always tells the girls," Thanks for me milk." Then about 20 times on the drive home I hear, " Mom,Ry Ry's milk."

She looks like her daddy, and has a temper like her daddy! If you tell her not to do something she looks at you, grunts, and then throws whatever she can grab. The other day it was a plate of eggs and yogurt. I don't know what to do with her?!

She loves her cousins and can say most all of their names. She also knows all her Utah Aunts and Uncles by name and face. My favorite names she says are Ka Ka ( Katie) Shaw ( Shani) Booo ( Billy) Say ( Sayla) AAAAbbyyy ( Abby) and Deeee ( Dustin). The other day we were at John and Summers house for a party. I told Ry it was time to go, and she told us bye, and clung tight to Summer. She didn't want to leave her! That was the first time she has ever done that. I kind of felt bad, but at the same time I am so glad that we have such good family and that Ry feels safe with them!

She loves to sweep and gets mad when I take away the broom!

Im sure there is more, I just cant think of anything else!
We Love You Rylee!!!


Friday, January 7, 2011

...Favorite Food...


There's not much this little girl will eat, and when she does eat its a fight!  

Her diet consists of yogurt, grapes, oranges, cheese, toast with honey, crackers, fruit snacks, fench fries, cheerios, Cafe Rio sweet pork, and her all time favorite food that she will eat any time of the day come rain or shine is....

MAC & CHEESE!!!
(just like her momma!)

She loves it.
She loves it more then anything in the world.
You show her the container or box and she cries until she gets it.
I wish this is how she was with all food!!




Wednesday, January 5, 2011

...One more reason to LOVE her...

Rylee was being extra quiet today while I was cleaning up breakfast. Then she started giggling to herself. I grabbed my camera and went to see what she was doing. I found this trying to run down the hall...


I could not stop laughing at her. She could hardly move in those slippers, and the one was on backwards. Every day she gives me one more reason to love her, and one more reason to be thankful she is mine!
* Its 3:30 in the afternoon, and I have yet to find where she took her diaper off at!*

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

...The TV...

For Christmas Santa brought Chasey a TV that had a shattered screen. We took it back to Walmart... that's where Santa got it... but it was a discontinued item. All they would do was give us back our money. Too bad a multi billion dollar company couldn't give us $89 off of a different TV, so it would be the same price. We ended up finding the TV that Chasey really wanted at RCWilley. Only problem was that it was on a 2 hour sale, and they only had 10 TVs. Chasey told me that if I was the best wife I would get him that TV, he was kidding... kind of! The next morning me and Ry rolled out of bed at 7:00 am, filled up the car with gas, got us a donut, and headed over to Orem. I didn't know how many people would be there, but I figured there would be a few. We got there, and we were the only people there. I entertained Rylee in the car for 2 hours. About 9:30 the parking lot started filling up, so I hurried and got in line. I was the first person in line... thank you! Since I was the first one in line they gave me a coupon to guarantee me a TV. It was totally worth it,and Chasey was stoked that we got it!

We slept on the couch, so we would be sure to get up on time!

Ry with her donut

Empty parking lot.

Such a trooper!
She was out as soon as we hit the freeway.

...Last Christmas Post of 2010...

Sunday after Christmas we went down to see Grandma and Grandpa Larsen. We tried making down on Christmas day, but it was so nice to just home and not do anything! Grandma got Rylee a cute phone, and some really cute books that we read a 100 times while we were there.


Grandma has a cat that is beyond mean! You cant even walk too close by him or he starts hissing. Rylee doesn't understand why she cant play with him, so its a fight every time we go down there.

Love this picture of the two of them.

We had a great visit with Grandma and Grandpa!

After we left their house we went up to my Dad and Karen's house. My brother and his family came into town again, so we were excited to see them. Brady got a Kinect for his Xbox, so we played that for a little while. Its actually REALLY REALLY fun!!
Here are some pictures of everyone playing!



Sue
Isn't she beautiful?!

Spencer
He loved his BYU hat form Grandma and Grandpa Craig.

Rylee was so tired while we were up there, but she wouldnt let me hold her. She finally walked up to Abby, held up her arms until Abby picked her up, and laid on her shoulder.

Friday, December 31, 2010

...More Christmas Day...

On Christmas Day after our 4 hour nap we Skyped with Chasey's family, Rylee colored all night on her new table from Grandma and Grandpa Craig, and we watched Toy Story 3. It was a very relaxing very nice Christmas night!!









Even after our long nap Ry still went back to bed at 9! She layed on our couch with her new Barbie until she fell asleep. I love her so much, and I am so thankful that she is ours!! She made Christmas so much more fun!



...Santa Found Us...

Santa definitely found us Christmas morning, and left more then he should have!

Ever since I was little our family tradition has been to leave your stocking where you want Santa to leave your gifts. It seemed like it was the same places every year... Shani left hers on the fireplace, mine was on the wood bin, and the boys got the couches. Then on Christmas morning you knew what was yours. Also Santa left all of his gifts unwrapped, assembled, and ready to play with. That's what Chasey and I have decided to do too!



We had places to be at 10 and at noon, so when Rylee still wasn't up at 8:15 we went ahead and woke her up. BAD IDEA! She didn't sleep good that night, and I had given her some benadryl. She was so cranky, and just wanted to go back to bed!! I thought she would be so excited to her gifts, and want to go play with them. Instead she just wanted me to hold her! Finally she spotted Minnie Mouse, and she ran over to her!


We couldnt get that dang mouse out the box fast enough.

She opened a few more gifts, and wanted to play with them as soon as she saw them. So you know how many twisty tie things are on toys these days? Good night, its ridiculous!!



Going through her stocking.





Santa brought Chasey his TV!!


Look at our sweet little Rylee throwing one of her fits!

In her stocking she got a candy cane full of M&M's.
We could have given her that and nothing else!

Such a happy girl!
Not even on Christmas could I get a smile out of her!

I have wanted this picture for a long time, and Chasey remembered and got it for me!

What a mess!

Grandma Paula comes over to see what all the kids got on Christmas morning.

Having some Christmas breakfast on our new table.


My neighbor gave us a really good story a week before Christmas, about how Christmas isn't only for kids. That there are older people who don't have any family on Christmas, and we need to remember everyone. We decided that instead of helping a family this year for Christmas ( too many bad experiences anyways with that), we would go to the rest home Christmas morning and spend time with those who didn't have any family. I called and got two names and what they liked/needed for Christmas. It was so much fun shopping for them, and even more fun going over there and seeing how happy they were to have visitors. They loved Rylee, and thought she was so cute. Rylee had brought her new Cabbage Patch over with her, and showed all the ladies her baby. We had such a great time!  It is something that we will for sure start doing every year!

Darlene is on the couch next to us. She loves to color, so we brought her a bunch of new paper, crayons, pencils, and markers! She was so happy!!!

Howard likes Sprite and 3 Muskateers.

Howard asked for a picture with me and him. He has a whole wall of him and girls!!

After the rest home we headed up to my Dad and Karens.


Dad "raking the ribs" with Ry.


Grandpa Craig and some of the kids.

Opening gifts.
Karen's mom passed away a few weeks ago. She had us all sit down before we opened gifts, and had Katie read a poem that one of her friends had given her. It was such a pretty poem about how her mom was celebrating Christmas in Heaven.

Kenna and Say.

Ben

Too much Christmas for John.

She wouldnt hold still for a picture. This is the best I could do.

Mat and Katie.

Lots of food!
Stan and Todd stopped up to see what everyone got.

Cheers!

Grandma Karen had coloring books for the kids... which they loved!

We came home from My Dads, took a family picture, fed Rylee, and we all took a 4 hour nap!!


Before bed, we had to hear a song on Ry's new flute!

We hope you all had a great Christmas!