Went to go see Santa today!!

We went to go see santa today and the girls did good. Rylie was scared on him, but I knew that was coming. I finally got her to stand in front of him, but she wasn't very happy about that. I couldn't get Reagan to look at the camera, but nobody was crying, so I thought it went well!!! Rylie has become very shy. I was really surpised she stood by Santa long enough to get her picture taken. We had to wait in line for almost 1 1/2 hours and we even got there early!!! Rylie was good the whole time and even walked with me in line for about 45 minutes.

Bath Time

We gave Reagan her first bath in her tub last night. We had been just using the sink because it was easier. Both girls had a great time. Reagan didn't scream and cry like Rylie did. I guess having company makes it more fun. Her are a few pictures:



Rylie is very helpful with Reagan, her she is trying to help me wash her:


I can't say she loved the bath, but atleast she didn't scream!!

Reagan was in a much better mood out of the bath. I put her in her robe while Rylie finished playing. The robe has goldfish on it. It was a gift I received at Rylie's baby shower from my good friend Liz. Babies look sooo cute in robes, I think every baby should have one!!!

Rylie's 1 Year Pictures

Here is a link to her one year pictures. It was interesting having them done. This was the first time that she has been able to walk away. It was very frustrating, but worth every minute!!!

https://www.searsphotos.com/?shareid=S204683407lKC5Y7U2QV4

I still have pictures from her b-day and I am having issues getting them to upload. Hopefully I will get it figured out a load soon.

Birthday Morning

After breakfast, we decided to let her open one of her presents from us. We are saving the rest until Saturday. She did really good at ripping all the paper off.



Here she is dancing. She was getting a little side tracked, so I reached in and hit the button that played music. I thought it would make her rip the paper faster, but instead we had to stop and listen to the whole song and dance.

Finally, we get most of the paper off and she can see what she got.

It is a set of frig magnets that will say the sound that each letter makes. It also sings the ABC song. She really has had fun with it, but she hasn't quite figured it all out. Sometimes she has a hard time putting the magnet in the right way. She loves to take the magnets on and off the frig though.

Early Birthday Presents

Mike's mom and dad sent Rylie her birthday presents earlier this week.

Here are the the picture's from when she opened Wayne's gifts:

He sent her some blocks, a book and two big stuffed animals. As soon as the opened the book, she brought it to me and sat in my lap for me to read it to her. This picture was taken later when Michael got home. She wanted to show-off her new book.
Rylie loves blocks. She stacks them up and knocks them down all day long.

Here is Rylie opening JoAnne's gifts:

She was really excited to get to pull everything out of the box. And of course, the box is the best part of a gift at this age.
The Nebraska blanket she sent was so soft. Rylie keep running her hands across the top.

She also sent her a little Nebraska cheerleading uniform. Here she is trying to figure out how to get the skirt off the hanger. We will have it on this Saturday night when they play!!! She needed a nebraska outfit, she didn't have one that fit.

Park With Dad

Since Rylie has started walking, we walk down to the park almost everyday. She loves it. Some things are just more fun with dad though. She loves it when he can come with us. Here are a few pictures from one day last week when he came.



Leave it to dad to make her go down the slide by herself. I just couldn't bring myself to let go of her hand. Now she can climb up the stairs, crawl over to the slide, sit down and slide all by herself!!!

Here is a close up after the both went down the big winding slide. Her hair was sticking straight out all over her head!! It was really cute.

A brick wall seperates the big play area from the small one, and she loves to play with the big kids, she just can't figure out how to get over.

She is going to be a dare devil!!! Mike was swinging her so high and she was just laughing the whole time!!!

Halloween Costume

I found the cutest halloween costume last week!!! She is going to be a witch. My mom says she is the good witch from Wizard of Oz, but I guess we will have to see what kind of mood she is in that night. My mom thinks it is mean that I put her in a witch outfit, but that is what I was for halloween when I was three, so I am not sure what that says about me!!!



She has a wand that matches too!! Her is her scary face:

The costume comes with a hat, but I am not sure we will ever get her to keep it on.

Less then 5 weeks!!!!

At my visit last Thursday, my dr said that Reagan would easily be 9 1/2 pounds if I carried full-term!!!! He does not want that to happen. He sat a date to induce me on October 23 if I haven't had her yet. I was so excited!!! That means that I only have like 33 more days!!! I know that it will come faster then I know it.

Rylie turns 1 on Thursday and we are having her party on Saturday. I will try to post pictures soon after her party. I am sure that it will be fun. We have 25 adults and 10 kids planning on being there (and I just invited family!!!!).

More Pictures

She is such a daddy's girl!!!! Mike went outside to mow this weekend and she cried for 10 minutes. She didn't stop pointing to the door until I opened the blinds so she could watch him. She watched him almost the whole time he worked on the front yard.


She keeps pointing and saying dada and then turning around to look at me. She was getting mad that I wouldn't take her outside. I am sure she would of been a lot of help to Mike!!

She loves ketchup just like her mommy!!! This was the first time I let her feed herself ketchup. Normally she will just hand her food to me to dip in ketchup. She actually did really good until her hamburger was all gone. After that she just starting picking up the ketchup by itself and sucking it off her fingers. She made a mess, but nothing a bath wouldn't clean up!!!

Chunky Monkey Jr!!!!

We were not able to get any pictures from our 3D Sonogram!!! Reagan was too big so we could not see anything. We ended up having to wait for a little while before our appointment so they did a short normal sonogram for free. Here is what we learned:
-Postive it is a girl
-Only one (I had been teasing Mike, it was so much fun!!)
-A ton of hear on her head, just like Rylie
-She is a chunk!!!!

Apparently I grow really big babies. Rylie was born 1 week early at 8lb 7oz which put her over the 60% for weight. Reagan measured 10 days bigger then she should. She was in the 56%. She weighed 4lb 6oz. I am only 32 weeks, and her weight is the same as Trystin's was when she was born at 35 weeks!!! Hopefully this will reinforce my dr's thinking and he will induce me early - I am ready!!!!!

Rylie is almost one, just 2 weeks until her 1st birthday. I can't believe it. I know it has been a while since I posted any pictures, so here are a few.



These are from the 4th of July. We spent the day at a friend's house and Rylie had fun playing with the other kids.


Mike bought a new ceiling fan for our room (YEAH!!!!) and Rylie was "helping" him put it up.

Over the past week Rylie has really been trying to walk. She can, but just doesn't really want to. Here she is standing and having a drink. She has really good balance, just a little scared. On Wed Aug 30th she took about 10 steps together. Before that she had just taken about 3. Yesterday she was walking a lot more on her own, not just cause we were making her. She is slow so if she sees something she really wants, she drops down and crawls for it.

This picture was just taken today. She feel asleep while she was having lunch. Right before this she was actually still eating with her eyes closed. Needless to say, she had as much food in her lap as she ate when I took her out. She must of been really tired, she never even woke-up when I cleaned her face and hands or put her in bed!! It was really cute.

Believe it or not, Rylie cut her two top molars 2 weeks ago. They normally come in around 18 months, but she just couldn't wait. Her bottom 2 molars are trying to come in now and she has been a handful. These back teeth have been the toughest so far. Mike has even sleep on the couch one night because Rylie wouldn't sleep anywhere but with me. I am not sure who got more sleep, if I even moved her a little bit she would wake-up and crawl back on me. Hopefully she gets these last 2 teeth in before Reagan is born.

At my last doctors visit, my dr was not really happy with how big Reagan was measuring. Rylie weighed 8 1/2 pounds and she was a week early. He is worried about how big Reagan will be if I carry full term. He won't say until it gets closer, but he is thinking he might induce me 1 or 2 weeks early. That means I could only have 6-7 weeks left!!! YEAH!!!!!! We are having a 3-D sonogram tomorrow. Hopefully we will get some good pictures and I will post them. I am very excited to see how they compare to Rylie's 3D sonogram.

We have 8 teeth!!!!

Thank goodness her tooth FINALLY came through!!!! It was almost 3 weeks of no sleep, but we do have a tooth to show for it. No hopefully we get a little brake before the back teeth start coming in. We have sleep 2 nights now without having to get up with her, and I have to say I feel refreshed.

Because I can't keep her away any longer, here is a message from Rylie:
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If you can translate, let me know!!

Update

Everything is good in our house. We had Rylie's 9 month pictures taken today, and I will post the link as soon as I get it. She got a clean bill of health at her doctor's appointment lats week, and she did not need any shots!!! We do have to take her to get her blood drawn though. She was 29 inches long (90%) and 18lb 4oz (45%). We are still trying to figure out how she is sooo long. My dad is really tall, I guess it just skipped a generation. Rylie has been really cranky lately, her tooth is almost through. Hopefully it will come through soon and we can all go back to getting a good nights rest.

Rylie is only 9 months, but if she could talk I am just sure she would tell you she is three. About 2 weeks, she stopped letting me feed her. She wanted nothing to do with baby food anymore, since of course, she is not a baby!!! She has started feeding herself and it is going really good. She makes quite a mess, but she is getting better. She will eat anything!!! Her favorites so far are oranges, peaches and bananas. She eats veg. good, but only if she doesn't see you getting the fruit ready. Her are some pictures of her eating:

She thinks she needs a fork even though she can't use it. If I put food on it, she can use it. When I don't do that for her, she puts a bite in her mouth and then the empty fork!! It is really cute. Since she as started feeding herself, we have had to move bath time from the morning to night. She is way to messing to put in bed at night without one!!

Here she is playing with Big Daddy on father's day.

Believe it or not, she is loving bath time. She will stay in there as long as I let her. She crawls in there during the day and trys to climb in. I am going to be in trouble once she is actually able to get it!

She has learned that she can pull her toys basket over and take EVERYTHING OUT!!! I can't keep a clean house anymore. She already strolls toys all over the kitchen and living room. I don't even want to think about what kind of mess we will have in a year when both girls are crawling around!!!

Pictures of Tristyn Joy

Here are pictures of Tristyn Joy, Brook's little girl. She was born 5 weeks early on May 28th. She stayed a 1 1/2 weeks in NICU but she is home now. She did have to come home on a breathing monitor. When she goes into a deep sleep, she would sometimes stop breathing, or her heart rate would drop to low. This is common in premature babies and she should not have this forever. She was 18 inches 4lb 7oz when she was born. After she was born, they were able to tell that Brook's high blood pressure was effecting her more then they thought. They could see more stress signs on the baby. It didn't look like she was under stress because all of Brook's signs were good. Tristyn did not grow much the last bit when Brook was in the hospital as a result. They do not think she would of made it through a natural delivery either. God was good and gave her dr the wisdom to know this and we are all thankful!!!!

Tristyn came home from the hospital at 4lb 9oz and this week was already up to 5lb!! Brook has to wake her up every 3 hours to feed her. She is tired but is doing a great job. Here are a few pictures. Length wise premature outfits fit her, but not anywhere else!! She is beautful.

1st Carousel Ride

The mountain zoo had a carousel ride, and we just had to ride it :) Rylie had fun before the ride started, but has the ride continued, it was less and less fun. She liked to watch the other horses go up and down, and look for her daddy when we came back around.


She was waving to Mike and saw it out of the corner of her eye and started watching herself wave. It was really cute and we finally caught it on camera.


She was holding on before the ride started, but let go as soon as it started moving.


Here is a good shot of her just watching the horse beside us move up and down.

You can see Reagan just a little!!

That is the last of our vacation pictures. I finally got them posted, and I hope you enjoy!!

Mountain Zoo

We went to a mountain zoo that was close to the hotel. Mike only had the conference 1/2 day on Friday so we went that afternoon. It was Rylie's 1st trip and it went good. It was a little disappointing. It was like any other zoo except since it was in the mountains we had to walk up and down hills!!! We had fun though, just a little bit tired afterward.


Mike feed animals all over the zoo. We didn't see any signs that said not to, but I think that might be an unspoken rule of the zoo. All the animals liked Rylie's snack food though!!


Baby gorilla- I think 4-6 months old. The have to put all the other gorillas away and the worker comes out for a few hours each afternoon.

Mike and Rylie being silly. We didn't make it by the bear cages, so we had to stop when we saw the staue.

Here is the baby kangaroo we saw, just 8 months old, the same as Rylie. She had 3 different babies. The stay in the little homemade bags instead of with the mom. For one reason or another they could not be together. One of the moms would not feed her little one.

Here is the view from our hotel room. It was really, really beautiful. The weather was great also. It would take until noon for it to reach 75.



There was a nice golf course I could of played if I was not pregnant!! Oh well, maybe next year.


Play time with Dad. For some reason she thinks he is soooo much more fun then me!!! He had to work during the day and some at night, so we didn't get to play too much, made she made good use of the time he was free.