Laughing

Rylee is finally starting to act as though she is ticklish.  Here is a video of her laughing.  You can't see anything because I couldn't hold the iPad to video and tickle at the same time.  There is just something about a baby laughing that melts my heart.  Enjoy!

A tooth!!!

Or should I say TEETH!!!  For Rylee's 7 month birthday she got a new tooth!!!  Her bottom left was the first to make it's appearance and you would never know it but the way she is handling it.  Nothing out of the ordinary as far as fussiness which is awesome.  All day I kept asking her to show me her tooth and she would just look at me like I was crazy!  It was so exciting for me more than her but oh well.  THEN the next day Ryan was feeding her and he pointed out that her bottom right tooth had made it's appearance as well!!!  She's doing great and we would only be so lucky if all of them come in as painlessly as these two.  (wishful thinking I know) Now she is constantly sticking her tongue out to feel them and I finally got a picture of her new pearly whites after struggling to get one for the last 3 days.  Who knows how long until they are in completely?!?

Pool Time!

Well, we have reached the 100 degree mark in sunny Arizona so yesterday we hit the pool.  Rylee loved it and sat in it for a good half hour.  It was her first of many pool parties this summer.  Good stuff!

She wanted his hat.

She even liked to lay on her tummy and kicked!

Hey Landon, get in here with me!

Just chillin in her pool, catchin some rays!

I think we're gonna be filling the pool up today as well!

Seven months old!!!!

It's getting harder and harder to get a good "birthday" picture!  There is just too much going on and Rylee could care less about having her picture taken.  

So, Rylee is always on the go.  She's not crawling yet, but I know that is right around the corner.  She is however, a rolling machine!!!  She rolls across the living room from one side of the room to the other constantly and can wiggle her way into a new position to roll the other way.  It's hilarious!  She can definitely get from point A to point B.  So needless to say we can't leave her alone unless she is "corralled" with pillows.  

Anything that is within reach is going straight into her mouth which keeps reminding me that we need to do some serious child proofing of our house here in the near future.  Speaking of things going into her mouth, Rylee now eats three times a day.  She loves apples and hates chicken and eats everything in between.  Honestly though I have been tasting everything that I make her and the chicken is quite awful...I need to somehow make it better without adding a lot to it.  She loves to try and feed herself, and we are constantly taking her hands out of her mouth so when we are through I let her play with her spoon and it keeps her happy.  She has mastered her sippy cup and can hold her bottle all by herself now.  She's just growing up sooooo fast!!!

She now weighs in at 16.6 pounds and is about 26 inches long.  She is still sleeping through the night.  Only now she doesn't wake up in the early morning hours (2-4) to eat and go back to sleep she just wakes up some time between 6 and 7:30.  She eats and if I'm lucky she will go back to sleep for another hour or so but usually we lay in bed and talk and watch one of her shows before we get up to go eat her breakfast.  One of my favorite things to do is listen to her talk to herself through the monitor in the morning.  She also kicks and bounces around in her crib until one of us goes in to get her.  Then once we go in there she is all smiles and acts like she is so happy to see us and gives us cuddles and loves.

Here is a video of her talking to me the other day after lunch.  Later that night she was in a talkative mood to we played the video of her and she just watched herself and laughed.  We took another video of her watching and talking to herself but it's too long to upload.  She continues to amaze us and make us laugh every day.  It's amazing to me how much she is learning on a daily basis.  When we eat I am trying to teach her "bite" and "drink" as well as "please and thank you".  I'm also trying to teach her to wave bye bye and give kisses.  

We also have more bug Rylee news but more on that later....

First Vacation

Well, we survived our first cross-country flight with miss Rylee...woohoo

On the way out to Maryland we took the red-eye flight.  All was going well until our flight was delayed due to technical difficulties which in turn created an angry, screaming monster.  However, once we finally took off Rylee slept the whole way.  The flight home was a little different.  Our flight was at 5PM and our plan was we would feed her dinner as soon as we got on the plane so she would be occupied during take off.  This seemed to work but there were people taking their sweet time getting ready so there was a slight upset (not as bad as the flight out though).  After she ate she fell asleep for about a half hour and then the rest of the flight was spent keeping her occupied enough to keep her from screaming.  For some reason this little girl did NOT want to sit still in her seat which resulted in mom and dad standing up the whole flight.  Oh well, at least she was somewhat happy.

Rylee got to meet her whole family!  It was so fun to watch everyone with her and she was loving every minute of the attention.  She is definitely a loved baby and I am so thankful that she got the opportunity to meet Ryan's side of the family, including her other GREAT grandparents.  I wish we were all closer so she could spend more time with everyone.

The trip was very relaxing, it's so nice to have grandma and grandpa around to keep Rylee entertained all day and to get up with her in the mornings, especially since there was a 3 hour time difference -- which Rylee had no problem with (thank goodness).

Here are some pictures of our trip