Spaghetti

Not sure of I have mentioned it lately but Rylee looooooooooves spaghetti!  I love listening to her try to say spaghetti, it's kind of like "sketttty".  She is getting better and better using her fork/spoon so the other night we let her have at it.  It was actually the first time we just set the plate on her tray and let her have at it.  Well, check it out...

She would take a bite handful and say "mmmmmmmmmm"  She did pretty well for her first time, I was impressed.  There wasn't any on the floor and not that much in her seat.  Since this night all she wants to do is have her plate or bowl on her tray and feed herself.  After a few failed tries she looks at me, hands me her spoon/fork and needs help with a few bites but as soon as she has a few she wants to do it herself again.  She is getting so big!!!

Our First Lemon Harvest!

Well, it's been a long wait but we FINALLY got to harvest our first year of lemons!  It was a pretty exciting event.  For the longest time they were almost all yellow (still a little green on them) so I waited and waited and waited.  I decided I better pick them before they start to dry out and it was perfect timing!  They were delicious!  Not quite enough to make lemonade (the whole reason we decided on a lemon tree over an orange tree) but it's better than nothing!!!

Sadly right after we picked the lemons the temperatures dropped dramatically...like to below FREEZING!  So we were really careful and made sure the tree got covered with a sheet every night.  Of course we had record breaking cold and as of today our poor tree is not looking good.  All of the leaves are dead and we are hoping it still pulls through and will start to grow.

Chalk

This video is kind of long but it shows the true talent of our little artist!  Lately she has really been enjoying coloring (more on that later).  It was really nice out the other day so we spend the day outside swinging, riding her bike, coloring, eating sand and blowing bubbles, she liked to say "pop" when they hit the ground as well as lick the bubble stick...yuck!

15 months old

I find myself saying this all the time, but I can't believe how fast Rylee is growing up!  We have decided we no longer have a baby, we have a talkative little person who thinks she runs the show.  She has become so much fun and we truly love every second we have with her.  She talks NON-STOP and I can't even keep up with all the words she knows and she will try to repeat almost everything she hears.  Right now she loves to say "hello" and hold anything that resembles a phone up to her ear and then say "bye bye".  Another thing that I still need to get on video but as soon as I get the camera out she stops.  She will tell us something and then start to laugh hysterically, then get serious and tell us something else, then laugh and repeats this like 5-6 times.  Ryan says she's telling jokes.  She loves to tell people "hi" and wave and then say bye, most of the time after they have already gone away.  She seems to be a hit everywhere we go.  I feel so lost when I so somewhere without her, no one ever talks to me haha

At her 15mo check up she weighed in at 22.5 pounds (65%) was 32 inches tall (92%) and has a head circumference of 18.5 inches (80%).  She did NOTTTTTT like the Dr's office.  I think she is starting to figure it out and that every time we go in there she gets shot(s).  Poor thing.  She pretty much screamed the whole time we were there, and was not having any part of sitting on the examining table.  Good thing daddy was there to provide lots of loves and cuddles.  Our battle will begin (i'm thinking around the first of the year) with her nighttime bottle and pacifier to sleep habit.  Now that she has all her front teeth and is starting on her back teeth it's time to see them go.  This should be an interesting task, wish us luck!

Rylee has become very lovey lately which dad and I agree is the best thing ever!  She likes to give hugs and will pat us on the back or on the arm.  In the morning when we go to get her up we almost always get big hugs.  We still have to ask for kisses and when she is in the mood will give out lots!  There is the occasional random kiss every once in a while which just melts my heart.  We just can't get enough of this girl!

It really is the most wonderful time of year!

I love the look on her face in this one!

She was telling me what Santa says

Mmmmmmmm

For Thanksgiving I made pumpkin bars (which are DELICIOUS by the way) and when I was done making the frosting I gave Rylee a little lick.  Well, she ended up taking the beater from me and sat down and went to town!  

**pay no mind to Ryan in the background :)

Happy Halloween!

I know I am a little lot late on getting this up, butttttttt....I have no excuse actually.

Well, our little peacock didn't get a good nap during the day so she was a little bit cranky when it came time to go trick-or-treating.  We went out with the Harper's and the Gugino/Herron families.  Obviously our little group is young (13mo, 9mo and 3mo) and this came to our attention (as if we didn't know) when one of our neighbors rudely informed us that none of our children could even say trick-or-treat.  Fine lady...we don't want your stupid candy anyway!!!!  I was a little mad about it at the time and for the record our kids weren't even the youngest ones out.  Dumb lady!!!

Checkin out her loot

(due to crankiness, this is pretty much the only picture we got of miss peacock not mad)

Billy Bob and Rylee

Carving pumpkins

Meemee the old lady...HILARIOUS!  She dressed up like this for school and none of her kiddos knew it was her.  Then, after school we went to wing night and she stayed in costume...too funny!  Not gonna lie, she makes one sexy granny!

Schnepf Farms...I swear no more farms for a while haha