Books

As of late Rylee loves books, especially interactive ones.  We have several books that you can feel "fur" or different textures and even play peek-a-boo.  Our morning routine now includes me going in to find a sitting-up-and-ready-to-go-baby...

Then we change her diaper and get dressed and almost immediately she goes right to her book shelf and starts taking all the books within reach off and throws them on the floor.

Then we will read a few books together and then I will let her read some to herself.  She is starting to get really good at turning the pages and she likes to hold the book with her feet.  Gotta love it!

She has already ruined a couple books so I only let her handle the big cardboard books without real pages and most of the time she freaks out when I take a "regular" book away from her.  She gets over it pretty quickly though.  I love that she is starting to enjoy books.  We never watch TV during the day but we do however jam out to Radio Disney a lot :)  We have started reading a couple books at bed time in hopes that we will soon break the need a bottle to fall asleep habit that we have formed (ugh!)  I'm not too worried about it though and have decided that she is only a baby once and we (I) and going to enjoy it while we (I) can.

She takes walking very seriously!  She's all business when she actually uses her walker.  She does have to warm up to it though.  She is not a fan of walking only holding on (to us) with one hand.  It's like she freezes up and will not take a step unless she is being assisted with two hands.  Then once she is in her groove and we stop to sit down or do something else, she will let us know that she is NOT ready to be done walking.  We are in for it!!!!  haha

Old lady coming through

Crawling??? Not for me!

Sorry for the video overload, but Rylee has been very cooperative the last couple of days.  So...we have been working on the crawling a lot lately and not so much the walking.  We would take a few steps here and there but that wasn't our main focus.  Yesterday however, she decided that she wants to walk all the time.  Now instead of just standing there as you hold her hands she wants to be moving.  I was holding her up (in the walking position) and she took a couple steps...and then more...and soon we were walking all over the house.  It was kind of like "where did that come from all of a sudden".  Maybe we will in fact just skip over crawling all together and just talk off walking.  She can't make up her mind :)

So Biiiiig

I finally got a video of Rylee doing this...it's only taken 2 months haha

My cool trick

We just love it when she does this, it gets us both every time!  And she does it alllllll the time...in the bath tub, while playing, in the car, she even does it while she eats.  This however can get a little frustrating to which ever one of us is feeding her.  She gets food all over her fingers and then rubs them all over her face and in her hair...it's awesome!  She has become so fun lately and is doing all kinds of cool stuff.  I am trying to get it all on video but I swear as soon as I pull the camera out she stops what she is doing -- little stinker.

Here we go!!!