Happy Birthday Landon

Rylee's BFF, Landon, turned one!  Woohoo

Cake(s) made by yours truly

 "Yeah I got a whole bunch of cool new toys and a new sandbox, but I want to play right here is the nasty dog bowl water" haha these two!!!

Naughty Naughty Naughty

So here is the rest of my story (see chalk video).  Rylee really likes to color now-a-days.  We will be in the playroom and she will grab her notepad and crayons and will just color away.  The other day, suddenly, she stopped coloring on the paper and started coloring in her kitchen pots, on her monkey toy, basically everywhere BUT the paper.  So I had to explain to her that we color on paper, not our toys.  She didn't get it so I had to take the crayons away (which didn't go over well).  What I failed to remember was that I tucked the white crayon aside...who uses the white one anyway?!  Well, today I was getting ready in the bathroom and I heard her scratching the dresser.  I thought she was doing it with one of her plastic forks (I saw her holding it prior to brushing my teeth) so I came out to see what she was doing and found this......

I asked her what she did and she was pointing to her masterpiece.  She was pretty proud of it.  As a matter of fact it is still there, I never cleaned it off...oops!  Aaaaaaaand so it begins :)

**on a side note, I think we are using the word naughty too much lately, Rylee now knows what it means and says "Naw nee" Yes, Rylee, this is naw nee.

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