Marylander @ Heart?

She already loves crab!  haha

Wiggle Worm

Five Months Old!

Our little girl is growing up waaaaaay too fast!  

The problem with this little photo shoot wasn't getting her to smile (she smiles all the time now) it was getting her to hold still long enough for me to take the picture!  She was also more interested in eating the bow on her tutu and the sticker on her shirt than she was at looking at the camera!

Rylee now weighs about 15 pounds and is about 25 inches long!  She is happy and healthy and we couldn't be more blessed.  She is so active and alert and fun now-a-days.  She giggles, squeals, grunts, talks and screams and constantly makes Ryan and me laugh.  As I type this she is laying next to me talking up a storm and reaching for her pacifier in attempt to put it in her mouth.  She's just about got it, just puts it in backwards and then gags on it haha it's actually quite humerus.  

She has outgrown her bathtub so now bath time is in the real bath.  She now has a lot more room to kick and get crazy.  I end up soaking wet by the time we are done every night.  She has some bath guys that she plays with every night.  When I put her in the tub I always count to three and then will stand her in the water and give her her toys.  Now every time I do it she looks over to the soap holder where her guys are and will knock them into the water herself then sit down.  

She is still sleeping very well.  We are soooooo lucky!  She goes down about 8-8:30 every night and will sleep a full 8+ hours.  Usually when she wakes up she eats and then goes right back to sleep with no problem and will sleep another 2-4 hours.  It has been very nice.  She's not doing that well with falling asleep on her own but she will do it every now and then.  I decided she will do it when she is ready and if she wants us to rock her to sleep I am okay with that too!

The solid food is also going well.  She eats a mixture of rice cereal and breast milk every day around 2.  We're not sure if she likes it but she eats most of it, well, what actually goes into her mouth.  I have been reading up on introducing other foods and we will probably start that next month after her check up with Dr. Saba just to see what he recommends.    

What Rylee likes...

1. eating
2. playing on the floor
3. toys that make noise (anything that makes noise for that matter)
4. kicking (especially in the water)
5. sucking her toes
6. watching mom in the kitchen
7. swinging
8. rolling over (she's starting to like being on her tummy a little bit more)
9. going for walks and being outside
10. talking to herself in the morning (and basically all day long too)

Just ah Swingin'

The weather was a beautiful 70 degrees today so we decided to take little miss to the park.  She was kinda fussy and needed a nap and we thought the fresh air would make everything better.  She loves being outside. She actually fell asleep on the way to the park and we were a little hesitant to wake he up when we got there   but after we saw how much she loved swinging we were glad we woke her up

*side note, she was nowhere near sleepy when we got home haha

 She was giggling and smiling the whole time!

(notice her little Nike's)

Ryan took her down the slide when we were done swinging, but she didn't want anything to do with it yet haha  I have a feeling we will be going back to this park a lot more in the near future it was lots of fun!

Our little Valentine!

 Valentines Day outfits!

Ryan got Rylee a card and he got me a card from Rylee--probably one of the most romantic things he has ever done ;)

Jeffrey and Jamie came over and we enjoyed a 3-course fondue feast, it was fabulous!

First real food

I keep calling it "solid" food, but so far it's far from solid haha  HOWEVER...our little girl ate her first official real food...rice cereal.  She has been staring Ryan and I down whenever we eat and has been showing all the classic signs that she is ready to start eating real food.  So, this weekend we decided to go for it and see what happened.  It was a total success!  Not sure how much of it she actually ate but it went a lot better than I was expecting it to go.

We are going to have to get her little baby bullet out and start making her her own food.  Looking forward to seeing what she will like to eat!  However, we still have some time to figure out how to use the thing and keep learning how to swallow, so until then, rice cereal it is!

Yay me!

She is growing up so fast, it's scary.

Someone get me a dang chip!!!

If she is anything like her dad or her Grandpa Bob this girl is gonna love her some chips and salsa one day!!!

She is so silly!