T-R-O-U-B-L-E

I was doing a little cleaning today and had the baby in her room playing.  I ran down stairs to grab the vacuum, was gone literally less than a minute and came back to this...

How does this even happen so fast!?  haha

First trip to the aquarium

This weekend we took Rylee to the aquarium and she seemed to love it!  It was fun to see her interacting with and trying to touch all of the fish.  Can't wait until she is older and can have more fun with it.  She was a trooper and was happy the whole time.  Dad even gave her a drink of his Orange Julius afterward--of course she LOVED it.

She even had a fishie shirt to wear for the event :)

Waiting for the shark feeding with daddy

I love this picture! 

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Nemo and Dori!!!!

SHARK!!!

So Close

8 months old

She has been making this fake little smile a lot lately, it's too funny!  

How is it that we already have an 8-month-old?!?!?!  It's so hard to believe she is almost a year old.  She is growing like crazy...weighs 18 pounds and is 27 inches long.  She loves to eat and has a wide variety of fruits and veggies that she loves.  Honestly, there isn't anything she doesn't like so far.  I figured out the chicken dislike (I mix it with brown rice and add a little salt-free seasoning) and now she loves it.  This last weekend we introduced watermelon and cantaloupe (not super fond of these two) and pineapple (loves it).  She has also gotten really good at feeding herself some finder foods.  It's so funny to watch her put food into her mouth.  She is so proud of herself.  

We are super close to crawling.  She is getting up onto her knees and rocking back and forth she just hasn't gotten the momentum to to forward.  She will however scoot backwards a little bit.  She is still a rolling machine.  The other day I was sitting up at the table and I heard her kicking the door, which I thought was the pantry door, so I looked and she had in fact rolled around the corner and was kicking the laundry room door haha so I put up our first baby gate to keep her out of that area of the house.  Right after I put it up she started kicking it in protest!  More and more I am noticing how non-child proof our house is.  I need to start making a list as I see her getting into things.  I also notice (and am sad to say) that there are constantly tiny things on the floor that I see Rylee picking up and trying to put then into her mouth.  Sooooo vacuuming has become an every day chore around here :)  She likes to pick things up that aren't even there and put them i.e. nothing into her mouth.  It's hilarious.  

She has started standing on her own and taking a step or two and she will "walk" with us holding onto her hands.  Any day now I know she is going to be on the go and I'll start spending my day chasing her around the house, I can't wait!

Walking with Grandpa...

Here is a video of Rylee's new trick...

For some reason Rylee thought it was hilarious that I was playing with her baby.  Here's her reaction...

Well, it's suppose to get up to 108 this week so I have a feeling we will be in the pool a lot more and I will need to start coming up with more indoor activities for an 8 month old!  Wish me luck!!!

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!