Rylee is 6 months old!

I seriously cannot believe Rylee is 6 months old already...a half year! She turned 6 months on Christmas Day! Her little personality is developing more and more everyday. She is getting so big! We just love watching her grow and explore and becoming more aware of her surroundings. She is our angel baby. We are so blessed to have her in our lives!

-Rylee has grown so much in the last month. She can now scoot wherever she wants. I tried to upload a video of her but it was taking forever. But there just isn't anything she can't get to now! We have to be extra careful and make sure there isn't anything on the floor she can grab!

-The day after Christmas was the first time she reached. I can now hold out my hands when Daddy is holding her and she reaches for me! It is so cute!

-She can now sit up. Of course I still have to sit right by her but she can definitely sit there! In the next couple weeks I am sure she will sit just fine and won't topple over so easy.

-She giggles and smiles SO MUCH. It takes almost nothing to get her to smile.

-She rolls all over the place. Back to front, front to back. Or just rolls over and over from one side of the room to the other.

-When she is getting mad or really excited she kicks her right leg - hilarious.

-She hits everything with her thumbs. Sometimes her hands but mostly just her thumbs.

-She can take her binky out of her mouth and put it back in.

-She is the best sleeper! She goes to sleep around 9ish and sleeps till somewhere between 9 and 10. Most nights she sleeps all night.

-She will pretty much only sleep on her tummy now. No matter how many times we turn her onto her back she will roll right back onto her tummy.

-A few days ago she learned how to blow raspberries and now does it all the time. It is so funny.

-Her hair is growing so fast now and is getting darker! And her eyelashes are still getting longer and longer!

6 months old!

Super long eyelashes! Sitting up looking at her new dolls! Rylee now sits in her bouncer like this. She just rests her feet up there it is so funny. Or else she sill sit up in her bouncer. So she is buckled in but isn't even laying back, she is sitting. She is a funny girl! And I think it's time to retire the bouncer.Smiles!She loves this laundry basket!Silly girl! Rylee had her 6 month check up last week. She is getting so big! Her umbilical hernia is getting smaller thank goodness! She still has a small head...she got it from Daddy. :) And she is pretty tall...she got that from Daddy's family...he is the shortest one in his family. Everyone else is tall! She looks great and did SO well with the shots this time. So much better than ever before.


Her stats:
Weight: 15 lbs 5 oz (46th percentile)
Length: 26.2 inches (72nd percentile)
Head circumference: 16.5 inches (37th percentile)

MY BABY IS GROWING TOO FAST!!!

Christmas 2010

Christmas this year was SO MUCH FUN. Having a baby makes it so much more fun. Even though she had no idea what was going on it was the best. She got so excited with each thing she opened and would immediately start playing with each thing or grabbing it. It was such a long and exhausting, but fun fun week/weekend. On Wednesday the 22nd Kelly's Mom's side of the family had their Christmas Party. This year they decided to do an ugly sweater party. A few pictures down is Kelly in his ugly not sweater, but turtleneck. It was hilarious. I wore an ugly sweater too but I didn't get a picture. :) Thursday night Kelly's Dad's side of the family had their annual Christmas Party. And then there was Christmas Eve, Christmas Day...and stuff the day after!

Here is our cute little family on Christmas Day.

Our Christmas Tree.

Kelly in his ugly turtleneck. Rylee was so worn out from all the excitement!
This is at the other Christmas Party.Here is Rylee on Christmas Eve. She was so happy!Rylee on Christmas Eve at my parents house. She was so happy in this toy!Rylee opening her first present on Christmas morning!She got a lullaby gloworm! She loves it.Rylee sure got a lot of stuff!!

Merry Christmas from the Giles Family!

Picture of Christ

As many of you know, the Provo Tabernacle caught on fire this past Friday. So, so sad. A friend posted this on her facebook and I had to share. This is DEFINITELY not a coincidence. This gives me the chills looking at it and makes me tear up. This is definitely something you wouldn't believe if you didn't see it for yourself.

It's a picture of Christ. The entire picture was burned around Him. INCREDIBLE.

5 Months Old on Thanksgiving Day!

Happy Thanksgiving ... AND 5 months to my cute baby girl! Rylee gets to share her 5 months birthday with Thanksgiving and her half birthday with Christmas! I really cannot believe she is another month older. Time just flies by. She is just getting so BIG. She is just so cute and everyday she is getting happier and funner and her personality is developing more and more. All of which is just LOVE. I will type a few fun things about Rylee right now. (beware - there are a ton of pictures. Just to go along with things about her. :)

She loves TV! Haha...

She loves Daddy so much. She gets so excited when he talks to her or even looks at her and smiles. She is definitely a Daddy's girl and I love watching these two together.

She sucks on EVERYTHING. Of course that is not a surprise for a baby, but I just think it's so cute. If she doesn't have a toy, rag, blanket, etc to suck on she will suck on her bottom lip, fingers, or THUMB. Yes, my daughter is a thumb sucker. It's so cute!

She loves her bottle. She even tries to hold it on her own.
Her 2 new favorite things: her crinkle book and her snowsuit. Yes, her snowsuit. This girl LOVES it. I put her in it and lay her on the floor and she just lays there still and does NOT move. Yesterday I put her in it and put her in the car seat. I went to Macey's, K-Mart, and Wal-Mart and she didn't even wake up! That is SHOCKING. She slept for a total of 3 hours in the car seat. She just feels so cozy in it.

She loves being on her belly! You can tell in the picture haha. I thought this picture was hilarious and just had to put it up.She will NOT stay on her back! Well, sometimes she does ... but pretty much never does! She always wants to roll over! Changing her is so so DIFFICULT! This is what she does EVERY TIME.

She definitely knows her name. She is so alert and aware of her surroundings. I can barely nurse her good now cause she just wants to look around and see what’s going on. Even in a quiet room with no noise. She keeps stopping to look at me and see what I am doing. Silly girl! She also loves talking on the phone. This was yesterday. Kelly was talking to her on the phone and she was just smiling so big! It was so cute. Of course I wasn't quick enough to get one of her smiling.

Rylee found her feet! I go into her room to get her out of her crib one morning and she was holding onto her feet! It was so funny.

She is now super close to sitting up and crawling. She can scoot herself a very short distance but is so determined to get where she wants to go that soon she will be getting there.

She smiles and giggles so much now it is so cute! Just in the past few days she smiles and giggles more than she ever has!

A few things without pictures.

She loves riding in the car now and is so good. Before I was so nervous to ever go on a long car ride. Now if we did I would no longer be nervous because she is just so good in the car and just sits there so patiently.

I have given her tastes of mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes and a few other things ... She sure loves it all! She definitely knows what food is and what you do with it. In the next week or so I am going to maybe start her on some rice cereal? She needs something else because JUST milk is NOT cutting it for her anymore.

She is the best sleeper! She goes down at 7:30. Wakes up to eat at 2:30 (ish) and goes back to sleep in 10 minutes TOPS and then sleeps till somewhere in between 8:30-9:30. And she naps really well during the day! 5 hour nap has been the max. Now it's usually a short nap that is one hour max and then another 2 1/2-3 hour nap. And my favorite part ... she can fall asleep on her own! I just lay her down and she'll talk in her crib for a while and then next thing she is sound asleep! I just got a baby monitor and I LOVE IT. It is so hilarious just listening to her make noises.

Oh, and exciting news ... her hair is growing back! She was born with quite a bit of hair and then most of it fell out except there was still a thick patch in the back. We called it her mullet. :) But now everyday it is getting longer! WAHOO!

There are tons of other things about her but this is it for now ... too tired to type anymore! I love my sweet girl and I am so thankful on this Thanksgiving Day to have her as my daughter. I love every waking second I have with her and cherish every second I have with her. I am the world's luckiest MOM!