Today

So I realized I really only blog about the baby, sometimes other stuff but hardly ever! So, I decided to just do a post about my day today and I am going to start blogging more about things we do! Today was a fun day. Minus the little short cat naps Ry decided to take today. Seriously, she was having the toughest time going down for a nap today and when she FINALLY went down for a nap she would sleep for like 45 minutes and then would be wide awake and ready to play! Same with bedtime tonight - at 7:30 she was OUT COLD and then at 8:15 was WIDE AWAKE and smiley and giggly and would NOT go back to sleep until 10! I know why though, we had my brother and law and his girlfriend over for dinner so she wanted to be awake to play! Silly little stink.

Well, I have been sticking with my working out. I do it daily now and I can definitely see good results so far! I definitely won't be where I want to be on February 11th when I promised a result picture, but I am hoping a picture will do justice of how good my stomach is already feeling and looking. And I can't wait for it to get warm outside so I can go jogging again!!! I will take the baby every morning and then probably go again at night with Kelly...and the baby of course. :) This is one of the workouts I have been doing and can I just say, AMAZING...My friend is so funny. She isn't even married and has never been pregnant and that is who I got the workout from. She does it because the workout is so amazing. So, I suggest anyone who is reading this that is pregnant (or not I guess) should try this! It isn't the upbeat jump around type of exercise, it is all floor work. I LOVE IT.

This is Rylee while I was working out this morning. She wanted to help me! She would just stare at the tv and stare at me.

Then she decided she wanted to suck on my shirt and my drawstrings. Then she wanted to climb over my stomach.I want to just tell any Mom reading this that uses their child as an excuse not to exercise is not a good one. You can exercise while your baby is right there with you! I had fun today and just laughed at her while she was climbing on me. It was actually kinda fun. She would just stare at me like, "what are you doing Mom?"

This is what I found after going in to get Rylee from her nap this morning. Her arm was sticking out of the neck on her shirt. It made me laugh so hard!We went shopping today! And this is Rylee's very first time riding in the front of the cart and she loved it! I am major OCD about germs and I have Wet Ones in the diaper bag now so I wiped down the whole area where she sat. And this is Rylee's second time riding in the cart. Silly girl was just chillin there with her foot rested on the handle the ENTIRE time in the store which was about 30 minutes. It was hilarious. And...here are my very first EVER batch of sugar cookies! Can you believe I have never made sugar cookies? They were SOO good. Definitely didn't help my goal to eat healthy and lose weight but oh well, I will just exercise longer tomorrow. :)

And there is my random, but fun fun day.

Rylee's Nursery

So I realized I never put up pictures of Rylee's nursery. Maybe that's because it's still not COMPLETELY finished? I am so super slow...I still need to sew her crib skirt and some curtains and we have a mirror we are going to hang above her dresser...we just have to bolt it to the wall really good so it won't go anywhere. :) We nailed the pictures above her crib to the wall so they won't fall.Wow, super bad quality pic sorry.Yes, I made her bumpers. Aren't they so cute?

7 Months Old!

Well, another month has gone by! I really can't believe how fast Rylee is growing, especially this past month. She is just getting so big and I am loving her current stage. I am so blessed to be able to stay home all day and all night and watch her grow.

She is finally sitting up really good! She sure loves her baby food! She makes such a mess grabbing her mouth and then chewing on her bib and then getting it on her clothes...she makes me laugh. She eats so much! She eats in the morning, afternoon, and evening. She especially loves the oatmeal and I give her that every night before bed. She sleeps longer and sleeps fabulously!
Rylee loves playing all by herself now. I just set her in her room and she plays with all her toys. It is so nice cause I can get a lot done!

She is still scooting all over the place - she is seriously so stinkin fast. She is trying so so hard to crawl. She will get up on her knees and rock forward and back and then fall back onto her belly. I am just waiting for the day till she finally gets coordinated enough and figures it out!

I bought her a sippy cup yesterday and she loves it! As soon as I showed it to her she immediately grabbed the handles and put it in her mouth. Such a big girl! I give her apple juice everyday and she loves it. She is so funny though - she won't drink it unless it is warm.
She is sleeping so good right now. Except some nights she fusses a lot of the night - I am pretty sure it is because her gums hurt. She has her 2 bottom teeth and her top ones are coming in. Slowly but surely. But most nights she goes down between 7 and 8, sleeps straight till about 5 or 6, eats and then sleeps till about 9 or 9:30. She goes down for her morning nap at 11 and sleeps for at least an hour, sometimes two. Except the past 2 days I have been up super early and she got up about 8. I hope that isn't going to be a new thing!! I love watching her sleep though...I always go in her room during her naps or at night. She sleeps all over her crib it makes me laugh. My favorite so far was during her nap in the bottom 2 pictures. She was on her knees. She also pulls down her bumper pads to look out. It is so cute except she's ruining them! haha. This was Rylee's very first dress that Daddy bought for her. We loved it so much we bought it in 3 sizes: Newborn, 3 months, and 6 months. The picture on the left was taken when she was just under a month old and the one on the right was this past Sunday. I can't believe how much she has grown!

Rylee has such a cute and fun little personality and we love watching her change and grow and learn more things. We are so blessed she is ours FOREVER!

Rylee's 6 Month Pictures

Rylee got her 6 month pictures taken! My sister in law was so nice to do them for me! We tried on Friday...and again on Saturday. Friday she just wasn't having it. She would be fine when I was holding her and then as soon as I'd set her on wood floor she was FLIP out. Like scream. We were thinking maybe she was just overwhelmed and tired. (she didn't nap very much that day...) So we decided to just try again the next day. Well, she did the EXACT same thing. So then we figured she had to have been scared. Unfamiliar setting, the big light, camera... She kept staring at the camera and crying. Poor baby! It was so sad. But I am glad we got some of her cute little frown. I love her little sad face. Even though she isn't smiling in any of them I LOVE them. They all turned out great...all thanks to my sis in law. And don't you love her cute little matching shirt and shoes? You can't see the shoes very well but they match and looked so cute! I love her big chubby cheeks!

Family Pictures

About a month ago my wonderful sister in law took some family pictures for us. I finally went and got them off her computer and she edited them for me. They all turned out so cute! Except, of course, my favorite ones Rylee isn't wearing her cute boots. We finally took them off because she kept getting so excited and kicking her legs and kicking the boots off! It was so funny! Here are some of my favorites.

This one was taken right after we finally said "screw the boots!" We were laughing so hard!