Monday, August 22, 2011

Our Weekend

This past weekend was fun.. long but fun. Kelly's cousin got married up at the Bountiful Temple and was having a luncheon and then later a garden party in her parents yard. My in-laws decorate for weddings using wrought iron. Well, we all went up Thursday evening to set up. Kelly and I decided it would just be easier to get a hotel room and stay the night up there rather than driving all the way home that evening and getting up really early to come up again Friday morning for the wedding. I was a bit nervous about Rylee sleeping anywhere other than her crib - she has only done that once when she was only 6 months old.
The drive up to Layton was a little long. Rylee was really wanting to get out of her seat. The only thing that kept her entertained was her laptop that she kept throwing on the floor and eating vanilla wafers. I finally left her laptop on the floor because she just kept throwing it down.. she didn't like that too much. She finally stopped fussing and just enjoyed the rest of the drive up!

Surprisingly she did FABULOUSLY at the Hotel. She fell asleep on the drive to the hotel after setting up and woke up when we got there. I got her ready for bed and gave her a bottle. I thought she would fall asleep while I was holding her and she was drinking her bottle but she didn't. :) Her pack n play was in the corner.. I stacked pillows on the bed so she couldn't see us and layed her down. She cried for MAYBE a minute and a half and then sat there talking to herself.. and then was quiet. I peeked around the pillows and there she was standing up staring right at me. I quickly moved out of view and she didn't cry thankfully! She was dead silent and then all of a sudden we hear her cute little voice, "cracker." Kelly and I looked at each other like what? HAHA. I looked over on the bed and there at the foot of the bed was a box of Cheez It's. She saw it and wanted a cracker - haha! We started laughing so hard (silently of course). She is so cute.

I found her like this about 10 minutes later. Such a good girl!


When she fell asleep it was about 10:30ish.. We rented a movie to watch on the laptop but Kelly didn't last long so we turned it off. We went to bed at midnight straight up. I kind of knew Rylee would wake up at some point and be scared cause she didn't know where she was - which is exactly what she did. At 4 a.m. she woke up crying. I got her up and she would not go back to sleep. She started playing her little heart out - until 5:30 a.m. She then layed her head on the bed and went straight to sleep. She slept til 7ish until someone in the hall made a super loud noise and woke her up! I was a bit annoyed. :)

We got to the temple at 10:30 - Rylee had fallen sound asleep on the car ride over. We were in the parking garage getting stuff out of the car making tons of noise and she slept right through it! She was so tired. We got her out and she immediately wanted Grandma and layed her head on her shoulder.We took pictures after the sealing and Rylee was just so tired.
After the luncheon was over (about 3 p.m.) we hung around at Kelly's aunt and uncle's house setting up and waiting for the reception to start. By this time Rylee was SO tired and needed a nap. We brought the pack n play in and set it up downstairs. Rylee was quiet almost immediately after we layed her down.. and then decided to poop 10 minutes later and she woke up. I changed her diaper and layed her back down but of course she wouldn't go back to sleep! So.. no nap for Rylee - at all.

This is only half of the yard all decorated but trust me - it was SO cute! Probably one of the cutest I have seen.Kelly's brothers and Dad at the reception. Love this pic!
My 2 favorite people in the entire world!Finally around 9 I got her bathed and gave her a bottle. She was so tired she wouldn't eat much dinner and didn't know what she wanted. She hadn't gotten much sleep the day before because we were driving for a few hours and that day she woke up super early and didn't have a nap ALL DAY. She was more tired than I have ever seen her! After I bathed her and brought her back outside I told Kelly she felt warm to me but he didn't think so..
Dancing at the reception.
Do you see how tired she is?! She almost fell asleep bouncing on Uncle Scott's shoulders!
Finally she couldn't take it anymore and passed out in Daddy's arms. (YAY!)
Everyone cleaned up and I went downstairs and held her til it was time to go. Poor girl had only gotten maybe 8 hours of sleep in 24 hours! She just wouldn't sleep all day long!

As soon as I put her in her car seat she fell sound asleep and slept all the way home. Well, to Orem. We dropped Scott (Kelly's brother) off at his house in Orem.. when we got to a stop light near his house Kelly slammed on the brakes and it woke Rylee up and her blanket fell off her onto the floor. We turned around to check and make sure she was ok and she looked at us and said, "uh-oh" cause her blanket fell. haha. She was barely awake for the rest of the way home. And she is holding her bunny as usual!



We got home right before midnight (Friday night). I brought Rylee inside and was holding her on the couch for a second and then was gonna change her diaper and put her in bed. All the sudden she spit out her binky and was kinda gaggy (just like when she would throw up when she had the flu) I was thinking oh crap! I ran over to the sink and she threw up a little bit and felt really hot. Sure enough she had a fever. It was a little over 102. I gave her motrin and held her for a bit.. she was definitely sick. I didn't know what she had for sure. We didn't know what her fever was from but we kinda thought maybe her being so overly tired and being suddenly woken up in the car from slamming on the brakes mixed with her having a fever mixed with it being so late and the long car ride home caused her to throw up?

I put her in bed and she slept.. and slept.. I checked on her every few minutes it seemed like and she was doing ok.

Her fever stayed down - I would just have to give her motrin every 7 hours. As soon as it would wear off I'd have to give her more cause her fever came right back.

Saturday was a really weird day. We all slept most of the day. We had to catch up on sleep and Rylee DEFINITELY had to catch up on sleep! She woke up in the morning at 10 and we put her back down at 11:15. She went right back to sleep and slept till... 4:45!!! Can you believe that? A 5 1/2 hour nap!

She has been sleeping a ton the past few days and hasn't been eating as much as she usually does and her fever stayed 101/102. Her fever is finally pretty low today, but she still won't eat a lot and is still really tired/sleeping all day. I finally took her to the doctor this morning. She has a viral sore throat. Apparently it's been going around so parents keep your children away from sick people!

I hate seeing her so sick and miserable but she is just so snuggly I love it! Here she is snuggled up in her chair drinking her bottle. Notice her bunny on the floor? She can't walk around the house or go anywhere without her bunny! She loves him SO much. It's so cute how she just picked her bunny to be her comfort item. It's adorable.

Well, hopefully in the next couple days she will be back to her silly, busy, playful self!



Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Mini Golfing and Black Light Zumba!

I am behind on posting -- so here are 3 new posts!

Last night we went mini golfing at Trafalga with Kelly's family. It was so much fun! Rylee LOVED it. She loved that she could go where she wanted and that she could play with her cousins. She held a golf ball in her hand the entire time and loved walking up and down the green. It was so fun watching her and her little body walking all over the place! She is definitely getting too big. She isn't my baby anymore.. she is my little toddler! Kelly's family - except his older brother Scott who is out of town at the moment.
My Zumba instructor's 30th birthday is TODAY, so last night we had our Zumba class in a black light! It was seriously so much fun! I want to have class in a black light every time! Look how cute my teacher looks? She is seriously the best teacher ever -- she knows just the right moves to make you sweat like crazy and leave feeling so great. Last night was so much fun. She is so creative for coming up with this idea! Another reason we had class like this was to raise money for her friend who is trying to collect the last $8,000 for her adoption. She is adopting a BEAUTIFUL girl with down syndrome from Russia. Class was free last night but you could donate money to her. My class is usually NOT this many people, but lots of people heard about it and decided to come! It made it tons more fun! There I am in the front row basically in the middle with the plain white tank and black shorts!

Randoms

Here are a bunch of random pictures of Rylee lately. She is getting so big!

She now loves her jumper. She hated it for the logest time but now she is liking it! Chillin drinking her bottle! She is such a bottle girl it is so cute. Watching the rain. She loves when I pull up the blinds and she can look out. Of course I stand right there with her! (except to snap a few pics of her really quick!)
One day last week we went out to lunch at the Art City Trolley! Rylee had her very first sucker and loved every bit of it! It was quite the mess -- we went through a few baby wipes cleaning it all up as she sucked on it.



Here she is swinging at the park -- she LOVES swinging!
Helping Mommy get ready!
Trying to climb out of the bath. A daily thing when she is taking her bath! I love sleeping pictures!
A couple weeks ago I went to my in-laws house with one of my friends and we tied our little girlies quilts. Rylee LOVES hers!

4 Wheeler Ride

2 weeks ago (Friday, July 22nd) we went on a four wheeler ride up Spanish Fork Canyon -- I can't remember the name of it. We went with Kelly's parents. On the way up we stopped at KFC and got a bucket of chicken and went up, ate, and went for quite a long ride! It was so fun and Rylee LOVED riding on the four wheeler! We bought her a helmet but it was too big and kept falling over her eyes and she was getting really mad so we took it off. It was a lot of fun -- I love summer!
On the way back she decided she wanted to stand up while in the carrier. She is so funny. Then she keptt turning around to make sure Grandma and Papa were still behind us!And she kept looking at Daddy and smiling all big! She loved the four wheeler!


















Sunday, July 17, 2011

FLU


Rylee had the flu - for the very first time. And it was NOT fun. I felt so bad for her. Holding her poor little body over the sink while she was throwing up. I wanted to cry. She was so weak and so pale and so miserable.

Friday night we were driving home from Provo at 8:30. Rylee was a little fussy. She didn't look like she felt very good but we thought it was from teething (the night before we were up on and off all night long because she got her first molar) and because she was tired (betime is 7:30.)

As we were driving home she started coughing - kind of a gaggy cough. We both asked her if she was ok. I turned around and all of a sudden PROJECTILE vomit like 4 times. All over her and in her carseat. Kelly immediately pulled over and I ran in the backseat and grabbed her out of the carseat and took her outside onto the grass. I felt so bad for her! I took all her clothes off and she just started crying. My poor baby. We didn't have anything in the car other than baby wipes and tissues. No blankets or anything. My WONDERFUL husband (who about pukes at any disgusting smell) cleaned up the ENTIRE carseat. There was vomit everywhere. Her carseat was awful. I never knew a tiny little body could hold so much food in it.

We got home and she threw up again right before her bath. I took a bath with her and she just layed on me lifeless pretty much the entire time. I got her in her pajamas and just layed on the couch with her. She fell asleep immediately. And then woke up a short time later and threw up again. She threw up a couple more times after that. She was to the point where only bile was coming up - and then nothing. Kelly went and bought her some pedialyte and she drank that right up. She was throwing that up shortly after she drank it each time but at least she was throwing up something and not just bile.
She fell asleep anywhere we layed her and with us. It was around midnight when Kelly said he would stay awake all night long with her and I could go to sleep. I told him I wanted to stay right there with her so he layed on the recliner with her and I layed on the couch. The TV was finally driving me crazy and I couldn't fall asleep so I went upstairs. I could still hear everything and came down every time she threw up again - which was about every 5 to 30 minutes. One of the times I came downstairs (around 4:30 a.m.) I told Kelly I felt really sick and thought I was going to throw up. I ran to the bathroom and sure enough I did. Not only did I feel awful, I hated that I was sick too and felt way too crappy to take care of Rylee! Ugh. Kelly was awesome and stayed up the rest of the night with her so I could get some sleep and hopefully feel better.
Kelly told me he was holding her asleep and at one point she climbed off the couch, crawled across the room to a blanket that was on the floor and layed down on it and went right to sleep. He said he didn't want to fall asleep and her wake up and be all over the house by herself so he went and picked her up and layed back on the couch with her. She continued sleeping for a little while and then woke up, climbed off the couch again. grabbed the blanket off of him, put it on the floor and layed on it and went back to sleep. How cute is that? She just wanted to lay by herself. We just thought that was pretty dang cute. I only threw up for about 4 hours and then it stopped. Rylee threw up for a total of about 12 hours straight (poor girl). Around 8 a.m. she was looking much better. She was playing and talking like she felt much better. She was starting to get pretty fussy so Kelly gave her a sippy cup with water and she guzzled the entire thing! Yesterday we only gave her bland foods starting with pedialyte and saltines and she was able to keep it down. Around 10 a.m. yesterday she was looking tired. Kelly came and woke me up and gave me coke his parents brought over for me and told me I should take a bath with Rylee. I did, and she was so happy in the bath. We got out after a bit and I got her in jammies and layed her down. She slept for FIVE hours straight. She was getting some much needed sleep! She woke up at 3 and I fed her. At 4 she was acting tired again. She was on our bed with us and she went to the foot of the bed and layed her head down. Kelly went and layed her back down and she slept for an hour and 15 minutes, woke up, and then went back to sleep again shortly after that.
Today we are both doing much better but Rylee is still really sleepy. She got about at 8:30 this morning and I layed her back down at 9:30 after I fed her breakfast and she went right to sleep. That was a nasty quick bug!! So glad it's come and gone!!

And can I just say THANK YOU Chicco carseats for being SO easy to take apart! There was vomit all over and under the cover and even in the base and I was able to get it out of every crack and crevice!

Sunday, July 10, 2011

My baby girl is WALKING!

I really can't believe she is now walking! She is getting so big. Sunday night, July 3rd she started walking a little bit and wasn't interested in it after that. This past Friday the 8th she was drinking her bottle and started walking with it and ever since then she is just walking all over the place! Today I was in her room cleaning up and she was just playing in the room right next to me. All the sudden she comes walking into her room! It was the cutest thing ever. She is getting way too big way too fast!! I now need to get a gate on the top of the stairs. I have needed to for MONTHS but now that she is walking I really need to. I am always just right with her when she is by the stairs but it would just be easier to get a gate. Well, here she is - my big girl WALKING! I love her high steps - and she says 'uh-oh' when she sees her mess of toys. :)


Friday, July 1, 2011

Another post about...you guessed it. RYLEE!

Remember how I said Rylee LOVES her bunny? Well, here is the picture I was going to post with that but I forgot to. I took a few pictures of Rylee in this cute tutu and onesie for her birthday party invitation. I just LOVE this one of her holding her bunny. She seriously loves this thing! She loves sucking on the ears. I was this thing once a week - but I really need to start washing it AT LEAST twice a week. The ears are gray and I can't get it out now. I have even soaked it oxyclean but they still stay gray!
My favorite picture I took - she just looks like a pretty porcelain doll!

And her cute birthday party invitation my sister in law made! It has a white border around it but of course you can't see it because the background is white. :) I found this cute invitation on tinyprints.com and my sister in law made one to look like it! Definitely a lot cheaper!
And my last post was SO extremely long (sorry about that by the way - I bet nobody even read it because it was so long) that I was just sick of typing. I wanted to talk more about Rylee and her cute little personality right now! She has grown so much lately and is just showing more and more personality (and attitude) that I just wanted to share. :)
-She loves giving kisses. Even when you don't ask for one she crawls right over and slobbers your face over and over. Love it!
-She loves climbing up on things. The bed, the couch, her chair, etc - and just bounces and giggles or yells.
-She loves her chair! Any time we are in the living room she crawls over to it and plops right in it like a big girl!
-She loves walking with her stroller walker and just pushes it around everywhere!
-When she doesn't want something, or something is in her way she picks it up and chucks it behind her. Or when you try to hand her her sippy cup while she is eating - or anything she doesn't want she will either shove it away from her or she will pick it up and throw it on the ground. And then follow that with looking at the ground saying, "uh oh." -Little stinker!
-I have already said it, but I will say it again. She LOVES LOVES LOVES food. Seriously anything and everything I give her she eats it up! She loves fresh fruit especially. I give her just about everything I eat and she has loved everything. She especially loves feeding herself. As do I - it makes things so much easier. She can eat while I clean the kitchen, etc. She loves tuna fish sandwiches, bananas, strawberries, blueberries, french toast, scrambled eggs, peas, carrots, chicken nuggets, beans and rice, and the list goes on. She also LOVES whole milk. And water.
-She is such a bottle girl. As soon as she sees her bottle anywhere she keeps saying "ba ba.. ba ba" until I hand it to her.
-She loves Daddy. When she wakes up in the morning or from her nap she says "Dad" or "Hi" over and over. She can also lay in her crib and talk for at least a half hour - sometimes longer when she wakes up. I especially love listening to her in the monitor.
-She is getting a lot more cuddly which I am LOVING.
-She is talking a lot. Her main words are Hi, Dad, Mom (on occassion), ba-ba, uh-oh, Papa, wassat (while pointing at something), and when you ask her what the kitty says she says "owww." We go to my in-laws and she just stares at the cats saying oww oww over and over it is so cute.
-She loves the shopping cart and shopping. She thinks she is such a big girl! She turns around in the cart so she can see where we are going. And while we are shopping she says hi to everyone we pass.
-She literally has the longest eyelashes. I can't go anywhere without someone saying something about how long her eyelashes are. (Or about how cute she is!)
-She loves opening and closing anything.
-She loves the dryer. Whenever I am putting clothes in or taking them out she likes to take pull clothes out and throw them on the floor or take clothes and put them in the dryer.
-She is very smart. She knows who Jesus is. She is on the other side of the room than the picture of Jesus and you ask her where Jesus is. She looks over toward the picture and points. And when we are looking at a family picture I ask her where Daddy is. She points right at Kelly and then I ask where Mommy is and she moves her arm and points at me. :)
-Still loves her binky!
-She loves to ride in the car. I am going to keep her rear facing for probably 5 or 6 more months and then move her so she faces out. She will love that day!
-She loves her bath. She loves to play and splash the water everywhere.
-Her hair is definitely getting a lot thicker.
-If she is holding something and you try to take it away she starts screaming and throws her arms everywhere making it nearly impossible to grab whatever she has. It is really funny!
-She loves watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
-I just noticed yesterday she got her 7th tooth! I was shocked. I haven't felt her gums in probably a week so who knows when it came through!
-She is SO close to walking. She will stand on her own but I think she just gets too nervous to walk. Any day now!
-She goes to sleep so good. (I still recommend to EVERY parent to let your child cry themselves to sleep. They will learn SO quickly that it is bedtime and very quickly will go to sleep without even crying.) It has been 3 months since we first let her cry herself to sleep and now pretty much every time she lays down to go to sleep she doesn't even cry. She is so good. Bedtime is still 7:30 and she sleeps straight through till somewhere between 8-8:30 in the morning. And she is becoming a much better napper!
-No more morning bottles for Rylee! A couple weeks ago she decided she didn't want a 6 a.m. bottle anymore!
-She loves the water! I bought a Seven Peaks pass and we will definitely be there a lot this summer. (along with everyone else and their dog)
-She is so BUSY. And I mean BUSY. We tell people she is so busy and their response is, "Yep, babies sure are busy!" No, you don't get it. She is so all over the place nonstop all day long. Up and down the stairs, bouncing, crawling fast everywhere, getting into everything. I (jokingly) tell Kelly I think she has ADHD. haha. Some babies are so relaxed and chill. Rylee - not so much. :)
-She loves having her hair brushed, teeth brushed, and ears cleaned out.
-She waves bye-bye and hi all the time. A couple months ago she did it once just barely but never did it after that. A few weeks ago she did it all on her own and now she does it all the time. It is so cute.
-She points at everything constantly and says, "wassat."
-She loves to lay her head down on her tray while she is eating in her high chair. It is so cute. She'll lay her head down and then sit back up and you ask her, "ohh, are you sleepy?" and she'll lay her head back down.

Ok, that is a really long list. I mainly did it for myself because I will admit I am horrible at writing in her journal. I have been good at writing down dates of EVERYTHING so far but writing about stuff I have been really bad. Hope you enjoyed - if you actually read it.

I love this girl SO MUCH and I really can't imagine life without her in it. I am so blessed she is mine forever!!