Happy Birthday Rylee Roo!

Two years ago today, my life changed. Obviously for the better. At 10:31 pm I gave birth to my sweet baby Rylee. I can not believe how fast these 2 years have gone. It is bitter sweet. I love her little personality she has and it is only getting better with each day, but the days are just going by way to fast. She is the sweetest little girl. She is definitely a Daddy's girl. She has brought so much joy and happiness to our lives. I can't imagine our lives without her. She now has a little sister, who she has a love/hate relationship with. She absolutely loves her, except when daddy is holding her, then she gets really jealous and needs daddy to hold her too.

Danny took a half day today so we could take miss Rylee to lunch and to just spend the afternoon with us. We decided to take her to Mr. D'z for lunch and then let her check out the train across the street. I'm retarded and didn't bring my camera or take any pictures of today. I did take pictures of her birthday party, but have yet to upload them to my computer, so for now I will leave you with some of my favorite pictures of her. We love you Rylee Roo, Happy 2nd birthday.

Rylee with her new sister.

I love her look in this one.

Laying on her kitty.

At sea world.

Goofy girl.

Crazy hair.

Cool girl.

I thought I had baby pictures saved to this computer, but I guess not. I have them on the main computer.

Baby Payton!!!

We finally have our new baby girl here. She didn't want to come so we forced her out. lol. We arrived at the hospital at 6:00 am, on August 10th. I was so nervous driving there. I think because I knew what to expect this time around being induced. After the nurse finished poking me, Dr. Tedesco came in and checked me. I was still only dilated to a 3. Baby had no intentions of coming out. He broke my water and they started me on the pitocin. At around 11:00 an the contractions got pretty intense. That is when I asked for the epidural. I don't remember the epidural hurting as bad when I got it with Rylee. Once it started working though, I was in heaven. Okay, maybe not in heaven, but was feeling much better. When I got the epidural with Rylee, I couldn't move or feel my legs at all, this time I could still move and feel my legs. My legs were really tingly, but I was glad I was able to move them. I totally had plans to watch my soap opera, but due to the contractions and having to get the epidural at the same time my soap started, I had to miss it. Good thing I have them recording at home. lol. At about 1:45pm the nurse came in and said I could turn to my side if I wanted to. I really wanted to, because my upper back was starting to hurt. When I did that though, she couldn't find the baby on the monitor. She tried for a good 20 minutes and finally decided she was going to have to put the scalp monitor on the baby. When she went to check my, I was complete. I felt stupid, cause I didn't know what that meant, so I asked okay, but how far dilated am I? She said you are complete, meaning baby was ready to come. I felt retarded. About 20 minutes later Dr. Tedesco arrived and everything started to happen. He started breaking the bed down and getting everything ready. At about 2:15, I started pushing. At 2:24pm, and 3 contractions later, we found out we had another beautiful baby girl. The surprise was really a lot of fun. We decided to just have Danny in the room. After she was born, he got to cut the umbilical cord. He didn't get to with Rylee, so he was pretty stoked. He was so stoked, he asked me for a high five. When he saw my bloody hand he changed his mind. lol. I didn't even get a kiss, all I got was a air high five. He is such a goober. I did eventually get a kiss, I just thought it was funny that he wanted a high five. I was really surprised that everything went that fast. It was 8 hours faster this time around. Back to baby, she was 8 pounds 4.2 ounces and 20.3 inches long. She was absolutely perfect. Rylee wasn't to excited about her in the hospital. She came in and saw her, but there was a water tank outside that she really wanted to play with and it took priority over her new little sister. Once we got home and let her hold her new little sister though, it was a different story. Now all she wants to do is hold her sister and give her tons of kisses. She has her jealous moments, but all in all she is doing pretty good. Miss Payton is an awesome baby. She does a lot of sleeping. I can't believe she will be 1 week old tomorrow. Time is already flying by. Just like I can't believe Rylee is going to be 2 in just a few weeks. Well, I guess that is all for now. I will leave you with some of the photos the hospital took.

Rylee Roo & overdue

I am going to start off by saying I am the worst blogger ever. It's not that I don't have anything to blog about. I guess I'm just lazy. I decided I would try and get one last blog in before new baby arrives. Rylee is going to be 2 in less than a month. I can't even believe how fast she is growing up. She has such a little personality. She makes me and Danny laugh pretty much all day. She has become quite the dancer and singer. Not sure where she got her dance moves, but I must say they are pretty awesome. My birthday was this past Friday and since then she has been singing happy birthday non stop. I think she thinks she will get cake after every time she sings it. She also has quite the little attitude too. I'm afraid she probably got that from me. They say first borns are pretty stubborn and we both are. She is still our little parrot and repeats everything we say and I mean everything. Danny has an Ipad and he loaded a bunch of pictures on there. Most of them are from when she was a baby. She loves to go through the pictures and point everybody out. Well, anytime there was a picture of her, we would tell her that is you. Now when she sees a baby picture of herself and we ask her who it is, she replies, Baby You. Apparently she thinks that is the babies name. lol. We recently moved to a different house and ever since the move, her sleeping habits have not been so good. She used to sleep through the night in her bed no problem, now she wakes up at least once, if not twice during the night. We then have to lay in her room with her till she goes back to sleep. Being pregnant and laying on her floor is not very comfortable. I am hoping it is just a phase and she will start sleeping through the night again very soon. Especially since baby #2 will be here any day.

Since the last time I blogged, we took Rylee to Sea World. She had so much fun. She absolutely loves fish and was in heaven there. We had a great time. The weather was so nice too. Speaking of fish, one of her favorite movies right now is Finding Nemo, she also likes Monsters Inc., and Toy Story 3. She will sit and watch these movies all the way through. She still loves Yo Gabba Gabba, but will watch other cartoons too. She loves to play with her babies. She is always trying to change their diapers and put them to bed. She loves to push her baby in the stroller, down to the mailbox and back. She also loves when Daddy throws her high in the air. He makes her count to 5 first and then she gets to go high. She is also learning her colors. She loves to swing at the park. She could do that for hours if we let her. Sorry if this is all over the place, my fault for not blogging more often, now I am trying to remember everything at once. I guess for now that is enough about Miss Rylee Roo.

I am overdue by 2 days now. My due date was Friday the 5th, but no baby yet. I am not a very patient person either. The wait and anticipation is killing me. If baby does not make an appearance by Tuesday, then we go in to be induced on Wednesday. I didn't want to be induced again, but I don't think I can wait much longer. I am so ready to have this baby. I just hope Rylee is ready for a little sibling. Luckily, Danny will be taking 2 weeks off, so we can all adjust together as a family of 4. I will leave you with some random pictures from that last several months.

Rylee in her Easter Dress.

In San Diego on a Merry Go Round.

Rylee with her Shamu.

Just looking cute.

Getting ready to go into Sea World.

Playing with Star Fish.

Sitting with Uncle Mike in her playhouse.

Laying on Gizmo under her bed, she is a nerd.

She is sitting in the baby swing seat that is in the closet. She never wanted to be in the swing when she actually fit in there. lol

She loves to swing in this swing.

This is after running threw the sprinklers.

She loves her swing so much, she fell asleep.

19 months and 22 weeks

I have a 19 month old. Where the heck did the time go. She just amazes me everyday. It has been quite awhile since my last post so not sure how long this will be. First off, at her 18 month check up she was 23 pounds and 31 inches long. She is quite the little copy cat. She loves to copy what we do, whether it be dancing, putting our contacts in or brushing teeth. My favorite though is when I shower, I put my leg up on the chair in the shower to wash my leg, next thing I know she has her little leg up there and is scrubbing away. She is just so interested in everything we do, that she has to try it. She is still sleeping very well in her toddler bed. This last week she was sick, so it was a little rough, but normally she will sleep all night in her bed. She still loves her Yo Gabba Gabba. She now sings along with them and says all their names. She loves loves loves to be outside. Any chance she gets, she is out there. The warmer weather will make that much easier for her. She is going to love going to the park pretty much every night, since Daddy is playing softball for mens and coed. She is currently working on popping through 4 of her molars. That has been a little rough for her. This will make 12 teeth for her now.

We also have another baby on the way. I'm sure everybody already knows this, but I haven't blogged since we found out, so I figured I would say something. I am almost 22 weeks with baby number 2. We are not finding out the sex, so it should make for an exciting delivery. I always ask Rylee where the baby is, and she goes right to my tummy. She gives the baby kisses, high fives and knuckles. The high fives and knuckles can be a bit painful. lol. She also thinks her and her daddy have babies in their bellies too. It is rather funny when she lifts Daddy's shirt up to talk to his baby. I really hope she doesn't get jealous of her new sibling. She really likes babies though, so hopefully she will just be in love with the new baby. Well, I know there is a lot more that I could post about, but then it will be a book, so I will really try my hardest to do more smaller posts. Here are some pictures from the last few months.

She was reading her book in her closet. Silly girl.

This was after playing at the park for a couple hours.

She got into my mascara, not sure how she didn't get it in her eye, but she didn't.

My cool chick, playing in her playhouse outside.

My little brothers turned 10 on march 23rd. Crazy how time flies.

Hanging out at the bowling alley. She got to bowl and did pretty good.

She loved our visit to the deer farm.

This is one of the nicer pictures of her messing with the kitty.

Our fishing trip, she enjoyed seeing the fish at the hatchery.

Crazy Climbing girl!

I guess it's time to post again. I am terrible at this blogging thing. Well lets see, the last time I posted was around Halloween. We had family from Colorado come visit the beginning of November. We had my cousin and her two kids stay with us. She has a 5 year old and a 4 year old. Rylee was so excited to have them here. She finally had some kids to play with. We had an early Thanksgiving with them over at my moms. It was a good time. We went to Danny's sisters for Thanksgiving Day. It was nice and laid back. Since both of our parents are divorced we usually have 4 places to go for every holiday and it can get a little overwhelming sometimes. My mom had another Thanksgiving the day after and we just went and visited my Dad after we left Amy's. After dinner, we came home. I really wanted a laptop from Walmart on black Friday, so I decided to go wait with my Aunt Terri at Midnight. We waited until 5am. Not sure what I was thinking, but I got my laptop. :).

Now to get to the title of this entry. Our little girl can climb out of her crib. She started doing this about 2 weeks ago. I laid her down for a nap, in her crib. She was fussing like she normally does, then she laid down. (we have a video monitor). The monitor went dark, so I waited a few minutes and checked it again. I couldn't find her, so I scanned her room. She was playing with all her toys. We decided the best thing to do was turn her crib in to a daybed and just get a toddler rail so she can't roll out of it. Well, Walmart didn't have any, so we waited until we had to go to Vegas. We had her sleep in her playpen until we got to Vegas. The playpen didn't last long either. She, as of yesterday, can now climb out of that. She is such a climber. I was worried about transitioning to a toddler bed. She is only 15 months. So far though, she has done great. She has only climbed out 1 time after putting her down for the night. I thought it was going to be a crazy battle. A battle I would much rather fight though, then have her fall out of her crib and crack her skull open.

We went and had her 15 month check up last week. She is now a whopping 21.5lbs with clothes on and 30.25 inches long. She is a bit of a runt. Our pediatrician says she is right on track for her though. She has always followed the 25th percentile. She had to get 2 shots that day also. Danny was in Vegas, so I had to go all by myself. Usually he holds her and I stand back and watch with tears in my eyes. Then, I comfort her after it is all done. Not this time though. I had to be the bad guy and hold her. She has to get her other half of the flu shot and then her 18 month shots and then we are down until she is 4. Thank goodness. I know they are good for the kids, but it is not fun.

I think that is all for now. I will leave you with some pictures, like I usually do. Hope you enjoy.

Gracie, Rylee and Isaiah. She wanted to sleep with them.

Posing for Pictures.

Blowing Kisses.

She loves to go down the slide.

Too Cute.

She loves to pull all of her diapers out, and then sit in the box.

Daddy and Rylee, watching Espn.

This is my favorite. She started out in her onsie. She then brought random articles of clothing to me, so I put whatever she brought to me on her. This is how we ended up.

Happy Halloween!

Well, I realize I'm a few days late in posting Halloween photos, but at least I'm posting them right:). Rylee is now 14 months old and is a wild one. She loves to run around and climb things. She has mastered climbing on the couch. Which wouldn't be that bad, except for the whole running thing. She runs back and forth and then will get as close to the edge as possible. She knows is scares us and we go running for her. She then smiles and turns and runs the other way. She is such a turkey.

I am so terrible at this blogging thing. I am trying to remember what we have done in the past month. My mom, Jessi, Rylee and I flew back to South Carolina to watch my cousin graduate from boot camp. He is now a united states marine. We are so proud of you Matt. I was really nervous about the flying, but she did great. That is until the very last flight. She ended up getting a belly ache and pretty much cried the entire flight.

I would like to wish a few people Happy Birthday. My Step-mom Anne had a birthday Nov 1. Thank you for being such a great person. You have always been so supportive of me. I really appreciate it. Next, my cousins son Logan, He turned 2 today. Happy Birthday Buddy. And last one for this week is my Aunt Terri. We love all you guys and hope you all have and had a great birthday.

Finally, I want to say congrats to my good friend Brandi & Jess on their new addition. A baby girl named Neely. She is the cutest little thing. Brandi is so awesome. She have delivered all her babies with no drugs. She is one tough cookie. She always tells me she feels like a wimp, because it really hurts. I have to correct her and tell her no, I am the wimp, but a proud wimp. I will take the pain meds over that pain any day. She is my hero. We love you guys and are so happy for you. Since I am on the topic of babies, I would like to wish a couple of friends good luck. Sarah & Chris and Scott & Shelby. They will both be adding new additions very soon. Good luck to you guys. We can't wait to hear the good news of your new bundles of joy. I guess I will leave you with some Halloween pictures. Have a good night all.

My Little Red Riding Hood on the phone:)

Playing with her tea set.

Watching her uncles play baseball.