The busy mom

Hello!!! My sister came in town last week and stayed with us for several days and we had a great time!! So nice to see her when she comes in town. We got pedi's and had lots of fun. Today she came back from my mom's house and I took her to the airport back to her travels of the world. :) She's a flight attendant for a private jet so gets to go to Europe a lot and see amazing places. My hours at work have been cut back which I don't mind at all because I feel that your time is precious with your children. I try to enjoy all my time with her knowing that one day she will grow up on me. So I only work 3 days a week now. So Rylee and me have lots of fun together. I took her to her 6 month checkup and she got 3 shots and she weighs 15lbs even. The doctor told me I need to feed her more. haha! I have only been giving her baby food once a day and my doctor says I need to two or three times a day. So I have been feeding her more now. She is just talking away and will imitate what you saying. Like for instance Mark will laugh at her and she will laugh back or try to copy what noise you are making. Its so cute! She has been sleeping thru the night again for almost a week now so that's wonderful! She has got her two bottom teeth in and you think she would be fussy but hasn't been fussy at all. So is getting alot longer now. She can say Mama when she cries really hard or is upset. She is in that attached phase so whenever I walk in the room and she sees me she cries and wants me to come hold her. Mark and I have our 4yr anniversary next Thursday so will probably just go to dinner or something. Can't wait for Halloween so I dress Rylee up for her first Halloween! :) Well everyone have a wonderful blessed day!

September I love the fall!

Yay!!! September is here and I really enjoy the fall! This month Mark and I will be married 4 yrs on the 30Th. Marriage is wonderful and its nice to have someone there everyday to wake up to. :) It has its challenges but nothing that you can't work through. Having Rylee this past year has definitely changed our lives and actually brought us closer together. She is 6 months today and is such a joy to be around. She lights up our life each day. She is a rolly polly right now rolling everywhere and even is starting to scoot herself. So hopefully she will be crawling soon. She can sit up for about 10 seconds or so then falls over. But should start sitting up by herself any day now. Mark and I both walked at 9 months so we will see how she does. I have been just working part time still and the other time I am a housewife. So I am really enjoying my schedule and spending time with Rylee. I am doing well with exercising since Rylee has been born. I have been working out with trainer once a week and work out once on my own. So I have been maintaining my weight well. If only I could eat better then I would probably lose more weight. My sister comes in town on Monday from LA so excited to see her. My mom and step dad recently moved to Wichita Falls to open their art gallery. So I may go visit them in a week or so. I am getting so excited for the holidays! I guess having Rylee this year will make it more entertaining. :) Well hope everyone has a blessed day!

August

Wow, I didn't realize its been a month since I blogged last. Things have been busy and it seems like we always have something going on. Summer came and passed so quickly. Rylee is 5 months old now and can turn over and will not stay on her belly she just rolls back over. ha! She likes to smile all the time and squeal and make noises. She even like to growl like she is darthvader. haha! Its so funny. She found her toes and feet and is always chewing on them and holding them now. She eats oatmeal and fruit once a day and just started eating veggies once a day too. She does really well with her eating. She goes to bed now at 7 or 8 pm and sleeps till 5 or 6am. So does great and sometimes sleeps later. She even takes two long naps during the day now. She is a real happy baby and as long as you talk to her she is happy. Before long I am going to have to baby proof my house and get the gates and everything. She can almost sit up by herself so maybe another week or two and she will be able to. :)I just had my 29th bday about a week ago and Mark got me a new car 2008 Jetta! Its four door so that works much better with Rylee getting her in and out. I have just been working part time at the Country Club and spending lots of my time with Rylee and doing different activities on the weekends. Mark and I will celebrate our 4 yr wedding anniversary next month and are managing well with Rylee around. Still trying to lose another 15 lbs and its getting harder to continue to eat well. I've been working out with my trainer still once a week sometimes twice and really need to try to get to the gym in between. Well this has been a very hot summer with 19 days at 100 degrees in a row. Everyone have a blessed day! :)

Rylee's first day in a swimming pool!!! :)

So yesterday we went to one of my best friends house and Rylee got to swim in her pool for the first time. She looked so adorable in her little swimsuit and hat. :) Wish I would of taken pictures but forgot. :( She kicked her legs alot and just seemed real chill in the pool. She even started to fall asleep a little. She lasted like 30 or 45 minutes and then started crying because she was hungry. haha! But she did well. I'm proud of her. She is 4 1/2 months old now and time is just flying by so fast. She just starting growling last week and likes to growl all the time. Its the funniest thing. She sounds like a little darthvader or something. Then when we laugh at her she laughs back. First thing in the morning when I go to pick her up she is growling at me its so funny! She also just laughs all the time and giggles. She will be in the room by herself and just be laughing or giggling. I guess she can amuse herself now. She goes to the doctor this Friday to get her shots. So that will not be fun. Last time she got shots she cried a lot later that evening and I had to give her medicine and that put her right to sleep. Poor baby. Well just working part time and working out with my personal trainer alot. I have lost almost 40 lbs now since Rylee was born and only have 10 more pounds until I get to my goal. 20 pounds would be even better. Then I would be down to the weight I weighed at my wedding almost four years ago. :) My body is getting really strong now its so awesome!!! :) Well my bday is coming up in a couple of weeks and I will be 29! My last year in my twenties. I am still loving being a mother and taking care of my daughter. I am just so happy to finally have my own daughter. Sometimes I look at her and get tears because I am so happy to have a baby of my own. :) I know that sounds cheesy. Well I gotta get home soon gotta get up at 5am tomorrow to go to work. Goodnite and have a blessed evening! :)

Wow July is around the corner

Sorry I haven't wrote in almost a month. I only get on this blog at work and I only work two days a week now. But Rylee has been keeping me plenty busy. She is doing wonderful and still hasn't been sick yet and she's almost 4 months old. :) She is talking and talking haha! Right now she is holding toys now and loves to chew on anything she can find toys, her outfits, bibs, fingers. haha! I think she is teething now because she tends to slober alot. It seems lately we are always needing to find something to entertain her time. She gets mad if you try to lay her down when she wants to sit up and be a big girl. I started feeding her oatmeal rice cereal last week and she really likes it. I put a little fruit in it too and maybe thats why she enjoys so much. Her sleep schedule differs alot lately this month. She usually wakes up once a night and once and twice a week she will sleep thru the night. I have been working out alot and working with a personal trainer twice a week and eating healthy so I have been sliming down nicely. I have lost around 35 lbs so far since Rylee's birth. Well July 4th is coming up and we don't have any plans. :( I wanted to go to my dads house in Houston but Mark's on call for his job so we have to stay in town. :( So who knows what we will do. I think I am going to cook a brisket and invite some friends over. Well hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of july and have a blessed day!!

One more week till Memorials Day! :)

Rylee Michelle will be 11 weeks tomorrow. Wow how time flies. I can't believe she is almost 3 months old already. She is doing wonderful! She weighs 11.5 lbs now and is growing alot. We just recently moved her to her crib in the nursery from the bassinet in our room. She has been sleeping thru the night regularly. She usually goes to be between 9:45pm and 11pm and will sleep till 5 or 6am. She is still on breastmilk and drinks apple juice and half water occassionally. She just started talking alot and making cooing sounds about a week or two ago. Its so cute its like a baby lanuage. haha! She also loves to smile and laugh. She will even wake up now and not cry and will just lay in her crib and talk and make noises and entertain herself till we come to get her. lol I am still deciding if I want to take her to get all her 2 month vacinations. I just think that 2 months is too young to be giving her 6 shots of vacinations that really she could wait and get when she's a little older. They still don't know why so many kids now in our generation are artistic and I don't want to give her anything that would affect her. So whats the point in vacinating so young. I will probably vacinate when she is a one yr or older. I think her brain is too little right to take all that. But thats just my opinion. Better safe than sorry. Well Memorials Day is next Monday and Mark's 30th bday is the Sunday before. We are going to go the country house for two days and fish and relax. So it will be Rylee's first trip to the country. :) Well all have a blessed week!!!!!

The day before Mothers Day!

Hello!!! Well I am still enjoying motherhood! I guess I am getting used to it because I don't seem to be as sleepy anymore. She is also sleeping thru the night mostly. She usually sleeps thru the night 5 out of the 7 days. So that helps a bunch. Rylee is 8 weeks old now almost 9 weeks. Time is going by so fast. I can't believe she's already 2 months old. She started smiling a week or two ago and laughs and its so cute!! She will even follow u around with her eyes when u walk around the room. My husband is sick right now he has a sore throat we thought it was strep but found out at the doctor that its not luckily. So its kinda a bummer right before mothers day. :( Today I went to a Mothers Day Tea at my mother in law Pattie's church and tomorrow we are going to my mom's house for lunch. So it has been a nice weekend. I started back work on thursday. So I will be working thursdays and fridays now just 4 hrs a day. So I have been staying very busy. Having a baby I stay so busy all the time it seems like I have never have enough time in the day. Happy Mothers day everyone!! So excited because it is my first mothers day! :) Have a blessed day!