Sunday, March 6, 2011

Hallie and Seth

Clint had some time off so we went out to Provo for the weekend to visit his cousin Lori and see her family-giant Seth, Hallie, Big Seth, and Hunter. We hadn't seen their newest boy, Hunter, who had just turned one and they hadn't met Ryann yet. Hallie was so excited to have Ryann come visit because all her aunts have been having boys.
Hallie
Big Seth...no longer baby Seth



Thanks for having us!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

9 Months

Ryann's first birthday is creeping up way too fast! My baby girl is almost 10 months old. But since I am so late (again) in getting up her 9 months post, lots has happened. At her 9 month check up she was...
20 lbs 9oz
28 inches
She has actually slipped below the 90th percentile, closer to 80th now. Our chunky girl is thinning out.She is the proud smiling girl of 4 teeth with 4 more coming in. This pictures show her one side top tooth, but she also has the front tooth next to it too. I didn't even know it had come in or was coming in till I was showing my friend her one tooth and then saw the other one too.Ryann's hair is long enough that she gets bed head. I actually have to make sure the brush it down now. You can kinda see her bed head in this picture.Ryann FINALLY will hold her own bottle and at times gets upset if you don't let her do it. She is so curious with what is going on that sitting up and eating is a common thing for her to do.
Ryann can sit herself up, I am happy she learned this so that she is no longer fussing at me to sit her up. She army crawls with the best of them and at times will actually crawl. It is not a common thing for her to do yet, but she does it. Rolling and army crawling just get her to where she wants to be faster.Her favorite activity is to pull out her toy box and pull all the toys out of it. But it doesn't even have to be her toy box, she just loves to find a box and pull the stuff out of it.
Ryann is also very helpful with making sure all the laundry is clean and folded correctly. She also enjoys helping me pull it out of the basket.Ryann is our curious little girl. She is quickly getting into things and exploring the world around her. She loves to eat finger food much better than mashed up baby food and can drink out of a straw. She is still just such a happy baby and still sleeping through the night which makes for a happy mommy.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Swimming

Ryann's first time in the pool, hanging out with daddy.
She did pretty good and didn't cry for two long.








Saturday, February 5, 2011

8 Months


Since Ryann is almost 9 months old, I figured I probably should do an update on 8 months.
19 lb 11 oz
28 in
She has learned that I am always putting bows on her headbands so she pulls them off. She will leave the headband on but gets the bow off to chew on. Hence the flower in her hair and the one sitting next to her. I did manage to get the flower out of her mouth for the picture by giving her a diaper wipe instead. She still loves paper.
Ryann is my little talented girl. She can click her tongue, whistle, and wave. Yup, she whistles. It is the cutest thing. She gets her lips just right and blows. It's a really quiet sound and she rarely does it, but I love it.
Trying a sipping cup.
Ryann has her two bottom front teeth in. She is also getting in the teeth next to the bottom front ones too. Her tooth just to the side of where her front teeth would be just broke through a few days ago. This girls is sprouting teeth like crazy! Needless to say she is a drooling, snotty, chewing machine these days. Everything is good to chew on....including Maggie's rawhide. To be fair though, the dogs do try to steal Ryann's toys sometimes so it's only fair she get a taste of the bone too:)
I have caught them bringing Ryann another toy so that they can take the one she is playing with. Ryann loves her dogs more with each passing day. Sally has learned that she can play with Ryann. She will bring her a toy, let her grab on to it and play tug-o-war with her. It's so cute. Sally does the whole growl and tug, Ryann is cracking up laughing cause she loves to interact with the dogs so much. When Sally pulls the toy of her Ryann's hands she will bring it back to her and play again. One of these days maybe I'll get a video of it.
Don't you just want to go get a cookie right now?

Friday, January 14, 2011

Lollipops and Marshmellows



Christmas

We started letting Ryann open Christmas presents a couple days early. She got to tear the paper on a couple presents each night and then enjoy them after she was done being mad that we took the paper away from her.
Thank you everyone for the gifts she received. Know that if you bought her clothes she enjoyed the tags, if you got her a toy then she enjoyed the paper it was wrapped in.MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Family Pictures

Since Christmas is over with I can finally share our family pictures we had done for Christmas presents this year.

Thanks Mindy! The family all loves them.
Check out her site
www.melindasmithphotograpy.blogspot.com