11 weeks....

That is how many more weeks until it's all summer long days with my little diva!
She had a hard time getting up Monday morning (as did I). She was not happy the first two mornings I dropped her off but by Wednesday she remembered how much she loves going to school. Ms. Nadia said that she has to do the classroom lesson first with Lyla because she is so excited when it's time to sit in her seat to learn (oh how I hope this continues..ha) She did great the rest of the week and oh how we were both ready to sleep in Saturday morning.
Jason went out of town earlier in the week and I haven't been sleeping well when he is gone and to add to that the dogs were pacing the floors as well. I was in desperate need of an adult night out..so thank goodness my wonderful husband said he would get Lyla down for bed Friday night so I could meet my friends down for road for some good vent sessions and laughs!!! I had to end up waking Lyla up around 9 Saturday morning for breakfast and she was already back down for her morning nap by 10:30 and slept an hour and a half!!! She was a tired girl!
Saturday we went and met one of Jason's buddy's in league city to test his jet skis for the season and let Lyla get some much needed vitamin D. It was a beautiful day outside and she loved getting to swing and take in all the people watching. We left there and got some good BBQ and then headed home where baby girl passed out at 7:30 again!!
We went and visited a church a few weeks ago and liked it okay and were planning on going back but with the time change and Lyla's late sleeping has pushed back her morning naps so I am afraid to take a non nap grouch to church nursery. She is going through this stage where she only wants me and Jason at times but that is it, so it's hard. I know we will get back in the routine soon just a matter of time :)
We have another busy week ahead of us and we start therapy this week so we will see how it goes.

Spring break is over...sigh!!!

Well we didn't have an eventful spring break but it was a good one!
We started the break off with a check up on the tubes we got put in Lyla's ears back in December and the doctor said that they couldn't look any better and that she would see us back in 6 months :)
We decided to go ahead and let a PT do a evaluation on Lyla to see what they said on Tuesday. She said she could see nothing wrong with her and she puts weight on her legs, just seems as we said has found other forms of getting around and has no want to walk. The only thing she said but was not a concern is that she still likes to curl her toes up and that could be to do with her reflexes but no worries there. She said she could work with her one day a week for a few weeks to see if we could get her to stand for longer than the 30-45 seconds she is now to build strength in her legs and she also gave us some exercises at home to do to get those little toes uncurled :)
We headed for Gigi's on Wednesday and had a great trip there. We went and visited granny and papa on Thursday (and terrible me didn't get one picture) Lyla has been cutting teeth and hadn't had a good nap that day. Thankfully papa took us for a ride in the rhino and she passed smooth out..ha! Again another reason of needing to live in the country. Friday we did a little shopping and every night Gigi made us a delicious homemade meal and Lyla got to spend a lot of time outside..which she loved. We got up Saturday morning and headed back home.
We went and had a good St. Patty's dinner with the Watson's and we all came home and crashed. We didn't make it to church this morning because Lyla took an almost two hour nap this morning. I guess she is catching up since for now all four of the teeth that were trying to come through did...yay! I am afraid we are no where close to being finished though because I felt two more knots on the bottom.
We went on a stroller ride this afternoon and got some swing time in now we have had dinner, bath and are winding down for the night and getting ready to get back in the routine tomorrow. Yes, I have already counted and only 12 more weeks until summer break!!! I can do this..ha!
Hope you all had a great spring break!!

Busy/biting baby + computer crash = much needed break!!!

Well to say the least it has been a rough start to my week! I finally got my weekend caught up and everything planned out and Lyla and I tried out a new church on Sunday. We really enjoyed it but I think the devil was not very happy because he started digging away at my week slowly but surely.
It started Sunday when we went to open our computer (which has all of Lyla's pictured saved on it, not backed up) long story short...after a trip to the apple store and only getting half of the pictures saved they are saying it has to be completely wiped out! Then Monday I was in my classroom and my fridge started making a terrible noise and after letting it rest over night I tried it again this morning and it also has decided to play out. Then I go to pick up Lyla after daycare and I get an accident report to fill out because my child has bit another child on the back today...GOOD GRIEF!! Is it spring break yet?!?!
I also have been back and forth with her teacher on the fact that of we say it's okay for her to have her paci then that is our choice. Lyla was off the bottle at 11 months, is teething and I quit nursing her last week so she is going through some serious transitions and that is her security blanket. So her being frustrated and hurting I feel contributed to the incident today, at least I pray my justification is correct. I know that this too shall pass but it's still hard dealing with it at the moment, just like the things we have already been through and many years to come :)
She is also all over the place..one minute she is in her playroom the next she is no telling where! She loves to play with doors which worries me but it is so cute to see her say "HI" when she opens it and "BYE" when she closes it..ha!
I think she knew Ms Nadia was telling on her though because she will never tell her bye and today when she was telling me and I was telling her that wasn't nice she looked at Nadia and said bye-bye..lol!! She also blew spit kisses to her daddy this morning...oh my!!
Even though she is my little mischievous diva I wouldn't trade any of it for the money in the world!!

And PS totally realized I have the blog app for my iPad so I think this will be much easier to keep up with now :)
Only three days until the start of my MUCH needed week break!!!

A month in review....Happy 13 months!!

My how the months are flying by and how much you have changed and the new things you have learned in a month...

First let's talk about the previous month we have had. When we went to your well care check up for your one year stats the doctor saw that you weren't wanting to put pressure on your feet when you were held by another person. She didn't have immediate concern because she had seen that you had been behind on other milestones such as sitting up and crawling. This was in part to the constant ear infection you had from practically August-December until when we finally got the tubes in your ear. Because the night after tubes you started sitting yourself up :)

 She also referred us to a program called the ECI - early childhood intervention. I really didn't ask questions about this because I was kind of worried about the x-rays she was having us to go get. Even though she assured me that she didn't think anything was wrong but just wanted to be proactive. I talked with the ladies at daycare and they were telling me that she would stand against a toy if they put her there and that made me feel a little better. She then did it for me later that night at home, which again made this momma very happy! I was putting the x-rays off because I wanted to give her a few more weeks to see if any progression took place and try some of the strategies I had found to help with these motor skills. I decided to go ahead with the x-rays the weekend before we left for Jason's grandma's 90th birthday party so that I would stay busy and keep my mind off of the weekend wait of results the following Monday. She also did so well getting her x-rays which made it that much easier.

Well she obviously just wanted us to spend an extra $150 on tests because out of no where once we arrived at Jasons' parent's.....she started CRAWLING! (on my birthday of course..so it is something I will never forget) Yay! You don't know how excited this momma was once she started doing this. And of course they called me Monday to say that her x-rays came back perfectly normal..thank you Jesus!!!

Already getting into stuff...

She is now a girl on the move. She used to just stay in her playroom but that is no longer...she is all over the place. She is also pulling up to her knees to find stuff and pull it down (the reason we are baby proofing the house this weekend..ha) Her progression has amazed me over just the last week when she started crawling. I am so thankful that things are moving forward and it is less stressful I feel like. Because I never knew how much one could worry or care so much about something until little Lyla came along. You constantly worry that your child is not reaching their milestones or not doing what other children are doing at their age. I love getting advice from others and hearing what their children did at Lyla's age to give me reference but I also learned more than anything this week that you take everything with a grain of salt. As a mom you know what is best for your child and it is not always what others are going to think is right or what they would do, but it never will be. So listening to what others say and taking it into consideration has been a great tool from other moms but I also feel that I have to do what is best for our family. So we have set a timeline for her and have set some appointments for later in March and will continue to watch her progression and go from there. She is a full spirited girl with her own agenda and I wouldn't trade that for the world :)

Now onto my sweet little Diva being 13 months today...How can it be????

You weigh about 23 lbs

Wear size 3 diapers

Wearing size 12-18 months clothes

You are still nursing in the morning when you get up but that will be a thing of the past come spring break. I hope you the transition goes smoothly. I have a feeling it will because other things we have gradually changed you have done really well so far...I am just praying this will be the same :)

You eat three good meals a day, plus two snacks, drink out of your sippy cups well also you usually take two milk and two juice daily. You eat at your own pace though. The ladies at daycare have just learned to let you sit there and they know you will eventually eat. I think it is in part to you still being so nosey and interested in everything going on around you that you have to take constant breaks..ha!

You still LOVE daycare. You get so excited when we get there in the mornings you are already telling me bye-bye before I can sit you down..ha! 

You are a girl that loves to go...when I saw are you ready you throw your hands up and starting yelling bye-bye :) (that is your favorite word by the way)

You still only have 6 teeth..four on top and two on bottom.

You love chasing zeus around the house and trying to get his bones..so we have to make sure they are put up (you also found his food and water the other day so it had to be relocated as well)

You are in heaven when we put you in your playroom. You just go from one toy to the next, dragging everything out. We have started singing the clean up song at night so maybe one day you will know how to do it on your own...ha!

First horse ride

You got to ride a horse for the very first time last weekend and it made me so sad that we don't live in the country like I did when I was growing up because you love to be outside so much, and we are limited to things like that here in the city.

You go to bed around 7:30 every night and usually sleep until around 6 in the morning. We have to leave by 6:30 so M-F I am glad for this time but on the weekends we could use some sleeping in :)
You take two okay naps during the day...still a morning nap around 9:30 which is about 30 minutes to an hour and the same thing in the afternoon around 2:30.

The rodeo in Houston has started so we celebrated "Go Texan" day on Friday

You love Elmo, singing, bath time, peek-a-bo, TV in general..ha, all of your toys but especially your jack-in-the-box..it's so funny when you know it is about to go off because you start blinking really fast,, you are very easy to entertain which is good and bad at the same time because you now find things you shouldn't to play with.

You also love going for a ride in your new tricycle we got you for your birthday...we have been trying to go on afternoon rides and you just smile the entire time we are going. 

You can say momma, dada, bye-bye, hi, hey, Gigi, night-night, and several other words when you want to. I see those wheels a turning daily so I know it is only a matter of time we will have to watch what we say and watch around the house. 

We can't believe a year and a month has already flown by so quickly...you are such a joy and a blessing in our lives...you add so much entertainment and we can't imagine a day without you!!!

Your daddy and I love you to the moon and back!!

(13 Month pictures to follow..like I said I have been crazy busy and didn't get the photo in today)

Go Diva it's your birthday!!! (so behind)

This has been sitting in my edit box for WEEKs now...this will tell you how busy I have been so today is catch up on blogging day :)

Lyla Faith you are so loved and such a Diva you got to have two birthday parties for 1st birthday!!

Two weekends, two parties and one exhausted momma but wouldn't have changed one single thing about the these two weekends. We started the first weekend with our family party in NB. We were so glad that we were able to do this because all of our family lives north of us so we thought it would be nice to all meet in a central location for most of us. Lyla didn't have a very good nap before her party so she was a little tired but I think she had a really good time. I felt like I didn't get to visit very long with anyone because of trying to take care of things but I was so glad they were all able to come and celebrate with us.

Here you are sporting your B-day outfit :)

Your Gigi's friend made your ADORABLE cake. I knew she would do a great job and she did. I don't think it could have been more perfect. I found some decorating ideas on Pinterest and other sights to help decorate for your party. I didn't get a lot of pictures that I wanted such as the tables and all because we were running around late trying to get everything finished!

Here is you and your daddy :)

Your granny had this lady make the CUTEST wreath for your party!!

Here you are about to blow out your birthday candle :)

Yummy Cake!!

Your sweet cousin Adeline helped you open up all of your presents...we were so glad she got to come and help you! Sweet Love!

We were so thankful everyone came to help celebrate your first birthday!!!

Your HOUSTON party!!

Here you are eating some more yummy cake!

Here you are opening SO many wonderful presents that you received from all of our sweet friends that came out on a rainy nasty day to celebrate with you. We are so thankful for each of them!

Here is one person that I miss so much this year and I am so glad that she brought your "future boyfriend" Alexander over to see us!!!

Oh momma, what's in there?!?!

Here you are showing everyone your rolling skills!!!

Decorations from the party.....

Front table..after the candle was almost all gone..ha!

One of my favorite projects was your monthly onesies...I can't believe how much you changed from month to month and I am so glad I did this project!!!

1 year pictures

I decided to try and take Lyla's one year pictures myself this year..I have a really nice camera and figured that I could do pretty decent and I am happy with how they turned out. Thank you to Jason's cousin Kara for helping me with the editing :)

Birthday posts will have to wait until next weekend. I want to wait until she has her Houston party and do one big post :) One year appointment is today so will get stats posted as well!!!

Happy One Year!!!

Well we will probably never be up on your actually birthday for a few years since you decided to wait until the very last minute to arrive on the 26th...11:54 p.m. but you were worth every second of the wait you gave us :)

You are SUCH a happy baby. You are so outgoing and you entertain us on a daily basis.

You wear size 3 diapers

Weight about 25 lbs

Size 12-18 month clothes

(We go next Tuesday for your year check up so we will get your stats then)

You still have yet to master the crawl..but it doesn't matter because anything you want or anywhere you want to go you can get there by "rolling" It is so funny to watch your little wheels turn to figure out how you can get somewhere by doing this. You have recently started crawling backwards but it is only for about four crawls and that sits you back onto your bottom where you can sit up again. 

You still LOVE to eat. You only nurse one time a day now and eat three solid meals, two snacks and have taken really well to drinking organic milk with two of your meals and juice with the other. Your favorites are cheerios, pasta, chicken and any kind of fruit. 

You are a BIG talker. It is either us just imagining you are saying things or you really just love to only say them once or at random times when I can't catch it on camera. Your favorite word is bye-bye (you love to go) mama, dada, hi, hey, Gigi, duck. You also can make a sheep sound and did a dog sound the other night.

You blow kisses and love to give kisses.

You love listening to music and singing.

You get so excited when we load up and head to daycare. I am so thankful that you love it because it makes me going to work so much easier. You love riding in the bye-bye buggy when you are there. 

You love sitting in the floor and playing with all of your toys and you have just recently starting rolling over to your toys in the living room and dragging all of them out. (now you need to learn and pick it up..ha)

Your not as big of fan of your bouncer because you are a girl on the move and that just doesn't do it for you much anymore.

You are sleeping SO well these days (it only took 10 months..ha) You will even let us just lay you in the crib and you put yourself to sleep. 

It amazes us all of the things you can mimic and are learning each day.

*I am sure I will think of more things throughout the day and will have to get on here and add them* :)

We love you to the moon and back and can't wait to see what the next year has in store for us!!!