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!!!

Long time and busy...

I feel like I can never get time to sit down and talk about what's going on, but then again we are usually not doing much so nothing exciting to say :) We will have lots to share in the next few weeks though! I have been busy planning two birthday parties for the little diva! We were going to just do the one in NB but decided we wanted to share the day with our friends in Houston also! It's a very special day so we wanted everyone to enjoy it as much as we are. My mom is doing a lot of the cooking and work for the NB one so I am very thankful for her. I also took the leap and did Lyla's first birthday pictures on my own as well. They aren't professional by any means but I am happy with how they turned out and thankful for jason's cousin Kara for helping me with some editing on them. I still haven't done the smash cake session so may try to fit it in sometime this week to have some pictures of it. Maybe we can on Thursday since I already have a cake and she can have some on her real birthday :) I am still busy crazy at work with all of the paper work, beginning of year things, meetings, and lots of other things that will remain unspoken of. It's terrible that I am already so ready for my summer break to spend with my girl. She is growing with leaps sand bounds and it seems like she is learning something new everyday. I am keeping note and will talk all about it on her probably three series birthday blog posts..ha! Our weekends here lately are spent cleaning house, playing, napping and eating. I wouldn't trade these boring weekends for anything though because Lyla feels them with so much joy and entertainment, so to us they are no where near boring. Jason's work schedule has been changing a lot so he hasn't been able to be home with us in the afternoons so when he is we are very thankful. Well, guess I will get back to my birthday to do list while the little diva is taking her nap :)

11 months/Christmas/Tubes

This is one big blog of almost all of December..ha! I still haven't gotten the hang of it (plus Jason is now using my computer and I can't blog from my Ipad as easy as I can from this...so hopefully we will get him his own soon)

11 Months

Well Lyla Faith I am a little behind on your 11 month picture and update but we finally got it done today...What you have been up to;

~You weight about 22 pounds and are about 21 1/2 inches long..I think you are a little petite thing when I see other babies but you are a really good eater so I don't worry.

~Size 3 diapers

~Yay!! You finally are sleeping through the night (we got off a little during the break but it only took one night and you were back on) You still fight going to sleep but once you wear yourself out you finally give it up and pass out. You always used to sleep on your tummy but here lately not only are you sleeping on your back, side, looks like your head some nights because you are from one side of your crib to the other...I hear you are a wild sleeper like I was "am" so I guess you inherited that from me...ha! "Don't worry I won't let your friends make you sleep on the floor..Lindsey and Amanda..Love ya'll :)

~You are a rolling machine...you still will not crawl. You will get up on all fours like you are going to get what you are looking at but then you will flop down to your belly and maneuver yourself in every direction by rolling to get there. It is hilarious to watch you. I still am worried that you aren't on track but I know that all babies are different and I don't see any developmental delays and neither has the pediatrician so I just pray that you are a non interested lazy little girl who will pick it up soon :)

~You are a BIG eater...you still nurse when you wake up and before you go to bed but other than that you are nursing and bottle free. You eat a big breakfast, lunch and dinner and you eat two good snacks also. You love some chicken, fish and pasta. I love how you pick the way you eat your food..it's usually the cheese, fruit, meat, and then some of the veggies..ha! 

~You think Zeus is the most hilarious thing ever

~You LOVE some Elmo or actually TV in general..something can catch your eye on the tv and you will just stare forever

~Speaking of staring you can for sure give some looks also. 

~You still love your bouncy but do really good playing on the floor with all of your toys.

~Bath time is probably your second best thing besides dinner time.

~You still love going to daycare, which makes this momma very happy!

~You have gotten a lot closer to your daddy here lately and I think that makes him very happy as well.

~You love to mock everything that we do...you love for us to cough and you do it right back to us (sometimes not in the most appropriate places. like in church the other morning when you were mad at Kavin because he wouldn't play the coughing came with you during Bro. Ken's sermon..lol)

~You can say bye-bye, mama, dada, hey, hi, we swear you are saying other things when you want like duck, baaaa (sheep sound) Gigi, and I know there are some others

~You still only have 6 teeth those two on top just refuse to come in

You really are our little entertainer we get so tickled at some of the things you "say" and do. We love you to the moon and back and can't believe you are 11 months old...It can't be!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I think my expectations of Christmas were a little lacking this year. I guess because I always imagined baking cookies, setting up for Santa and such but I know that Lyla is not old enough to do those things or understand so I already have things in mind of traditions and things that I want to start next year when it will mean more to her and us. 

Lyla and Gigi being silly.

Give me that present

My rockn raffi the giraffe..not real sure about this.

We didn't get into town until Thursday night after Lyla's ear procedure. I now think we should have just waited but didn't want us traveling the day after and her have a long day with eating and opening presents at grannys house. With the procedure and getting off of her schedule and being away from home was a rough week with trying to get her sleep. It didn't help that she got a stuffy nose while we were there so she couldn't breath and that was hurting her sleep as well. We just went to NB for Christmas and weren't able to travel to AR but hopefully we will be able to soon. We opened presents Saturday night and Lyla had a great time seeing all of the goodies she received. We got up Sunday morning and went to church and just hung out around the house the rest of the week. I was sad to leave but very glad to get home and get Lyla back on track with her sleep because I was one worn out momma.

 Tubes

My poor baby had to get tubes in her ear last Thursday morning. It was a tough day waiting to get finished with the procedure but she got through it like a champ and everything went well. I am glad it is over and realized how very thankful that we are as we saw all of the other moms and dads in there with all of their babies who had way bigger problems than we could ever imagine.  I now hope this will eliminate all of the fluid that kept building up in her ears that was causing all of the problems. We go back in 6 weeks for a check up to see how they are doing. We will get them out in about a year if they haven't fallen out before then. 

Merry Christmas

Masters Graduation & Lyla updates

Well the day finally came....I officially finished my masters degree in August but wasn't able to walk until today. I am glad that I did it and am SO thankful that Jason was able to come and that mom and granny drove all the way there and turned around and had to drive all the way back home today. It meant so much to have them there and I am so very thankful to have the wonderful family that I do. They have always believed in me and have supported me through anything that I wanted to do. My sweet husband got home at like 2:00 this morning from work and got up and made the trip with us also, and of course my little pride and joy Lyla faith was perfect during the entire ceremony. 

The graduation ceremony went pretty quickly once it started which was good because I was starving and my child had not had a nap so I was afraid of how she was acting up in the stands. When it was over we went and ate at what we think is Lyla's favorite restaurant by the way she eats every time we are there, Carinos. I am sitting here waiting on the phone call from mom to let me know that she made it  home okay. 

My sweet angel!

4 Generations!! These two women are what I hope and pray to be like as a mom..they are my inspiration and I love them like crazy!

Lyla Updates...

I hate doing New Year's resolutions because I feel so pressured to do them I don't...ha! I am making it my goal to stay more up to date on what is happening in our lives as little Lyla is growing because I have not done well here lately because I am just been overwhelmed with work and with Jason gone a lot here lately practically being a single mom. I wish I could just translate my daily posts to facebook on here and that would help a lot..lol! I am quick to put something on there to remember but wish I would do the same here.

Well our goal for the next two and a half weeks while I am off of work is to work on getting Lyla to start crawling, I am probably totally going to regret this when she does, but I am just tired of getting those stares of WHAT?!?! when people as how old she is and then say is she crawling or walking all over the place and my reply is NO :(

I know there is nothing wrong with her because she can stand in her bouncy, hold on to Jason's arm and stand up from the side of his chair, get up on all fours and rock back and forth, and this kid will be from one end of the house to the other, by ROLLING, if you take your eye off of her for a second. She can roll, scoot and get anywhere that allows her to go from left to right or backwards but the problem lies when the only direction she can go is forward and she gets stuck and starts screaming..good grief :)

She has been waving and saying bye-bye for awhile now, it is more consistent now as before she would only do it when we were saying by to her daddy. Here in the past few days she has started to blow kisses bye-bye. She did it at daycare on Friday and did it several times to mom and granny today and along to a few strangers I heard also :)

She is FULL of personality...we just sit here and laugh at the some of the looks she gives or how well she can ignore you when she knows you are talking to her. 

If she is upset or anytime actually this kid LOVES music. She has recently started singing to the music, super loud. It is so cute and it melts my heart. 

I think that is all for now..Only a few short days until I have to do her 11 month update..OMG! It can't be :( My little girl will be one before I know it!!!

10 months

My how time flies Lyla Faith

I can't believe you are 10 months old. (Well yesterday, but we were traveling so we are a day behind)

You are wearing size three diapers and wear 12-18 months clothes

You also weigh about 20lbs

You love to eat :) You go through phases but overall you are a really good eater. You eat a lot of table foods because you love to feed yourself. You still are eating some pureed food that I make. You love some grilled chicken, cheese and mandarin oranges. I think you would eat that every meal of you could. We need to venture out and try some other things we just have been so busy that was just easy to do. You still nurse when you wake up, bedtime, and if you are at daycare a bottle at 9 & 1 and nurse at those times also if we are home. I attempted to start weaning you when we were on break but that didn't go over so well with your routine being all messed up so we will try and start again this week. 

You are still not crawling but will roll from one side of the house to the other if we would let you. You do get up on all fours but if we see you rocking back and forth you drop to your belly and start kicking your feet :) We know you will pick it up sooner or later. I am afraid you are going to over night hit the floor running and your dadd and I are going to be in some kind of trouble. 

We went out of town for Thanksgiving this past week and you didn't do very well. You have been very clingy to me here lately so that did not help with everyone wanting to hold you. You also have never slept in your pack n play and that didn't go as planned either. I don't know if you just didn't have enough room in there or if you knew you were in the same room as us and could scream until we picked you up. We had a really good time visiting with family I just wish you would have had a better trip, but I know it's hard on you being out of your element and going through changes but we are going back for Christmas in a few weeks and I hope it is a better trip.

You still love the dogs and watching them run around and play. 

You are still doing really great at daycare. They have a even started a full curriculum in your 6-12 month class and they say that you are loving it. They send a folder home every Friday with all of the fun arts and crafts you have done. It is so cute and I am going to be one of those mom's that keeps everything so we are going to have to create a storage box for them.

You are SUCH a happy and lovable baby. You still love to give your daddy a hard time and will not have anything to do with him most of the time but I have to keep telling him that you are a momma's girl now but it won't be long when you will be all about him.

You love to take baths but we realized it's also how much you love your bath ducky. We were still getting things but up when we got home and we put you in here with some toys and you played for ever. You looked so cute reading your book in there :)

You still love being your in your bouncy

Elmo is your favorite thing to watch on TV (yes, you still are a TV junky) 

We got you a new car seat and you are loving having all of the room to move around.

You squeal SO loud sometimes that we just get so tickled at your. You love to play patty-cake, wave and say bye-bye and make noises when I or you pat your hand over your mouth. I am afraid you are going to be one loud and rowdy girl. You have started squirming all over the place when you are in our laps and think you need to get a hold of everything (and put it in your mouth, of course) 

You are our entire world and we love you to the moon and back!!!