Easter was fun this year. Rylynn was actually big anough to walk around and hunt eggs pretty much on her own. I bought her three dresses, and she wore all three. One to take pictures with the Easter Bunny in the mall, one to church on Sunday morning, and then another to hunt eggs in. Whew- next year, we only buy ONE!!
She knew what an egg was because of all the decorations I had out two weeks prior to Easter, so every time she would see an egg, she would say “Egg”.

Other words she’s saying include:

bird
granny
Nealon
Remi
Boo-Boo
uh-oh
mama
dada
sydney ((sounds more like “suh”))
outside ((sounds like “si”))

And now she climbs on EVERYTHING! Got to watch her busy butt- she’s fast!

 

Rylynn is one now, and she’s been walking for 3 months or so, so we’ve been outside every chance we get. This little girl LOVES to be outside. She goes to the front door and points outside thru the window and says “Ou” (outside) or “Buh”(bird), even when it’s dark outside. The ’skeeters are so bad tho, and she welps up when she’s bitten.
She is still sleeping all night long, 10 hours or more, so we’re thankful for that! She is super loving and wants to give everybody a kiss (or 2, or 3)! She can say mama, dada, papa, Josh, g-anny, boo-boo (moms dog), bird, egg, Remi (joshs dog), Nealon (she says  “Ne”, and also just a whole lots of jibber jabbers. She is gonna be a talker, thats for sure!
She can also point to green, red and blue, and copies everything she sees…and I do mean everything! She is the smartest little girl!

She had to get 3 shots after her birthday and a prick on the finger, and tho she did cry, she was fine before we even left the parking lot. We are so proud of her in so many ways, and just don’t think we could ever love anything else as much!

 

Rylynn had a great time at her birthday party. She was busy busy, and it took her about 3 nights before she had caught up on her sleep and was rested, but it was SO worth it all! We made some great memories!

 

So Rylynn will be one year old in 19 days! We can’t believe it! People always said how fast they grow up, but I thought it was just something people said. Now I know what they mean. She’s been walking for almost 2 1/2 months. She copies pretty much everything anybody does. She tries to comb her hair, drink out of the regular cup, put hairbow in her “hair”, headbands on her head, and so much more! She’s got 7 teeth all the way in, and I think there’s molars coming in, so we’re all a bit cranky lately. Road trip to Valdosta this past weekend was all kinds of trouble, which ended with her vomiting everywhere when we were 10 minutes from home. She fights sleep so bad, and she just cries and cries. She is a BUSY child. She certainly knows what she wants! As of right now, Matt and I decided we don’t want anymore kids. Not until the Lord changes something!
But thats okay- she’ll get all our lovin to herself!

 

Here’s a few pictures we took over the weekend around our house and mom and dads.

 

So I wanted to post some recent pictures of Rylynn and give a little update on her progress. She’s gotten both teeth in on the bottom, one has come in on the top, and I do believe we have another top one trying to cut thru. She’s not walking yet, but more and more she is letting go of tables and chairs and standing up all on her own. Now all she’s got to do is take a step!
She’s gotten much more vocal lately also. She squeals at me, I squeal at her, she squeals back. I clap, she claps. I sing, she sings. So she copies my every move. She’s learned how to wave bye-bye, and when she’s in the mood, will even “dance” for us. Our little girl has grown up ALOT in the past month. It’s amazing. Her next dr. appt is in a week (I think), so we’ll see how much she weighs and everything. Per our scales, shes around 19 lbs.

Big girl- she LOVES to eat our food. She’s just like Oscar used to be. If you have a plate, get ready, cause she’s making the beeline for ya!

 

Click on the title to the previous post (Halloween and Tutu) to see additional pictures I uploaded of her on Halloween night. I just put them back in that post so I wouldn’t have to make another one.

I’m posting some pics of Rylynn in one of her “halloween” outfits. She has one more and then a costume, which I will add after the weekend, but there are also TUTU pictures I took of her around the house that I just couldn’t wait to show. She’s just way too adorable not to share with everybody!

 

So Rylynn turned 7 months yesterday. Guess it’s time to add some updated info.

She has gone from scooting/leap-frogging on the floor to full-blown crawling. She’s also pulling herself into a standing position.  She’s now got TWO teeth on the bottom, and she knows how to use them.

At her 6 month check-up, Rylynn got her shots + the flu shot (part 1). The next day, she got sick. She had a snotty nose and congestion for two weeks. She’s still got a cough, but the dr. gave us some Singulair and it seems to be working. The snot is all gone, anyway. I guess she’s just gonna have bad allergies like me and my mom.

Her head measured 16 1/4 in around. She was 26 1/4 in long and weighed 17.35 lbs @ her 6 month check-up. She ate her first oreo cookie this past weekend, and good grief did she love that! She’s gonna be a junk food junkie like mommy.

Oh yeah- she loves the Wonder Pets theme song- I find myself singing it ALL the time. To listen to it, go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxlWvE2U0nw and listen to the first minute…her eyes light up every time she hears it.