Wordless Wednesday

Look what I found Mommy!!

New 'Baby'

No, I am NOT pregnant....we are not even trying yet.  There IS another baby in our house though.  Rylie found my old baby doll in the closet the other day and has grown quite fond of it.
I always loved babies as a kid, real and pretend. I played with them all.the.time. This one doll in particular I was super attached too and I was never able to get rid of it.  I don't know if it is because it is so creepy real looking, or if it just the one I have the most memories playing with.  Whatever the reason, I had it in Rylie's closet and she crawled in and pulled it out.  She was instantly in love. I got these great shots of her playing with it.  Now if I sit at the end of the hall and have the baby wave to her, she will race over to give it a kiss :)

                                                            

She was so funny with it I had to get a video too.  She just kept talking to it and giving it kisses. Unfortunately, by the time I got the video, she was pretty much done playing. I still think it's cute though. 

Candid Camera

To follow-up my previous post I finally caught Rylie and Ryan's lawn-mowing game on film.  The battery was dying so I got two and in between I switched batteries.  This is the scene in our house every weekend :)

insomnia

no not me...my daughter. Our little bundle of joy has taken to waking in the middle of the night for about an hour at a time.  Not crying, just awake.  She practices her clapping, talks to herself and I can hear her saying "book" over and over which is one of her newest words.  We took the nightlight out of her room in hopes that if she couldn't see things to talk to, then maybe she wouldn't.  It seemed to work pretty well, until the other night.

Rylie went to bed as usual at 7:45, but then all of a sudden at 9:00, as Ryan an I are peacefully enjoying our evening, we hear a knocking on Rylie's wall along with laughing. We let it go for a little bit, but when she really got carried away I went to check and this is what I found:

Thats right, our little stinker was playing so hard and she even took her pants off! Needless to say she was wide awake and not going to bed anytime soon.  We let her just hang in her bed awake with the lights off, but around 11:30 we decided to try and rock her back to sleep.  We did 20 minute shifts and she finally fell asleep at 12:45, almost four hours later!!!!!! I really hope that this doesn't become a habit.  Last night she slept completely through so we will see what tonight brings....

Creativity

With Rylie on the move now, she really isn't happy being in her jumper anymore.  We keep in it the room though for those moments when she needs to be confined for her own safety, like if we have to leave the room for more than a second.  She still isn't much of a fan of being INSIDE.

Now being OUTSIDE of the jumper is another game in itself and Rylie is very excited to walk around the outer edge of the jumper and use the toys.  She also loves to hold onto the bars and shake the jumper while yelling "aaaaaaahhhhhh"!

The other day, Rylie found an even more fun and creative way to use her jumper...

I think a trip to the library is in order

This child cannot get enough of her BOOKS!  Sure, she plays with toys, but she PLAYS with her books.  She will sit and flip them around, look at the pages and stare at them for super long periods of time.It is so fun as a mom to sit just and watch and wonder what is going through her head.





Sometimes she will lay on her stomach and turn the pages, and other times she will sit and just study how the thing works.  She gets sooo excited when she figures out how to get to a new page.


She also will be happy to sit and listen to a story any time and books are the only thing she gets out of her bin and brings over to us.  Whenever she brings one over and 'asks' us to read it, she gets super happy when we realize what her message is and start reading.
At our baby shower, our guests bought us books that they signed instead of greeting cards.  This was the best idea, because now we have quite a library for Rylie to choose from!



These are her favorite books right now:
 
I hope that she never loses her joy for reading!!