This week Rylie has started cruising along the couches. This has now introduced us to several other things that need to be babyproofed. Before, we could put it up in the couch to keep it away from her, but not anymore! This girl is sooo determined. My favorite part of this video is when she stops halfway through to rest :)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Millions of peaches, peaches for me...
or nectarines. Either way, Rylie loves them! She goes crazy when she sees me bring one to the table. I peel the skin and give it to her whole, this is what it looks like....
She could eat it forever, but I eventually have to take it away when she is sucking on the PIT!
These are the results of her nectarine snacktime:
THE REMAINS
THE MESSY BABY
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Date Night
Ryan and I don't get to get out much together. One of us usually stays home with Rylie so the other can get out and socialize with their friends every once in a while. This weekend we had a date night in, complete with a movie, champagne and the last of our Mackinac Fudge!
Rylie was such a good girl so we could have our 'date'. She went to bed great and stayed asleep until she woke to eat at 5:30, and then slept until 7:45.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Big Girl Bathtime
Rylie is a huge fan of her duck bath
but she is just growing too fast! Now that she pulls herself up (on EVERYTHING), we have had to come up with a new plan for bath time. Soooo, we tried out the big tub the other day. Huge success! She absolutely loved it. She loved the freedom to move around and to reach and grab all of her toys. The duck was still hanging on the wall while she bathed though, so we gave a the beak a squeeze to hear the quack for old times sake :)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Lesson of the Day
DO NOT, under any circumstances, give Rylie a late afternoon nap. Ever.
Ok, I am only half-serious.
When we picked Rylie up from school today she had only had a 35 minute afternoon nap. She normally has a 1-1.25 hour nap. So thinking she might be tired, we thought we would give her a short little snooze before dinner to hold her over until bed..... turns out, we were wrong.
Now Rylie has not had a late afternoon nap in quite sometime, because every time she had one, she would fight bedtime. And that, my friends, is exactly what happened tonight. We tried rocking, nursing, letting her work it out in bed and more rocking, all to no avail. Our blue eyed baby was bright eyed and bushy tailed until 10:15 pm tonight, exactly 4 hours after she woke up from her lovely late afternoon shut-eye.
So, now I can officially say that she no longer needs an afternoon nap and in the future I will just put her to bed a little early if need be.
Thank you Rylie for the lovely parenting lesson, I can now be a better mommy :)
Ok, I am only half-serious.
When we picked Rylie up from school today she had only had a 35 minute afternoon nap. She normally has a 1-1.25 hour nap. So thinking she might be tired, we thought we would give her a short little snooze before dinner to hold her over until bed..... turns out, we were wrong.
Now Rylie has not had a late afternoon nap in quite sometime, because every time she had one, she would fight bedtime. And that, my friends, is exactly what happened tonight. We tried rocking, nursing, letting her work it out in bed and more rocking, all to no avail. Our blue eyed baby was bright eyed and bushy tailed until 10:15 pm tonight, exactly 4 hours after she woke up from her lovely late afternoon shut-eye.
So, now I can officially say that she no longer needs an afternoon nap and in the future I will just put her to bed a little early if need be.
Thank you Rylie for the lovely parenting lesson, I can now be a better mommy :)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Mommy Brain
Those of you who have had children or know someone who has, Mommy Brain is no joke! I have become an extremely absentminded person and it is sooo frustrating. But every once in a while, I still can catch a glimpse of the brain that I had before I was a mommy and I can come up with some pretty cool ideas.
My most recent Non-Mommy Brain moment was when I was trying to find a use for all of the delicious blueberry infused water that is leftover after I boil blueberries for pureeing. I was putting it in Rylie's cereal, but it just wasn't using very much of it. So when I went to make pancakes Sunday morning, I thought, hmm, I wonder? I added the liquid as the water portion of the mix and they turned out awesome! They were blue which was kinda fun to have colored pancakes (for me it was fun, it might freak some people out too, I guess), but the taste was fabulous. I made some non-blueberry ones too in case Ryan thought it was too weird. As you can see in the picture, by the time I snapped it there was only one blueberry pancake left.
It was blueberry pancakes without the blueberries, but still with all the nutrients that boiled out of the original blueberries. I am super excited about my new creation, and the fact that I don't have to waste any of the nutrient-packed, tasty water leftover from the boiling process. Rylie was also a fan :)
My most recent Non-Mommy Brain moment was when I was trying to find a use for all of the delicious blueberry infused water that is leftover after I boil blueberries for pureeing. I was putting it in Rylie's cereal, but it just wasn't using very much of it. So when I went to make pancakes Sunday morning, I thought, hmm, I wonder? I added the liquid as the water portion of the mix and they turned out awesome! They were blue which was kinda fun to have colored pancakes (for me it was fun, it might freak some people out too, I guess), but the taste was fabulous. I made some non-blueberry ones too in case Ryan thought it was too weird. As you can see in the picture, by the time I snapped it there was only one blueberry pancake left.
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