We love puffs!

Ryleigh LOVES puffs! The child would eat the whole can if I let her. I take these with us when we go to dinner and let Ryleigh snack on them while we eat...keeps her occupied and her eyes off of our food! haha
She knows what the can looks like and has learned to partake of them herself!

Birthday Dinner

So I've been meaning to post these pictures, but we've been having dsl issues. Hopefully I can get them all uploaded!
We had a family get together for my birthday dinner a couple of weekends ago. We ate at Cantina Laredo...sooo good!
And yes, Ryleigh is in two different outfits...funny and interesting story that I won't get in to. I'm just glad I grabbed an extra outfit! :)











Ryleigh has learned "touchdown"...we're preparing her for Alabama football season coming up! :)

Standing!

Ryleigh has started to stand really well by herself without holding onto anything. She even starts to dance and flail her arms and continues to stand. I've only gotten one good video of her standing. I don't know why, but the second video just cracks me up as she does a belly flop.
Then tonight as I had her sitting up and putting her pj's on, she just fell backwards. (I caught her of course!) But she thought it was the funniest thing. She kept doing it over and over. Jarred grabbed the camera, but she had already had most of her fun. Maybe tomorrow...




Ryleigh was so enamored with my brother when he last came to visit.






She likes to push her walker both ways.


What ARE you lookin' at?

Ryleigh's 10 mos; Danielle's 28 yrs!

Ryleigh was 10 mos on Sunday the 12th. Where has time gone?! Pretty soon we'll be planning her 1st birthday! We are on the countdown for formula...8 weeks to go! woo hoo...no more $25/week! :) Ryleigh has started using her walkers as you can see from the pics and video. She's kind of shaky with it, but is getting better. She actually let Jarred grab her by the hand and she walked beside him (which I haven't gotten a good video of yet). She's been clapping her hands together, turned her "num num" into "ma ma", loves to "throw" things, and kisses (slobbers) us back. Each and every day is more and more of a blessing. We are truly blessed by our family.

And I turned 28 today! I had a great birthday and I actually ended up in some pictures! (I am normally the one taking them, but Jarred was kind enough to grab the camera.) Ryleigh helped me open my presents (yes, wrapped in Christmas paper...all we had!)

Recently

With the very warm weather, we have been living it up at the pool. Ryleigh loves to swim and showed off her new swim suit MiMi got her. She was trying to figure out what her daddy was wearing...
Ryleigh hasn't taken her first step yet, but has stood on her own a few times for a few seconds. She has begun to say "Dada", "Num Num" (which I take for MaMa) :-) She has her two bottom front teeth. Her top two teeth next to the two front teeth are coming in. I hope her front two come through pretty quick or else our child will look like she has fangs... I guess we better figure out something for her crib because it now has teeth marks all along the front.

Climbing the Stairs

Ryleigh loves to climb the stairs. She gets so excited when she crawls toward them. She goes up them so fast now, one after the other. She usually doesn't stop unless to make sure someone is looking at her. She hasn't yet mastered going down them! :)