Ryleigh's Room....Rearranged

So with all of Ryleigh's new Christmas presents we figured it was time to rearrange her room to make sense of all the madness. With her new kitchen, toys and toy chest coming in, it was sadly time to move her glider and ottoman out. Ryleigh's room now has a stuffed animal corner that she loves running and falling in to. My brother made her a toy chest for Christmas, which looks awesome by the way and I was completely surprised about, so we had to make room for it too. Not to mention her book corner with her chair and her kitchen that she loves! We have yet to stain her toy chest, but until we do so it still looks great in her room! Everything seemed to fit quite perfectly and I'm happy the way it turned out despite turning my "baby's" room into looking like a little girl's room.

Christmas at Danielle's Parents

After we had Christmas at Jarred's parents, we packed up the car, went to the house, unloaded the presents from Jarred's parents house, packed the car back up for Christmas at my parents, and got to Ruston about 5!
Mom made gumbo and then we opened presents.
Needless to say, it was a day and Ryleigh was exhausted! But we all had a great Christmas and are blessed to have wonderful family and friends!

Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning at Jarred's Parents

We had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner at Jarred's parents house - shrimp, hashbrown potato casserole, olive garden salad and breadsticks...yum! All of us wore our party hats as usual, except Ryleigh did not want anything to do with it. Guess she was just wanting to eat...imagine that!
We exchanged our stockings and Ryleigh helped us pass them out.


After Jarred, Ryleigh and I had our Christmas at our house, we packed up and went to Jarred's parents house for the traditional breakfast by Rance. He cooked bacon, eggs and biscuits. Then was onto the presents.

Christmas at Home

We spent Christmas morning just the 3 of us. We woke up, got Ryleigh up and let her open her presents. She walked in the den and wasn't quite sure what all the toys were. But it didn't take her long to figure them out! We let her play with her toys for a little while before going to Jarred's parents.

Ryleigh Loves Her Car

I was on vacation the week of Christmas and had some mother/daughter time with Ryleigh. The weather was really nice a couple of days and we were able to get outside. Ryleigh LOVES being outside and riding in her car.

Rambo Baby

Oh the things Ryleigh does at Jarred's parents. I don't ask questions anymore...haha

Christmas in Roseland

Jarred's family and us have an annual tradition of going to Christmas in Roseland. It was pretty cool out this year, but Ryleigh did good. We all had a good time enjoying the lights and especially Cracker Barrel afterwards! :)

Catching Up!

I guess it's about time I updated the blog! We've been busy and will be even more busy this week! I am on vacation this week, so I'm going to enjoy my time off with Ryleigh. Jarred is off Wednesday and will be off several days with us too!

Just to update - Ryleigh had her 15-mo appointment last week. She weighed 25 pounds and was in the 75th percentile for her height and weight. Her head size was in the 97th percentile. So a good report from the dr. She didn't like the nurse nor the shots she gave her! Ryleigh started to cry right when the nurse walked in! Thank goodness she does not have to go back until she's 2!
Ryleigh is getting more and more teeth! She has her front 4 on the top and 2 front ones on the bottom. She also has a molar on her top left and a molar coming in on the top right and bottom left! So we've been drooling with these 2 molar teeth coming in!
Ryleigh is starting to say some more words. She knows where her cups are for her juice and milk. She will go to the cabinet, get one of her cups and say "juice". It's really cute and of course I give her juice every time she does it! :)

Here are a couple of pictures from Thanksgiving at our house.

Happy Halloween!

Ryleigh and I ventured over to Ruston today to visit my folks for a quick trip since Bama did not play this weekend and my Mom's birthday was last week. We left Jarred at home for a quiet bachelor night. Ryleigh was obviously an Alabama cheerleader although she didn't do much trick-or-treating. I had been wanting to take Ryleigh to the pumpkin patch in Shreveport, but we never made it. Luckily the only pumpkin patch in Ruston still had a few pumpkins out. Ryleigh had a blast!

Reading Books with Daddy

Ryleigh loves loves loves reading books. She even prefers them over her toys! She will bring a book and climb in our lap for us to read it to her.
Here are a few pics of her reading books with Jarred.

Peter Cottontail

We've had a furry, friendly bunny rabbit in our backyard here recently. We caught him/her the other night when Jarred heard something in the backyard. Then I looked out the window this afternoon and saw our repeat visitor. I tried to get Ryleigh to look, which I think she saw it, as she was banging on the window which scared it off. But I did manage to get a couple of pictures of our bunny, IF you can see it.

Fun Times with Daddy

Jarred got off of work a little early this afternoon and had some giggle time with Ryleigh. He called me at work to let me hear how loud Ryleigh was laughing. We have never heard her laugh this loud before! The videos don't do it justice. (And don't ask me what she is wearing.)
This first one cracks me up as she attacks the camera!

Putting Our Blocks Up

One of Ryleigh's latest things is that she likes us to dump her blocks out on the floor for her to pick up and put back in the bucket.

We Love Books!

Ryleigh LOVES her books! Her favs are The 5 Little Monkeys, Peek a Boo Baby and 5 Little Ducklings...she will bring these to us over and over again for us to read to her. Jarred must have read her The 5 Little Monkeys about 7 times the other night!

Wild Hair

Ryleigh woke up the other morning with her hair looking like this! (And it pretty much stayed this way all day.)