February Fun

So it's been awhile since I've last posted. Life has been busy! The basement is 95% finished. The carpet has been ordered. We are waiting to get an install date. The bathroom down there is almost finished as well. Just needs baseboards (on Monday) and the shower head installed (someday).

Lyla has changed so much recently. She's now sitting up pretty good. She will still tip back and to the side but a lot less frequently. She can easily sit up by herself for 3-5 minutes. :) She's making the "easy" fishy face/noise and combining it with some more babbling. She has a "new" toy, her exersaucer. She LOVES it! A friend from MOPS was getting rid of hers and it was the one I was going to buy...so I bought it from her. BEST THING!



We have started different veggies and fruits. We have done sweet potato and apple so far. Sweet potato was a hit. Apples...yep not as much. The picture below explains it all! :) BEST PICTURE EVER!!! Tonight is squash. I've enjoyed making the food myself. I have a great baby food maker that Lyla got for Christmas.


We had a nice Valentines' Day at home. In the morning and afternoon we went to our MOPS coffee shop play group. It was the first time, but wonderful! We met two other babies that our age. One little girl about 2 weeks older than us and a little boy 4 days older than us. :) That night Chris cooked dinner, steak, crab legs and potatoes! YUM! We then had our hearts broken by KU but we won't talk about that!


We have enjoyed the wonderful weather outside. We've gone on family walks again. So awesome...except when Lyla decides that her stroller isn't good enough...2 out of 3 times it's been a no go. Once I had to hold her the whole time, the other time I had her in a carrier. Hopefully when the weather is consistenly nice, we can go on walks with the family and with a friend and her little boy Lyla's age just down the street during the day!

Well that's it for today. Enjoy the photos below. AND a video of her new talking. :)

Click Here for Lyla Talking Video

Lyla 2-7-11 Closet Clothes Only Week

Lyla 2-8-11 Yes, she has her own remote...to an old TV :)

2-18-11 In an outfit from her Aunt Michelle.

HAPPY 5 MONTHS!

At this time 5 months ago, our beautiful little girl entered this world! Time sure has flown by!!! It just seems like yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital and couldn’t stop staring at her every waking moment. (We still have that problem!) It is so crazy how quickly they grow up. It’s been so much fun looking back at pictures seeing how little she is and how big she’s gotten. She’s still a little pip squeak compared to some of our friend’s kid-os. But still!

It hasn’t started snowing just yet here. We got some rain or ice this morning…not sure what because I don’t want to be out there. It’s so COLD!!! That’s the one thing I just really hate about winter. It gets just SSSOOO cold. YUCK!

The pictures posted are from today! Well and one from the day she was born. The first outfit is from her Grandpa Randy (Chris’ dad). He’s a Harley guy now, so she has an adorable Harley onesie. The other outfit is from her Grandma Gloria (Chris’ mom). Just too cute!

Keep warm out there.

Lyla Bean and Mommy

So it's been awhile since I've blogged. We have gotten a TON of snow and it's been COLD. The past couple days have been NICE and wonderful though. It's so nice to be able to get out of the house instead of being "trapped" in. We are supposed to get another round of snow this week....not thrilled at all!

Our little Miss Lyla is a hoot! She recently has discovered her voice. She's figured out how to scream, shriek and shrill. She's also figured out how high her voice can go. It's hysterical. She will start out really quiet and just go as high as she can get. She's still as happy as can be. Here is a link of her screaming in her Jumperoo. The video is below.

We are FINALLY over our ear infection. After two different antibiotics, Lyla is better. She’s teething as well. Her bottom two teeth are right there about to pop. One of our friend’s is a dental hygienist…she thinks they will be in about a week. I’m holding her to that! LOL!

This week I’ve been able to pamper myself a bit. I got a haircut…just chopped it all off. Lyla is CONSTANTLY grabbing it and it HURTS! So I’m back to short. Today I had the BEST pedicure in town. I had a coupon from a local circular for a cheap pedicure. Went and it’s the best I’ve ever had. It’s was at Shear Lightening. It’s a new salon in town. Will definitely be visiting them again.

At my MOPS (Mother's of Preschoolers) group this week we had the KC coupon lady visit. AND I am pumped to save money! I am entirely motivated to become a couponer (more than now) and a strategic shopper. I've always been a person to try to get the best deal and realize, well I might as well stock up on this good deal, but I'm ready to become better!

Enjoy the video! :)

Crafts!

So I'm staying true to my resolution of being craftier this year. I've already completed 3ish projects. I've already posted the bow holder I made. But here is another project.

I made a calendar for Lyla's door. My good friend Kylie gave me the idea. It's just for her to record milestones and to just list special things we did, such as Grandma visited or it's snowed a lot today etc. It was pretty simple, just took some time. I found 12x12 scrapbook paper at Hobby Lobby on sale. Picked random paper I thought was "pretty". I cut them all down to a 10x10. Then I had to get plain white paper and cut it down to 10x10. I customized a calendar through Office and printed it off. From there it was just putting it together. I could have stuck with the 12x12 to make it easier, but then you don't have the accents on the actual calendar part to use. I guess you can always just use a colored paper for that as well. I'm going to print off a picture from the beginning of that month to put on that page. I then am going to write a little statement on the accent pieces of a few things she was all about that month. Below are a few pictures of the calendar.

Another thing I've been doing is making simple Valentine's Day clippies and simple bows. I'm making them for her and as simple little items to give to friend's of mine with little girls. I'm all about bows and clippies, so I'm going to pass on the passion to other. :) We can't wear the clippies just yet, but I can easily slip them on a headband.









And of course, I can't forget to post something about our little bean. We've been getting over the ear infection we had at our 4 month appointment. It either came back or never went away. SO we had to move to another antibiotic...of course more expensive. She's FINALLY feeling better I believe. She's figured out how to make raspberries with sticking out her tongue...lovely right?! AND she's really getting this rolling over thing as well. She's done it 2 other times since her first time. I've really tried hard to do more tummy time and letting her get out of it. Below is a picture of her in some jammies that her Grandma Gloria got her. The middle one is where she fell asleep in her Jumperoo last week.The last one is just a cute onesie and her sticking her tongue out at me. :)

YAY LYLA!

It was an exciting evening for Lyla. She rolled from her tummy to back for the first "real" time. She did it on accident, with the help of the carpet and throwing a fit just right, on Christmas day. But this time, it was for real! :) YAY! We are not a big fan of tummy time and don't always find a lot of time for it with her reflux.

I'm hoping this night of good things will continue! We've been doing some sleep training in the house. We've been working on sleeping in her bassinet all night versus co-sleeping on and off. It was a LONG first night of up every hour, and the second night was full of a good handful of crying instead of mommy "rescuing" her from the bassinet but not up as often. Tonight is the third night...I've heard 3 is the magic number...I'm sure praying for it to be! I sure would love to go to MOPS tomorrow. It's sure hard to motivate myself to get up early when I know she will sleep in when I'm that tired.

The picture below is her in her KU jersey that our friend's Adam & Meghan got her for Christmas. It's a little big, but works as a make-shift dress. ROCK CHALK! :) AANNNDDD a cute outfit from her Grandma Linda.

Keep warm!!

SNOW!

So we FINALLY got a really good snow here. Since I’m used to it being a “snow” day, being a teacher, I considered it a “snowed in” day for us. We did NOTHING at all. We stayed in bed, took a nap and then just played during the day.

In mind of the snowy day outside, I thought it would be the perfect time to put Lyla is a Christmas gift onesie. This was just too cute to resist from buying!

Another New Year’s resolution for myself was to become craftier and do crafty things with Lyla. I worked on finishing the additional bow holder I had made for her room. I also worked on some hand/footprint art. I told myself when she was born that I would do something almost every month with her hands or feet…yeah I did October and got behind. So we are working on Nove-
mber right now…only 2 months behind. No biggie right?! We are making a turkey for that month. It’s a work in progress.We need to do her hands...that is a chore considering she likes to have them balled up in fists a lot.

Well that's all for now. Have to go and get my little bean. She's telling me she's all done in her Jumperoo!

New Year, New Goals

Hello all!

So I opened up this blog FOREVER ago and really haven't had time to start it. So it's a new year and it's my goal to keep this updated for family and friends who don't live near and don't have Facebook.

Lyla is now 4 months old! My how time flies. She's changed so much in the 4 months. She has quite the bubbly personality and knows what she wants. We've had a lot of firsts lately. On the 1st we started rice cereal. To say she loves it is an understatement! She squeals and giggles the whole time we are eating it.

We have also introduced her to her Rainforest Jumperoo. Yet another thing she LOVES! She’s enjoying being more independent and having “me” time as we call it. She will bounce, jump & squeal in it for a long time. Today she was fighting the “sleep monster” and was demanding to do something independent though. We stuck her in there, happy as a clam and was falling asleep in it after 5 minutes. Goof ball!

She has also fallen in love with her feet. She’s really discovered them since mid-December but New Year’s Day she was FINALLY able to get her feet to her mouth. Needless to say, it makes diaper changes interesting. :)

Today we tried out oatmeal. Yet another success! She thinks she’s just such a big girl now eating. She also loves our cups. Whenever we are drinking from one, she reaches out and tries to get it. So I put some milk into her bottle cap and let her sip from it last night. Yet another “cool” thing on Lyla’s list.

We are ALMOST done with our basement project. We just have some installs in the bathroom and the carpet. We went and picked out the carpet yesterday. We should be getting a call this week for the people to come measure so we can order the correct amount and installed! We will be SSSOOOO glad to have this major project done!

Well that's it for now. Enjoy the pictures! :)