Recent Milestones!

Jackson is almost 10 months! Crazy, right! I wanted to share with everyone some milestones that he has made this month.
His favorite thing right now is waving bye-bye and hi. It is so cute he either flaps his entire arm, or he opens and closes his hand but he does it towards himself! I love it! I will ask him if he is ready to go bye bye and he will wave and say "i i". He is saying "hi" but not as much as "i i". He is also saying "dada" all the time. So I lost my bet, he is still not saying mama. I will tell him say mama and he will say "dadadada" and laugh at himself!
Jackson finally cut his first tooth! At 9 1/2 months old! We laugh because Rylie was walking at ten months with four teeth and he finally cut his first! I've been told that they will be more healthy though since they have been in longer, I am hoping this is the case!
He is also beginning to pull up on things and stand. Rylie is so excited over this! She claps and cheers him on. I blame her for teaching him this ;). The other morning she was in his crib with him and stood him up and showed him how to hold on, ever since he hasn't stopped. She was so excited, she comes running out of his room yelling "mommy look brother is standing!" She is like a 4 year old mommy, she goes to school and tells the teachers and all her friends of the new things her brother does. Its pretty cute to see her loving him SOOO much!

Rylie's Birthday Party

Oh Man Rylie is four and full of it! This birthday had been talked about for months! I ended up not even telling her about her party till the Monday before. You know Rylie, she talks non stop and ask questions ALL the TIME! And this is not an exageration, she talks and talks and talks...... get the point! :) We will be in the car and I will just say "yup" or "sure Ry" and then she wants to know why I just said yup and why I don't always listen when she talks.... So that is a little backround on why I didn't tell her about her party!


We also had to decide on how many kids we were inviting to this party of hers. You see, I just wanted to invite four kids, perfect little gathering, right. Well, at school you have to invite all the kids or just girls so there are no hurt feelings. Well, once again this goes into Rylie and how talkative she is. She is in two classes and I was only inviting the girls from one class and didn't want Rylie hurting the other girl's feelings that weren't invited. So telling her a couple days before worked wonderful she was confused and had no idea what I had planned for her.



We made adorable little invitations, of course they were little princess invites.


Her party was on Saturday before Easter and of course it was snowing outside so we entertained for two hours in the house. Again, since Rylie didn't know what to expect it went very well becuase Ry had no clue what was going to happen so if something didn't get done like, hair and nails she didn't even miss it!


We ended up with 6 little princesses for a wonderful princess themed party! The girls all came in their beautiful gowns and played around. We attempted making princess crowns but in the end the parents sat and finished their wonderful beaded crowns!





And just like every other party we ended with cake, ice cream and presents! I have to say for our first birthday party I think we did OKAY!

and.... were... off!!!

Finally at NINE months old.... we have a crawler! Now obviously it wasn't that easy, he didn't just "get" it and go.

He started with going backwards... and he would get stuck (a lot) and scream because he couldn't go anywhere.

Then he would go forward, but only go forward when he saw something he really shouldn't have, oh like mom's glass of wine, or sisters open markers, or dad's papers he was grading. Yes, he would move for all this really fast! But then he would sit and cry if he wanted you to come get him, he wouldn't move into the kitchen or off his little play mat, he would just sit there and scream! So, I have a stubborn little boy you say :)

Next, he would find himself moving in all directions but not really sure how to control all these directions, so he would find himself, once again, stuck! Yes, this time stuck UNDER the coffee table. And notice how he is going after stamps from grading papers, yes, again something he isn't supposed to have!

Okay, so I think we maybe have passed some of this stage of getting stuck. He is now, the ultimate crawler and he loves it! He will watch me pass him, and wait a second and then meet me where ever I go with a HUGE grin on his face! He has found that we have rooms in this house besides his and the living room!

Growing up so fast!

Today seemed like a day of new things from both of our kiddos! It is so sad to turn around and see Jackson moving across the floor. Well, not forward, but backwards. He went from having no interest in moving at all to cruising on his bottom, and backwards everywhere! He actually managed to get himself stuck underneath our coffee table in the living room. Rylie didn't understand why he couldn't just get out! But, like I said he can only move backwards!

Also, Jackson has been working on clapping... well today he finally got it on cue! So here is a short video of him clapping his little hands together!

Oh his other milestone that he reached today was FINALLY drinking out of his sippy cup! I am telling you we have been working on this sippy cup thing since December. I don't know what I was thinking but it finally dawned on me to try a new sippy cup... and TA DA we have a drinker!

Now for little Miss Rylie! Well, she is turing four in two weeks, and for some reason I have a really hard time around her birthday. I honestly can't believe how big she has gotten and she really is an amazing little girl! So, we are learning how to read short little three letter words and she know about vowels, but we call those "sticky letters" they stick the other letters together. So today we are putting a movie in the DVD player and she comes out a little while later and asks "Mom what does D V D spell?" So serious she is. "Oh Ry, that one is confusing it doesn't make a word it stands for words that start with those letters." "No, mom when the movie came on the TV it showed me the word DVD." I try again to explain to her that it isn't a word. But she so isn't getting it and this is her ending question "Mom, why is V, a sticky letter in the word DVD can V sometimes be a sticky letter too?" I didn't know what to say anymore and she was over it and off to go watch Bambi!

I just thought I would share what a fast growing day we had today!