What's Been Going On You Ask?

Besides living the crazy life of two full-time working parents.....

Dinner parties with good friends

Meeting new friends for Rilyn and reconnecting with old friends like there has been no time or many miles separating you for mommy

It looks like she was afraid of him, but she wasn't she was actually quite fond of him!

Brian is frolicking in the mountains for the next couple days...he sent this package to my house...only he would send such package....

Playing with lots of toys

Playing with toys while drinking beer

Fighting Trixie over toys, at one point they both had the same toy in their mouths

She gave up on the toy and went for Trixie

Enjoying the last days of summer and cute summer clothes

Becoming daddy's girl, but still needing mommy to do the comforting (which I not so secretly relish)

Rilyn is doing new things everyday.  I think this is the most she has ever changed in a short amount of time.  For so long, they are just this little (or not so little) ball of sleeping, eating, pooping baby, but now it seems like everyday she is changing.  

She is becoming more and more content everyday and for the first time in 7 months Tyler and I felt we could hang out and be lazy while Rilyn played and was happy.  Typically by Saturday at 10:00 AM we are finding something to do a.k.a go to grandmas so we don't have to listen to her fuss.  

She has two of the cutest little teeth ever!  I don't know why mom's think everything about their babies is cute, but seriously I think her teeth are cute and love looking at them.  

She is moving everywhere although she is not yet crawling.  She just rolls, and then shuffles, and then slides, and then rolls some more.  Which gets her to where she wants to go....the dog bed.  All the moving is resulting in some weight loss we think.  Her diapers are fitting better and the swing buckles more easily.  I don't know why but I am having the hardest time thinking she won't be our chunky baby anymore.  It makes me cry a lot...I will probably go kiss every one of her rolls right now before they are gone!  Aunt Carly beware, you might cry about this more than me...should we force feed her butter all day???

She is trying to stand up and is getting one foot flat on the ground, but then falls and cries and mom has to jump to her rescue and enjoy the 1 or 2 minutes of cuddle time that follows.  Hey when you don't have a cuddly baby you take what you can get! 

She is finally realizing that toys are more for than chewing, sucking, drooling on.  She shakes them to hear noises, bangs them against everything, and searches through them until she finds her favorite (the only plastic non-BPA free toy we have of course).  

She is signing for milk consistently now, but hasn't picked up any more signs.  It's nice that I know a few from teaching my students signs.  Eating is fun, and she loves food.  We are doing lots of veggies, fruits, and whole grains, so we are planning on getting some more proteins introduced soon.  She is pretty much just eating whatever we eat except dairy.  She still has a hard time digesting citrus, breaks out from tomatoes and bananas, and strawberries give her a diaper rash.  But, we are hopeful these will all disappear as her digestion system matures. 

Wow, I guess that is all for now. Time for a nap for Rilyn!