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Saturday, January 31, 2009

90 Years Young

Today we celebrated my grandfather's 90th birthday. I feel so blessed to have this experience and Lord willing we will celebrate my grandmother's 90th in December. I am the youngest grandchild- my grandfather was 60 when I was born- so I think it is pretty amazing to still have both of them with us. Sandy hosted us at her house because it is a central location for everyone. It was a great time! Here's some pics from today and some random ones from the last few weeks.
Caroline helping Grandaddy blow out the candles.

Cheesin' for Whitney
Cousins!!! (the three on the lawnmower were all born the same year) We are eagerly waiting the arrival of the newest, Tate, due in less than 2 weeks!
She found the flipflops that I snagged at Children's Place yesterday and had to wear them(believe me, here in Texarkana if you see something you better get it because next time you are there it will be gone)
This is her spot for when I vacuum. She doesn't like the noise at all!
I can't believe how much her hair is growing. She wasn't too sure about this!
Her absolute favorite thing to do- READ!!!

Monday, January 26, 2009

Words...

This is more of a post for me but I wanted to remember what all words Rylee is saying right now at 16 months. Of course as an speech-language pathologist I would prefer that she was talking in phrases and saying three times as many words as this but I have accepted that she is just too busy to sit down and talk so I will take what I can get! In no particular order-

bite, Bible, light, duck, bath, mama, hoo hoo (owl sound), Abby (Sandy's dog), woof, moo, milk, glasses, diaper, thank you, eye, ice, no, go, baby, ball, book, bye bye, hi, hot, drink, bottle, baa, yogurt, uh-oh, there, bag

She can imitate more than this but these are the words she actually uses spontaneously (sorry if that sounded too clinical). What is weird is that she won't say the names of anyone on her own. She calls everyone "mama" (sounds slightly different that the mama she calls me) but will eventually call them something else if I imitate their name a thousand times and won't drop it until she says something else. I wonder if it's because I'm the only one at home with her and that's the word she associates with people??? Fellow SLPs what do you think? The only exception to the rule is my sister's dog Abby. She starts calling her name as soon as we drive up to their house!

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

New things to show off

Rylee had a few new things she wanted to show off. FIRST- let me say thanks to one of my very best friends for the new blog look! Thanks PP! We love it!!!

Showing off how she can use a fork. Look at that concentration. I think she would have stayed there all night if I would have let her. You don't see this child very still for long so I had to document this.
Showing off her new chair that Aunt Sandy and Uncle David got her for Christmas.

Showing off the first set of new pajamas.

And the second pair.
Hope everyone is having a blessed week!