More pictures of Ryleigh

I hooked up the scanner at work today, so I have been playing with it and the new program that I downloaded.

So here are two more pictures of Miss Ryleigh

Ryleigh's silly face

Here are two pictures of Ryleigh's "silly face". She is just so darn cute!

Beep, Beep

Just a quick funny story to share about our funny little girl.

Last night after I picked Ryleigh up from daycare, we stopped at the grocery store. Ryleigh was riding in the front of the cart and as we going down the aisle, I came up on a man that was standing in my way. Just as I was getting ready to say "excuse me", Ryleigh shouted, "BEEP, BEEP!". It was so funny!!! I started laughing and continued to say "excuse me", but the guy never did move. I was in Cash Savers, so I couldn't have expected more. Ryleigh sure knows how to make you laugh though.

Our Little Elvis

Well, Tom sure did a good job of getting himself a little Elvis fan! Ryleigh LOVES Elvis and loves to dance to him. She has been doing her "Elvis hand" for a long time now. She does a good job at it too. Most recently, she has learned how to do her "Elvis leg". Here are two pictures I snapped here at work today of her doing her "Elvis leg". I tried to catch her doing her Elvis hand, but the camera went dead and I was able to get it on long enough to upload the pictures. So enjoy!

Oh and she also knows who Elvis is by looking at him. We have a picture frame from Graceland with a picture of Tom and I in it and the other day she noticed it and pulled it down, pointed to Elvis and started doing her hand.

Apple Picking

This is a little late....

This past Sunday we went apple picking at Eckert's Farm with Uncle Terry, Aunt Debbie and Nicholas. We all had a great time. Nicholas and Ryleigh enjoyed every minute of it. They rode the rides (which I couldnt believe that Ryleigh did), played in the Fort, watched the Pig Races, rode the train through the orchard, fed the goats and so much more. We picked apples last and Ryleigh had a lot of fun. She was so cute picking the apples off the trees. We had to try to explain to her that ones on the ground were bad apples. She also loves to eat them!!! If you were to look in our fruit bowl on our table right now, you will find two red apples with bites out of them.

We were all so exhausted when we got home that we all took a nap and then ended up just watching movies the rest of the evening.

Thanks Terry and Debbie for inviting us to come along! We had a blast!

It's a GIRL

Ryleigh is going to have a baby sister!! We had our ultrasound yesterday. She looks great and is cute already! She measured 12 oz. We are halfway there!!!! She will be here before we know it. So another girl for the Wilson family it is!!!

Her name will be Madison Louise (Louise after he grandma Wilson).

COUNT.... 1..2..3

This morning I was putting Ryleigh's shoes on and I said "One shoe" and she held up her fingers like she was counting and finished it by saying, "Two, Three". It was so cute!! I just can't believe that my baby can count to 3 already. We were so excited, we had to call daddy at work to tell him!! He was very proud too!!

Grandparents Day

Ryleigh celebrated Grandparent's Day at school on Friday. Grammy was able to join her. They had a lot of fun. Grammy and Ryleigh had breakfast, made a picture frame together and played for a little while. Ryleigh had also made Grammy a card, a poem and another drawing with her picture on it. (She also made some for Papa and was able to give them to him on Sunday). Grammy said that Ryleigh had to show her all the paintings and stuff on the walls. I know that they both really enjoyed their time. When I picked Ryleigh up that evening, the director said that Ryleigh had a really good time with her grandmother today.

Thank you Grammy for joining me at school for Grandparents Day!!!

They are never to young to learn how to mow!

We had to take a few pictures of Ryleigh on the mower for an ad for the paper. Dad is putting an ad for mowers in there and we are using her. Click on the picture below to see a slideshow. And check out the Sullivan Independent Newspaper that will come out on Tuesday.

Part 2

And this is what happens when she works too hard....

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A Day at Work with Mommy!

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Ryleigh still comes to work with me every Thursday. She likes to help and pretend that she is working. Check out the slideshow to see how busy her day was today.

Pictures of Ry's new bed

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Big Girl Bed

Ryleigh got a big girl bed Saturday. We are giving her furniture to the baby and I decided to start on switching everything and getting the baby room started, so Ryleigh and I went Saturday to get a big girl bed. I put it together when we got home and she was so excited. She is doing great with it. Her first night she went right to sleep and as far as we know stayed asleep and did not fall out. At her usual time (6:20) she cried, but I waited to see if she would go back to sleep. I never heard anymore out of her and at 7:50 she came into our room. The next night, she woke up pretty early crying. When Tom went to see what was wrong she was standing in her door way shaking the baby gate. She ended up sleeping with us the rest of the morning. Then last night, she did great again. She woke up at 6:30, but couldn't get her baby gate open, so she cried a little bit until I picked her up. She looks so big sleeping in it! We just can't believe that our baby is already in a big girl bed!! See pictures below... they are a little blurry and the lighting wasn't very good.

Ok, well I am having computer problems, I will have to try again in a little bit with the pictures

Only 6 more days

until our BIG DAY!!! Our ultrasound is Tuesday at 8:15. I am very excited and can't wait!!

Ryleigh's big ouchie :(

Last night Ryleigh fell off the concrete steps in our garage. I am not real sure what happened because my back was to her, but it seems as though she fell off the side of the steps. She banged up her belly. I am guessing she did it on one of the corners of the steps. She has a concrete burn and several little cuts and scratches. It looks as those it will get a pretty good size bruise on it too. We cleaned her and gave her bath and then put some medicine on it and gave her some Tylenol. She screamed and cried for a long time. Once I gave her bath and put her pj's on, we sat on the couch cuddled up and she calmed down and fell asleep. This morning she seemed as though it was sore. It was really sad and you could tell that she was really hurting last night. :( She walks up and down those steps everyday, but I guess she just lost her footing.

Ryleigh's eventful weekend

Ryleigh had a very eventful weekend....

Friday night Grammy came over to play and have dinner with us. Ryleigh showed Grammy her new Pink Mustang and her new playground. She wanted to go home with Grammy and was very sad that she couldn't. It was already after 8 when grammy was leaving and Ryleigh would have fallen asleep in the car on the way to Grammy's house, so it would have been pointless. She was very sleepy thanks to the fact that daycare didn't lay her for down for a nap that day. So on Saturday after we cleaned the house, I took Ryleigh over there to stay the night. She had a blast, as she always does. Grammy said they played outside on the swing, took a walk in the wagon with Haley and took a bath. She went to church with Grammy on Sunday morning. We picked her after church (we didn't make it to church, we took advantage of sleeping in on a Sunday). Later Sunday afternoon, Scott and Beth stopped by to borrow our mower and they hung out for a little while. Ryleigh had just woke up from her nap, so she took a while to warm up to Brooke and Jewell, but eventually she did and played with them. However, we discovered that she doesn't do well with sharing her toys. We will have to work on that!

Then, we went to the Block Party at the City Park that the church held. Grammy was there helping so we got to hang out with her. Aunt Sarah, Uncle Matt, Andrew and Gabriella were there too. Andrew and Ryleigh played on the playgound most of the time. They had a really good time. Andrew did get in the Bounce House, but Ryleigh didn't want to have anything to do with. I think, though, they would have been very happy eating the popice all day!! I know that they each had at least two, maybe more. I know they wanted more and kept trying to go back for more. After we left the block party, we went to Aunt Sarah and Uncle Matt's for a BBQ. Thanks for letting us invite ourselves. ;) We had a really good time. Papa was there too. Andrew and Ryleigh played outside and drove the Trekker. Ryleigh always has a such a good time with Andrew. Thanks for the dinner Matt and Sarah!!! Next time we will wait to be invited! ha!!!

It was a very fun weekend and time well spent with family!!!

2 weeks

2 more weeks until the big ultrasound!!!!!!!
I am very excited and can't wait!!!

I can put my shoes on, can you?

A couple of weeks ago Grammy got Ryleigh a pair of pink crocs. Ryleigh thought they were so cool and wanted to wear them all the time. She was even more excited that she could put them on herself. Once she figured out that she could put those shoes on by herself, she started trying to put all of her shoes on by herself. She does great with it. She usually puts them on the wrong feet, but she gets them on there. If she can't get it on, she will get very frustrated and I usually have to calmly (very calmly, if I don't ask her if i can help her in the kindest voice I have, she usually gets more upset and throws a fit) ask her if she wants me to help her. Now all I have to do is say let's get your shoes on and off she goes to find them. Sometimes it's a little interesting what she will come out of her room wearing, but she is just so proud that she do it all by herself.

Our little girl is just growing up too fast!!

Ryleigh's new words

Ryleigh is really starting to pick up on words that we say everyday. She makes an effort to repeat a lot of what we say. Recently bye (or bye-bye) has become a big part of her everyday vocabulary. She learned to say it before she was a year old, but after awhile she just wouldn't say it anymore. Now, she says it all the time. She will pick up a bag or a purse or anything that she put on her arm and yells bye (and something after that, it sometimes sounds like kids and sometimes sounds like everyone). She says bye when talking on the phone too.

She has started saying shoe and referring to her shoes using the accurate wording.

She started saying Archie a long time ago, but it was another one of those words that she stopped saying. Over the last week, I have noticed that she has started clearly saying it again and calling him by his name.

She learned to say baby a while back, but it is used daily now when referring to babies in books or the baby in mommy's belly.

She has a wide range of words that she uses in her everyday vocabulary and it seems to grow daily. She makes a wonderful effort to repeat any word that you ask her too. Last night, she tried saying uh oh spaghetti o's. It was so cute!!

Ryleigh's new playground

Yesterday we worked all day building a play area for Ryleigh. We marked off a big spot with landscaping timbers and filled it with pea gravel. Along the edges that are up against the house we put mulch and plan to put mums in it. It turned out pretty nice, or we think so. There are a few things that we need to finish up, but it's a nice play area. We put her play cube/slide in there and her pool. We hope to get her a sandbox eventually. We also got a swing at Lowe's yesterday (not a kids swing, porch swing) . I think that is Ryleigh's favorite part.

Andrew will have to come over and check it out!!