Grown Right Before our Eyes

I didn't really get to post everything I wanted to when Jaylee turned one so I thought I would post again. Better late than never!

It is amazing to me just how fast our little ones grow. Literately right before our very eyes. I feel I have really been able to enjoy every little milestone with Jaylee. It has been so different for us just to have 1 baby this time. I felt like with the twins I was always waiting for that next milestone; can't wait for them to sit up, can't wait for them to play with toys, can't wait for them to start crawling, can't wait for them to feed themselves etc, etc. I was always hoping things would get easier and sadly found myself missing out on the small stuff and really enjoying it. I was more like in survival mode the whole first year. Don't get me wrong they were a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. Ryan and I kept telling ourselves when friends and family members were saying how hard one baby was, "could you imagine just one baby, sorry don't feel for ya, try that x 2!!" We now know what it is like to just have one baby and it is pure heaven. (maybe it's because it's a girl!!!)

So here is our little princess growing like a weed ( maybe more like a rose) over the last year!









I know this one is not of her face, but really shows her personality. This was taken at the boys soccer game. Her favorite thing to do there was to push her stroller around and hang from it!

Some of the things about Jaylee . . .
* she loves food. She has always been just a tiny petite baby until recently. At around 11 months she has discovered she enjoys food. She sometimes eats more than the boys and finally it is starting to show up on her little thighs and booty! Finally something to pinch!
* Adores her brothers. She thinks she is such a big girl and wants to do everything they do. And when they tease her, she can hold her own. (yesterday she threw the remote and Logan and it split his lip!)
* Loves the outdoors. She is always trying to escape. If she hears a door open she is b-lining it at full speed.
* Loves the quads. If someone is riding the quads she throws a fit till she has a turn and then again when you take her off
* Loves dogs! When we visit our 140 pound st benard up at the cabin she climbs and hugs all over him. Even back when she was only 8 month old.
* She is a good sleeper. She was sleeping through the night at 11 weeks. (Thanks to the book baby wise!)
* She has a major underbite that she is always showing off. One of these days I will get a picture of that.
* She likes to make others laugh. She is always making this very cheesy huge smile and then when you laugh she keeps doing it. If she starts making weird noises and the boys start cracking up she will get louder and louder.
* Just recently she became a huge daddy's girl!! She prefers him over me now!
* she stares people down until she knows their motive. If you are here to babysit, she knows!
* loves her jogging stroller and loves to run with me.
* favorite video is Baby Einstein, we think its a crack up when she will be watching it and then all of a sudden she is laughing so hard!
* After 12 month of hating shoes, she has finially realized how fun they can be and trys to put them on herself all the time.
* favorite toy is her play baby stroller. She pushes that thing all around the house. Although it must be empty. If you try and put her dolly or toy in there she throws it out right away!
* After 13 month of spitting up, happy to report she doesn't smell like puke anymore!

Next post, birth story and hospital stays . . . ( i know lots of info, but hey this is my journal!)