Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Double Digits!!!

I can't believe my little Layla Bug is already ten months!!! She has her four front teeth in now, but still won't eat solid food. She will even bite saltines, crunch them a little with her front teeth, then spit them out. Though it is rather messy it is quite hilarious to watch. She will usually end up with a saltine goatee.

I decided to introduce meat to her, however, the idea of pureeing meat is rather nasty to me. I finally found some jarred meats that were just meat and not mixed with other stuff, as they are the highest in protein. Man, is that stuff nasty smelling though. She gags on it unless I mix it with her other foods, and I have to say, I don't blame her at all. She is a pretty good eater for the most part, it is getting her to drink that can be tricky. She mastered one of her sippy cups, but then seem to take a step back and is having trouble with it again. She used to just guzzle her milk down, now it is like she forgot how to swallow properly. I am trying to teach her to drink through a straw, but she just ends up chewing on it. I have about four different types of sippy cups, though, so hopefully we can find the one that works best for her.

We took some pictures on her ten month birthday, but she wasn't much in the mood. She did enjoy blowing bubbles for part of it, though. That is her new favorite thing to do. She looks very serious when she does it.




Love that sweet face!


Blowing bubbles


So serous


Cutest smirk




Silly girl

Thursday, November 17, 2011

New Things All the Time!!!

Poor little Layla bug had her first cold the other day. Ironically it was about a week after getting her flu shot. She was a little trooper though. Luckily the worst of it was pretty short lived. Her temperature spiked at just above 103, but we got it back down to normal by the next morning and she was feeling much better. She has a bit of a cough in the morning and her nose is still pretty runny, so I have been trying to teach her how to blow her nose, however, she just laughs at me then flails her head around in an attempt to avoid the inevitable nose wipe. And of course, once she was on the mend, I got sick. Gotta love this time of year. Although this is the first time I have been sick in over two and a half years, so that isn't too bad. Now let's just hope Pete doesn't get sick.

I took these pictures just before she came down with her cold. Just couldn't resist.


Looking adorable wearing Mommy's baby dress and shoes!




Love the naked baby pictures









Layla has a few new firsts in the last week. She is standing all by herself, and is quite good at it. She is very proud of herself when she does it too. It is adorable to see her put her hands in the air and flash those pearly whites! Speaking of, she now has her third tooth coming in and her fourth one isn't too far behind. It is driving me crazy because just after it broke through she started grinding her teeth. It is the most awful sound. Now that it is in a bit more, she isn't doing it as much, so hopefully once it is fully in she will stop that completely, otherwise I may go nuts.

She just started saying the word "hi". It is so funny the way she says it. She opens her mouth so wide and draws out the word so it is more of a "hhhiiiiiiii", which is so adorable. And if she sees the cat or if I ask her, "what does the kitty cat say?" she responds with, "Yeow". I love it! I am so proud of her! Besides the couple words, she loves to babble all the time. It is hilarious to listen to her.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Some fun in October!

Pete's parents were in town visiting for a couple weeks at the end of October and we had a great time!



We took Layla to the Long Beach Boardwalk and she got to ride in a car with Kermit the Frog. She loved it! However, she hated being taken out of it. Opa made up for it with some crazy maneuvers in the stroller, though. =)



We took her wine tasting to Santa Barbara and Solvang. She has already been wine tasting four times in her short nine months of life. Does that make me a bad mother?!?! I just want her to have an appreciation for one of Mommy's favorite things. =)



At the Santa Barbara Zoo, Layla got to go for a Jeep ride, this time with a gorilla, an elephant and a giraffe. This one was a bit jerkier than the Kermit ride, so she was a bit more accepting of getting off when the ride was over.



She absolutely loved feeding the giraffes!!! She was giggling and smiling the whole time. Just like she does at home with her giant giraffe!


Man do those girls have some long tongues!





Getting a ride from Daddy while we checked out the exotic birds exhibit.


This one was so cool, and rather tame.


Watching the snow leopard.





We had a quick, impromptu stop at a local pumpkin patch on the way to Santa Barbara called Pete's Pumpkin Patch. I'm really glad that we stopped. We don't have many family photos, and Layla is looking adorable, even though we had to wake her up for the photos. =)



Now I am not much for Halloween. In fact, I pretty much hate the holiday, at least most of it. Everyone kept asking me what I was going to dress Layla up as. I didn't really care much, so last minute Sheryl and I came up with the idea of dressing her as G.I. Jane. Though she was not in a picture taking mood that day, she looks pretty cute. I do love her in her fatigues.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

9 Months Old!!!

Time is flying by these days. I hardly even remember September or October. So Layla is nine months old now and she got a clean bill of health from her check up. She is now 27 inches tall and 17 lbs. My little skinny mini is still wearing a lot of her 6 month clothes. Now her head, on the other hand, is definitely a Heikes dome. Where her other stats put her at the 25th percentile, her head is at the 75th!





She is crawling around everywhere now, getting into whatever she can, and pulling up on anything she can. Nothing compared to what it will be once she is walking, but still, she is keeping me on my toes for sure. She has started taking steps while holding on to things, so I am sure walking will come soon. When Daddy holds her hands and walks with her, she will just cruise! I can't believe how fast she is. She just needs to work on the balance a bit more.




Talking all the time, she has mastered pretty much all of her alphabet sounds, and puts them together to make some pretty hilarious conversation. Her favorite is still dada so she says that a lot or variations of it. She loves to make weird sounds like clicking her tongue, breathing heavy through her gums (which if any of you know me well, you know how much I love that) or popping her lips. It is too cute.



She is cutting her third tooth now on the top right. I'm excited, but I will be sad once it comes in because it will make her seem so much older. I love that giant, two teeth grin that she has. I don't know if it is from the teething or not, but she has had a few rough nights over the last few weeks. She will randomly wake up crying and not be able to sooth herself back to sleep. Our version of the cry-it-out method usually works pretty well, but sometimes she just needs mom to hold her.



So overall she is doing very well. She is very attached to mommy these days, which isn't surprising, but she loves to smile at people when we are out, as long as they don't get too close.






She is my happy little munchkin!