Rilyn started ballet class this week. What a pretty ballerina!
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07
Sep
07
Ballet
04
Sep
07
Rilyn’s first day of preschool
Well, another school year has begun! Our little girl has grown so quickly. She was soooo excited to go to preschool today! And I am so happy for this new school year to begin for her! A look of all her ‘first days’ of preschool thus far…
I should of known…Rilyn did it once, even Ella has done it before. I’m talking about putting them in a skirt with no bloomers on to take their nap. I can see the ‘mom cringe’ now…so yes, Ella took her diaper off while she was supposed to be taking a nap. Not only that, she peed all over her sheets and blankets and decided to take apart the diaper. So when I finally walked in, (an hour after I put her down I started hearing noises), there was pieces of diaper cotton stuff all over the crib and the carpet where she was in the process of throwing each cotton piece out. She even took out the diaper liner which was on the floor too. geez. When will I learn?
On another note, we went to a neat water park today, Scott B. Mentzer pool in Pflugerville. It was way fun! Rilyn is starting to cop a ‘tude these days when she really wants something. Here is her trying to tell me that she wants to go to the park now(!) Oh goodness, the teenage girl attitude is already coming at age 3!
So last night we read about Isaac marrying Rebekah in the Bible. Rilyn had marrying on the mind after that and told daddy she was only marrying boys. Okay that is good. Daddy asked her, “How do you get married, Rilyn?” She matter of factly stated that “you hold hands and then you hold a candle.” uh okay…(she might of got that idea from watching our wedding video and seeing the unity candle) Daddy then said, “What do you do after you get married?” Rilyn said, (and you know I will be saying this at her wedding reception one day), “You dance and then you get your chores done in the kitchen.” 😉
Then after nap today, when daddy went in her room to check on her, Rilyn was grunting. “What are you doing Rilyn?” “I am pushing a baby out.” A little surprised, daddy asked, “Where does a baby come out of?” She said, “I push it out of my bottom.” hmmmm….
19
Jul
07
Rilyn’s First Haircut
Well, finally at age 3, she has gotten her first haircut! We went to a fun place called Snip-Its. She did great and looks so cute (and older) with her new bob.
20
Jun
07
Kicked out of swimming lessons?
Well, we signed up Rilyn for swimming lessons this summer because she desperately needs it! She is freaked out to go under the water or even float in water with floaties on! She had her first lesson this week and she cried during most of it. After the lesson the head instructor informed me that my daughter will be ‘asked to leave’ the swimming lessons (with a refund of course) if she keeps up her crying. They told me Rilyn has one more chance to prove that she can do a lesson with minimal crying because otherwise it is “unsafe for the instructor”. (Rilyn did flail wildly at the instructor a couple of times when she was trying to get her to back float!) I’ll keep you posted to see if Rilyn was “allowed” to keep having lessons!
11
Jun
07
New Website and June Update
Well, it’s been awhile and we have finally gotten our website to where we want it so that means we can blog a lot more and update videos/photos often. We’ve been busy lately! We had my 28th birthday and our 6th wedding anniversary in May(we got new furniture and frames to fill up our house), Rilyn’s 3rd birthday party/barbeque(at The Little Gym and then back to our house for food), VBS(I taught the 3/4 year old class with Rilyn in it), Rilyn’s first dentist appt. (she has a developmental cavity-which means she was born with it) 😦 She will have to get some anesthia and have it filled in a month. She also had her 3 year portraits done which she did a great job smiling. Now we are settling back down into the routine of things…
Ella is 17 months and talking like crazy. She repeats nearly everything she hears but her favorite things to say are “I did it!” and “share” (she loves to say that when Rilyn has any toy in her hand). Rilyn is such a big girl, she is fully potty trained now! Hallelujah!!! She keeps us laughing. Some of our favorites: Rilyn tripped on the floor and said, “Wow, I just freaked out!”
Rilyn sometimes likes to greet mommy by saying “Hello, my heiness.” (She heard that from a cartoon, daddy does not call mommy that.)
Rilyn saw her name written in cursive on a piece of paper and she said that it said, “ChickFila” because she is so used to seeing the ChickFila sign and it is in cursive.
Rilyn likes to tell us when we say something nice to her, “You can say that again!”
I told Rilyn that daddy killed the fire ants in the yard. She said, “Did they die on the cross like Jesus?”
05
Dec
06
November Update
Rilyn is now 2 ½! She can’t wait for Christmas and to see “Santa Closet” (as she calls him) at the mall to take a picture with him. When she saw a Mrs. Claus standing in someone’s yard, she asked, “Can I see Santa’s mommy, Mary?” We are trying to teach her the true meaning of Christmas, but there is so much commercialism around, it is no wonder a small child gets confused!
On another note…with daddy’s Cowboys doing so well, football games have been on the TV a lot these days. She asked daddy last weekend, “When I get bigger, can I play football with the boys?” “We’ll see…” is all he could think to say. As you can see from the video, Rilyn loves to serenade us with the classic tunes of toddlerhood. It’s no wonder she knows the songs so well because she requests her favorites to be put on ‘repeat’ in the car CD player. I think I tune out when I hear the Itsy Bitsy Spider being played for the 10th time.
Ella is 11 months old now. She cruises (and crawls) around everywhere and it won’t be long before she can stand up on her own. She is starting to sign now. She can sign ‘all done’ and ‘more’. We taught some basic sign language to Rilyn when she was this age and found it to be extremely beneficial! As you can see on the video, Ella is fearless (I know the video looks bad; but she really only cried for a second after I got her) and she continues to test the limits in all things. When we tell her ‘no’ she just looks at us and giggles and then proceeds to do it again until we physically remove her from the situation!
30
Jul
06
June and July Update
Ella is almost 7 months old!! Where has the time gone? Ella can now sit by herself and has gotten her second tooth. She went ‘swimming’ in a pool for the first time and loved to splash around. Ella continues to be such a sweet-natured baby, the only thing to be aware of is her Jaws-like attack for your fingers! She loves to bite anything! (see movie). Her favorite thing to do right now is bounce in her bumper jumper that we hang from our door frame. She is working those leg muscles! (maybe that means she is getting ready to crawl soon??)
Rilyn continues to make us laugh with her funny sayings. “Oh man, that’s crazy!” or while playing with her cash register in her room, “I would like a #5, diet Dr. Pepper, fries and a drink.” (We know that’s a sign we’re eating too much fast food!) During a recent stinky diaper change, her Sunday school teacher asked her, “what did you eat?” Her response-“Vegetables.” Rilyn also spent a week by herself at “Camp Oma & Papaw” (James’ parents’ house). While there, she went on her first picnic, went to the zoo and had a great time.
the paquettes 