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STATE FAIR

We took Laynie to the State Fair today to see Disney on Ice,  Toy Story 3.  She loved the first half and fell asleep the second half.  lol  How she slept in all that noise I don't know.  Prior to seeing the ice capades, we went to the petting zoo.  She really liked the animals, especially the goats. Maycie and Alex did the big bungee jump and said it was a blast.  Rylee was a good sport about everything.  She got to see Peter Pan with Grandma after the fair.

Laynie is ONE

Laynie is ONE!  This has been such a busy month that I'm a couple of weeks late to blog it.  She is walking without having to raise her arms in the air.  She still talks in her alien language lol!  She's climbing up and down off of the couch, climbing on the fireplace as I write right now.    She's eating big people food and baby food.  Trying whole milk with formula mixed together.  She pretends to talk on the phone.  She walks around the house all the time "talking" on her phone.  She also likes to carry the brush around.  She's pointing and waving.  When we went to Henrietta on Labor Day, we walked in the parade.  The big girls handed out beads.  Brandon pulled Laynie in a wagon.  She was waving at people the whole way.  With one and two hands.  Too cute!

       We had her first birthday party on her birthday, August 27th.  Her little friends Austin and Gage and Meliah came as well as Meliah's bigger sisters.  Hailee and Grandma Mary Beth and Ashley came from Tulsa.

Back to School

Laynie is doing the cutest thing now. She's pointing at who she wants to hold her, then she gives them a kiss. We love it! Last Thursday, she went back to Mrs. Erin like she never left. Erin said she's being a cuddle bunny. Maycie really enjoyed her first couple days of school, and she loves her Math teacher. She's excited that her Math teacher is her homeroom teacher. This year they get to switch classes. Hailee likes her Math teacher as well. He's really nice. She doesn't care for her Language Arts teacher who gave her a lot of homework this weekend. Rylee is okay with her classes, but likes choir the best. She went to Driver's Ed last weekend, and she gets to practice driving this week. Oh, over the past few weeks, Laynie has taken off! She is walking everywhere and getting into EVERYTHING! We went to Cancun for a week, and Rylee helped Grandma and Aunt Karen watch Laynie. They got her on a sleeping schedule where she sleeps through the night. And going to bed at a decent time. Thank goodness! She's a good sleeper now :)

Laynie Is 11 Months

Our baby girl is almost one!  Time flies by so fast!  She has been taking a few steps for the past month or so, but now I think she has it figured out.  Yesterday she walked across the room five times! She LOVES the dog.  She will climb on and smile and laugh at the dog.  I think Penni is pretty protective of her too. She still isn't talking much.  She mostly sits back and takes it in I think.  We are still working on bedtime, but she goes down for naps like a pro. :)  She likes to cruise around the house and find things to get into and put in her mouth.  All of her toys aren't nearly as much fun as the DVD player lol!
     July 8, our family went to Jefferson City for the Dibble Family Reunion.  Such a good time visiting with everyone! I can't believe I didn't take pictures...my head must have been detached.  We left Jefferson City Sunday morning to go to St. Louis.  We ended up staying at the same Days Inn that we stayed in 2 years ago...by accident. A good accident...it's great for kids.  On Monday we went to the zoo and Science Museum.  It was very hot at the zoo.  Then we ended at Union Station and enjoyed the fudge demo.  One of the guys looked at Laynie and said, "What a cute baby."  Then she tried to get out of her stroller and he said loudly, "That ain't no baby-that's a toddler!"  haha!  Nope she's still a baby- just big!  On Tuesday we went to Six Flags and Hurricane Harbor.  It was still very hot!  We left early because a storm came through, but everyone was ready anyway.  On Wednesday, we went to Grant's Farm and really enjoyed that because the weather was much nicer, and it was fun feeding the goats.  We headed back to OKC that afternoon, getting in pretty late at night.  Brandon was pretty exhausted, and we were all ready to sleep in our own beds.  Laynie did great until the last half hour of the trip~  so that was pretty awesome!

Laynie Is Walking!

Laynie is walking! Watch out world :0)

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10 Months Old

Laynie is 10 months old!  In only 2 months she will be one!
Laynie is standing up from the ground on her own.  She stays standing a good 10-20 seconds before falling down.  She has also taken 5 steps on her own.  She just grows by leaps and bounds.  :0)
She also has an Elmo standing activity toy that plays music.  She plays the same song over and over and dances.  It's so cute!  She shakes her hips and head back and forth, she pumps her arm in the air.  She gets after it lol!
She's starting to eat people food and is interested in getting the food off our plates.  Her favorite thing to chew is still our iphones...
She's still a horrible sleeper, but I'm pretty sure that's my fault.
Today is July 4th, so she gets to celebrate her first Independence Day!  We'll go to Grandparents' house and then maybe to the park to watch fireworks tonight.

She loves swinging in her new swing.

Look At Me Grow

Laynie is becoming Miss Independent (for the most part).  She's a speedy crawler and cruiser now!  She also likes to walk when she holds your hand.  She only has to hold one hand, then she's good to go.  She has also stood by herself for a few seconds and has taken two steps before falling.

She's putting everything in her mouth, so you really have to watch her.  She likes to dump the dog's water bowl over lol! Poor Rylee was watching her in the morning last week, and Laynie dumped the entire bowl of water over...Rylee came in to clean it up...and did a perfect butt plant on the kitchen floor...ouch!

She's starting to feed herself independently.  So far she's been good about rice, puffs, eggs, bananas ...

She's been clapping her hands, and she'll give you high fives.  (I don't think she knows she's doing that, but it's fun.)  She'll sit and play independently for a while, but she's still clingy to "mamama."  I could have sworn yesterday that she said "Up" when she lifted her hands to be held...lol!  She does this breathing laugh and makes a funny scrunched up face.  We call it her football face. 

She's been going to White Water and doing really well there.  We also put in the pool liner yesterday, so she got to sit at the bottom with Daddy and splash in the shallow water.  Uncle Jimmy and Grandpa came over to help...so our pool looks great! Aunt Karen and Grandma came over too.  She has a cute personality, and it's really starting to come out.  Lastly, she loves the dog (Penni).  When she sees Penni, she just laughs out loud.  It's so funny!

She got to celebrate her first Father's Day!  She helped Hailee make Daddy breakfast in bed, and Daddy got to read all of his funny cards.  Then we got to go see grandpa and swim some more.  Here's Laynie's and Hailee's pictures for Daddy.

9 Months Old

Laynie is nine months old!  On Friday 5/27 we headed out for Table Rock Lake in Missouri.  We stayed at a condo on Emerald Pointe.  The first day we just swam and went to Branson Landing.  On Sunday we rented a pontoon boat and Hailee and Maycie tubed.  Everyone had a blast.  Everyone got to drive the boat-even Laynie  haha.

Laynie went to her 9 month check up when we returned.  30.5 inches and 20.13lbs.  She is not petite lol!

We were excited about the no ear infections diagnosis... she had had 4 in 3 months.  She also had 4 teeth break through the top over Memorial Day weekend.

Little Miss Laynie is crawling everywhere.  She had been hesitant to explore, but now if she thinks I'm in the kitchen, she'll go in there looking for me.  She likes to go behind the couch to the dog cage and under the end table.  She laughs and smiles all the time... I LOVE it!  Her laugh is like a weird breathing noise, but we know what she's doing.  She does this scrunched up smile face that we call her "football" face.  We'll ask her to do it and she does.  She's also babbling more...mamamama, dadadada, babababa, lalalala, nanana....  I think she knows I'm mamamamma, and Brandon is dadadada... And she is so ticklish and she'll laugh out loud like crazy when we tickle her.

She is pulling up and scooting around everywhere.  She especially pulls up on our legs and we pretend to walk.  She's been getting some people food, but she mostly likes her baby food.  She's also drinking out of her sippee cup really well... she likes water.
She still isn't sleeping through the night, so we are finally initiating TRAIN BABY TO PUT HERSELF TO SLEEP... we'll see...

More Milestones

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More Milestones...

I forgot to mention that Laynie just started clapping the weekend of April 30th...just out of the blue.  Last week she really started pulling up and walking around the furniture and her exersaucer.  There's just no stopping her lol!  She went swimming for the first time May 8th.  She loved the water!  Brandon and Maycie had a blast swimming with her and making her laugh.  But all of a sudden she cries and screams when she gets a bath.  This started the first of May...  Glad she likes the pool though! :)