Momma is always taking pictures

Here are a few favs from a photoshoot party I had with Kristi! I am loving this whole photography thing!!!!! The santa suit was William's when he was just a baby, I'm actually super surprised that it even fit Rylee. The black and red dress she is wearing was suppose to be next year's Cmas dress. Rylee got that at my baby shower... one for this year and one for the next... but funny enough, it's not going to fit next year, at least I don't think it will... and it was a tad big now, but I wanted to get pictures of it because it is sooo cute!!! These are probably my favorite pictures I have taken of Rylee to date... I feel I am getting better with each session...

Rylee's first Christmas...

Lots of pictures to share with you! Rylee truly enjoyed her first Christmas! and so did we! We celebrated Cmas Eve with Grandma and Grandpa Reedyk. We had all the family over, ate dinner, sang songs, and read the bible story of baby jesus before we opened gifts. Rylee sat on the floor as we sang Christmas songs and she was just soo happy. She always perks up around music. She did great opening up her own gifts but she tried to eat every single piece of paper and bow. She got a book from her Great Aunt Becky that teaches about shapes and she wouldn't put it down, she loved 'eating' it! :) She got soo many cute things, clothes, toys, pj's, and a savings bond from Grandma and Grandpa. She will really enjoy that as she gets older!
Rylee was very tired by the end of the night and so we didn't make it to church for the candlelight service. I was hoping to go but didn't have the energy to stay up any longer!
The next morning, Cmas morning, we went to Mimi's and G's for Cmas and for lunch/dinner. Mimi and G worked very hard to get their new kitchen done. They have been busy remodeling and it was sooo nice to have the open room and nice new kitchen! Rylee was spoiled with presents and one to open over and over again. She really got overwhelmed with it all but her favorite toy was from her Aunt JoJo which is a learning puppy who talks and sings. She really loves it! She also got a toy from Mimi and G that looks like drums and makes music, it can also convert to a rolling toy when she crawls and that seems to be another favorite toy of hers.... She also got a sweet musical bear from her Gma and Gpa Reedyk that she enjoys too! Momma's favorite was all the cool new clothes she got!!! Rylee was starting to out grow that mighty closet of clothes she had, so it's fun to have new stuff!! Rylee's grandparents sure did a great job with the clothes!!
Rylee got her momma a heart mom necklace. Daddy took her shopping and Rylee choose one of two necklaces that he had picked out. She immediately grabbed the one he bought and she still pulls on it now :) Everytime I hold her, she instantly she's my necklace! I've also noticed her grabbing at my wedding ring.... She's learning early that diamonds are a girl's best friend :) hehe
Rylee got her daddy a camcorder and some DVDs.... so we finally (after 6.5months) can start taping our baby girl! Gpa Reedyk has been taking care of that for us thus far. I will have to get him to give us a copy of everything!! He has been really good about pulling it out every so often and getting cute clips of Rylee's milestones!
We got Rylee a pair of personalized PJ's with a bum flap that has her name on it, Of course I did this for selfish reasons as I am going to do a photoshoot with them!! hehe, but they are soo cute!!!
A special thank you to everyone for everything!!!!!!!!! Rylee's first Cmas was sooo great!!

So what's Rylee doing now a days???

Can you actually believe that Rylee is almost 7 months old? As of now, she has 5 teeth. Two on the bottom and three on top. She loves staying with Mrs Sara and her two kids, Caity and Logan. She LOVES musical toys and music in general. She also loves books and stories. She can hold her bottle now by herself. I am still nursing, but will probably begin to weine her slowly. She is eating stage 2 baby food and has finally leveled off with her weight gain. She has grown 7 inches and is now 19 pounds. She just learned how to wave and I swear it is the cutest thing I have ever seen. She waves just like a beauty queen, twisting her wrists back and forth. Her Grandpa also taught her how to clap! She sits up perfectly well all by her self and she can also stand by herself propped up with furniture. She is working on crawling, getting up on all fours now and rocking, she scoots backwards and army crawls, but she's not quite there yet. She definitely can scoot around in circles and if you put her down, she is guaranteed to be elsewhere in no time flat! She has become quite the momma's girl, and momma is just loving that, even though knowing that it's not good. I've been meaning to scan some old baby pics of myself to post, but haven't found the time! She resembles Mitch and I sooo much but she is finally developing her own 'features' and that 'newborn baby' look is officially gone. It's amazing how much they change! Did I mention that she also tries to eat 'everything'!!!! Anything she touches goes straight to the mouth!!! LOL
Here are a few recent pics!