Layla is ONE!!!

My sweet, sweet Layla, I can not believe you are already ONE year old!!! This has been the fastest year of my life! Your personality has grown stronger and stronger and I am afraid we have another spit-fire on our hands! You are so sweet and cuddly. You give me the biggest hug in the morning when I get you up and you just hold on to my neck with both arms with all your might. You lay your sweet head on my chest and just melt into me. You also growl when you don't get your way, push your sister out of the way to get to something and make it known when you want something. 

You are so ticklish on your ribs and your feet. I can tickle you and just get those deep belly laughs that I love. You LOVE it when someone says "Ouch!" and you just laugh. When Ella pretends to fall you cackle! 

You love your sister so much. Your favorite place to be is playing with her in her room, I think it makes you feel like a big girl. You love getting to read books when we put Ella to bed because you get to sit on her bed with her. You are always at her heels and lately she has been dragging you around! You always have the biggest smile on your face. 

With strangers (well, that includes anyone you don't see on a regular basis, including family members) you are very reserved. You prefer to study them and hang around them a while before you feel comfortable letting them hold you. You just like to be comfortable with your surroundings before letting go of Momma.

You are 31-3/4" tall (above 98%) and weigh 26.14 pounds (above 98%). You wear size 24 months or 2T and a size 5 shoes. You are still in a size 4 diaper, but you have a big bottom and tummy so we might be moving up soon. 

You say mama, dada, bye bye, no no, and uh oh. You shake your head side to side when saying no no just to make that extra impact!

If I let you stay in the bathtub all day long you would. However, you are a daredevil and try to stick your head underwater and stand up. You are nothing like your sister in this regard, she airs on the side of caution.

You still nurse 4-5 times a day and don't seem to be giving that up anytime soon. You eat some baby foods, but only fruit, and you are beginning to reject those. You want big people food. You drink your water great and soon you will start to have milk!

Your favorite song is "If you're happy and you know it."

Your bedtime is around 9 a.m. and you sleep until 8:30. You go down for a nap at 12:00 and sleep until 2:15 when I have to wake you up to go get sister. If I let you sleep you sleep until 3. Sometimes you take an evening nap, sometimes not. 

You won't wear shoes for anything. You like to take them off and eat them! You have also started pulling off your bows, but I am not going to stop putting them on you, I will win!! =) 

I am so thankful God blessed us with you. It has been a rewarding, exhausting, fun filled, trying, amazing year!!! I could not imagine a better baby in the world! You are just so easy going and I love you so much!!!

Watch Me Grow:

May 10, 2011. Such an easy delivery and such a sweet blessing!

You have always been so chunky!!

You didn't have a neck until much, much later!

You are always up for anything!

Sweet Sisters!

But, you took a while to warm up to grass!

See, grass is fun!

Layla is 11 Months!

I am a little behind on this because Layla is almost 12 months!

Layla, you are just a riot! You just have so much personality and I love it! You make your presence known and make it known when you are not happy. You hardly ever cry, but you do yell when you don't get your way!

You wear 24 month and a lot of 2T clothes. I never put shoes on you, but you wear a size 5. Still in a size 4 diaper and the last time I weighed you you were just shy of 27 pounds (remember, this is a month ago!) You have three bottom teeth and you you are getting a top tooth, so that is 6 total!

You clap, wave, say bye bye, momma, and dada. You are still not walking! I thought for sure you would walk before Ella since you are constantly chasing her around, but you get along pretty dang fast and cruising from furniture to furniture, so for now no walking. (Secretly your momma is happy about this. Time is just flying by and I know as soon as you start walking you are going to be even more busy! I just love you so much I want yo to stay my baby as long as possible!)

You still love your sister, but I am noticing more toy stealing and arguing! I think you are jealous that your big sister gets to sit on the couch, so you like to bite her toes when she watches cartoons....just to make sure she doesn't enjoy them as much! You are a stinker!!

You have a passion for peek-a-boo and could play it for hours on end. You put your hands over your eyes, or sometimes you cheat and don't really cover your eyes, but I still have to say "where's Layla?" and you still get so tickled!

You are eating 75% of what we eat and are only eating fruit baby food. Pear is still your favorite. We tried eggs this month and you loved them. I was so rigid with your sister and didn't let her have eggs until she was one, but you are such a little puppy dog always begging for food.

I love you more than I ever thought I could. You are an absolute joy and we are so blessed to have you! I can not believe you are almost ONE!!!

My Daughters

Today Kelly at Kelly's Korner is having a blog link up with Momma's who have all girls. I have two sweet girls, Ella (3) and Layla (10 months). 

When I first became pregnant I just knew it was a boy. I have a brother that is two years older than me and I have always loved having a older protector, and someone I knew would always look out for me. I always felt cool saying "oh yeah, that's my older brother"! My Mom was convinced it was a boy also. I thought I wanted to have two boys and a girl. Well, it was definitely not a boy and out sweet Ella is 100% girl.

She loves princesses, dresses, bows, makeup, high heels, dress up and anything else girlie you can think of. She hates mud, bugs, and anything dirty. I LOVE having a girl. I love dressing her up and our sweet relationship. 

Don't get me wrong, she is all girl which also means she is full of drama and mood swings! She has a temper and sometimes (okay, a lot of times) I just wish she could go outside without screaming because there is a bug!

When we got pregnant with #2 I did want another girl and was so excited when we found out we were indeed having a girl. My husbands first words were "Oh, another wedding!". Layla is my determined, hard headed, cuddly, lovable girl. I have a feeling she is going to be our daredevil. If I have anything to do with it she will still love her bows and dressing up too. She loves her older sister SO much I am sure she will love all the same things. 

I love seeing the sweet relationship they have with each other. Ella is protective and very proud of her little sister.

Layla thinks Ella hung the moon and just thinks everything she does is hysterical.

I wouldn't trade my girls for anything. I would like to have a boy so my husband can have a football player (I asked him if a cheerleader would do!?!). I can just seeing us having four kids and all of them being girls. It would thrill me though!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Layla is Ten Months!!

Layla Lou, you are now TEN months old!! The next time I turn around you are going to be one, and I am just not ready for that! You are just the sweetest thing! This has been one of my favorite months so far. You have been so full of laughter and have been so irresistibly sweet! 

You clap your hands when you get excited, you give big open mouthed wet kisses when we make a kissing noise, you can say Mama, Dada, and bye bye (sounds like ba ba) and wave. You are always motor boating and growling! You have the deepest belly laugh and I know exactly how to get you to laugh. You LOVE it when I get your tummy and will just squeal. 

You are still a speed crawler, pulling up on everything and cruising from furniture piece to furniture piece. This morning you pushed a full sized wooden chair across the kitchen floor and used it as a walker. I don't know if you will walk as soon as your sister did, but honestly I am in no hurry for you to walk. I want you to stay my baby and I know as soon as you start walking you will loose all your baby fat and grow up so quickly! 

Speaking of fat (haha!), I weighed you on my scale the other day and you were 26-1/2 pounds. You are in a size 4 diaper still, and still wearing 24 months. You wear a size 5 shoe. You have the sweetest fat rolls on your thighs (multiple rolls) and sweet dimples on your booty!

You and your sister are playing together more and more and it just makes me so happy to see you two interact. You both love each other so much! 

You go to sleep at 9 and sleep until 9. You were napping once a day for three hours, but this week you mixed it up. You take one nap from about 12:00-1:30 and you take another evening nap from 5:00-7:00. Maybe you will mix it up again this week, who knows?

You are still nursing 4-5 times a day. You eat baby food cereal + a fruit for breakfast, usually a fruit for lunch, lots of snacking on whatever, and for dinner you have been eating what we eat. This week you got to have a cupcake and some more ice cream. I think your favorite was the biscuit from Red Lobster though!

You are still a total Mommy's girl and I will take it while I can. You are so sweet and your Daddy and I love you so much!!! If I could freeze time right now I would keep you and your sister at this age forever. You both are more than I could have ever dreamed of!