You have done a lot in the last month too.  The biggest thing being that you have officially moved into the 1-2 year old room at daycare.  You are no longer an infant by any stretch of the imagination.  You are a toddler now.  *sniff* I can’t believe you are a toddler already.  Things are going well for you at daycare.  We had to get over the big hump of you getting used to the new teachers.  That took a good month.  Yesterday was the first time I dropped you off that you didn’t cry when I had to leave.  Hoping it wasn’t a fluke I held my breath when I took you in this morning.  Sure enough you were fine again.  It’s almost like someone flipped a switch over the weekend.  Now I get you settled in with your breakfast and I can leave a happy kid.  A much better way for me to start my day.

In the past month we have also found a new home for Jaxon.  Oddly enough you don’t seem to miss him at all.  When you saw him one afternoon you seemed excited to see him at first but then decided it wasn’t that big of a deal.  He’s now living with neighbors of our friends.  They really love him and since they are retired they get to spend all day with him.  It’s a perfect situation all around.  Momma and Daddy do miss him though.

You have recently started ‘talking’ when you play too.  It’s fun to hear you do this.  A lot of times you’ll talk to anyone who is around and acts like they completely understand what you’re saying.  You have also changed how you ask for more.  You don’t sign it anymore, but when you say you want more, you now say it twice.  It sounds like “mo mo”.  We have to remind you to sign please most days though.  It’s a work in progress.

Daddy had a fun moment with you a few weeks ago.  He came around the corner to find you standing in front of the (unplugged) paper shredder saying, “No..no..no” to yourself.  I guess it has finally sunk in that it’s not just another toy to entertain you.  We really do try to not use it when you’re around because we don’t want to encourage you to put things in it.

You had your first trip the Elmwood Park Zoo last week.  We went with Dawn & Mark and the boys.  You had a ball.  You wanted to walk around like all the other kids so I pushed around an empty stroller.  You had a fun time watching the otters and the goats.  They really mad you laugh.  This is making me look forward to going to Animal Kingdom with you in October.  I think you’ll be entertained by many more animals there too.

You had your first injury related trip to the ER as well.  You cut your face, near your left eye, in daycare one day.  You fell and hit the little table.  You are fine and your boo-boo is healing nicely.

This next month is going to be packed with changes for all of us.  Next week we move into a big new house.  You have to know that something is going on because our entire decor is now just different sizes of cardboard boxes.  Well, your room is still decorated, but that will change very soon as we need to get it all packed up.  I’ve been holding out on your room because I want you to have some sense of normalcy as long as possible.  Just hang on for the fun to begin.

Love, Momma

I‘ve also added a link to Jaxon’s photo album to the side bar, since I have been updating his album with pictures of him and Rylee playing, but his album had been buried on the main page for a while.

She somehow manages to scoot herself around from this position. It’s not something that is easy to notice. All of a sudden we look at each other and ask how she moved across the room. Most of the time the movement is a result of wanting to get to Jaxon or to a toy that has been purposely placed out of her reach.

We feel that this may just be the month that she decides to take off and crawl. Well, either that or we’re getting her a surf board.

Stay tuned…

But they had some playtime one evening earlier this week, and we got some video of it.

• Tanner Christmas
• The rest of Rylee’s eighth month
• Jaxon’s Album
• The start of Rylee’s ninth month
• Andie’s visit