Pebbles at 17 Months

Well my little "Pebbles" had her second Halloween, and oh the fun she had.  She had so much fun going trick or treating with her cousins.  She went from house to house knocking on doors saying "please" for her candy.  She also had a partner in crime, our neigbors baby was Bam Bam.  They were too cute.

She still continues to be busy busy.  She doesn't sit still for long and is quite the talker.  She is still weighing in at 22 lbs, but eats here and there and continues to grow.  Shelby and I are still enjoying having her Daddy off more and have definately taken advantage of it.  We have been spending a lot more time together and even got to take her to the Houston Children's Museum.  We met up with Nana and Drew and Garrett.  She really enjoyed the grocery store section and shopped and shopped.  Her Daddy enjoyed playing with all the things as well.  

We are getting ready for Thanksgiving as it quickly arrives.  Nana and I sat up late one night to make her the cutest outfit.  She was the cutest little turkey out there.   

Boo at 16 months

I am SO far behind on my blogging, sorry.  Shelby has been keeping me busy as always.  Our baby is weighing in at 20.6 lbs. and 31 inches.  She was in the 10th percentile for her weight and 50th for her height.  The doctor actually put her on Pediasure because she has slowed down so much on her weight, but I believe it is because of all her sickness and buisiness lately.  She continues to talk our ears off, even though we do not understand a lot of it.  

Chad got a new job this past month

 with OxyPermian, yeah!!!  He has much better hours, benifits, and has every other Friday off.  That means we have all gotten to see each other a lot more lately.  We have had fun.  We went to the Zoo on the first Friday he was off and Shelby got to enjoy seeing all the animals again and she got to ride the train for the first time as well.  

Shelby has also been getting ready for Halloween this year.  She and I went to Dewberry Farms with Aunt Kelli, Drew, Garrett, and Nana to kick off the Halloween season.  There we got to go

on a hayride, visit a pumpkin patch, pet a cow, feed goats and many other things.  Shelby really had a good time.  We also made a trip to Austin to visit Grandad and Sandy.  She really took to Grandad and even cuddled up in his arms at times.  During our trip to Austin Chad did a 24 hour adventure race with 3 other guys and even came in 3rd place in their catagorey.  GO DADDY GO!  

On a sad but good note, Shelby had her tubes put in this month.  She wasn't herself for a week or so, but made a full recovery and is now doing well.  The doctors are telling us that the tubes should help keep her from getting so many ear infections.  Only time will tell.  

Gone With The Wind At 15 Months!

This has been one of the craziest months for Shelby Reese and her family.  Shelby started it off by having a stomach virus the first week, followed by Roseola the next week.  My poor baby girl suffered with a fever of up to 104.6.  She had multiple cool baths at 2 am that week.  Towards the end of the week fighting her sickness, she got to experience her first hurricane, Ike.  It was quite the experience for us all.  Nana and Pawpaw joined us in Spring to ride out the storm that ended up going right over Galveston as well as Pasadena.  We weathered the storm quite well, we only had the trees in our front yard and flowerbed fall over, which is more than I can say for other areas. Our neighborhood had trees fall all over the place.  

When we were told our power could take 2-4 weeks to come back on Shelby and I packed up, became evacuees, and joined everyone at Aunt Kelli's house. After a few days there we missed Daddy and came back home.  Our power ended up being out for 12 days, so we visited Mimi and Popa's house and Nana's house a few times until I had to go back to work.  Life on a generator is definately no fun after a while, but as much as I hate to admit it those forehead flashlights are cool to have in the dark.  

So Shelby is weighing in at 20 lbs. 3 oz.  this moth after being sick a few times.  She is back to herself now and has learned the skill of eating with a fork.  She is very impressive.  She also has really fallen in love with her cowboy hat and wears it very often, and looks too cute.    She has also learned many new words such as BOO,her favorite, also fruit, shoe, fan, light, shooo wee, off, I dropped it, car, please, thank you, night night, book, bird, and cow, and duck.  She has also learned to sign all of those words and make the animal sounds as well.  She is very polite telling us please and thank you all the time.  She is the sweetest little thing.  She also loves to give kisses and hugs and read books with you. She has also started to tell us yes and no by shaking her head, of course she doesn't always say what she means.  Her newest favorite game is Peek a Boo.  She covers her face with her hands and then moves them and says Boo!  She will also pop out from behind things and say Boo.  She has become quite the perfect little toddler.  

Too Busy at 14 Months!

My baby girl has blossomed into such a sweet toddler.  She has become such a busy girl.  She loves to spend her time playing and eating, she has developed quite the appetite.  She can eat an entire kids meal at Chick-Fil-A by herself.  She has also added may more words to her vocabulary such as, book, bath, brush, thank you, please, car, moo, quack, duck, roarrrrr,  a monkey sound, and many more.  She has continued to learn more signs as well.  She can sign car, thank you, bath and brush.  She is so smart, she gets it from her Mommy.  :)  She is now also weighing in at 20.8 lbs.  Which means she finally got to tun around in her car seat, yeah!!!  She loves facing forwards and it makes car rides much easier.  She also has REALLY gotten into watching television, especially her movie "God Makes Music."  It causes her to go into a trance and not move a muscle. 

                     

We had a very busy 14th month.  We started off by going to Ty Locklears birthday party.  Shelby had fun getting to see Sofie and all the other kiddos.  We also went and spent a week at Nana's, thinking Daddy would be working in League city, but unfortunately his scheduled changed.  We still stayed at Nana's house where he later joined us in the week to go to Schiltterbahn in Galveston.  Shelb's also got to meet my old friend Erin and her husband John who have been living in China for the last 2 years.  We met up with Erin at Incredible Pizza along with some of the other McLoxley girls and Jeff as well as Garrett and Drew.  Shelby had too much fun getting to ride some of the rides there.  We then went back home the next week with Daddy because I had to start work, unfortunately.    Thank goodness though, Shelby and  will be spending every other day together since I have dropped back to half time.  We also got to spend some time as a family and the three of us loaded up in the car and drove to Galveston to visit Moody Gardens and the beach.  Shelby and Chad had never been to Moody Gardens so we got to enjoy the Titanic exhibit as well as the Aquarium Pyramid.  She loved seeing all the different animals and fish as well as getting to pet a Sea Urchin and a Star fish.  Then after lunch we went down to the Sea Wall and she got to play in the sand and in the waves.  Her favorite thing was chasing the seagulls up and down the beach.                                                                                                                  

Growing too fast at 13 months!

Well as you can see I have scaled back to monthly updates instead of weekly, she is still growing like a weed though.  She seems to have really grown up a lot this past month, at least to me.  She has begun to drink whole milk and is loving the table food more than ever.  Her favorite veggie is peas and her favorite fruit is still mandarin oranges.  We went in for her one year check up she was currently weighing 19 pounds and 4 ounces and was 29 1/2 inches long.  She was in the 90th percentile for her height and the 25th percentile for her weight.  She is tall and skinny just like Chad and I were as kids.  The doctor actually told me I needed to start feeding her more snacks, but she is so busy she just burns all her calories.  She is never crawling anymore, she walks everywhere now.  The funny thing is that when she walks she has to hold her right arm straight up in the air to balance.  Shelby is also talking much more these days.  Her current vocabulary consists of Mama, Dada, Nana, Mimi, Pawapaw, Popa, no no no, sit, hat, puppy, eat, oooohhhhh, uh oh, Ish (for Ishy), hi, bye bye, and bath.  She is quite the talker to say the least.  If you ask her these days if she wants to take a bath she runs into her bathroom and even tries to climb into the tub, she loves the water, swimming too.  Shelby has also picked up a lot recently on her signing, she now signs eat, finished, puppy, more, cup and her favorite, hat.  As a family we also got to celebrate Shelby's 2nd Fourth of July.  She really had a blast at the parade waving to everyone that went by with both hands saying "Hi!" the entire time.  Her arms had to have gotten tired.  We later then went to Bryan and Paola's and ate dinner and shot of fireworks that did not even scare her. 

We also had an exciting month in that Shelby is no longer the baby in

 the extended Gorman family.  Uncle Bryan and Aunt Paola welcomed baby Grant Allen Gorman yesterday, July 25.  He was 8 lbs. 3 oz. and 20 1/2 inches long born at 2:56p.m.  He has so much dark straight hair and cheeks you just want to pinch.  Congrats to Bryan and Paola on

 your son and finally the Gorman family is getting a little more testosterone back in it.  I am sure Shelby will love to have him around to play with as much as she does the rest.

1 Year at 52 weeks!

Well the day has come and gone and my baby is one.  I only cried three times over it, yes I am crazy.  She has had so much fun

turning one.  This past week along with getting ready for her party we started Mommy and Me Swim Lessons.  Shelby loves the water and really enjoys all the songs and jumping around she gets to do , but not a huge fan of being dunked.  Shelby celebrated her birthday with about 35 guests this past Saturday at our home. She had a lot of fun eating cake, opening presents, doing the piniata, and playing in the water sprinklers, on the swingset and in the fun jump. Nana made an awesome cake as well that everyone enjoyed. 

Shelby also started walking this past Sunday.  I was so excited I was wanting her to walk before her first birthday and she did.  She is doing better and better everyday and is even letting go of her toys and walking from one to the other.  She also is talking much more these days.  She says hi, bye, hat, yeah, sit, no no no, uh-oh, Mama, Dada, Nana, Pawpaw and Popa.  She says a few other things, but we have not figured out what she is saying.

We also went to the Zoo yesterday where Shelby had a lot of fun.  She like the Lion that was laying against the glass and the petting zoo where she got to pet some goats.  She also enjoyed the tunnel that ran through a fish aquarium that she got to crawl through with her cousins.