Finally 20 & 21 Months!

I can't believe how fast time

flies and that it has been 2 months, almost 3, since I updated our

blog. Where do I begin? Shelby is as busy as ever and keeping us all on our toes. She has added many words to her vocabulary such as aww shoot, whoa dude, I tee tee potty, why, vamanos (lets go in spanish), hola, see you later, see you in the morning, and many many more. In her 21st month she really began putting sentences together. She still only weighs 24 pounds but is growing taller everyday. We also continued the battle of the ear infections with many more visits to the ENT's office and a few to the Pediatricians. She seems to be over them for now, but we will see what the future holds. Shelby has also started to try an climb out of her bed, but she can't quite get over the front, which has turned out to be good for us. Us girls in the house enjoyed Valentines Day, as Daddy gave us breakfast in bed and flowers. Shelby and I also enjoyed our Spring Break together and boy we stayed busy. We went to the Zoo and she got to meet Dora (her new obsession) and Diego at Chik-Fil-A. The next week we enjoyed a family trip to the Children's Museum with Daddy. We have really enjoyed our time with him these days. He also got to take us to the Rodeo after work one day. Shelby was so excited to ride a "Neigh Neigh" (Horse) and to pet all the animals in the petting zoo. We went sleding this past as well as we went to Mt. Aggie to celebrate cousin Drew's 5th birthday. It was a hill cover with wet astro turf. It was a lot of fun, she wanted to go over and over. We enjoyed Easter this past weekend at church and at home. Mimi and Popa came up and spent the night after church on Saturday night and spent the next morning with us as Shelby enjoyed an Easter Egg hunt. Enjoy the pics!

18, & 19 Months whizzed by!

I HAVE BEEN A VERY BAD BLOGGING MOMMY LATELY!!! I am sure everyone understands with the holidays just passing.

Many things have changed with us in the passing months so let me just sum it up!

My sweet girl has started going "TeeTee" in the potty occasionally. YEAH! I am so proud. She mainly does it because she like to get the candies when she goes. It is not an everyday thing yet, but we just thought we would introduce the idea to her.

Shelby making her shocked face after ringing the door bell on her playhouse she got for Christmas.
We visited in College Station and Shelby got caught feeding Garrett her breakfast, Stinkers.

Shelby Reese enjoying her rocking Giraffe on Christmas morning at home. She loves to say "Yee Haw", but it comes out sounding more like a donkey, but still adorable.

Shelby getting to enjoy her playhouse by yelling "HI!" as she sticks her little face out.

We did not enjoy Santa as much this year as we did last year. :)

Mommy and Nana got crafty and made Shelby this snazzey Christmas outfit.

Christmas Eve church service with the Gorman Girls. Aren't they cute!?!

The night we went to pick up our Christmas tree it acutally started snowing. It was gorgeous! Shelby was not too sure what to think about it. We ended up getting about an inch or so of snow.

Looking stylish as always as Aunt Sandy snapped a few pictures.

We sadly lost our Grandad on December 4th. We all know he fought a hard tough battle and know he is in Heaven looking down on us all.The partners in crime looking good in matching jamies.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Like I said earlier "Partners In Crime"

Nana and Mommy got that crafty feeling again for a really cute Turkey outfit.

It has definatley been crazy, but good. I also abandoned my poor baby with her Grandparents and her Daddy and I (very unwillingly) left her and went to Disney World in January where Chad ran a marathon with Jenny Purvis. They did very well and Derek and I encouraged them as they ran by. Shelby has also been fighting those pesky ear infections and we hope they are gone soon. We hope all was well with you and your families over the holidays.

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.