I'm a horrible blogger. :)

I'm not sure why I committed to this 365 day blog, I clearly suck at it. :) I am trying my best to at least blog once a week...which is really sad. I take TONS of pictures. I pretty much take at least one picture of my daughter a day, I don't know why I don't just post it, and write a little something about my day.

Anyway, it seems like Rayanne getting closer and closer every day to getting into a crawling position. Today we were sitting on the couch...Ok...I was sitting on the couch acting like a barricade trying to help her get to crawling, and moving around where it's not so hard on her knees, and the softness making it a bit easier to get used to it. :) I got a great picture of her today reaching for a toy up on one knee, and turning her body from a sitting position. You really would have to see it, but of course, I downloaded the pictures onto my computer BEFORE she did that, so I will try to post that picture tomorrow. :)

The picture I want to post of Rayanne is one that was taken while we were at her cousins place last Wednesday. My friend and I were trying to take pictures of the three of our kids together (she has two little boys) and let me tell you, it is very difficult to coordinate a 4 1/2 year old, a 1 1/2 year old and an 8 month old all at the same time. LOL! Well the picture that I took of Rayanne before we started those pictures, and I just love the look on her face. :) It is so priceless.

I also wanted to post a picture that I took of her hands. Strange perhaps. :) She no longer likes me to feed her some things...(and some times I can barely get the spoon to her mouth. lol.) So she decided she wanted her independence eating banana's. :) She got to be such a mess. LOL!! those are slippery little suckers. LOL!

Anyway, that's it for me. I will try to post on Thursday with a 9 month picture. :)

In like a Lion....

Well this is one year that I hope that that is true this year. With me having to return to work in about 4 months (I really don't even want to think about it) the sooner spring comes, the sooner we can go for walks, go to the park, go to the zoo, and considering the temperature this evening is - 36 degrees Celsius, with the wind chill, I'd say that's in like a lion. There are so many things that I look forward to doing with my baby this year. :) Just going out to the back yard to play on the grass instead of having to stay inside the house. I really want spring to be here early. I'm done with winter now, it can go away now. If the truth be told...I am honestly done with winter about the day after Ukrainian Christmas is done. And that was way back the beginning of January.

Rayanne seems to change just a little bit each day. She is getting so good at eating solids, and the last couple of days, she has seriously been babbling up a storm. It is great to hear her talking...now if I could just figure out what she is saying when she is playing with her little stuffed bug and sock monkey. :) I will try to take a picture of her with her sock monkey tomorrow. She got it from Grandma and Grandpa when we were in Florida.

The picture that I have of Rayanne today, was actually an idea that I stole from a friend. It is the 1st of March, and so a friend of mine put her son in shamrock pj's. Well I didn't get Rayanne any shamrock pj's, but since she is part Irish (Irish, Scottish, Ukrainian and Metis, now how's that for a combo) I bought her this shirt when we were at Carters in the states.

I probably won't put it on her again till St. Paddy's day...but I just wanted to share...she won't get a pinch for not wearing green. :)

Been Slacking

Ok...so it has been almost a month since my last post. I'm so sorry that I have been slacking. I got really busy with our trip to Florida, and then we came back, and Rayanne has been a bit off since then. I am very tired today, and it will be an early night.

Anyway, so we had a GREAT time in Florida, and another day, I will post those pictures. Today I am getting back to a picture a day thing. I have a very cute picture of her in a toque that our friends in Florida gave her. It's a little owl. She looks so cute!

But let me tell you what she has been up to. It seems like she changes every day. She has started just talking up a storm. If she is some place new, then she is quiet for a bit, but once she is comfortable...look out. LOL...So far she has said mom (but she has said that before) dad, and hi. I'm not sure she knows what any of the words mean, I think she has just been repeating what we say to her. :) But it is nice that she is babbling now, and it's so fun. She also knows what shaking her head no means. When she first started doing it...we would say no no no...and laugh, and then stop whatever we were doing with her. Well she has seemed to figure out that no no no means, well just that no. :) She'll shake her head no when she is done eating, or when she doesn't want to be put down. She has really figured it out. It's so cute. I love it.

She is eating so many foods. Today we had some new ones...we tried mushrooms which were not really that big of a hit, and cheese, which was a huge hit. Now that I know she likes cheese, I can feed her that more often. :) I was scared to try her on cheese, cause I was scared that she couldn't chew it enough to swallow it, but if I made the pieces small enough, she has no problem. She has also had grapes, and strawberries, and cantaloupe. She loved all of those of course, but she does not like Kiwi. lol She is getting so close to moving around and crawling...I can't wait till she starts...she is growing up so fast, but I love it.

Here is our picture for Today

Day 8 and 9

Ok...so I do realize that I missed yesterday. I went shopping for some clothes for my trip. My MIL (mother in law) gave me a $100 dollar gift certificate for Addition Elle, and I figured I had better use it before I grow, or rather shrink out of their clothes. :) (How's that for positive thinking!!??) And I needed some summer clothes for my trip, because even though I am down to my pre birth weight...being at my pre birth shape is a totally different story. So I didn't get home till after 9, and I had taken Rayanne with me (that was an adventure) so by the time I got home and got Rayanne down, it was late, and I was beat, but happy with my purchases. I got 1 skirt, 2 t-shirts, 2 tank tops, and 3 pair of undies for $118.00. :) I think I did pretty good! Anyway, I did take a picture yesterday. One of my favorite things about Manitoba in the winter, is the horror frost. It isn't a very good picture, because Rayanne was up, so I was taking it from across the street, through my window, but if you ever get the chance, even google horror frost, it really is beautiful!!

For Day 9, I figure that I had gone away from taking pictures of Rayanne, and after her bath, I decided to spike up her hair. :) I did get my hair cut today as well, but I figured I would wait till it looked better to show you a picture. I really should have taken a picture before I went out to shovel the sidewalk. We got about 30 cm of snow today, it was insane! I have not seen the snow this high in a long time, and I am going to take a picture of just how much snow we have for you, I know a friend of mine from Florida was just looking at how much was on my car, and had said she had never seen so much snow in her life.

But anyway, back to my baby!! We tried her with the puffs today, even though it says 1 year and up, but she loved them...she hasn't quite gotten her hands around feeding herself, but if I give them to her, she eats them. :) Yahoo, something snacky for on the plane and in Disney!!

Anyway, here she is after her bath!

Day 7

Well this is going to be a very short post, but I wanted to make sure I posted a picture today. We went to friends of ours place before we left for Florida. We hadn't seen them since before Christmas. They have a daughter that just turned 3. :) She was very shy this time when we were there at the beginning, but closer to the end she was talking more. This picture was taken closer to the beginning of the visit, because I am bad for waiting to long, and then trying to take a picture of Rayanne when she is tired and grumpy, and I didn't want that to happen. They had us over for supper and we watched the Green Hornet. :)

Here is the picture of Rayanne and her friend Mae.

Anyway, hopefully tomorrow I can make a longer post. :)

Day 6

Today was a BEAUTIFUL day. And so because of that, I don't have picture of Rayanne, but rather, I have pictures of just outside. :) I have taken one picture of my car, so some of you that have not seen lots of snow. My car has been parked all winter, and so I have not brushed it off, but will be doing it before we leave for Florida, so I thought that I would take some pictures of it before I did. :) I also wanted you to see a better picture of the park across the street, so I zoomed in on the park, and took a picture of that too. (I didn't go outside and take it because by the time I finished taking pictures of my car, Rayanne was up.)

Speaking of Rayanne...today was an exciting day. For the first time today, she used the pincher grasp!! SSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOO exciting. It's funny the things we as mom's get excited about. :) She is just growing so much, and so fast. :)

Well this is a short entry, because it is really late, but here are the pictures that I wanted to show you, as Day 6 of pictures from me. :)

Day 5

Well today, I'm starting with something about me.

I am 1 lb away from what I weighted before I got pregnant with Rayanne. That being said, I still need to lose the 10 lbs I gained with and after my first pregnancy, that I lost, and then still yet, another 40 lbs after that to get closer to a healthy body weight for my size, but I have lost 9 lbs since new years. I stopped eating fast food, and I started eating healthier, and I joined weight watchers. :) I am hoping to get more active, I should be getting my new wii fit board soon, and then I can get back to that, until then, I am going to be doing jumping jacks, and dancing while Rayanne is in her jolly jumper...people are going to think I'm crazy, including my baby girl.

Anyway, back to my baby girl. :) She is just doing amazing, and it surprises me the different things she does...today for the first time, she pointed. Not really at anything in particular, but she pointed that little pointer finger out there, and she has never done that before. :) It was exciting. My picture today is of course...of her...I know, you are all shocked and taken aback!! :) I wanted to show a better picture of her sleeper earrings. :) I had taken two pictures, one is on my FB, and the other I will post here, I couldn't decide which one was cuter. :)

Ok...so I do have one question about this picture, did I sharpen it too much? I did it a little bit more than I normally would have, and I'm just not sure if it looks a bit too fake?!

Anyway, hope you all are doing well, it's bedtime for me. ;)