San Diego

I forgot to put in a little blurb about our San Diego trip!!! 

We had a great time and really enjoyed the zoo, sea world, and walking around on the board walk! We stayed at the Navy Lodge and it was nice!

Lyla was a trooper and enjoyed all the new sights. We got some good zoo pictures, but mommy forgot the camera when we went to sea world :( oopse!

 Lyla was SO happy to be out of the car!

 Austin being difficult to take pictures as usual!

 WOAH!

 She's trying to escape...

 HAHAHA

 Watching the Hippos!

 :)

These are the ones from Sea world we took on our phones... not much, but something! 

We were waiting on the Dolphin show! and it was chilly out!

Moving Madness!!!

Here goes the moving madness! 

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Because we are moving to Germany we are not "allowed" (like we are 10 yrs old) to take any "oversized" furniture so today our couches and bed got moved to Georgia! 

 

Next week the come to get all of our other belongings and those will head on over seas to Germany! But before we head that way, Austin, Lyla, and I will be going to LA for a  vacation and to see Austin off to Germany. 

Then Lyla and I will head with mom (Nana) to Georgia for about a month! 

Here are some of Lyla's 5 month pictures: 

 Good Morning with Daddy!

 Working on crawling... not quite there yet!

 I love my jumperoo!!

 Beau and Lyla!

 Lyla and Celia, play group buddies!

Thanks for the new toy mom! 

And here are some 6 month pictures! She is 17lbs, 26.5 inches and growing like a weed! We had some fever issues this time around with the vaccines, but we still feel like it is the best thing to do for her! :) 

 We went to visit my Grandma (Lyla's Great Grandma) in GA for a few days because she wasn't doing very well. Thank the Lord that she is doing OK now!

 The new highchair that Nana got Lyla for when we will be living with them for a year.

 Again working on crawling! lol

 And we went for a quick swim one day while in Georgia too!

Cuteness! 


We also had professional pictures done and I will post them as soon as I can!

We are looking forward to our Germany adventure, before and after Austin gets back from his next deployment!

Es ist heiße Außenseite

That means "It is hot outside" in GERMAN! That's right folks, we are headed to Germany... well kind of.

By that I mean, Austin is headed to Germany, but since he is supposed to deploy shortly after, Lyla will be staying State-Side until he gets back. Report date is currently Dec. 12, 2010, but this could change.  

So even after our attempts to be re-located to the south east, the Army decided other wise...

July was a hot hot hot month here in the desert with rarely a day less that 100 degrees out. We enjoyed some mornings at the pool with our play group buddies, along with regular play group days. On Austin's long weekend we spent one very long day out in Victorville (1 1/2 hrs away) shopping and car fixing and Lyla was amazingly good. We are so blessed.

Comparison of the 3 of us!

This month we went through what "they" like to call the "4 month sleep regression" meaning that Lyla started waking up to eat and just be rocked through out the night, but now that is behind us and we are back to sleeping very nicely for mommy! I think this was also partially due to the fact that she hit a major growth spurt where she grew a whole inch in ONE week!!

Lyla turned 4 months old, saw her first fire works, can now sit unassisted for at least 30-45 minutes, started solids (at the end of the month), and weighed in at 14 lbs 1 oz and is 26.2 in long!

 Yay!! Doggies!

 Our first ever attempt at infant cereal... it really wasn't that bad, but Austin happened to capture that lovely picture...

See? Not that bad, but we still decided to wait, she isn't ready yet!

 Pretty girl

 Playing with our buddy Nathan!

Here are some 5 Month pictures: 

 Sitting like a big girl at play group 5 Months old today!

First ever sink bath - due to a lovely mess... bet you can guess what I'm talkin about!

First trip to Denny's, she was amazed at the spoon!

Napping with mommy on the couch, that was a rough day!

On to August where fun adventures await as we are going to explore San Diego....

Laughter is the best medicine!

Especially when it comes from you sweet baby girl!

Lyla is smiling and laughing a lot more these days and I absolutely love it! 

This is one where she was playing with the doggies! She loves to try and grab them.

Trip Home (June 14th - June 26th) :

Our trip to Georgia was really great, we enjoyed seeing the family and friends while we were there and flying ended up not being as bad as I thought it would be! 

When we flew out we were able to ask if there was an extra seat available to take the car seat on and we got so lucky because there was! One thing we won't do again is fly at night with a baby, that is the one big mistake because it messed up Lyla's sleep pretty badly. Also: ALWAYS have food ready! 

Sleeping on the way to LAX

Then... after having our flight delayed 3 hours... 

FINALLY on the plane!!! 

Yum!

Sleeping the next morning at Oma and Opa's house! 

Fun time outside with Nana! 

and we even went on Papa Conley's boat! 

We had a great time with everyone while we were home and we can't wait to go back! Flying back to CA was good as well, no delays and plenty of food! 

When we got back from vacation Lyla turned 4 months old on July 6th and has already changed so much, she now LOVES her exersacuser and even whines to be put in it: 

Here are some videos of her laughing (her newest thing) and just having fun with mommy and daddy! **They were taken on out iPhones, so not great quality**

And now ROLLING: She learned this while on vacation! 

We go Thursday for her 4 month appointment! 

I am going to *try* to update more often! It is always the last thing on my long "to-do" list! 

Until next time...

The First Shots...

Well Lyla had her first "2 month" shots on Monday, I say it that way because she is almost 3 months... took forever to get into the doctor, but at least I know for next time! She took it all in like a little trooper and only cried until they quit sticking her, which was less than a minute, then she promptly slept the rest of the day!

Beau was checking out the "site"

Pretty sure she enjoyed the Sponge bob Band-aids...

We also had a little photo shoot one day because....well mommy was bored and we still have not had and professional pictures taken:

She is very good at holding her head up now and really enjoys playing on her play mat. Finally getting in a nap routine...kind of... and she loves playing silly peek-a-boo games with us!

So, here are just some favorites from this past week... 

"Eating" her toys, she has finally started grabbing them and really "playing"

Almost a smile for mommy! 

She LOVES when daddy is home to play!