My Silly Goose

Rylan is getting one of her large back teeth. She was crying all through her dinner. I gave her a fruit pop and she felt so much better.



Duane & I were busy cleaning up the house all day Sunday to get ready to take pictures to get it listed on the MLS. I decided to take down Rylan's exersaucer, since she won't sit in in anymore. As soon as we went to put it up, it became her new favorite toy. It was totally flat and she was trying to get inside of it.

Rylan though it was so funny when she found her belly button.

Rylan's First Visit to Chuck E Cheese

Rylan and her best friend, Taylor went to Chuck E Cheese for the first time on Saturday. First the girls had pizza. This is the first time that Rylan has had pizza and she liked it. Taylor liked Rylan's yogurt melts the most and Rylan wanted to eat Taylor's goldfish. Both the girls were totally into checking out all of the lights, sounds and other kids.



We put the girls on all of the rides. Of course, I was like the Poparazzi....snapping pics the whole time.











Rylan liked collecting all of the tickets. Daddy figured out a game...and won us a whole bunch. The girls both got some fun little prizes.

Pops has retired...IT'S ABOUT TIME!

Rylan's Pops has been battling Stage III Colon Cancer. He had surgery in Jan. 08 and is doing 6 months of Chemotherapy. He has been having a really tough time tolerating the Chemo. He is usually sick for at least 6 days after, which barely gives him enough time to recover before he gets "CHEMO'D" (as he calls it) again. I go with him to his dr appts and chemo, while Rylan stays with Grammy. We finally had some good news. Pops has been waiting for the City of Houston Fire Dept board to review his case. They approved for him to take disability pension. HE IS OFFICIALLY RETIRED. He has been saying he was going to retire, "in 3 more years" for the last 10 years. He has not been able to go back to work since he had surgery, so it's for the best. He needs to focus on getting healthy. We also had a dr appt with the Urologist to discuss the tumor in his Kidney. It is a small mass about 1.6cm. They have decided to just watch it for now, since he can't tolerate another sugery during Chemo. He will have another CAT scan soon to see how the Chemo is working and they will check on the kidney tumor again.
Congrats to Pops for all his years of hard work!

Now Pops can go to the Frio whenever he wants.
I had to add another picture from his retirement ceremony.

Going to Grammy's

Grammy came to pick up Rylan so she could spend the night. Rylan gets so excited when I tell her she is going to go to Grammy & Pops house. She will say, "Pop, Pop, Pop!". When she sees Grammy, she goes crazy. She laughs about everything she does. Grammy and Pops always teach her new things everytime she visits. Pops will sing, "Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh". Then Rylan adds in the Da Da Da part. She also likes it when Pops puts on the Polka Show on TV. She is already practicing her dancing skills.

Pretty Girl

Check out my "Bootie Skirt"

Rylan FINALLY can fit into skirts. I have had this skirt since last summer (size 3-6 months). It's weird how clothes fit so differently. I thought it was so cute...but Daddy didn't like it at ALL.

Daddy's Little Girl

Rylan's First Easter

Rylan opened her Easter Basket at home when she first woke up. She was so excited. She fell twice because she was trying to run to her basket. It was sad. Once she got to it, she laughed every time she opened and egg with a "little people" friend inside.




We went to church with Grammy, Pops & Uncle Jimmy. Rylan was really good in church. She danced to the music. Most of the time she walked up and down the pew between all of us. When everyone gets together, she can't decide who she wants to be with the most....so she has to go back and forth. I brought her little toy purse along and she had to show the people behind us how she puts on her lipstick. After church, we went over to Grammy & Pops' house. The Easter Bunny also made a stop over there and left a basket for all of us. Uncle Jimmy was sad that the Easter Bunny didn't give him any laundry detergent in his basket.






Grammy had stuffed bunnies everywhere in the house. Rylan would get so happy when she found one.



Duane put out eggs for Rylan to go find. She had a great time. When she would find the egg, Duane would tell her to put it in the basket. She would throw it real hard into the basket. Hilarious!

I remember doing eggs every year with my Grandma, GaGa. She would fix the dye in muffin cups. So I did the same thing. It made it perfect for her to be able to dip the egg.
Notice the other hand doing the egg...well, that's Duane. He is holding his egg with the special little tongs that come with the kit. It's very important that he did not get his hands dyed. HAHA!


Here are the eggs she did. She colored them all herself. I put on the stickers. I thought she did a great job for a 1 year old.....of course, they were all broken. Oh well, we never eat them anyway.

I had to take a picture of this figurine. Yes, it is two drunk Armadillos. If you take a close look, you will notice the man armadillo has a Lone Star beer. If I am lucky enough, maybe one day I will inherit this FINE piece of art. This was a price posession to my parents when we were growing up. It had a special place on the bar for everyone to view it in all of its glory. When we were kids, Jimmy and I were playing and broke it. We were so SCARED we would be in so much trouble for destroying this valuable piece of work. I told Jimmy to go get the water colors and elmers glue. I used all the skills I had to piece it back together. We didn't tell our parents until we were grown up what we had done. We found this charished beauty at Easter and it is still looking as FINE as ever....that Elmers glue did a great job.

Good Friday at the Zoo

We took Rylan to the zoo on Good Friday. She loved the little tiny animals the best and looking at all the other kids. She wanted to walk around like a big girl and look at everything. She had to break in her new baby Nike shoes.





These little guys were her favorite. She would squeal when they would run around. She was very tired on the way home.
Here's the big girl walking with Daddy to go see some animals.