Raya Catherine Hemmah

Sunday, July 5, 2015

"Hi"

Raya's favorite word the past few days has been, "hi!" She says it over and over and waves! It's pretty darn cute. She's still only taking a couple steps at a time. She just loves to hold your hand and walk next to you. Reminds me of an old lady who is losing balance and just wants to hang on just-in-case. :) That's fine by me. She'll be off and cruising soon enough. Gotta keep all this "baby" stuff close as it will be onto the toddler stage all too soon.

She has become obsessed with purses. She played with mine for hours one day and she even would put it over her shoulder and carry it around the house. I have since given her one of my purses. She just loves to put things in and take things out.

We went on the St. Croix river with my family on July 3rd to celebrate the 4th. It was a great time. Raya did pretty good. I got off the boat early with her as she needed to get down for her nap. But for the most part she enjoyed it... didn't even complain too much about wearing those awful infant life jackets!

She's starting to hold her own with her brother. There is going to be some "battling" (as Easton would say) between these two siblings. I've already witnessed Raya hitting him and him pushing her over a toy.

Can't believe she starts daycare in about a month. My eyes get wet just thinking about it. Gotta soak up these last few weeks while I can. :)

Grandpa Tom's birthday

Bathing beauty

Fun with Auntie Mary

Little monkey - climbing on everything

Cutest cousins I know

This is happiness

Love her

Happy 4th

Supergirl shirt from Mary

Loves to jump on the trampoline

Loves the water

Biker babe

Purse obsession

Monday, June 22, 2015

"no"

Raya's new favorite word. "no no no" Today Easton ran over her foot with his bike and she literally shook her finger at him and said, "no no." She's catching on real quick! :) Auntie Mary also stopped by on her way home last night and said, "Raya can you say, Mary?" Raya said, "no" :)

She took a few more wobbly steps on her own today. She's not real eager to do so. My timid little girl feels much more comfortable holding hands and walking.

The weather was gorgeous for Father's Day so I actually remembered to use my camera:

Oh my

Friday, June 19, 2015

We have a walker!!

Raya took about 6 steps 2 different times tonight all by herself! Woohoo! If she keeps this up hopefully I'll be able to capture a few pictures to post as well :)

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

such a big girl

Raya is quickly turning to toddler status! So bittersweet - love love love to see her grow and learn new things everyday but at the same time makes me sad she's no longer a baby. It's so fun all of the things she understands. I'll ask her to go get her shoes and she'll bring them right over to me. If we ask where the airplane is she'll point up at the sky. If a bird (or anything... mosquito, cotton from the tree etc..) fly's by she'll point and say "brrr." She'll also point at the swing and say "sssss." Lately she loves when people sneeze. She'll laugh and then try to imitate the sneeze. Can you say cute? She's also really into giving kisses right now - opened mouth kisses - so ya gotta be ready for some drool!

We stopped giving her prilosec - on about day 6 now. She seems to be doing great without it!

I have come to the conclusion that Jake and I will be sleep deprived until this girl has all her teeth. She'll sleep from 7pm-7am only about 1x/week now. More nasty teeth are making their way in and they just bug the heck out of her at night. Nothing seems to help. Ibuprofen seems to give her a little relief but I hate to have her take that all the time... we usually resort to that when there's no calming her down. Poor babes. :(

She's not walking on her own yet. Although she totally could if she wanted to (a few steps anyways). I barely hang on to her when she's walking. She's just so timid and afraid of everything that I don't know when she'll be willing to take those first steps on her own. Speaking of afraid... this girl is afraid of the silliest things. One day she'll be playing with a stuffed animal and the next day she'll be terrified of the same thing and will start shaking if it comes near her!

Raya continues to be a great eater! I still think she out-eats Easton on most days. The other night for dinner she ate 1 hotdog, 1/2 brat, 12 sweet potato fries, blueberries and a bowl of baked beans! What? She's 13 months old. I don't know how people with 10 kids can afford to feed them. I am going to have to start growing my own food and keeping a pig out back to keep up with these 2! :)

I take a ridiculous amount of pictures of my children on my phone - but I think it will be fun to look back at the "everyday" happenings of their life. Enjoy :)