looks like we'll be babyproofing...

Tomorrow Kevin and I head back for Italia. I'm excited to get back to my house and our routines.. and decorate with everything i've been buyin in the states. I'm slowly tryin to do our livingroom in country barn stars. I've bought a good bit of stuff while here from a country store called Woods that is only 10 minutes from my house. I got a bunch of new stuff to hang in my kitchen.. new decor and bedding for ro's room.. so on top of the massive cleaning and ironing i'll have to do when I get back, I'll have some decorating on my hands! It's going to suck saying goodbye because I know how much everyone has enjoyed having Roey here.

Last Thursday Kevin's brothers came out to our house.. they came in from Delaware and Arkansas.. while they were here, Roey started crawling! She has 2 methods of crawling. 1: She gets up on her knees and leaps. 2: she pushes her chest up off the ground, pushes with one leg and drags the other. It's rather funny but she can get where she wants to go in a hurry!

On top of crawling, Ro got another tooth in! THANK GOD! Last week was a TERRIBLE nightmare. She has been superrrrr sick. Everyone around here is sick. Well she got me miserably sick so Kevin was left to do a lot of 2 days because we didn't want my germs around her bottles and such. Luckily he was here. She was so congested and her tooth was really bothering her.. lets just say we had 2 straight days of screaming before that tooth broke through!

Well that's all I have time for.. no time to even post pics! We're getting ready to head out the door to have one last big dinner with everyone.

Next post will come from Italia. CIAO

Happy Half Birthday Princess :)

So I'm 3 days late on this.. but we've been pretty busy!

Roey turned 6 months 3 days ago and boy has she developed in just one month. It blows me away how fast she is developing and how much she is doing now. Let's recap the past month:

Current weight: 18 lbs

Current height 28 1/4 inches.

Current clothes size: mostly 6-12 month

Current diaper size: 3

She is now sitting up all on her own.

Her first tooth is in. Bottom front right.. the left one is almost through now too. The whole teething process sucks. period. she's totally worth it though.

Ears are officially pierced. She did awesome. Her pain tolerance is so high it blows me away. Makes me wonder if she really is mine :) haha

She is rolling all over the place and army crawling (slowly but surely).. she'll be up on her knees crawling in no time.. she's working so hard on it.. she gets up on her knees and pushes constantly lol

Roey is eating fruits, veggies, and cereal. The only thing we have found that she doesn't like is peas.

She is now sayin "da-da" and "daddy." She is quite the talker. She laughs all the time.. squeals.. giggles.. talks.. such a happy lil girl.

Well that's all the time I have for now.. This was just a rush to get it in while Ro naps! CIAO

OHHH and today is Military Spouse Appreciation Day.. please take the time to recognize and appreciate all of those strong, courageous, amazing women and men that sacrifice more than anyone leading a civilian life could ever know.

Dadda?

Roey has spent the past 2 months with me.. we've only communicated with Daddy via skype or telephone. Well in those 2 months I've been working sooo hard to get her to say Ma, Mamma, or whatever she can get out... my dad's been pushing her to say Pap..

So last night out comes "dada." We thought it was a fluke. Then it was followed with MANY dadas and daddys! What a lil stinker! He's home for less than a week and she's saying his name! She's constantly saying it now!

Ciao for now!

Daddy, Teeth, and Ears.. all in a few days!

The last few days have been extremely eventful.. let's start back at Wednesday.

Wednesday:

Kevin flew in from Italy. After being away from him for 2 months I was pretty excited to see him. His flight was suppose to come in around 4, so Dad and I planned to leave around lunch time and head to TC Racecars for some racing stuff, then to the airport. His flight ended up being delayed and didn't come in until til around 7. By the time we got him and headed back to PA. It was around 11:30 when we got back. We had just got to bed and Roey woke up aound 4am or so. I was sooo exhausted. Her lil teeth were really hurting her. She didn't sleep very long before she was up for the day then.

moving on to Thursday:

Roey got her ears pierced and OMG does she look precious! She looks like quite the lil lady!

This picture was taken right after she got them done. She didn't scream tooo hard (Kevin thought she did, but I heard her scream louder over her teeth).. and she only cried for about a minute, then starting spitting at the girl that did them. She's such a lil ham!

Then Friday rolls around:

And roey woke up with her very first tooth! She got her first one in the bottom.. you could tell she was relieved because she was a completely different baby yesterday. So happy and pleasant.. so we took her for a walk. For the first time she used her stroller like a big girl and she loveeeeed it.

So as you can see it's been pretty eventful. I'm pretty excited to spend the next few weeks in PA with Kevin and Roey.

Until next time.

CIAO!

my lil clown baby

Roey has become quite the goofball lately.. and might I add, VERY VERY mobile! She's going to be crawling in no time! She is rolling all over the place. She's been able to roll since she was like three months old.. but she never had an desire to do it... just like her dad, STUBBORN. Now she realized she can get places by rolling so she's alllll over the livingroom! You really have to watch her now cause she's all over the place and getting into everything! She wants to crawl so bad.. she gets up on those little knees and tries so hard to pull herself, but just gets frustrated because she can't go anywhere.

Still no teeth. She wants a tooth like it's no one's business. We've had some pretty rough screaming evenings. She does pretty good once she gets to sleep.. some nights she stirs around a lot and you can tell they are bothering because she doesn't get a good nights sleep.. but mostly it starts at like 6pm and she's a nightmare til she goes to bed! Hopefully once one comes through the rest follow pretty quickly!

Roey got a bunch of new outfits too from gymboree.. I was soo excited when they came. I have another order on it's way too... This is all stuff for like mid summer to the end of the summer. Here's just some of them.

Here's just some randoms from our time here in PA
(bowling for jacob's 6th birthday... chilling at mommoms.. easter egg hunt...hanging out at the dock.. easter dinner)

i know you're shining down on her

The past two weeks have been pretty rough.. sleepless nights and a crying baby.. roey wants a tooth so bad, it just hasn't happened yet. Sometimes she chews on her hand so hard she ends up gagging herself and projectiling everywhere. I finally reached the point of breaking and just wanted to start crying. I would get nothing done because she always wanted attention. My laundry was piling up because some days she was puking so much that her and I were changing outfits 4-5-6 times a day. Some days are great, some okay, others nightmares.

I've started her on solids too... she's been getting cereal for about 2 weeks now. Oatmeal, not rice.. she really didn't care for the rice. She's been getting it from a spoon, not this cereal in a bottle crap that people do. She needed to learn how to use a spoon. It kind of worked to my benefit because when I started her on solids, it was pretty easy. First she got bananas.. and loved them. Next came applesauce, she loved it too. Today she got peaches and at first I thought she hated cause she kept making this horrid face, then pushing it back out; but she was just learning the taste. Once she got use to the new taste, she woofed it down! The only problem I'm having with her on solids is she is gorging herself to the point of vomitting. When eating her bottle, if she gets full she pushes it out of her mouth or lets the formula run out. With the solids she likes the taste so much she doesn't know when to stop! I'm trying to figure out when enough is enough, but it's hard when I've been use to her telling me when she was done!

Moving on...

Today marks one year since Sheetz left us. I still can't believe he's gone. I wait for him to come barging through the door.. but it never happens. I wish he could have met Roey.. he woulda absolutely adored her.. I know he would of got that big deep chuckle when he would hear her sweet little giggle. He was such a big part of my life and I wish he could have been in hers too. I know he's looking down on her.. her own personal angel. I can't dwell on the subject anymore.. I can feel my throat getting tight and eyes tearing up thinking about him. When will this feeling go away?

Anyways.. just a short one.. heading to bed since Roey's out!

Less than 2 weeks til Kevin's here with us.. I can't wait... I'm sure he's missin his lil Roey bug.

five months old :)

Just a quick update.. Roey turned 5 months on Easter Sunday.. How fun! She now weighs 16 lbs, 5 oz.. gaining 1 1/2 lbs since last month and is now 26 3/4 inches long! She grew over three inches since last month!!