Zoo and 15 month Dr. appt!!!! Jailyn is growing like a weed!!!!

                                                                                  Holding hands at the zoo!

Photo opportunity in the Frisch's Pavilion.

Daddy's their baby girl!

Just a little princess picking up leaves.

I'm cute!

These girls are BFF's and just figuring it out!  Love this photo!!!!

Well my blog is having technical difficulties and hope to resolve this week.  Went to the doctors on Oct 17 and Jailyn is 30 inches tall (I swear her feet just grew an inch - had to get big girl shoes from Stride Rite) and almost weighs 20 lbs.  She is in the 5-10 percentile for weight, 50 percentile in height and 25 percentile for head size.  She got more shots, Prevnar, and the first dose of the flu shot that had her running a fever bit however it was just that night.  Her teeth are still breaking through her gums and she has crying fits a couple times a week.  She has 16 teeth just have to get them in completely and I think we are good until the 2 year molars.  She got her hair cut in a cute bob.   Colleen cut her hair and she looks darling.  She graduated from mom and me swimming and MOM is thrilled that is over.  A 15 month old is all over the place in the locker room and in the pool.  She had fun and learned to blow bubbles, reach for toys in the pool and go off the side of the pool.

We went to Hallow Zoo Ween with Lynelle, Jeremy and Alyssa and had fun with the girls.  Alyssa was Minnie Mouse and Jailyn was Princess Belle. See our pictures of the fun last Sunday.

Beautiful Day at the Pumpkin Patch

Wow We just love fall! We have had two fabulous weekends enjoying fall festivities with Jailyn. We went to Shaw Farms in Milford. They do a great job with a free festival and it was packed. Jailyn took in everything and got her first pumpkin (actually 2 little ones) and got to listen to a live band in a barn (and dance and clapped) and saw lots of farm animals. I have fun pictures from our windy day at the pumpkin farm festival.

You know it truly takes time to change and so much has happen in the past four months and I feel we are in new normal lifestyle with Jailyn. She does the cutest things and so active and ready to start running now that she is walking so much better. She is 15 months old and goes for her 15 month check up and will be interested to know how much she has grown.

Mike and I were able to have a dress up dinner 10th Anniversary date a Morton's Steakhouse while Katie and Billy watched Jailyn. They had a pizza night and played while we were out for a few hours. I love date night with my honey!!!!! Mike told me the past 10 years he has been the happiest ever and I ditto that! I told him let's go at least for another 40 years of happiness! It only gets better and I know the best is yet to come!

Next week we goto Happy Zoo ween and then a Pumpkin carving party with family and Halloween is here.

Happy Fall Y'all!

Fall O ween at Coney Island

Well time is passing quickly our baby girl has been with us 4 months and turning 15 months Oct 11! She has come so far however still realizing how behind she really is. Everything is so new and she is taking alot in as she explores her world. She is walking and still teething. It is pretty amazing the child who could barely roll over is crawling, walking, talking (alot of baby talk) and still bonding with us. She has recently been having some anxiety waking up screaming. We are not sure if it is those big ole molars breaking through or fears we will not be there for her. We went to the park and she is so afraid of new things and freaked out in a swing. In our mom and me swim classes so many of the younger babies are so much further than she which breaks my heart that no one worked with her the first 11 months except to take care of her basic needs. She is amazing how far she has come and we are letting her be a baby still and helping her learn and explore her world. We went to the Fall O Ween event at Coney Island this weekend and she took it all in and trick or treated for the first in her stroller with mom and dad and watched a Monster Mash show she loved all the music, singing and dancing and road the carousel with her mom. It was a special moment between Jailyn and me on the carousel to have my baby girl initially terrified and then was so happy and loved the up and down of the horse. It brought tears to my eyes to see her transform her fear to happiness and joy. She laughed and screamed and love it. All those things I have longed to do with my baby are becoming reality. She is a doll (not to mention the prettiest baby ever and in her Belle costume she melts your heart) and is such a good little girl and we are so happy to take her to all the fall events. We will be so blessed to have her here for the holidays when those times in the past have been terribly difficult during our wait over the years. All of that grief is gone and the love is filling our world though still a bit rocked as we are still transitioning from our independent lifestyle we had as just husband and wife and now as a family. We celebrated our 10th anniversary on a date without Jailyn for the first time away for 5 hours. We did a couples massage and dinner and could get used to that on a more regular basis (date night). However still staying close as the bond is getting stronger and we don't want to have set backs. See our pictures from Coney Island and Jailyn in her Belle Princess costume and enjoying her first lolly pop.