May 22nd - June 13th 2009

Big news!!

Rory is 8 monhs old and crawling now! She is everywhere! Being that she is crawling, she has started "cruising", pulling up onto things and walking around them. Four days ago, Casey and I caught her standing for about 2 seconds without holding onto anything! She also has her two front bottom teeth and now her two upper front teeth are coming in and are poking out! She wants to teeth on anything and everything, including her crib. Despite all the efforts I have made to make sure that doesn't happen..

We also got her blood work back for the celiac test, which turned out negative, thank goodness! I had been doing a lot of research online and have since discovered that she has "Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome" or FPIES for short. FPIES is a disease of infants and young children that mimics food allergies. It's a long name but it basically, it means Rory can't tolerate Rice Cereal which is what triggers the allergy for her. And the good news is, unlike Celiac, most children are able to tolerate the "trigger foods" by age 3. We have been able to feed her crackers and fruits and veggies without incident, which is amazing! Rory thinks she is a big girl/grown up and doesn't like taking bottles or baby foods, she wants to drink out of regular glasses and eat the same foods everyone else is eating. She is already growing up so fast, I don't know what I'm going to do!

Here are the latest pictueres. Enjoy!

8 MONTHS!!

Going to her great grandparent's house



About to show them that she can crawl



We got her a radio flyer tricycle
She won't really be able to use for a long time.. but that's ok.







She really enjoyed it anyway..





We went to my grandparents house and we all walked to the park and I got to swing!



Not so ready for my close up..



My grandpa pushed me in the swing too!



The Kelley pushed me in the swing





Going down the slide with my mom

Playing in the tunnel, it was fun

Going down the slide with my momma again

Here I go down the slide with Kelley

Ah! That was fun!

Here I am at home.. watch this!

Here's me crawling!

 

Being that it is summer, almost, we attempted to take her swimming.

This was her first time swimming. It was pretty cold so we didn't stay long.

The next day was a different story..

I went swimming at my aunt Robyn's with my cousin Elzee and his mom Darcy.

I just kicked my legs and tried to swim all over the place!

I had so much fun at the pool!

Here Elzee!

Care for a bite of squid??

I'll take a cracker!



Let's do this again sometime..

June 9th, Sean's 21st Birthday.

Here I am at Sean's birthday lunch eating another cracker.



Grandpa Jim and Uncle Sean for his 21st birthday dinner!



Sean's birthday cake.

After the cake, we had some ice cream.
Ice Cream feels good on my gums because I'm teething, but tastes even better!



I was worn out after that birthday cake and ice cream!
 
Here I am the next morning, playing guitar with my daddy



And some people say we don't look alike.. nah!