Month 14 and 15

OK, so I'm failed at posting my blogs up lately...I've been writing them, but I haven't posted them. So I will be posting a bunch at the same time...this blog post will be 2 months in one since the 2 months seem to have ran together and not really sure on somethings when she did them, so I will try my best...Ha ha. Anyway, Month 14 we Celebrated her 2nd 4th of July, we took her to her first parade here in our new small town, she enjoyed it for a little bit, but got bored after a good solid 15 minutes, we gave her her fist sucker while we were there, and freezy-pop popsicle, Grandma and Grandpa and Auntie Hallie were with us too, we made some 4th of July shirts with our hand prints in the shape of a flag on some white t-shirts. Then after the parade we rode up to Scottsbluff to visit Auntie Chelsea and Uncle Luke and celebrated the 4th of July there they didn't have fireworks going, but you could light your own and Luke's family was there too and brought their own fireworks and all the neighbors were letting them off just right outside it was crazy...Elycia and I had decided that we would drive back with Grandma and Grandpa and Auntie Hallie to Wisconsin and that Gil would fly out a few days later, that was her first time away from Daddy for that long...she was a trooper...We got to see Uncle Sean, Tara, and her Cousins, and all her Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins on the Anthony side along with her Grandparents and her Great Grandma...So we spent a week in Wisconsin then came home and around when she turned 15 months old. She figured out what to do with crayons and how to color, her and Daddy colored their first picture together. She has gotten more teeth with her molars coming in. She absolutely LOVES anything with wheels and pushing or pulling it. She has also learned how to say no (uh-oh).


At 15 months she found her belly button and her belly, she had her 15 month check up and she weighed 22.2 pounds and about 31 inches. She didn't weigh to much more from the last time we took her in so I was a little worried, but her nurse said she's fine and at this age she's more mobile and losing some weight and won't be gaining so much at a time now. So that was good to hear. She's learned how to go down the stairs by herself, being more and more sassy and throwing more and more fits when she isn't getting her way or move her from somewhere she isn't supposed to be (apparently she prefers to live life on the edge and laughs in the face of danger), she's also getting more teeth. She still LOVES "Let it go"! She's gotten more and more on key and singing along when they say Let it go!, it's so gosh darn cute! She knows where our Belly and Belly button is...She gives kisses when you ask her to, she says more and more words everyday like: Belly, she says eyes and knows where they are, she can say drink, Hallie, and we're working on Chelsea, she can also say Daddy, eat, and she is starting to understand what we are saying to her and will go pick things up or find them if we ask her to, it's so cute! Tried giving her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, she had one bite chewed it for a few seconds then spit it out (she was not impressed) Ha. She knows where ears are, she says shoes, drink, juice, just trying to repeat things we say and do... She will sometimes say no when we tell her no. We celebrated Daddy's Birthday...We had some visitors too, Gils friend Brandon (Uncle Brandon) and his Girlfriend Sorcia...They spent about week with us, we took Elycia to the Zoo for the 2nd time she was so much more into it than when she was 3 months old. Ha ha. She wanted to Run-run-run and look at everything. We went to Colorado Springs for the first time and went to Focus on the Family and the Garden of the Gods. She is getting faster and faster with her walking/running skills. She's eaten some bbq chips and Cheetos. She's been starting to kinda go to sleep by herself at night...We will rock her a little bit and then she will either fall asleep or just want to be put down, so we put her down in her bed and sometimes she just lays there and goes to sleep, other times she cries for a little bit and then plays, sometimes we have to go in there and lay her down with her paci, but she's been doing pretty good...She is getting better at holding our hand when we go for walks, she holds it for a longer period of time now not just 2 seconds. She is amazed at the smallest things and says WOW...She knows how to go down the stairs. She is loving her new home! We got some Family pictures taken. She says HI to everyone she sees, she will even get close to our face and go HI!. When we go outside if she sees a car go by, she waves and says buh bye...She loves to pick the flowers (dandelions) even the ones with no flower just the stems. She will try to smell the flowers and then also try eating them. We bought her her first Bible songs on CD... We've listened to it a couple times she seems to like it. She dances to music and kicks her feet to it.. She trys to play Daddy's guitar and loves the fake one she has and says du-du-du when she is playing it. She LOVES to hide... We usually hide from Gil under the blankets and he will come find her. Even when he's not home and she sees a blanket she wants to hide (Gil says it's because she's part Ninja).


This past couple months have been a busy one for all of us, We went to Wisconsin because Gil's Grandma wasn't doing well, and we weren't sure what would happen and I wanted Gil to see her, just in case something were to happen. So we went back for a weekend trip and we spent sometime with her Sunday before we left Monday...once we got home that Friday afternoon we found out the his Grandma had passed away. We were able to get Gil to the funeral to be there for him and his mom, which left Elycia and I home by ourselves for a weekend. That's the longest it's just been me and Elycia usually it's just while Gil is working. Gil had been having a hard stressful time at work once we got back from vacation and I could see it and didn't know what to do, kept encouraging him to keep at it, and asking him if it will get better he says yeah maybe, he just was having a stressful time and after talking to his manager realized this job is to much for him right now and he isn't going to be able to work all the hours they expect of him and plus continue on with schooling. So we have decided that it would be better for him to look for a part time job, something with less hours that will let him do school, and I will be looking for a new job too since I don't get many hours at Kohls or paid well as it is too...He will start School on the 19th and hopefully have a new job by then too...Just keep praying for us! Gil was just offered a job as a security guard for the Budweiser plant that is only 7 miles away from our house. He will be working overnight shifts which will be good for him, because he will be able to work and do school. It was 40 hrs a week and will pay less obviously, but for now it will do until he gets offered another job, or I can get a job that pays better...I will be asking Kohls to give me more hours now that he will be able to be at home with Elycia during the day then I can work a little more to help support us too. Whew, I think that catches us pretty much up to date!