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One small step

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 9:24 pm by Bill

Evan stayed with us last weekend while his parents got some time off sans kids, and he must have shown Rylee how to walk, cuz she’s started taking her first steps this week.
Tonight, she started taking multiple steps before crashing back down. Here’s a short video of her taking a few steps:
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Crawling away

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 am by Bill

So after spending last weekend with the crawling twins (Audrey and Emily), Rylee has started crawling within the last couple of days.
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document.getElementById(”player2″).style.display = “”;

var s2 = new SWFObject(”http://www2.themafamily.net:8080/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf”,”player2″,”400″,”320″,”7″);
s2.addParam(”wmode”,”transparent”);
s2.addParam(”allowscriptaccess”,”always”);
s2.addParam(”allowfullscreen”,”true”);
s2.addVariable(”height”,”320″);
s2.addVariable(”width”,”400″);
s2.addVariable(”file”,”/video/crawling.flv”);
s2.addVariable(”image”,”/video/crawling.jpg”);
s2.addVariable(”link”,”/video/crawling.flv”);
s2.write(”player2″);

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Getting jiggy wit it

Saturday, March 1st, 2008 at 1:13 pm by Bill

Here’s a short video of Rylee dancing to the music in her head.
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document.getElementById(”player3″).style.display = “”;

var s3 = new SWFObject(”http://www2.themafamily.net:8080/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf”,”player3″,”400″,”320″,”7″);
s3.addParam(”wmode”,”transparent”);
s3.addParam(”allowscriptaccess”,”always”);
s3.addParam(”allowfullscreen”,”true”);
s3.addVariable(”height”,”320″);
s3.addVariable(”width”,”400″);
s3.addVariable(”file”,”/video/dancing.flv”);
s3.addVariable(”image”,”/video/dancing.jpg”);
s3.addVariable(”link”,”/video/dancing.flv”);
s3.write(”player3″);

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Rylee and Jaxon

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 am by Bill

Rylee spends a lot of time playing with Jaxon… Well, Rylee spends a lot of time trying to play with Jaxon. Since Rylee isn’t quite mobile yet, she can’t quite get to Jaxon if Jaxon doesn’t feel like playing. She also gets frustrated sometimes when Jaxon ends their playtime early by walking away.
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Mmmmm….Cereal!

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 7:18 pm by Diane

On Sunday Rylee had her very first taste of baby rice cereal. She wasn’t too sure about it at first, but now she’s a big fan.
She is currently eating one tablespoon of the rice cereal mixed with water in the mornings. Next week we will add another feeding just before bedtime.
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