9 months old already!

Ashlyn is 9 months old today! I took her in for her 9 month checkup, she weighs 23 pounds!!! She is 30 inches tall and her head size is 17 1/2 inches. Which puts her in the 97th percentile for height and weight and 75th for head size. She already wears 18 month clothes. She is growing so fast she doesn't even look like a baby she looks like a little toddler. She has her two bottom teeth and the two top ones are so close to breaking thru, they are super swollen it's sad. Today she also discovered a new game: drop the toy and let mom and dad pick it up! It is really exciting let me tell you;)

Ashlyn is going to be a little dancer! When she jumps she points her toes and lately when she hears music she does a cute little dance.


A few days ago she took her first unassisted steps! It was so exciting she will be walking in no time. We haven't managed to get her on video yet cuz she never does it when we are expecting it. But here is a video of her and her walker, this video was taken almost a month ago when she first got the toy so she is much faster now!



She loves these Marti Gras beads.


She is way too happy in the mornings!! We are not morning people:)


Ashlyn is always getting into something.

Trip to Moab:)

We just got home from Moab Tuesday night. The drive is already long but when you add an 8 month old baby and frieked out cat it is even longer:) We took our cat Atis with us to get him declawed. That sounds crazy but it is $300.00 cheaper in Moab and they use the lazer!

He actually did better than I thought he would in the car. After the first two hours he settled down but at first he was meowing and panting and climbing everywhere.

He really wanted to see out the window! I don't know how that didn't make him car sick!

He finally found his comfy spot. He rode most of the way on the back of Ashlyn's car seat!


Rocky's sister Brandi had her baby two days before we got there so we got to meet him! Me and baby Trevin. Wouldn't I look good with another tiny baby:)

Dave, Brandi and Trevin Ricky

Trevin got Jondis (sp?) really bad and had to go back to the hospital for a few days. They put him in this little baby tanning bed and he could only come out during feeding time. It was so sad to see him in there with his blindfold on.

I had my ten year class reunion! Yes I know, I am older than you thought:) Haha! This is us trying to get a group photo together! There were a hundred people in my class and actually a lot of people showed up, it was really fun. Rocky and I didn't get home until 5 o'clock in the morning!

Ashlyn chewed on anything she could get her little mouth on! Think she is getting teeth? LOL

My Grandma let Ashlyn play with her hamster, poor hamster! You can see him in the gorde that she is chewing on, I think he was pretty scared. She was shaking it really hard with him still inside.

You can barely see him in her hand in this pic. She tried to pick him up and he started screeching. (or whatever noise hamsters make) Then we rescued the hamster and put him back in his cage so Ashlyn couldn't torture him anymore.

My sister Cristy and Ashlyn

My mom and Ashlyn

Rocky's dad and Ashlyn after swimming.

Ashlyn's 8 month pics....

We had Ashlyn's pictures taken a couple weeks ago. Here are some of our favorites!

Rocky the Skydiver.....

Yes you guessed it! Rocky finally got to go skydiving today! I bought him a gift certificate for his birthday last year and he finally got to use it!
This was before the jump. I wanted one last picture of them before he jumped just in case!


This is Rocky and the instructor getting him all strapped in!

Ashlyn being cute with her kazoo while we waited for daddy!


This was the contraption that drove them out to the plane!


They had just pulled the shoot in this pic. I know it is hard to tell but they are still really high in this picture, our camera has a pretty good zoom!

Floating down!

Here is the video of them landing. Sorry about the shaky camera, I didn't know where they were going to land so I was walking and trying not to trip on all the obsticles in my way!

This was after the landing. Rocky was really excited, he wants to get certified to jump now. (suprising huh, lol) He would love to get his days started by jumping out of an airplane every morning:)

Ashlyn's New Pool!

We took Ashlyn to a splash park a couple days ago and she loved it! The splash parks are nice because there is not more than 2 inches of standing water so Ashlyn can crawl around and play without us holding onto her like we do in a pool. There are lots of different types of sprinklers and kid toys that spray water. At first if one of the sprinklers by her turned on she would crawl away very quickly, I think it was a little game for her. But then she started going for the sprinklers and trying to grab the streams of water. We were so surprised at how much she loved it and didn't mind being sprayed with water. She could have cared less if Rocky and I were even around, she was busy playing!:) Everyone thought it was so funny that a baby was crawling around, all the other kids were atleast 2 or 3 years old but most of them were even older. I was sooooo bummed that we forgot our camera, ugh!! It was seriously the cutest thing and she was ticked when I picked her up to leave:)

We also bought Ashlyn her own little pool for the backyard! It is perfect size for her and the palm tree sprays water so to simulate the splash park:)

We had to put ice cubes in it to cool it down cuz 3 inches of water can get pretty hot when it is 105 outside!

Daddy loves the pool too:)

She really loves to mall the snake.

Rocky checking out the airplane flying over.

She loves to carry her sailboat around in her mouth!