The beginning of the three's!

 So, we officially have a "big girl" around the house nowadays. She's almost entirely potty trained (I say almost because we still have occasional accidents and she wears a nighttime pullup, but she's almost there!), she's super independent, she knows what she wants, and she is sleeping in her new big girl bed for the first time tonight! As happy as I am that she is doing so good with it all, and in great time because her baby sister will be here before we know it, it's still a little bittersweet. My baby is growing up! Here are some tidbits from our first almost month of living with our three year old!

 This is how we roll while we are at home most of these days... going from multiple wet panties to only one or two pairs a day is a success to me!! :)

Rylie has her own little follower these days, Chase is able to keep up now! He's pretty quick!

My big, independent girl! So amazing what she can do on her own nowadays, still blows me away sometimes!

Such a little ham! She keeps us laughing, that's for sure!

 

Had a blast at our first visit to Wet 'N Wild Water Park of course! She kept me running after her pretty much the whole time! 

 

 

 Enjoying her blizzard after the water park - gee is she her momma's kid or what?!

 Having a blast at her and Chase's double birthday party, we all had a great time!!

 

 Being our little entertainer after dinner in town, this girl is always on the go! (Did I mention how fun it is to dress little girls!?? Oh the cuteness!!)

 Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles!! Don't ever pull these out unless you want to be blowing them for hours. Thank goodness Nana picked up a bubble machine :)

 

Trying out her new big girl bed! I'm thrilled because I got such a good deal on it, and Rylie seems to love it too!

 

As for me, I'm feeling pretty good still! Getting bigger and slightly more uncomfortable (well this Phoenix heat sure doesn't help!) It's harder to get dressed in comfy and cool clothing... but I'm making do! Swimming at every opportunity as well!  Here is belly at 23 weeks!

Happy Birthday Rylie!

Rylie Marie is THREE! I knew it was coming, but man did this birthday sneak up fast!! Even though we are not having her actual party (double party with Mr. Chase later this month), we still had to celebrate a little bit for her big day! All started with a well visit to her doc, where everything is looking great and going right on track! This tall girl is still in the 90th percentile for her height and weight, perfectly proportional (39.5" tall and 36 pounds!) - and right on track with knowing her shapes, colors, numbers, etc. She also passed her eye test and doc says she is talking great for her age!

Lunch at Islands Burgers was next, with Nana, Aunt Tracy and Chase, with a couple presents to open of course! Her favorites were her Bitty Baby from Nana B & Grandaddy (so cute) and her big Dinosaur Train Boris from her daddy! We let the kiddos play at the awesome indoor play area at the mall afterwards, had to work off that sugar rush from lunch! All in all, it was a very good day and we all had a fun time :)

 

 

The only thing we are working on still is potty training, but I must say in the past couple days she is doing AWESOME! Her momma could not be more proud of her right now! The only times she is in a pullup is as night and when we leave the house (I'm not quite ready to try that just yet, maybe in a day or so!) But so far these past couple days she has only had a few accidents wearing her panties, but most of the time makes it to the potty all on her own! I think the "potty prize" box definitely had something to do with it, this kid just needed some motivation!