eleven months old!

well! another month has come and gone! my little "chickie-nugget" is ELEVEN MONTHS OLD!!! i seriously can't believe she will be one next month! O-N-E!!! it just AMAZES me how our sweet little girl has grown up so fast and how she has done so AMAZINGhealth-wise the past 11 months! we are SO, SO, SO BLESSED to have Taylee in our lives!!! it never fails...EVERY time i get thinkin' about it i cry. she is SUCH a sweet little girl and has brought SO much joy into our lives! she is by far our little miracle!!! and we love her more than ANYTHING!!!

at 11 months taylee:

*FINALLY hit 17lbs mark! woo who! she now weighs 17lbs 3oz! :)

*just got her last RSV shot for the season! YAY!!! :)

*will wave to you when you say hi or bye to her

*can say mum-mum and da-da-da!

*has her two bottom teeth and working on her top ones now!

*can hold her own ba-ba (she's been doing this for a couple months now)

*rolls over to her belly and pushes herself up but cant figure out how to bend her legs to get crawling! little stinker! :) we are hoping by her birthday she will be crawling!!!

*LOVES to eat!!! she's loved it since day one! :)

*loves mommy and daddy to read to her

*loves reading (looking) at books all by herself!

*loves to watch mickey mouse clubhouse

*loves to play pass with her daddy

*hates when mom and dad try to help her walk. ha ha. she will keep her legs stiff as a board!

here are just a couple pics as of recently...

our little leprechaun! can her cheeks get ANY bigger?!?! :) LOVE them!

tay's 11 month old pic! such a big girl! :)

tay and her little friend :)

oh! my! HAIR!!! ha ha ha

talk about "hoof in mouth disease" :)

so cute. :)

and last but not least.....

my ADORABLE little bug. :)

this has taylee written ALL over it! this is really how happy she always is! i LOVE it! :)

disneyland!!!

so as you can tell from the title we went on our first family vacation!!! yes...we were VERY nervous to leave our hibernation station but we NEEDED to get away! it was so much fun! we left saturday morning and drove to vegas to play with tay's two cousins. she loved it! she just LOVES seeing and playing with other kids! it's so cute! we stayed in vegas until monday and then we were off to californ-i-a! :) taylee did AMAZING in the car! she was such a good girl (like always)! she would eat then play with her toys, read books, then fall asleep. she did awesome! here is a pic of her when i turned a movie on for her on the ipad. she got so excited and was waving her arms all over the place with this adorable smile of hers. :)

we went to california with my sisters adorable family. these kids absolutely LOVE tay to DEATH! no joke! they are always asking me if she is feeling better from her surgery and they pray for her every time they say their prayers! it brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it!

this is jacob, tay, and livie.

jacob, tay, livie, and maddie. tay loves them to pieces! :)

this is our first day at disneyland! :) this is probably my one of my most favorite pics. :)

our little family on the boat tour of all the animals.

meeting minnie for the first time! she LOVES mickey mouse clubhouse so i was excited for her to see them in person!

...you can see me mauling tay's hands...there is a reason for this...i'm thinking these characters aren't the CLEANEST so i figured if i kept her hands away from them she wouldn't get the yucky germs from the thousands of people germs on minnie. over protective? yes! worth it? DEFINATELY!!! :)

meeting jessie from toy story

so precious...

now this is what tay likes to call "home."

a "bug"s land. :)

chip and dale were actually the only ones who touched tay which about drove me crazy! haha. hence me mauling her again....

believe it or not sully was tay's favorite! definately not what i thought would be since she's never seen monsters inc.! she just stared at him and smiled until she couldn't see him anymore!

here we are at the famous laguna beach! :)

oh! my! gosh! this is my other most favorite pic! tell me she is not the cutest thing you've ever seen! haha. she looks like a little turtle. :)

so cute :)

tay reading her book. haha. she cracks me up.

this pic is priceless....

and last but not least...the giant famous rocking chair! haha. we had to stop and change tay's bum and it just so happened to be at my favorite exit! :) dad took the pic if you were wondering why he's not in it. :)

all in all we had a very fun week! it was a much needed vacation but we were also very glad to be back home. :) we were so blessed to be able to go away from everything here at home and for tay to stay healthy and not get sick! that was our biggest worry! but she once again proved everyone that she is our little miracle! :) we love her SO much and we are SO blessed to have her in our lives. i don't know where we would be without her! she brings SO much joy into our lives! she is getting so big and learning so much already! we were at church yesterday and i folded my arms and told her to fold hers and SHE DID!!! i was shocked! it was the most precious thing i've ever seen! she is SUCH a blessing to us! :)

here are a couple pics that i've caught since we've been home...

pretty lil' lady! :)