First Beach Trip

Yesterday's weather was impeccable. 82 degrees, clear blue skies, little to no wind. Markham had the day off since the kids are on spring break. We decided it would be a great day to head up to Presque Isle and hang out on the beach. Obviously it was still too cold to swim, but we still had fun.

Lynlee touching sand for the fisrt time, and, naturally, eating it.

after we went to the beach we went to a BBQ that some of the coaches put on. at the BBQ she showed off her kissy face

Kissy Face!!

this is Lynlee crying for "da da" just after markham left to go to Virginia for the spring break track meet this morning

when she fell asleep for her nap today, i went to check on her and she had her arm sticking out of the crib, gripping the towel sitting on top of her hamper

Love that baby!

Springtime!

Oh my gosh I can't even tell you how grateful I am for how amazing the weather has been the last two weeks. Every single day has been in the 70's and sunshine. Tomorrow is even supposed to get up into the 80's! Today I went to Home Depot and got Daylily bulbs and planted them in our front yard, a hanging plant for our back porch, and some smaller potted flowers for our decorative plant holders on our front porch. But as amazing as it has been, there is one downside... bugs. Bugs and bugs and more bugs! There have been SO many spiders in our house, and centipedes (which entirely creep me out), and mosquitoes. Ok, now back to the good things. Lynlee and I have gone on a walk every single day for the last 9 days straight and it has been so great to get out of the house! I could tell she was starting to get antsy, as was I, and you can only go to wal-mart so many times. I'm glad to have a safe neighborhood to walk around in. I'm also glad for the park in our neighborhood that has a baby swing because Lynlee LOVES it! Last week Markham went home to be with family and I am so glad to have him back now! It's nice to have someone to cook and clean for again, and to sleep next to again, and now we've been talking our walks in the evenings after dinner so that Markham can come too. I know that Lynlee missed him just as much as I did because she was unbelievably excited to see him when we picked him up from the airport! I've somewhat gotten used to him being gone on the weekends because of track meets, but this was a whole week, it was much harder. Anyway, here are some of the highlights from the past couple weeks:

Markham playing with Lynlee while we waited for our food at a Mexican restaurant in Erie

We pulled off at the park n' wait to spend a little extra time with Markham before his plane took off. Lynlee had fun in the driver's seat

Lynlee breaking apart Andrew's toy. I had to hurry and put it back together so he wouldn't be upset.

crazy face, cute outfit

riding the tiger!

clapping on the tiger!

Lynlee swinging for the first time!

Brent and Brenda were nice enough to have us over for dinner while Markham was in Utah

Cheese face!

on a walk

cute outfit!!!

Waiting in the airport to pick up Markham. 

Lynlee army crawling to get a water bottle

silly girl got her arm out of her sleeve

hanging out outside while I planted flowers!

Lynlee walking with Markham!! This was the first time I'd ever seen her do this. What a big big girl!!

Friggin' Finally!

Last post? Jan. 22nd. Today? Mar. 8th. Some might say it's been a while. I would say, I'm a Mom. I've been a little preoccupied. However, I have finally gotten Lynlee on somewhat of a sleeping schedule and her 9 o'clock bedtime frees up a little extra time for me. Since my last post, the Giants won the SuperBowl (which is a BIG FRIGGIN DEAL in the Hyde household.. so, yay!), Valentines Day happened, Markham and I shared our 2 1/2 year anniversary, Lynlee grew about another inch, is SO on the verge of crawling, and jabbers all day long. Her only word... "da da". Of course. Today is her 8 month birthday; I can't believe how old she is getting. And here are pictures to prove it. Since it has been so long since I've posted, I have a lot to update, so put on your sweatpants and snuggie, grab some hot chocolate, and get comfy, Folks. This is a Long list of pictures . . .

During one of our many visits back to Ohio, Lynlee got her first kiss!! I went to my friend Ashleigh's to stay the night and her son Johnny is two months older than Lynlee. While laying on a blanket together Johnny rolled over on top of her and open mouth kissed her on the lips! We CRACKED up and tried to recreate it for this picture but it didn't work that well.

Gangsta Baby!

Lynlee and Bladen playing together

I LOVE this cooky face!

I caught Lynlee chewing on the Unicorn's horn. Silly baby!

This video is of the first time Lynlee rolled over

This was her reaching for her toy flower. The way she was putting one arm and one leg up was cracking me up. She looks like super man.

Trying to escape from the tub!

She is definitely a morning person - opposite of me!

This is Lynlee dancing to "Patty Cake" that her little puppy sings

Jess feeding Lynlee Olive Garden on one of our Ohio trips

Tickles!

Jumping time

These are from our Valentine's Day photo shoot. I LOVE them!

I swear she looks just like little Hailey in the picture. I do her hair like that all the time now. It's my favorite

At her first Allegheny Track Meet! Go Team!

This is the first time she clapped!

mommy-daughter time

Face of an angel 

Allegheny College has an annual Talent Show for the Athletic Department where each of the different athletic teams comes up with some sort of a skit to perform for a trophy. If you include a coach and/or child/baby in your skit, you get extra points. Well, we had both. This first video is of Lynlee dancing to the other skits. the music was loud and it was kind of dark, but she loved it. This is one hundred percent just Lynlee dancing. Markham is only holding her. It's hilarious.

this second video is of the actual skit. First the girls track team came out and did a dance, then the mens track team came out and did a shirtless dance (which was pretty comical considering the fact that they're all really skinny, lanky, dorky runners) then the women came back out to join them on stage and that's when Markham brought Lynlee out. He raised her up like Simba from the Lion King and the crowd went WILD. it was really fun to see, and because they loved her so much (of course they did, who wouldn't?), the track team won the talent show!!

This is when they found out they won!

My dad called me on the phone and when I answered I put him on speaker. this is Lynlee reacting to hearing his voice. (no, your volume isn't muted, she's actually not making any noise)

Sleepy

Markham using Lynlee as a weight and her loving it

Laughing

This is the face Lynlee makes when she's clearly done eating.

I LOVE this face!!

bath time

standing in her crib

cuddling with mommy. my absolute favorite time of day

nakey baby!

happy baby

This is Lynlee attempting to crawl to Simon. I really think he will be the reason she starts crawling. She wants him so bad!

Eva came over for a playdate and Lynlee and Jackson had so much fun together! He's a couple months younger than her and this is their first interaction together. SO cute. she LOVES him

Lynlee and Jackson! They talk back and forth to each other. It's awesome

Akron Civic Theater - where we went to see Brian Regan!! Such an amazing show. I cried FOUR times! haha

This is the reason we are getting a DVD cabinet with doors on it.

Playing on the rocking horse at the Amish furniture store. I totally wanted it but it was $200. Totally unreasonably overpriced, as most Amish furniture is.

The blocks I made. The side of them has our wedding pictures on them. The back side has H Y D E down it and the other side you can't see has 2 0 0 9, the year we were married.

Family nap!! This is one of my absolute favorite pictures.

I totally don't blame you if you decide to skip some of the videos. I realize it's a lot. Hopefully I can keep up on my blogging more often so the posts won't be a mile long.