March and April - 18 & 19 months

 Things we've been up to lately:

For Daddy's birthday we went to Farrells ice cream and Lyla sat in a high chair for the first time! She did really well sitting in it, propped with a blanket. It was nice to have her level with the rest of the family.

Trevor and I went on a nice long (20 mile) bike ride with just Lyla. She had the whole trailer to herself and was so good. Just made it a little bit harder on Daddy!

                                      

 We went on a short hike during Conference weekend. The whole family was able to go and Parker and Mabel were excited to have both Mommy and Daddy. We walked a trail by Ancil Hoffman and Lyla hiked on Daddy's back. She really enjoyed the walk and didn't even spit up!

 Here are the girls during a little break.

 Our little gymnast.

 Easter weekend we went to GG and Poppi's house for an egg hunt and crafts. It was Lyla's first time around all her cousins. She's was pretty tired and ended up being rocked to sleep in my arms. The nap didn't last long, but I very much enjoyed the snuggle time.

Lyla is technically old enough and weighs enough to sit in a forward facing carseat. Problem is her head control is still not 100% and neither is her core so we haven't switched her from the infant rear facing seat yet. But just for fun, Mabel and I buckled Lyla up to go pick Parker up from school. I think you can say she loved it!

We have been steadily increasing Lyla's milk rate and she's doing great! She is currently at 47ml/h for 19 hours. We've also been to the speech therapist and implemented a plan to slowly introduce Lyla to foods orally. She gets a bottle of water 2x a day and gets 5-10ml. She doesn't have a steady suck, but she reaches for the bottle, takes what she wants, pushes the bottle away, and then reaches for it again. Love it! The puree's haven't been as successful. She's only spit up after tasting the sweet potatoes, but been ok with the green beans and peaches. All I do is dip the spoon in, and touch it to her tongue. She hardly gets any, but the point is the taste.

She is still sitting with support (tripod sit) but the last couple of days has been turning herself around while in the sitting position! Showing more core strength and trying new things!

Before bed Lyla gets a kiss from everyone and then we say goodnight. Lately we've been waving goodnight to her. Well tonight she was getting fussy and I asked her if she was ready for bed. Then I said "Lyla, you want to go night night?" and she started waving!!! Not 100% sure if she put the two together but I just about exploded. It was Awesome.

Last month I was holding up two familiar toys, one in each hand, and then asking Lyla to get one of them (specifically). She almost consistently went for the one I asked for. We tried that over again for a week or two and she could mostly do it. I thought it was so great, but she hasn't done it since. Kind of a bummer, but we'll keep practicing.

Oh! and she has TWO teeth! One on the bottom (right side) came in end of March and one right above it mid April. It's super exciting. I just hope more start popping through soon!