November Pictures

A few more pictures from this month!

A few more fall favorites

Late and Out of Order

Random pictures from the last couple months.

16.6mm

I went to my first appointment today and baby bean has strong healthy heartbeat. We even got a "picture" of baby number 2. We are so excited for Rylan to have a playmate and to expand our family. My due date is May 27 and I am nine weeks today. Hooray! Stay tuned for updates. Maybe announcing baby number two gets me off the hook for the late thank you's from Rylan's birthday and the lack of blogging. It is much more exhausting have a little one year old running around and being pregnant but Kenny is amazing and has not skipped a beat. What would we do without him. Not that I am in a hurry, but only having a few weeks left of the first trimester sounds wonderful. I love being pregnant and looking forward to not being a walking zombie and eating more than six bites...Until next time

Rylan's One Year Pictures

Thank you a million times Ashley!

Check out the photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcpulliam/

Catching Up

Where do I begin. I guess I will start with Rylan...Rylan celebrated his first birthday last Sunday. We had two parties for him, one in Eureka and one here. We had such a great time with friends and family. Thank you all for sharing this special day with our family. Rylan Stats: eight teeth, 18lbs.11oz, 28 1/2", cruising around-so close to walking (I think he could but he is still unsure), says mama, daddy, bubba, bye, hi, and various one time only words, loves to kiss, eats all the time and everything-despite what his weight may indicate, sleeping well-almost ready for one nap a day, and loves to dance.
Our most talented friend Ashley took the BEST photos of our big one year old last week. I can't begin to thank her enough. I am so blessed to have such incredible pictures of my boy and such a dear friend. I know I have lots of pictures to catch up on, but these are the most important ones.

We have made an offer on a house in our neighborhood and waiting to hear, the longer the better for us. It's a little bit bigger than our house right now and has some nice upgrades. We'll see...I am just working two days a week and that is going okay. I don't love being away from Rylan, but it's a pretty good gig. Kenny has not travelled in quite awhile so that has been really nice and he has applied to sub in the Paso schools. He has been interested in doing this for some time and it will be interesting to see if he enjoys this, we'll think positively but subs usually get the "best" of the students. Hooray for a cool day! It's finally seeming to change seasons, although I love the sunshine a cozy rainy day is a much appreciated break from this almost 100 degree weather we've had since about May. Remember I grew up in the gray drizzly skies of norcal so the heat is an adjustment-wonderful but an adjustment. There are so many awesome seasonal things to do here and I can't wait to begin regular trips to Avila Valley Barn as well as so other local places that will be new to us. I think we will go to the giant pumpkin patch up here this week. We will be heading down to the desert for Thanksgiving and Eureka for Christmas, we don't have any exact dates yet and are looking forward to indulging in holiday treats and family.

I have tried to post a video before but now that our video camera basically died and other camera is basically worth nothing too, we will bite the bullet and be replacing both. Hopefully this will mean more pictures, video for the first time, and more posts.

Well, Rylan is waking up and Kenny is on a ride, duty calls. Until next time...

Bad Blogger

I have to admit that my friends are much better at blogging than I am. As much I as enjoy reading everyones blogs and hope to keep ours more updated- I just run out of time. I am trying and hope to get back into blogging regularly, I know I've said it a hundred times. I think after the summer is over life will slow down and we will be able to post more frequently. But until then-sorry! We had a great time at the wedding last weekend! Rylan did great and we had a super fun time at the wedding. Congratulations to the Winters!!! More to come, the monkey man really needs to go down for a nap. Later skater...

Teeth!!!

Rylan has three teeth!!! He had his first tooth break through last Friday and the following day two more. It took awhile but now the Bubba finally has teeth. With these new additions we begin the process of weening him. Poor boy, he just wants his mama sometimes. I really do think he is ready to be done besides having teeth he is pretty much entirely on solid foods and just wanting it for comfort. He is such a good boy and I have loved having cozy time with him this week. Random-we saw Mamma Mia today and absolutely LOVED it!!! I will probably go see it again...Back to the Bubba. He has been playing with his friends and enjoying the morning walks with his buddies Braden and Addie. We went to Concerts in the Park in Templeton Wednesday night and had a great time-he loves being outside. Then last night we went to Pismo and he had his first taste of Splash Cafe-a bread bowl of course and he is now sporting a new Panchos sweatshirt-he's a pretty fly dude! We have had a great time with Nanny here and we'll have pictures to share next week. I feel like there is so much more to blog but am feeling the sleepies coming on and have mommy brain, so I guess that will have to do for now. I'll let you know if I think of anything else to share. Peace out friends.

Extras

Bubba wasn't down with the comeover but I thought it was hilarious!

Baby Benjamin

I am so excited to show off my new "nephew" Benjamin Timothy Barakat was born to the proud mama and papa on Friday July 25, 2008 @12:27 pm weighing 7lbs 13 oz. and 21 in. long. We went to meet Rylan's newest buddy yesterday afternoon and we are so stoked he's here. Rylan wanted to play with him and touch him. The Barakat family is doing great. Mama looks fabulous and they should be going home today. Here are some pictures of all of us. Congratulations Tim and Angela we love you! Here's to many more years of joy and laughter. Welcome to the world Baby Benjamin xoxox

Rylan's first haircut

Auntie Boo gave the bubba his first haircut then did mine and we both are stoked on the new do's! Thanks Auntie!!!

More

It was too dark for me to get any good John Mayer pictures, boohoo!

Recent Pictures

Long overdue!

So much to catch up on. Rylan is now almost ten months old, he weighs about 18 and a half pounds and 27 1/4". The doctor suggested we give him formula, avocado, yobaby yougurt, and cheese to help him gain a little more. He must have a hummingbird metabolism like his daddy. Poor bubba his mama was starving him. Put that on my bad mommy list :( He is saying dada mamamamamama bababababab bubububub and lots ooohsss and ooooossss and aaaaaaaahhssss. He loves to be read to and is grooving to music all the time. He is feeding himself and totally mastered holding a sippy with or without handles. He is a big kisser, lots of loves from this boy. He is army crawling, rolling, kinda scooting wherever he wants to go. He is waving, giving hi-5's and clapping. He is taking lots of steps when you hold his hands, maybe walking is closer than we thought. He loves loves loves bathtime and got his first haircut yesterday (he did great, no wiggles and hammed it up for the pretty girls at the salon). He is so close but still not a single tooth. His newest adventure is getting under any bed or his crib and exploring, I think I'm going to have my hands full here pretty quick :) He is sleeping great and we are loving have some mommy and daddy time in the evenings just catching up with eachother. We met some of our neighbors who have the most mellow and beautiful baby boy Braden. We are so grateful to be meeting some people here and they are awesome! On Wednesday I went out for a mommy free night and saw John Mayer and Colbie Caillat. I had such a great time and both were incredible, I totally forgot how much I enjoyed going to concerts. We are going to a wedding next month and I'm a little nervous about having a crawling jabbering infant, maybe the boy and I will have to hang out in the back or join up at the reception, suggestions???? We have had a crazy busy summer with visitors and mini trips. Hard to believe my tiny baby boy is almost a toddler. He fills my life with wonder and love more every hour. I am so blessed to be his mama. Kenny has been golfing a bit and getting back into the swing of things-hahaha. We live very close to a small six hole course and you can play as long as you want for $10 until September so he is taking full advantage of that deal. My dear friend Angela had her baby boy Benjamin today at 12:27pm and we are crazy excited to meet him, hopefully tomorrow. Rylan is waiting to have yet another buddy to play with. I think that is pretty much it with us. Rylan changes everyday and in the blink of an eye will be off to kindergarten with a blubbering mother saying noooo! We are loving being back on the central coast and enjoying this new stage of life as parents to such a funny boy. I have lots of pictures to post so stay tuned for more.

Part 4

My new big boy bath!

Part 3

Part 2