Riley Ryoko: January 2010

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Getting Closer...

Riley is officially 11 months old! T- minus 31 days until the big "1". I look back at the posts from 3 or 4 months old when I wrote, "man time flies" and LAUGH because here I am at almost 1 full year later. Insane! So the only real updates I have on Riley is I finally got her hair in a ponytail! Yay! Haha. She has 4 teeth now, we're working on our 5th..she's working on walking, mostly she's just standing, and talking a whole bunch now. She can say "mama" and "dadda" and tell me "mu-ma" when she's hungry. She understands a lot of things we say to her now, like "go get your (toy)" and things like that. Or even when she's fussy, (this is horrible) but we'll point out her binky to her and tell her to go get it.. she'll look around for it for a second and crawls over to it and sticks it in her mouth. Her new favorite past time is scooting around on her little car that her Auntie Traci and Uncle Troy bought her for Christmas, and having Mommy chase her around making sure she's not getting into everything she's not supposed to. When I look at her and say, "Noooo" she freezes and looks back at me, gives me a huge smile and waits for me to turn around to do it again. Such a smart kid. She's mainly on table food now, she pretty much eats whatever we're eating for breakfast lunch and dinner, and is still getting her formula for the next month. Mommy's upgrading her carseat to a "big girl" carseat this month since she's finally reached the weight restrictions for it, and she LOVES being in the car! I'm sure she's tired of seeing everything pass by her backwards. She's developing her little sassy personality more and more each day! I love this little girl!

She got caught hanging out on the couch with some cereal and the TV remote.. hmm starting a little too early?

Buddies!

Loves her car.

See all my new teeth?

Monday, January 4, 2010

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas with family this year. It's funny how true it is when your parents tell you just how much Christmas changes for you when you have children.. it's so true. Everything is about them, trying to do anything and everything you can to put a smile on their face, and it's so priceless! I can't wait until Riley gets a little older and understands the "Santa" concept.. I'm ready for it! Riley did better than I expected opening her gifts.. it must be her love for paper.. lol. She really seemed to enjoy herself, all in all it was a great first Christmas! She did tell me a few weeks ago that all she wanted for Christmas was her two front teeth.. and she got em'! (well, actually.. she got her entire top row of teeth at once, about 6 or 7 of them)

We let Riley open some of her gifts from her cousins on Christmas Eve when Jayden came over to visit and then on Christmas we visited family at Auntie Lynnie's house as usual and had some amazing German food and some good company.