Presents!

I love Christmas and all of the presents. I opened up so many presents. I opened up mine. I opened up Luciana's presents. I opened Mommy's and Daddy's too. This year I knew what was coming and all about Santa. You can see that me and Luciana were excited on Christmas Eve.


Santa brought me and Luciana a kitchen! It is fun. There is a fridge and an oven. I have lots of dishes and food. Mommy made us aprons with our names on them. Mommy also gave me a shopping cart so I can go to the store and get groceries too. Luciana is too little to play in the kitchen. But I'm told that I will have to share it one day. That's okay - I like to share with Luciana.


I got lots of toys and books and puzzles. I got some princess clothes and princess music. I got my own camera to take pictures! Gram and Poppy gave me a DVD TV for me to watch shows in the car. I watched Max and Ruby and I watched Elmo when we drove to GG's house on Christmas. And Poppy gave me a horsie! His name is Neigh.



I can't wait until next Christmas. I think that I am going to ask Santa for a car.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody! Santa came to my house last night. I have been opening presents all day and I still have more to do. I will blog more about it later. I just wanted to wish everybody a Merry Christmas!

Love, Riley

One Week Until Christmas

I am excited about Christmas this year. I know who Santa is. He wears red pajamas and a red hat. I see him all over the place. He is on TV. He is in some of my books. I see Santa in our neighbor's yard. I even saw him at the grocery store with a snowman! And best of all, I know that Santa is bringing presents. I'm going to ask him to bring me a kitchen. Mommy thought that would be a good thing to ask for. I just need to be a good girl she says.

Does this girl look naughty or nice?

[Daddy thinks she looks a little mischievous.]

Wash My Hair

Today I went to the bathroom and got my bottle of body wash from the tub. I guess that I just needed to take a bath. I poured almost a whole bottle onto the carpet and then ran my hands through it and started washing my hair in the living room. I had soap all over my hair. When Mommy and Daddy caught me I told them "wash my hair!". I had to get a bath and the carpet was a mess.
[Note: There were no pictures taken so this behavior is not encouraged.]

Snow!

When I woke up this morning there was snow on the ground! It snowed while I was sleeping. Daddy let me walk in the snow. I liked looking at my footprints. When Mommy picked me up today the snow all gone. I hope it snows more next time.

Back to the Babysitter

Since Mommy is going to school again I am going back to the babysitter Alice. I was supposed to go yesterday but Alice had to go to the doctor. So Diane and Gram came over to play with me and take care of Luciana. Diane painted my nails!

So today was the first day at the babysitter. I had fun. Now that I am a big girl I get to play in the room with the big kids. I don't have to be with the babies anymore. I tell the other kids that Luciana is my baby. I am going to have to show her all about Alice's house.

Thanksgiving Trip

For Thanksgiving we went to Grandma's house. We took Luciana and Wrigley with us too. Daddy's car was full of stuff. Grandma set up a bunch of toys for me to play with so I had a lot of stuff to do. I also ate a lot of food. I hate some turkey and pie. My favorite was sopa (rice) at my great aunt Rina's house. I love any kind of rice.

The most fun thing that I did was go to a place called BellaBoo's. It was a lot of fun there. It is just for kids. I got to go a pretend store and buy groceries. I even had money to buy my stuff. I was a very grown-up shopper. I go shopping with Mommy and Daddy all of the time so I know what to do. I only bought important stuff like carrots, toothpaste, kleenex, and chocolate milk.

And they had a bunch of dress-up stuff to put on. I dressed up like a fireman princess but Daddy was too big for the clothes.

Daddy and I got to make a turkey out of cookies, pretzels and chocolate icing. It was an okay looking turkey but it tasted good!

And I got to paint my face. I painted one side of my face and Tia painted the other. Can you tell who did what?

Fun at Bath Time

Here are some pictures of me playing in my ducky bathtub. I love to take baths because I can play in the water while Daddy or Mommy gives me a bath. I like mess with my hair and make it crazy!

I also have some colors that I can put in my bath to make it turn colors. It is fun to make the water different colors. I think purple is my favorite but this picture is green. Sometimes we put two colors together to make another color. Daddy always knows how to make the colors. When I'm getting ready to take a bath I tell Daddy "purple, red, orange"! I get to put the colors in the water. It is fun. I could play in the water forever but sometimes the water gets cold and I have to get out.

On the Tube

Since I am home with Mommy and I don't go to the baby sitter anymore, I have started to watch some more shows on TV. I used to mostly watch the Disney channel with Mickey Clubhouse and Handy Manny. I do still like to watch Disney channel in the morning. As soon as I wake up my first words are usually "milk" and "mickey cubhouse".

But there are some good shows that I watch at night on Nick Jr. I watch Dora the Explorer. I even have some Dora shoes. She has a monkey called Boots. I like her. I like to watch Max and Ruby too. They are bunnies. Max is Ruby's little brother. Ruby is a girl like me. And I have watched Yo Gabba Gabba some too. It is a crazy show and Mommy really doesn't like it. They have a lot of colors and strange people. But they play music which I like.

I'm also starting to pay attention long enough to watch movies (at least parts of them). I watch Nemo and Sleeping Beauty. Nemo is a fishy. Mommy said that Luciana was Sleeping Beauty today while she was taking a nap. I watched Sleeping Beauty and she doesn't look like Luciana. Sleeping Beauty is not a baby! I told Mommy that she was wrong.

Flu Update

I had the flu last week. I was feeling sick and Daddy took me to the doctor. They said that I had the flu and they gave me some medicine and a sucker. The medicine was okay but the sucker was really good! Mommy took good care of me. She gave me medicine and watched my fever until it went away. And she didn't let me kiss or hug Luciana because she didn't want her to get sick. But I'm all better now and Luciana didn't get sick. So that is good. Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm all better.

First Haircut

Well, Luciana already stole my thunder with her blog but I wanted to tell everyone that I got a haircut this week. You can see her blog for a couple more pictures.

Now, I don't have much hair to be cutting but I went to get my hair trimmed. A nice lady called Angela cut my hair. I got to sit in a big chair and look in the mirror the whole time. I was a good girl and I sat really still. I didn't smile much and I looked real serious. I was just a little nervous because I never had my hair cut before. I didn't know if would hurt. It didn't hurt. It was okay. And they gave me suckers too. That was good too.

Trick Or Treat?

I had fun for Halloween! First I carved some pumpkins with Mommy and Daddy. We had a Dora and a Minnie pumpkin.

Then Mommy and Grandma helped me get dressed up as Minnie. I like Minnie. She is on Mickey Clubhouse, my favorite show. I think that it should be called Minnie Clubhouse. My friend Annabelle bought me a Minnie dress for my birthday. A lot of my family came over to see me dressed up as Minnie. Everyone said I was cute.

Here I am, ready to go get some candy. That is the best part about Halloween is the candy. I would go up to the houses and "treat o' treat". (who really wants tricks?) Most of the people were nice. Some people were scary. They had scary masks and scary music. So we didn't go to those houses.

It was a lot of fun and I got a lot of candy. Yummy! Now, I just have to make sure Daddy doesn't eat it all.

Happy Halloween. Love, Riley

Pumpkins

I have seen a lot of pumpkins lately. Mommy has a bunch of pumpkins around the house. There are "baby pumpkins" and "daddy pumpkins" (Daddy note: little ones and big ones). And Mommy keeps dressing me and Luciana in clothes with pumpkins on it. I even got a card with pumpkins in the mail today. I don't know what the deal is with these pumpkins lately.

We went to get real pumpkins at a farm yesterday. They had A LOT of pumpkins. I couldn't decide which one to pick. I ran around and looked at a lot of them.
Grandpa went with us to pick out pumpkins. He was helping me look at the pumpkins. He had to give me candy so I would sit still for a picture. Both Grandpa and Poppy always give me what I want.

The farm with pumpkins also had cows and goats! The lady let me feed the goats. It tickled when they licked my hands! There was also a baby cow there that was only 3 weeks old. He was way bigger than my baby sister. He was way bigger than me too!
We bought 4 pumpkins and now they sitting on the front porch. I will let you know what we do with them.

The Skyfort

So Daddy finally finished building my playset! It is very big and there is a lot of stuff to do on it. I'm going to play on it a lot.

There is a slide and swings....


...and monkey bars to play on when I get older.


And there is a playhouse with another deck to climb up to.


It is really fun and I'm glad Daddy built it for me.

New Stuff

I like that Mommy is home with me and Luciana. She likes to take us shopping. It is fun because she likes to buy stuff for us. We went shopping today and Mommy bought me this dress. Daddy said that Mommy must think that I'm twenty ones. Twenty ones??? But I am two not one??? I don't know what that means but he did think that I looked cute.

And she also bought me these boots. I've never had boots before. Do you like them?

And Mommy got me some princess shoes. I'm going to wear these with my Minnie costume.

About Me at 2 Years

Since I just turned two years old, Daddy thinks it is a good time to write down some stuff about me.

I'm a very good big sister. I'm always worried about the baby. I like to hug and kiss her. I also like to push the swing when she is in there and watch her get baths. I'm start to saying her full name better..."u-see-on-a".


My favorite food is macaroni & cheese but I just call it "cheese". I love to use lots of "dip" when I'm eating (Daddy note: dip is ketchup, sour cream, salsa, etc.). Mommy says I get that from her.

I am very good at knowing my animals and animal sounds. I know about cows, pigs, elephants, ducks, birds, and chicks. Cows used to be my favorite animals but now it is probably monkeys. I can do a lot animals sounds. Did you know that owls say "who, who" and horsies say "neigh, neigh"?

I can say all of my basic colors but I'm still learning how to match them up. I used to count "one, two, nine" but I've started saying "one, two, tree" recently.

My favorite show on TV is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Although when I say it sounds more like "Ickey Tub-ouse" but Mommy & Daddy know what I'm saying and that is all that matters. I do know all of the characters on the show: Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy and Goofy.


I really like to read books. Every night before I go to bed I read a couple of books. I also like puzzles and I love to play with my babies. They like to go in the stroller and in the swing. They like to get baths and get their diapers changed too. Ever since I got a little baby sister, I have been playing with wipes and diapers all of the time. Pulling wipes out of the container to wipe babies butts or wipe the table off is one of my favorite pasttimes.

Well, this is it for now. I just wanted to write about me.

Love, Riley.

Me & My Sister

It is fun to have my baby sister home with me. I like to help Mommy & Daddy take care of Luciana. I love to hold her or lay down with her. I like to help her in the swing too.


Mommy put Luciana in my baby doll stroller. So I pretended like was pushing her around. She is little but she is a lot bigger than my babies. (Daddy note: As you can see our 8 lb newborn is really too big for the stroller so you can imagine how ridiculous our 28 lb toddler looks trying to sit in there, which still happens.)

Birthday Party!

I had a big party for my birthday since I'm two now. We had a outside party with a big tent to sit under. It was fun to be outside because we could run around and play.

There were a lot of people at my party. My family was there and my friends were there. Even Luciana was there. But she slept the whole time.



Mommy made me a Minnie Mouse cake. It was yummy. Mommy makes good cake!



And I got to open presents! I got a lot of clothes and some toys. And I got some money too!


My big birthday present is the big swingset and playhouse that Daddy is building. He is still building it but the part with the slide is finished. It is a lot of fun to go down the slide. I can't wait until the swings are ready.

I am Two!

Happy Birthday to me! I am two years old today. I am going to have a party. I am excited about the cake and ice cream.

Just Like Mommy

I've seen Mommy carrying around Luciana like this. So I decided to carry around my baby Josh. I got the sling on all by myself and I just needed some help getting Josh in there. Does he look comfy?

Pictures of New Baby Sister

I am very excited to have a new sister. Here are some pictures from when Mommy & Daddy got Luciana from the hospital. She is so little.



I really like to look at the baby and kiss her. Whenever someone is holding her and I say "up! up!" so I can get up and see the baby.



Mommy and Daddy stayed at the hospital with her. I went home with Grandma and Wrigley. Every time when Grandma drove up to the hospital I knew what we were doing. I would say "Mommy, Baby...Mommy, Baby". I would tell everybody that we saw that I was going to see Mommy and our baby.


Mommy & Daddy let me hold her but I have to be very careful. She is little and her head is soft. I like to point to her nose and eyes but I can't touch her head or face. Then when I hug her, I have to be real careful. It is hard because I just want to squeeze her.