Merry Christmas!

So Santa did come.  Mommy and Daddy said he might not come with the way I was behaving but he did. I told them I was good this year.  Santa knows it.  He brought me some dolls and furniture for a Barbie house.  Mommy has a house from when she was a girl so she told Santa to just bring the furniture.  That is going to be fun to play with.  

And I got a scooter from Mommy and Daddy.  It looks like it will be fun when it is not winter outside.  I went for a test drive in the kitchen though.

We got Mommy some pregnant clothes and a calendar with our pictures.  And Daddy got her some mats for the van for when we spill stuff and have snow on our shoes.  That doesn't sound fun to me but Mommy seemed excited.

After we opened all our presents at home we went and opened some more presents at Gram's house.  I got some more furniture for the Barbie house from Gram and Poppy.  Everybody was there and there were so many presents under the Christmas tree.

Aunt Diane gave us a sign for our room.  Me and Luci are going to share a room and we could put this sign up.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Twas The Night Before Christmas

Santa is coming tonight!  Daddy wanted to read the Night Before Christmas to me.  But I knew the story so I pretty much read it to him.  Mommy was amazed because I knew almost all of the words.  I needed just a little help from Daddy some times.  I better get to sleep so Santa can come...

Christmas is almost here

I know that is it almost Christmas.  Yesterday was my last day going to school before Christmas.  Mrs. Claus came to my classroom to read us a story.  You can see my white flower headband.  I always wear headbands to school. 

And we went to church and had a Christmas party too.  I brought in some gifts for Mrs. Crone and Ms. Miller.  I hope they liked them.  They are very nice and I like them.  But I'm excited that I don't have school for Christmas.  I'm going with Luci to Alice's house today.  Then Mommy will be home from school and I get to stay with her.  Yay!

Mommy's Birthday

It was Mommy's birthday and our family went to the Onion House to eat.  I love their crab rangoon!  Aunt Sissy went with us too. We got Mommy a pregnant shirt and some paper money to get a pedicure.  A pedicure is when they paint your toenails really fancy.  I hope she takes me with her.  I would like that.

Happy birthday to the best Mommy in the world!

Watching Christmas Movies

We watched Home Alone last night. I never seen it before.  I guess it is a old movie, like old like Mommy and Daddy.  I liked it.  Some parts were a little sad.  When they leave him at home it was sad.  But I didn't cry. I laughed out loud when Kevin was beating up the robbers.  I told Daddy that if I was left home alone, I would get a taxi to drive me to the airport.

Tonight, I am watching Elf again.  I think that is my favorite Christmas movie.  Buddy is so funny. I got a lot more Christmas movies to watch before Christmas.  I got Rudolph and Frosty and Charlie Brown. I love Christmas movies.

Riley In The Sky

 

The most exciting part of my Thanksgiving trip was that me and Mommy rode on an airplane!  I thought that we were going to drive to Grandma's house but she tricked me!

They kept telling us not to get on the plane yet.  So it took a long time to get on.  The first time I was a plane I was a baby.  I don't remember it.  I liked looking out the window and seeing stuff.  We were looking for our house but we couldn't see it. I told Mommy that I want to go out and jump on the clouds.  She told me that you can't jump on it.  You would just fall down.  I didn't know that.  Clouds are cool.

Daddy and Luci and Grandma picked us up from the other airport.  We were so hungry so we ate a restaurant on top of the highway.  The cars drive underneath you.  That was cool too.

Some More Thanksgiving Pics

Well I promised more pictures and here are some more pictures from the Thanksgiving parade.  There were some really big balloons like Mr. Potato Head.  I have a potato head at home but is much smaller than this.

My favorite balloon was Madeline because I really like her book.

I loved these dresses.

We got there early and we got a good spot in the front row.  It was a little cold but not too cold.

It was supposed to be Thanksgiving but there was Santa and elves and reindeer for Christmas.  I was looking for Buddy the Elf because that is one of my favorite movies.  At least there was a cornucopia balloon.  I knew about a cornucopia because I learned about it in school.

Happy Thanksgiving

 

We went to the Thanksgiving parade today.  It was pretty cool.  I'll put some more pictures up later but I am too busy eating turkey and green beans.  Happy Thanksgiving to everybody!

Pictures in the Park

Luci posted her pictures in the park.  Here are my pictures:

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, give me some candy!

I had a great night trick or treating as Rapunzel! Me and Luci both had wigs this year. Check out the pictures...

I even ran into Mirda!  (really it was Katherine who lives next door)

Daddy carved the Rapunzel pumpkin for me.  It looked cool but her hair wasn't real long.

Happy Halloween!

I'm excited to go trick or treating tonight.  I'm going to be Rapunzel!  I'll put some more pictures up later.

Riley's Line of the Night

Mommy said that this is one for the blog...

Mommy:  ....well, all you will have to eat is jello.

Riley: That's OK.  I'm a jello addict.

Mommy laughs.

Riley:  Yeah, an attic, like up there (pointing to ceiling).

The Pumpkin Shed Annual Trip

We bought some pumpkins from the pumpkin place yesterday.  We see the pumpkin place with the big pumpkin man when we drive by every day.  I have been waiting and waiting to go there.  Finally we did go there...

Riding Horsies

My friend Kyel had a birthday party at a horse farm.  I didn't know you could have a birthday party there.  I knew you could have parties at SIGS or Chuckie Cheese but not a horse farm. I never heard of that.  It was at night in the barn with the lights on.  I was excited because it was the first time I got to ride a horsey. The first one was named Alice.  Just like our babysitter, ha ha.
 

Luciana got to ride her too.  And she rode a white horse named Finnegan.  Finnegan was a boy but he had a pony tail in his hair for a little while.  

We rode them down and back.  Then we got ride them in between the poles and pick up cups. I learned how to make the horse turn and stop - you say "whoa". I got all of the cups and rings. This horse was named Beauty.

Pre-K Days

I have been going to school for 2 months now.  I have made some friends and learned a lot.  I am practicing my handwriting.  I get to cut stuff with scissors - that is so much fun to cut stuff up!  I have been learning about letters. Every letter has a animal like Ozzie the Octopus and Sammy the Seal.  We learn about God a lot too.

My teacher's name is Mrs. Crone.  She had a meeting with all of the mommies and daddies this week.  So she talked to my Mommy and Daddy about me.  I think she said mostly good stuff but I was busy playing with Luci and showing her the toys in our room.

I know that she said that like coloring and painting art stuff.  Look at this...I painted a snake inside the lines.  Then I painted a rainbow with no lines.  I just had to paint it.  I think they were pretty good.

I have one more day of school tomorrow before fall break.  Guess where I am going to next week then?  Back to Alice's house with Luci.  It will be like I'm a little kid again!  I'll just have to tell those little kids there what to do.

I'm Five!

 

I turned FIVE on September 15th.  I've been waiting for my birthday for a long time.  I always ask how many times we need to turn the calendar to September.  It seemed like it took forever. We had to go to GG's house on my birthday.  So Mommy let me pick Pizza King to eat the day before.  We sat almost all the way to the last one on the train.  And my friend Lyric sat right next to us!  

On my actual birthday I opened up some presents in the morning.  I got a Smurfs movie and a Rapunzel doll.  I had a Rapunzel doll before and I lost it so I was excited to get a new one.  I'm not going to lose this one.  She has animals that braid her hair when you turn the thing.  Then we drove up to GG's so we could go to a shower party for Mommy's cousin Becky.  (Great) Aunt Mary got me a birthday cake with princesses and we ate it after the party.  

I had a party at SIGS with Luci on a day awhile ago.  We had a lot of friends there.  My long time friends were there and I also invited some new friends from school.  Here is a picture of me swinging on the rope there.  It was a lot of fun too. 

 

It was a good birthday.  Now I need to figure out how many times to turn the calendar to the next one. 

Picking Apples at the Farm

Guess what?  We went to the farm today.  Grandma and Grandpa were at our house for the birthday party so they went with us too.  They took us to the zoo and we fed the ponies and bunny rabbits.  They even had some llamas too.  And we fed some fish too.  The fish would open their mouths waiting for the food.  

Mommy told me how to pick the apples.  You turn the bottom up to the sky.  And you don't pick the ones that are on the ground.  Those are yucky and they have bugs and bees on them.

We picked a lot of apples.  It was too heavy to carry.  Daddy had to carry them.