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?