Riley Swims in the Pool

I can swim all by myself now.  I don't like to wear swimmies anymore because they are for babies. Once I get in the pool I just want to swim all over the place.  I can swim all the way across the pool.

Let's Go To The Beach, Beach

 I am in Florida!  We are staying in the same house by the beach as last summer.  It rained like 3 times or something like that.  But we got to play outside a lot before it was raining.  I barely came inside yesterday.  I built sand castles and playing in the water.  And Poppy let me and Mommy ride on his little boat (kayak).  

The water is not cold so it is good.  We found a big hole that somebody dug up in the sand.  I was afraid there were crabs in there but Daddy got in first and said it was okay.  

Riley Watches E.T.

Oh my gosh.  I watched this movie on TV.  It is called ET.  It is about an alien.  I never seen it before and I had so many questions. I kept talking about and it talking about it.  Here are some of the things I said to Mommy and Daddy:

"I think this is going to give me bad dreams.  But I still want to watch it.  You just have to watch it with me."
"Daddy, I don't know about this movie."
"Why are the police there?  Are they going to arrest ET?"
After Daddy tried to explain ET phoning home, I asked "Did the aliens get the emails?"
"Why is his heart like that?  Did they cut him open?" (when ET's heart glows)
"I want you to go to all of the libraries and get books about it.  I want to learn about ET like the scientists....then when I learn all about it I can tell my school."

I was so worried about the movie.  When it was time to go bed I just kept talking about it.  I was a little scared that there is an alien in my house.  Mommy and Daddy said there was none.  I don't know.

Pizza Pizza!

We made our own pizza at Grandma's house.  I put mushrooms and pepperoni and sausage on the pizzas.  I  like mushrooms and sausage but Mommy doesn't like sausage.  Oh yeah, we put a lot of cheese on my pizza.  Got to have cheese.

And I have a funny story, you got to let me tell you.  We were watching a video with baby birds with Grandma.  She likes watching baby birds.  And the Mommy bird fed the baby with the food in her mouth.  So I tried to feed Mommy some pepperoni like that.  Ha ha!

Busy Summer

I have been busy.  Mommy is taking me to do something all of the time. I went to summer church school. I learned about saints and stuff. And I made a shield and a helmet.  If somebody hits me on my head it protects me. That is what you wear when you are part of God's army.  You protect God from the bad people.

I did my last swim lesson today too.  My friend Morgan does it with me some days.  But this video was a day when she was not there.  So I was all by myself with Miss Lori. She said that I really took off.  I thinks that means good.  Mommy said I did good.  Miss Lori gave me some sticks that go in the bottom of the pool.  I don't know what is in sticks but you don't open them. Daddy thinks there are little tiny rocks.  But you swim under the water and pick them.  I swim under and pick up rings at my lessons so I know how to do that stuff.  

Crazy Pictures

We were playing outside today and Daddy took some crazy pictures with his phone.  They look really weird.  I was wearing a purple shirt but it turned yellow!  I look kinda scary too.  The grass looks like it is water or something. I like it.

And the other picture looks like somebody "drawed" it.   Look at the truck across the street.  And me and Luci look like we have funny faces.  The water from the sprinkler is on the driveway.  These pictures are cool.

 

Hello Again

I haven't put anything on in awhile but I'm still here.  I guess that I have been too busy.  It is summer now but I don't take it easy.  We are busy almost every day.  I have been going to swim lessons.  Mommy's friend Miss Lori is teaching me how to swim.  I don't even use my floating wings when I do it.  I'm practicing for when we go Florida and we have a pool in our backyard.

My swim lessons are at the same place where I do gymnastics.  So I am there a lot.  And we go to the library every Wednesday.  I am in the reading game there.  You get prizes for reading.  Since I don't read myself yet Mommy and Daddy read to me. I have some prizes already. But I'm starting to read some books that Mommy starts and then I finish.

We stayed with Gram this weekend because Daddy took Mommy away on a trip.  It sounded like an exciting trip and I am jealous.  They went for a walk and saw a snake.  And Mommy took her picture with the tallest man.  I wish I could have went with them.

But me and Luci had lots of fun with Gram.  We went to dinner and went to church.  We played around the house and helped her cook.  Gram lets us do a lot of fun stuff.  She has a TV in her kitchen and she lets us watch it.  See.