Riley's Christmas Day 2011

I must have been a good girl because Santa came and brought me presents. I was kind of bad sometimes the last couple of days so I didn't know. But he did come because I was asleep too. He brought me my La La Loopsy doll. Her name Berry Jars in Jam. That is a silly name but I guess she is a silly doll. I got a new Ariel doll and some Barbies too. I got a light up picture thing. You put the lights in the paper and it makes pictures. And Mommy made a cupcake blanket for me and Luci too. We have so much stuff, it was all over the room!


I got a lot of good clothes. I like getting clothes more than Luci. I got some dresses and jammies and a Smurfette shirt. And I got some Hello Kitty clothes too.

We spent most of Christmas at Gram's house. We opened presents with Landon and Aunt Sissy and Tyler and everybody. I got some Tinkerbell and Barbie stuff. I got some books that talk with Poppy's voice and Grandma's voice. Grandma and Tia came to visit us the next day after Christmas. And they brought some more presents for us.


It was a good Christmas. I asked Daddy how long until it is Christmas again. He told me about spring and summer before Christmas. That sounds like a really long time but I hope it comes soon.

Checking in with Santa Claus

We went to go see Santa so we could tell him what we want for Christmas. There was a really long line of people to see him. Mommy kept asking us if we would talk to Santa and take a picture. I was a little nervous at first but I told him that I wanted a La La Loopsy doll. He knew all about La La Loopsy.




I sat on his lap and took a picture but Luci wouldn't do it. She was scared of Santa. But he was really nice. Luci did go get a candy cane from Santa though. I guess Santa will know that she likes candy.

A Made Up But True Reindeer Story

I have a lot of stories that I've been thinking about. Some bad ones and some good ones. Here is a story about a reindeer that I told Daddy tonight. (Note: this is pretty much word-for-word)

One day when I was in Gram's car...and guess what? 6 reindeer came out of the woods. The reindeer jumped in the car because they liked us. They sat in the back and on the floor because that many had to be stacked up. The big reindeer were named Dasher, Prancer, Bixen, Comet, Cupid and Daughter. And guess what the baby reindeer’s first name was? Secret And guess what the last name was? Treelight. Yeah, Secret Treelight. But my name wasn’t Riley, my name was Boo Boo Flashlight. (giggle, giggle) That is a silly name. We came back to our house. The reindeer wanted to live there because they had no place to live. But it was a little house, only 7 inches. So the reindeer had to go back to live in the woods.

Daddy asked where this all happened. I told him it was in Florida. He thought this was a crazy story. I told him, “it is the truth but I made it up.”

Decorating for Christmas

I love decorating for Christmas. It is so fun to put up stuff all around the house. We have a really big tree in our living room. It is even taller than Daddy. The tree almost touches the ceiling of the house.


I helped Mommy put a red necklace all around the tree. We went around and around the tree from the bottom all of the way to the top. I guess the tree is a girl if it was wearing a red necklace.


And we have a whole bunch of ornaments to put on the tree. There were red ones and sparkly ones. Some of them had snowmen and Santa on them. We even had some princess ornaments to put on the tree after Luci dusted the boxes.


Daddy put up blue Christmas lights on the house and we went to the store a bought a penguin blow up thing. I had seen a lot of blow up Santas and I wanted a blow up for our yard too. There was blow up thing with Santa in a bathroom but Daddy didn't want it in our yard. The penguins are good though. I like driving around our houses to see the lights. There are some houses that don't have any lights. The other night I said "Are they crazy? Don't they know it is Christmas!?!"

Riley got a haircut

I wanted to get my hair cut short like Mommy. So I went to get it cut by Angela the last day. She cut my hair the last time too. I sat in the chair really still so she could cut it. Mommy and Daddy said that it looks cute. What do you think?

Grandpa's Birthday

My Grandpa had a birthday. He turned 60 years old. I just learned how to count that high...and that is really high! I love spending time with Grandpa and likes to play with me. We always have fun when we see him.


I made him a card that I did all by myself. Daddy just showed me how to write his name and I drew a picture of him. I hope that he liked it.


We went out to eat pizza with family but I wasn't feeling good so Mommy took me to Grandma's house. I was feeling better later and I ate a piece of cake anyways.

Thanksgiving Cooking

We helped Mommy make the sweet potato dish today at Grandma's house. There was lots of good stuff to eat. I ate turkey and mashed potatoes and some green beans. And then I ate lots of pies and cookies for Thanksgiving too. Good stuff!