Christmas 2009

Riley is ONE!!!

Wow this year went by fast!! I can't believe my baby is one already! Well believe it or not.. she is. And she's learning new things every day. She has started to walk.. she can sign the words eat and more and sometimes thank you but only when she wants to. She's Miss Independent!!

For her 1st birthday party we decided to do a puppy theme because she LOVES dogs so much! I think it turned out really cute (if i say so myself!)

Dranmaw made her THREE cakes!!! A dog house....

A puppy....

And Riley's own personal cake in the shape of a dog bone!

She REALLY liked the icing!! We don't normally give her sweet foods so this was a real treat for her! (And she stayed up til 12:30 that night too!)

Unwrapping presents was a new thing for her. I think she had fun.. Here are a few of her "mini" guests!

Riley's 1st Halloween!!

We all dressed up and went trick-or-treating this year and it was alot of fun! We hung out with our friends Russell, Jennifer and Kylee at their house and ate chili. Some of the grandparents came too.

I made these Frankenstein Brownies.. Aren't they cute?!

Yes she is licking my head! Maybe she likes the taste of hairspray!

We always act silly when we get together :)

The bug catcher and his butterflies :)

Riley liked her daddy's "old man" hat!

Riley was packed up and ready to go!!!

This was her first house to "trick-or-treat" EVER!!

This is so sweet! Mama butterfly and baby butterfly.

She had a nice little set up.

That's one pampered cow!

This is what she looked like by the end of the night. Do you think we wore her out?!

Pumpkin Patch

A few days before Halloween, Dranmaw and I took Riley to Cedar Hills Farm to ride on the hayride and pick her a pumpkin. She liked everything but the petting zoo, which is strange because she normally loves animals! Here are some of the animals we saw...

This cow was giving me the crazy eye!!

I spot a Riley Cow!!

We also rode a little train, watched the chicken show, and played on the pirate ship. But i think she had the most fun in the corn maze..

And riding the pony. Doesn't she look like a natural?!

Jack-o-Latern

In the past 2 weeks Riley has popped out 3 new teeth! If you look at the diagram below you see the tooth labeled 'Lateral incisor'- that would be the first tooth she received on the top row. Not quite the "fang" tooth or 'Canine' as seen here, but DEFINITELY not the front tooth either! Never the less, she has been working diligently (day AND night) on getting those other teeth in. So to date she has her 2 front bottom teeth, both upper lateral incisors, and the right central incisor. Before you know it she'll be able to eat a steak with her friend MaKay!! There's not a picture of Riley and her pearly whites at this moment. But as soon as i catch her, hog-tie her down, and pry her mouth open- all while holding a camera... i'll be sure to put it up here!

I finally got a picture of all her new teeth...

This one looks "prettier"..

Oh and she now has her left central incisor as well :)

EVOO

Riley always has "fly-aways", so i thought i could make it look a little better by putting some olive oil in her hair during bath-time. Well it didn't quite turn out that way! So we made mohawks instead...

She looks excited about it, doesn't she?!

I just smoothed it down and added a bow, which made her look like a gypsy child..

From now on i think we're just going to stick with Baby Oil!

9 months

Nine month picture attempts:

She's holding the sign GREAT but turned around (and her diaper is showing!!)...

Playing with mr. girafee, can't read the sign, and she's not looking at the camera...

YAY! She's looking at camera, but you can't read the sign AND she's eating it...Taped the sign to the crib, but you can't see mr. giraffee...its cute though...

Throwing mr. giraffee out of the crib...over...and over...and over..

Taped the sign to her back, but she kept crawling away...

Can see the sign, and mr. giraffee... But i like this one better...

Whew... Monthly pics are starting to wear me out!!!!