Riley at 32 Months

Favorite Color: Pink, purple and blue
Favorite type of Clothes: Stretchy pants, soft shirts (The other day she asked me if I would stop buying her jeans because they were uncomfortable and hard to pull on and off at daycare when she has to go potty! So I went and got her several pair of stretchy pants and the way she reacted to them you would have thought it was some great toy she had been wanting.)
Clothes Size: This is a tough one. She's right inbetween a size 2T and 3T. If anyone is thinking of buying her clothes for Christmas, go ahead and get a 3T.
Shoe Size: Size 8. And boy does she love shoes! All shoes!
Favorite toys: Puzzles. Any art supplies, such as markers, paint. Baby dolls. Trains, cars. Dress-up items, jewelery, games, balls, Lightening McQueen, Thomas the Train, Little People.
Favorite Food: Pizza with pineapple, crackers and apple with brie (That's right; Jason and I bought some brie for us one evening to eat after she went to bed. She insisted on having some and practically ate the whole thing of brie. Now she asks for it all the time.) Fruit, fish sticks.
Favorite Drink: Chocolate milk
Favorite Read: She loves fairytales right now: Three Little Pigs, anything along those lines.
Favorite Cartoons: Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry, Dora the Explorer, Diego.
Favorite Movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, (She drives us crazy with this movie!!) Scooby Doo movie, The Little Mermaid, and always her favorite, Cars.
Favorite Disney Character: Lightening McQueen and Ariel.
Favorite Music: Riley is just now getting to where she really enjoys music. I remember Eric had a passion for music right from the beginning. She's always singing some little tune and loves to dance.
General Interests: Riley is still very active. Her all-time favorite is just going to the park, anything to do with being outside. Her favorite friend is a little girl named Anju and another little girl named Lauren. She has a real love/hate relationship with a little boy named Eli. Oh, he's such a cutie, though. (Thought I better write that in here since you never know what the future holds, right?) One minute she's a real girly-girl, then the next she's as crazy as any little boy and absolutely loves playing with cars, trucks, trains, et cetera. She will ask you "why" about a hundred times, until you've gone in a complete circle with something and you've completely run out of answers. She's very curious about everything and when you're trying to explain something, you can tell she's really trying to figure it out. When I get her dressed in the morning, she'll go over to Jason with her hands on her hips sometimes and say, "Do you like me now?" And she is constantly rhyming. She's always rhyming her words, which is pretty funny.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I "love" Halloween! Maybe it's the change in weather, seasons, a holiday where there's no pressure what to get anyone for gifts, no pressure about what to make for dinner, et cetera. Riley and I had so much fun picking out costumes. Little Red Riding Hood is one of her favorite stories, and she really enjoyed having Jason dressed like the Big Bad Wolf. Halloween started with Riley getting dressed up for daycare. I only had her go for a couple hours so she could enjoy the party and seeing all the other kids dressed up. There was a cowboy, a firefighter, and a kitty. (There are four kids in Riley's daycare.) Then we were off to a grocery store that puts on a fun event for the kids. We went to Trunk or Treat. This was the first year for this event and it was pretty cool. It's a huge parking lot where several cars, vans and pickups are all parked in rows, like a car show. Their trunks or back of vans or trucks are all decorated. There was a van that was made up like a big ship and we could actually walk through it! Each car was giving out candy. We then met up with some friends and let the girls go trick-or-treating together and give out candy at their house. The girls were so excited. At one point Lauren, Riley's friend who is the pumpkin in the second picture, felt it was taking too long to answer the door and gave a very exasperated, "Come on" right as he was opening the door. It was so hard to keep Riley from, first of all, ringing on the doorbell, but then pounding on the door. Every house we had to hold the girls back from practically breaking down their door! It was a late night, but everyone had a great time!

Halloween - Part I

The weekend before Halloween we went to the Pumpkin Prowl at the zoo. Riley loved seeing Jason in his big bad wolf mask and she was Little Red Riding Hood. Jason was quite a hit with the kids; they would just stare at him when we walked by! Riley wouldn't let Jason take the mask off for nothing! The zoo puts on quite a Halloween event. The pumpkins they carve are really amazing.

Fun Times!

Okay, we had so much fun the first weekend we went to Remlinger Farms, we went back again the next weekend and took some friends. The two girls had so much fun. They rode on rides, pet all the animals, toured a haunted house, rode a pony, and much, much more! The hay pics were so much fun and don't you like how Jason cleans her off at the end - picks her up and holds her upside down! Riley really enjoyed the pony ride, and wouldn't let us touch her when she was on the horse - no way! She was going to enjoy this all on her own!

Pumpkin Time

We went to Remlinger Farms to get our pumpkins. We enjoyed a hay ride and picked out some mighty fine pumpkins. Riley, just like last year, did not particularly care for the cleaning out of the pumpkins! However, she really enjoyed picking the type of face she wanted and helping cut out the face.

Funny Blurbs

Today I was asking Riley to do something and she said, "You're bugging my chops, mom." (sorta like busting my chops, I suppose.)

Riley loves grapes. Jason accidentally bought some that had seeds in them this last time. Today I went through the grapes to get the seeds out. I then, after about a half hour, gave a big bowl of grapes to Riley. At the end she found a seed in one of her grapes and said, Mom, I found a seed. You need to be more careful; I could've choked."

Handygirl

I'm not really sure why, but Riley loves hammers, drills, screwdrivers, et cetera. She is always asking me to let her use the hammer to "fix" something - yeah, sure!

Lil' Dancers!

The kids at the wedding were a wild bunch! Riley loved this little boy that was behind her - all the girls did!

Future Bride?

We went to a beautiful wedding of my cousins and had a great time. I wanted to show her wedding dress, as I thought it was so unusual with the blue that runs down the back. It was beautiful and very fitting for her. It was so cute because at the end of the ceremony, they put on sunglasses and danced their way down the isle! That's Shannah! Another great thing at the wedding were these little "Future Bride" bags. They were filled with the cutest toys and Riley loved it! We had a great time at the ceremony and Riley got in a little dancing, as did Jason and I - first time since our honeymoon!

Elephant in the Room!

Riley makes such cute things at daycare. Every day she brings home projects and is usually wearing some animal hat. In her preschool she is on the letter "F." Every two weeks they do a different letter of the alphabet. This is an elephant hat that she made for the letter-E week. Cracks me up!

More Leavenworth Pics

Riley's First Race

What a proud moment for Daddy - getting Riley ready to run the race!

Leavenworth Trip

Just like last year, we had another great trip in Leavenworth. This place is so much fun! Jason's parents always watch Riley for us so we can go have a nice dinner. Okay, that was the second nice dinner we've had together since Riley has been born! I was able to get a little Christmas shopping done for Riley while doing some shopping in Leavenworth. They have an amazing candy store where I was able to get some stocking stuffers. We were able to go to the farm where they have pumpkins, a maze, animals to feed, great food, and a store with crafts, food, et cetera. Riley took a ride on the little cow ride. She wanted to sit at the end because I told her that was the fastest one! On Sunday we went to the Salmon Festival at the Fish Hatchery. Check out the photo album on the side - those are all the pics from our trip. There is a section where they have tons of costumes, and the kids just try on different ones. How fun! Riley, Brayden, and Cheyenne did great paintings of fish, enjoyed music, and Grandpa Hoyt
bought Riley her first cup of hot coco.

Aauugh, She's so Sweet!

The other day Riley and I were grocery shopping. She had some money and dropped it on the floor. Riley says, "I'm sorry, Mom, I dropped my money. Please, could you pick it up?" A lady overheard this and stopped and was gushing at what a sweet girl she was to say sorry like that. As she was going on and on, I was picking up the money for Riley. As the lady was still there, I handed the money over to Riley. She wrinkled her face up in this awful little squishy face and said in a not-so-sweet voice, "Now, give me my money!!" Ugh, the lady looked a little uncomfortable at this point and just walked off!!! Oh, Riley, couldn't you have just kept it up for two minutes longer?

Lil' Seagal!

Funny Blurbs!

Riley says hilarious things every day. I thought I would blog one day of "silly comments."

1. Jason was going to run after dinner and was on his way in the kitchen for seconds. I reminded Jason that since he needed to run he might want to think about seconds! Riley, with her body puffed up and head down, with eyebrows furled up, said, "Don't tell my daddy not to eat; he needs his energy!"

2. "Mommy, I forgot what I was going to say. What was I going to say?" I reply, "I don't know, Riley. To which she replies, very frustrated, "No, mom, what was I going to say? I don't remember. What was I going to say! TELL ME WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY!!" We must have went round and round with this forever, as I am trying to convince her that I really had no idea what she was going to say!

Puyallup State Fair

Riley enjoyed her first fair last weekend. What a great time we had! I was very nervous when Riley got on her first ride, which was probably too fast of a ride to be her first. I "pretended" to be very enthusiastic, however! She wasn't too sure and just kept looking at me to see if it was fun or not. Finally she decided that it was very fun, and that was the end of any hesitation. She and Lauren went on rollercoasters, helicopters, haunted houses, you name it! Riley and I went to the fair with some friends, Danielle and Lauren. The two girls were so funny together. In the helicopter ride, they are actually holding hands! (check out the photo album on the side of the fair!) It was pouring rain that day, but on the other hand, nice that we didn't have any lines for the rides! This pic is of her visiting Diego.

Go Cougs!

What a great cougs game! Riley was a very faithful chearleader! She got a kick out of being able to yell as loud as she wanted without hearing, "Inside voice!!" And trust me, she took advantage! I absolutely love going to football games and hope we can get to a Seahawk's game. Looks like they're doing good this year so it might be hard to get tickets.