Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Santa, Crawling, and Personalities Abound


Look who met Santa!

So we decided during a trip to Denver this past weekend that we ought to take Riley to meet Santa, since we weren't sure if we were going to make it to Denver again before Christmas and didn't want to feel like we needed to go down just to make sure we got a picture of her with Santa. She did great- until she realized he was holding her- she smiled for the picture but as soon as they were done he started talking to her and looked at her and then she reached right for Ken and started breathing all hard. It was pretty darn funny. This weekend she also figured out the power of her mobility via crawling! She can now get into anything- at least she thinks she can and feels the need to at least try to get into everything at any opportunity. It's pretty funny, while it definitely keeps us on our toes! She is cracking us up all the time lately- so much personality in such a little person! She gets excited when Ken comes home from work and sad when he leaves- it's pretty cute.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Sorry For Slacking!

I can stand up on my own!

Lobster For Halloween

Riley and her friend Sam

The snow is flying outside and we here have realized we have been rather neglectful in updating Riley's blog! Here are some highlights of the last few months:
Riley LOVES other kids. She loves other babies, and older kids, and usually will just sit there and stare and laugh at them.
Last Saturday she cut her first tooth! She had been waking up in the middle of the night a few times and just wouldn't go back to sleep. We thought she was just being a pain in the butt but then were totally excited to look in her mouth and feel the tooth. Overall she has been pretty chill with teething- not too bad at all.
She is taking swimming lessons at the Rec Center- the class is called Tadpoles and is full of kids under a year. There are 4 kids in the class that were all born within 2 weeks of each other- Riley is the oldest, and she loves it! She is really starting to enjoy swimming.
No more immobile child! As soon as she mastered rolling both ways (which was awhile ago) she has now moved on to rolling all over the condo and reaching for things. She can go from knees to sitting up (which she can do completely by herself) and is rarely in the same spot you set her down in when you come back to the room. I set her in the middle of the living room and came back and she had pulled herself up on the couch and was grabbing at the laptop and the remote.
She looooooooves keyboards. The other day she managed to shut off my laptop and Ken asked later "why did you turn off your computer?" and I responded "I didn't, Riley did!"
She is totally digging on solid foods. So far her favorites seems to be green beans and bananas. She also loves the little dissolvable gerber puffs.
So that's where we're at for now! Her first Iowa vs. Ohio State game is this weekend- this is a big one in our house! And awesome this year because it is a battle for the Rose Bowl! go buckssss! Riley will be in the scarlet and gray!