Friday the 13th or April Fools?

I was on the phone wishing my dad a happy birthday and my mom says "Little Bit has been pretty quiet..." Well I had sent her to her room because she was being kinda crabby, so I just said she was up resting. Normally when I send her to her room, she reads with her pluggy in bed. This time she found a marker that was in the growth chart that hangs behind her door. Here's some of the damage...and YES I made her help Mommy clean up...her bottle has water in it. Thank God for Mr. Clean Magic Eraser...now if I can just get the curtains and the changing pad clean we should be ok.

TIGF

I'm thankful for Grandparents. Mine, Josh's, Riley's...And today, on Friday the 13th of all days, we are thankful for Grandpa Tom's birthday! Happy Birthday dad! Hope this is a lucky, happy day for you! We love you!!!

Whew! We've Been Busy!

I love that so many of my friends are Nanny's or stay-at-home moms. We have had a very busy week! As I mentioned before, on Tuesday we ventured out in the snow to go play with Mandy and her nanny kids (forgot the camera). Yesterday, our friend Jilly came over with her little guy, Christopher, and we had a fun playdate here (again forgot to take out the camera?!?!) And today, my friend Shannon and her nanny girls, Emme and Izze, our friend Breann and her niece, Maddy, and Riley and I went to Bender Bowl (New Hope Bowl if you need the technical name) and then we went to lunch at Applebees. At some point near the 7th frame, the girls decided to read instead, but they did pretty well all through lunch too. Whew! We have been on the move! I think tomorrow I have to run one quick errand and then we're having a down day!

Poker Night

Last Saturday, Meg and Chris had us all over for a poker night at their place. It was my sisters, brothers-in-law and Meg's brother and sister-in-law Matt and Amber and then of course the kiddos. The boys and Amber played poker, the kids played with Adee's toys and the moms...well we kinda watched Nemo and did come catching up. In the picture where Riley and Auntie Meg are on the floor with the letters, Riley had a big long story about what all that said.

It was a fun evening and Riley talked about it all the way home. "And Adrienne was sleeping...and Kiley was pukin...and Zacky was"....etc. She had a lot to talk about and didn't fall asleep all the way home! (And it's a 45 minute drive!)

Catching Up

I've been slacking on the posts with pics lately. I'm still working out the kinks of downloading and editing photos from the new camera. It seems like sometimes I can edit red-eye and sometimes I can't and our computer is ancient so it takes forever. Enough excuses, here are some pics of a playdate we had last week. These are my friends Jenny and Aimee and their boys, Nolan (yes, both of them are Nolan) and some of Riley and Ava...Adrienne wasn't holding still for pics that day, but Meg knows Jenny and Aimee from our days at MNMO so she joined us so the kids could all finally meet.

Today we actually had a playdate with my friend Mandy and the two kids she nannys for, but I forgot to take my camera out while we were there. It's a beautiful house and the kids were really sweet...Ellery is 2 and a bit shy...and Bennett is 9 months.

New Stall Tactic?

Tonight when Riley was stalling for bedtime, she had been in her room about 30 minutes. I thought she was asleep. Then she opened her bedroom door and said "Mom, I got a boogie!" So I went to take care of it...I went into her room and said "Remember how we're supposed to use a kleenex for that? and she said "Uh-huh" then she handed me the "boogie" and said "Here, I picked it out for you!"

She is also getting very specific about needing two blankets to cover her with and she lets you know if you forgot one. She sleeps with her penguin almost every night too. Now if we could just get rid of that pluggy! (That on is admittedly my fault!)

I am also one step closer to the potty training plan...Riley and Mommy picked out Tinker Bell big girl underpants at Target this week. She was really excited about Tinker Bell so hopefully we will be motivating soon! (I'm looking forward to summer for that, I think...seems easier for accidents??)

I saw a Robin!

I forgot to mention on the way home from the Humane Society breakfast yesterday, I saw not one but TWO robins! Sping is coming...YEAH!!!