A New Baby Is On the Way

Well, as you can see we are expecting, Riley is going to be a big sister!! We are due on October 2nd. So far this pregnancy has been the complete opposite of Riley's and I am feeling much worse than the first go around. I am really hoping in the next couple of weeks I will begin to feel better since we are now through the first trimester. We had our first ultrasound yesterday and so far everything looks really good. As you can see from the picture it looks like he is a thumb sucker already -- for those of you wondering where to look, the head is on the left, profile shot, you can see a little hand by the mouth, and on the right are the little legs. Now to explain...I stated "he" because the lady doing the ultrasound says she thinks about 70% chance that it is a boy, but there are no guarantees. We will know for sure at our next ultrasound at 18 weeks. But knowing that information makes it really hard not to say "he".

Playing with My Water Table

Saturday was such a beautiful day that we put water in Riley's water table and let her have fun and boy did she. She had a blast!! She likes to put rocks in her water table and as you can see from the pictures she got soaking wet.

Such a Cutie

Our Visit to the Zoo

Riley and I met some friends at the zoo last week! Riley enjoyed seeing the animals, although I think she was more interested in the mud puddles we found in the petting zoo area. She was definitely more interested in them than in petting the goats...silly girl!

WOW...What a Saturday

Today Riley had so much fun! We went to our cousin Ashley's 8th birthday party at a place called "Pump It Up". For those of you wondering what it is...it is a wonderful place to have a birthday party. It has two different rooms that you play in with really, really BIG bouncy things. At first Riley played with the little car they had there, but then I took her into one of the bouncy things (there were only a couple of kids in it at that time) and it was all over from there. Matt and I spent the next hour taking turns going in and out of the bouncy things, sliding, climbing, jumping...man it was exhausting. Riley had so much fun!! After that we went into a separate room for pizza and cake; once Riley had those she was ready for a nap. Needless to say we left the party a little early before she had a melt down.

Watch out, it's a new driver!!


Mom and Riley going down the slide (if you look at our hair you can tell you move rather quick on the slide). Riley wanted to keep doing it, she thought it was wonderful!!


Riley and dad about to go down (I tried to get an action shot, but the camera did not take the picture - I am sure it was user error).


After a few minutes in the car.

After her much needed nap we went over to Ashley's house for more birthday fun! Riley just wanted to play with the big kids. Once we returned home Riley found a new way to play with her shopping cart toy...she just wanted to sit in it.

Listen to Me

Here it is...Riley saying Haleigh - the first time around not so good so keep listening for the second one.

Sunday Chores

Sunday we stayed in most of the day and got some chores done. Riley always wants to help do everything, or she mimics what you are doing. Here is what Sunday was like...

Dad changing out the fan in the living room.

Riley working on the fan dad had taken down already.

Saturday at the Ballpark

Saturday we went to a Spring Training game with some friends and we had lots of fun. It was a beautiful day!! We had lawn seats in the shade which was wonderful. Then down side was how steep the hill was we were sitting on was, so it was a little challenging for the kids. Riley enjoyed picking the grass.

She also enjoyed hugging Ella!! She just kept giving her hugs and kisses, it was so sweet.