My Dad had Wednesday off and when he said bye to the kids with a "See you tomorrow for Turkey Day," Riley replied with a sing songy "Otay but I do not like turkey." Cracked everyone up. Still does since I have a big smile on my face just remembering it. He is funny. He never lacks words and seriously is just funny. Oh and we made these deliciously cute turkeys.
We have peeked in on him before bed a few nights in the last few weeks and because our bedtime keeps creeping up earlier and earlier (ha, like 8:20 kind of early) he seems to be always awake with a big grin on his face so we have invited him to bed with us to snuggle. As he makes his way into our room with at the minimum 2 puppies and a lovie he repeats "snuddles, snuddles, snuddles." And typing it out does it absolutely no justice. It's quite possibly the cutest word he has said ever and it made us all laugh so hard the first night he started repeating it that we almost woke Lyssi Lu up!
We had conferences for Riley Monday night. Yes, they have conferences for 3 year old's. It was actually really informative and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. I got a really good chill and goosebumps when Mrs Jane opened up with a prayer for our Riley and his future. It was humbling to realize that someone else takes an interest in the well-being and spiritual growth of our child. I had to keep repeating to myself "don't cry, once you start you never stop, don't cry, look at the pictures and smile, ask questions, but don't start crying." We learned that Riley never stops smiling in class, that he had an issue with another boy over a truck and that they worked it out on their own deciding to share, that he loves storytime and that everything he does is age appropriate. And that school picture, for a stereo-typical set-up and pose, well it doesn't get much cuter. My Dad carries it around in his shirt pocket pulling it out to show everyone. Pride: Check.
Alyssa my lu is continuing to sleep like a little pro. Bless her heart. She is waving goodbye and hello with much praise coming from us. She continues to shy away from crawling and now that I have set up the tree we are just that much more content with the state of her crawling! She is all girl. We noticed that when we put dresses on her she just lights up like well, a Christmas tree. It's so cute. All smiles, gumming it up extra for Daddy who just thinks she is the prettiest thing he's ever seen. I took her on a shopping spree and we tried on some Baby Gap dresses and the price-tag was hard to swallow but I put that dress on her (the one) and she was enamored with herself in the mirror. Guaranteed that if Daddy was there even he would have ignored the price-tag.
Speaking of Daddy and our Lu lu, is there nothing more precious than the love between a girl and her Daddy?
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| Daddy keeps her safe |
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| And she loves her some leaves! |
We leave for Vegas in 19 days. Be like WHOA. I am not nervous. D is a darn near basket case bout leaving those kids of ours. I am sure I will be all weepy and nervous but for now I am just looking forward to the unknown of what one does when they have no kids for 3.5 consecutive days! Seriously, what did we do before kids!? We have never been away from the kids for more than a night so challenge this will be but I think it will be good for everyone.
Work is so draining right now. We are short like 7-8 people short. It's quite miserable and the old "be thankful you have a job" phrase is just annoying currently. Exciting news is a raise in the near future for a change in job titles (across the board for me and all my co-workers because we are all cross trained in the lab) and a few new benefits for the 2012 year including $20 off to a gym and something else that I got excited about but can't for the life of me remember.
We had family pictures taken for Christmas and I loved the photog, her in home studio and her style. She has one of the classiest eyes for shots and seriously the best editing eye I have seen. I can't imagine any of our shots coming out great though because I was too worried about Lyssi punching Riley and Riley giving a cheesy smile to remember to smile myself so we will have to see.
I already have Lyssi Lu's first b-day planned out, down to the invitation and the decor. I have had this vision since she was in-utero. I also have Riley's 4th b-day planned out. It's amazing how my brain works as I run through words in my head that rhyme with 2, 3, 1 etc.
Our children have started playing together. Riley hands her a toy and she laughs and hands it back. Riley tickles her and 'wrestles' with her and they laugh and chitter chatter back and forth. We are the creepers tip-toeing around making sure not to interrupt their special time and sneaking lenses in and around corners because it is caute!
This picture cracks me up. My Dad asked me numerous times if I got pictures of all the mums this year and I did, except the baby girl didn't care for my many attempts. Case in point...
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| See those colors Dad?! |
We ate at Olive Garden recently and have realized that 90% of the time we have horrible service. This last time we waited 18 minutes for anyone/someone to come to our table. 18 minutes with 2 small children can be like an eternity. Then when we finally got our salads our dinners came out at the same time! It was good eating but probably we will be thinking twice about it next time.
I feel lighter, maybe even full of more energy now that I got all that off my chest. Preserving these memories so that years down the road we can remember the important stuff like in 2012 we saved a combined $40 off at the Y and so forth. : ) Nighty Night!
