I'm pretty much an adult now...

Riley told me he was bored of the last blog and wanted something new and fresh! SO...here it is. Riley's new blog :)

The biggest news this summer is that: Riley is 1!!! YaaAAYYyy!

His first birthday party went off without a hitch. Thanks for coming everyone! We had a blast and were so glad you all could make it!! Riley loves all his gifts and had a great time in the pool with all the kids. He had NO clue what was going on with the dino dig or pinata, but it looked like he enjoyed watching everyone else :) So thanks again everyone!!!!

So...we are still trying to recover from his birthday party, Kansas and just the summer in general. It seems like we have something to do every minute these days. Which is awesome, but the fact that it is August already, is crazy. We havent even had a chance to go surfing yet...BOOOOO!

The great news though is that Riley is developing so much, so fast. He is walking everywhere now. His new favorite things are to play with his refrigerator magnets and when we open the fridge, he likes to pull the fruit drawer open, pull out and apple and carry it around pretty much all day or night taking little baby bites every few minutes. We have to wash it about every 5 minutes since he tends to drop it in random places around the house. YuuuMMMyy! He is also copying EVERYTHING we do!!!

He loves following mommy and daddy everywhere and carrying our house phone (which is now his phone since its dead) around the house, holding it up to his ear and saying "A doh. A doh!" He has his own language and it seems like we can understand some things he is saying, but most of it is still gibberish. Its real cute cause you can tell he tries to copy some of the stuff we say, but cant quite get it. No more swearing for mom and dad anymore. Crap!!!

Ummm, he is sleeping like a champ. 11 to 12 hours a night. THANK GOODNESS for that!! Yay! Now if his dumb parents could just go to bed before 11:30pm we might actually get some good sleep too :)

Lets see...what else...Riley is loving his daycare which is a relief. They are teaching him sign language which we will totally take credit for. Hahahaha. Kidding. It was funny...about 2 months ago we went to SF and while I was in the backseat with him he was doing like 3 different signs. I had NO idea what the heck he was doing so when we got home I had to look up signs on the internet. When I asked his daycare lady if she was teaching him sign language she said "O no, are we not supposed to?" Apparently since its summer, our daycare lady's 12 yrd old daughter has been home from school and was bored, so started teaching the kids sign language. AWESOME!!! And I was feeling like a bad parent for not teaching it...wait, maybe that still makes me a bad parent...hmmmm.

Lots of firsts this summer...first birthday, 1st trip to Kansas, 1st trip to Zoo, 1st time swimming, 1st 4th of July, 1st time facing forward in his car seat...and lots of others I think.

K, I think that is it for now. Ohh, at his one year checkup Dr. said he is doing great. 59th precentile for weight and 80th for height. YAYYAYYYAYYY for a tall baby!!!

Pictures to follow of course....HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!