What a Way to Start the Day

Pretty quiet day. Started out with a beautiful sunrise. Amazing how it changes from day to day.

Didn't have much to do this morning, just Weight Watcher's where I was down .4. Good thing I got my haircut yesterday or I might not have lost anything. Didn't get in as much walking this past week so I will have to remedy that.

No errands today because I did everything yesterday so we were back to the apartment just before 0900.

Today Riley dumped all his toys in a pile and then sat in the middle of them and played for a long time. We also colored but Riley makes it difficult, he always wants the crayon that I'm using so I don't get much done.

Went right down for his nap today and slept for about 2.5 hours. More of the same playing this afternoon. Although he did come up with a new game, how much stuff can we put up the leg of Gramma's shorts. Quite a bit actually and this kept him occupied for a good long time.

Not much else going on today. So everyone have a good weekend.

What a Day

I knew today was going to be busy but I didn't realize how much I would get done. I was going to start the day by coloring my hair(I know, you're saying to yourself "She colors her hair, I can't believe that), when I went to get the hair coloring I found that I didn't have any. I always have a box under the sink. So I had to skip that.

My next task is my most hated household chore, DUSTING. I put it off as long as I can which means there is generally about an inch or so covering every flat surface. I did everything in the living room, computer room and miscellaneous things in the other rooms. Didn't feel like taking all the Santa's down and doing them.

My big goal for today was to get as many of the pictures I have edited over the last three weeks uploaded to Scrapbookpictures.com. That was something I worked all day on. I had set up all the albums yesterday so that made things go much smoother today. Got all of January and half of February done. Will finish up next week.

I also went into town (is that what you call going to WalMart). First I got my hair cut, the girl took me at my word when I said I wanted it short. I think this is the shortest I have ever had it. It's about an inch at the longest. Just means I can go longer until my next haircut.

Then it was to the Post Office to check the vacationer's mail.

I was going to get gas next but the gas station at WalMart was crazy so I decided to go after I went into WalMart. Picked up a few things including my hair coloring. Had a hard time finding my shade, wonder if they are phasing it out or changing their numbering system again.

The gas station hadn't cleared up but I had to get gas so I just sat in line. One of the pumps wasn't taking credit cards and that always causes problems.

Stopped at Sonic on the way home for a diet coke.

Got my hair colored, vacuumed and did all the laundry. So you can see I was a very busy girl.

Just wanted to wish John a Happy Birthday again.

Look Who's the Birthday Boy

Happy Birthday John. Hope you have a great day and get all the presents you want. We love you.

Little Green Heron

When we went out for our walk this morning Riley just had to take a blanket. He really wanted to take the big Winnie-the-Pooh one from Kim but I convinced him to go with one of his smaller ones otherwise there wouldn't have been enough room in the stroller.

We were walking around the apartment complex when we happened upon this bird. Just singing away minding his own business when along came another bird to chase him away and take over the hight spot in the tree. I just happened to catch this shot.





























Andy has been describing this bird to me wanting to know what it is and this is the first time I've seen it. I knew that this was a Little Green Heron . Pretty interesting how it can pull it's neck right down into it's body or stretch it out really long.

We also walked to Walgreens and found the Cherry M & M's that Dan likes and they were on sale.

Riley has always been a dancer but today I saw a new one when the Geico commercial with the dancing caveman came on. His hands went up over his head, a dip of the knees and a swivel of the hips. I started laughing, Riley laughed and he did it again. Will have to get the camera out that does video and try to catch him doing this dance. It was to cute.

Another day going down late for his nap. It was almost noon but he was out like a light. Slept until just before three and wasn't to interested in his lunch. I'm sure he will eat sometime.

Dan's medium day turned into not getting home until almost 1800. Just one of those days that everything took longer they it should have.

He Loves His Food

Today was a walk along the lake front and Riley learned a new trick. We were walking (well, technically he was riding) when a couple of ladies walked by that Riley found very interesting. So he whipped his whole body around to the left so he could watch as they walked away. Well when he did this his right foot landed on the wheel and caused the stroller to pull to the left. Riley thought this was very funny, so he kept doing it. The first couple of time I tried to control the stroller and keep it going straight but then I decided to go with the flow. So we started doing circles and that made us laugh ever more. It was pretty funny and thank goodness Riley forgot about doing it after about 50 circles so we could finally walk in a straight line again.

We were also pretty excited because we saw two alligators. We never see them at this time of day because they are in the shadows on the other side of the pond but today one was in the middle and the other was at the end of the pond near the parking lot. I tried to get them to come closer by offering up Riley as a meal but they must have thought he wouldn't be tender enough. I wonder how big they have to get or what they have to do before they will get moved. I like seeing them right now but they are still very small.

Here is a pretty grainy picture, had to crop it way down so you could see the gator, looks like the two foot one.


Got back to the apartment and it was time for snack, grapes again today. It was a good thing I packed up more because Riley really does love his fruit.

Saw a story on Good Morning America and now I know my constant ramblings to Riley are really good for him. The more words a baby to toddler hears the higher their IQ may be so I'll just keep talking away. This doesn't count tv has to be a real person and it doesn't matter if I just read Hop on Pop fifty times everyone word I say counts.

For some reason today Riley didn't want to go down for his nap. He would go down fine but 5 or 10 minutes later he would want to get up. The first time he came out and laid on the couch for a while and looked like he wanted to go to sleep so back to bed and he wasn't going to go down this time either. This time he was only up for a few minutes before the yawning and eye-rubbing began so back to bed and the third time was the charm.




Had some Mac and Cheese for lunch and really enjoyed it as you can see here.


When he sleeps until 1400 it makes for a short afternoon but we still got plenty of play time in.

Monday, Monday

Brought some red grapes for Riley and me to share today. If I hadn't put them away Riley would have had them all gone at breakfast. Will have to bring more tomorrow.

Decided to go back to Burlington Coat Factory to get a couple more of the bath mats I bought yesterday. Really liked the way the one looked when I put it down this morning so I will replace all the others I have in the bathroom.

We also went to the WalMart on 535 to pick up a couple of things and walk around. Saw lots of tourists with the telltale sunburn of visitors from the north. Most of them looked very painful.

On the way home Riley fell asleep and stayed asleep when I put him in his crib.

As I was driving this morning I realized today was Kim's first day back at achool. Hope she had a good day and gets back into the swing of things in no time.

Riley took a good two hour nap and was ready for lunch when he go up. Had some raviolis, a slice of cheese and 4 doritos. You can still see the remnants of the chips on his face in the picture. I don't know how I could wash his face and miss that much.

Decided to go out for a walk, it was hot but not humid so it was a pretty nice time. We see lots more people on our afternoon walks then we do on our morning walks.

Got back to the apartment and colored for a while. Riley let me know he was done when he handed me the crayons and pointed to the place that we store them and I put them away, he also handed me the coloring book and pad. After that we built some towers and played with his other toys.

By this time Andy was getting home. He showed the new stroller all put together and how it works, quite the contraption.

Quiet evening at home. I finally got around to uploading the last two weeks of pictures of Riley to Kodak. Missed the first week because of Atlanta and yesterday I just forgot.

When You're Right, You're Right

Well I have to bow down to the new bird expert, Andy. I thought he was just pulling my leg and made up a name for the bird but he was right and knew all the particulars about it. So here's to you Andy, I will never doubt you again, or at least not until I think you are just making it up.

Here is the other layout I completed yesterday. Took me longer then I thought it would but that was because I wasn't happy with the way I did the picture of me the first time and had to take a step back. Luckily I didn't have to go back to step one and start over. This is one of those times I really wish digital cameras had been around for much longer then they have. More then half of the pictures are ones I have scanned in and had to go in search of because my system for storing digital pictures has just gotten organized since about June of last year. Don't forget if you want a better view of the layout just click on it.


Only had one thing to do today, went to Burlington coat factory in the Osceola Square Mall with Andy and Nikki to get a double stroller. It is a nice and the infant car seat from Riley will fit on this stroller.

We stopped for lunch and an ice cream at Dairy Queen on the the way home. Riley was not wanting to eat anything until we got our ice cream and he decided it all looked good and tried everyones. He fell asleep on the way home and went into his crib when we got there. Hope he took a nice long nap.

Spent the afternoon just taking it easy, first time in a while that we have done that, felt pretty good.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend and are ready for the work week ahead of them.