Riley's Newborn Photo Shoot

When Riley was 8 days old, we had a photographer come to the house to get shots of her and our family. You would never know that my angelic toddler gave us a difficult time that day. After the session ended, my parents watched the girls and Troy and I went to lunch where I ordered a beer. I needed to get out of the house before I had a melt down. :-)

Despite that I couldn't be more pleased with how the photos came out. Riley is such a sweet baby. We think she will be quite outgoing if her personaility is anything like it is now. We love you Riley Rue and couldn't be happier that it's you who God decided to join our little family.

Kendall & Riley Updates

Kendall has a lot to say these days at 2.5 years. She has an amazing memory particularly for peoples names. She loves to tell me the names of her friends, family, characters on her favorite show Dora the Explorer, random people she's met and the list goes on. She loves to laugh..just laugh her head off..as she did at Aunt Ew (Lou) & Uncle Jon's house on Mother's Day. Dancing is still her favorite past time...she can't get enough. Music must be constantly playing in our home throughout the day and if I turn it off she will find some noise making toy to dance to.

 Translating the language of K:
"Hold you" translation "Pick me up and hold me"
"Pie-you" translation "Pee you"
"Ready set go" translation "Let's go already"
"Bug hurt you" translation "I'm scared the bug will hurt me"

Mommy: What's your name?
K: Kendall
Mommy: What's your last name?
K: Big Girl
You think Mommy has been planting that seed in her head just a little. LOL

"Smiley" Riley must smile 100 times a day at 2 months old...now almost 3! She just love to show me her gums and form her mouth to what looks like she is saying "Hello". At 10 weeks she is quit the social butterfly taking after her father. She is very concerned with missing out on something during the day so she fights sleep to the point of exhaustion. She got that trait from me...what goes around comes around. Below are pictures from our visit to CA. We had such a great time as always with Grandma & Grandpa Lap and all our friends and family. Can't wait to see you all again in September! Love you.

Friends Kendall and Audrey playing after dinner at Spaghetti Factory

I told you Riley was Smiley!

Mommy and Kendall

Kendall and Baker at our Family Park Play Date

Kiddos playing

It's lunch time who's hungry...everyone!

Caleb Elson and Mia 

Audrey, Kendall and Caleb Williams

Kendall and Caleb E. pose while at our play date and the Elson Home

Kendall and the Calebs

Kendall at breakfast at G&G Laps

Good Morning Girls

Kendall and her Uncle Jon

That's right people I'm 2 months

Kendall wearing Grandma's old glasses

Grandpa Lap doing Kunta Kinte to Riley like her use to do with me as a little baby

Grandma G. and Riley

Grandpa G. and Riley

Do these girls look like sisters or what :-)

Riley's 1st Road Trip & Smile

Riley experienced her first road trip at 5 weeks. We drove to Austin for Troy's Cousin Jen's wedding. The girls were awesome it was Troy and I who had a bit of difficulty. Troy had to unexpectedly work the morning we were to leave and then packing up the car too MUCH longer than usual so we got off 5 hours later than we had hoped. We took the double stroller which requires our back up car seat because our regualr baby care seat doesn't fit on the double stroller. We have never used the back up car seat (1st mistake) so as we are heading out of Dallas we look back and see Riley is leaning way forward. Whoops! We installed the car seat incorrectly so we had to pull over and take a half an hour to read the seat instructions to figure out what we had done wrong. Then back on the road! We then had to stop so I could feed Riley. What should have been a 30 minute stop turned into an hour with all the diaper changes and snacking by Daddy and Kendall. So we get to our hotel in 5 hours instead of what should have been 3 1/2 but oh well we made it. Troy goes inside the hotel to check us and while I start to unload the car to which I realize....WE FORGOT MY BAG!!!!! Thank goodness I hung all our wedding close on a hanger so at least I had one outfit. Needless to say I had to use Troy's toothbrush and hit Target for some essentials and a new outfit. All in all is was a great trip. We got to spend time with family we haven't seen in quit a while and they all got to meet Riley and see how much Kendall has grown. We made a lot of mistakes on this trip so hopefully we won't make as many next time around. Troy's Grandma and Grandpa & Aunt Anne stopped by our hotel room to visit. Afterward Troy and the girls passed out while I got ready for the wedding.

This is what Kendall insisted on wearing on our road trip!

Kendall at the wedding riding a horse tire swing while eating an oatmeal cookie.

Riley also experienced another 1st at 6 weeks---her 1st smiles! I caught her smiling at all the funny faces and things I was saying while changing her diaper. I think it's the cutest smile!