Just a quick general post on Life with Riley these days. This has to be one of the best phases of parenthood. Just walking over to the park with Riley is an experience...he's basically nonstop color commentary. Look Mommy! Pwane! (Plane) Look Mommy! Bird! When we get to the playground, if anyone is there he starts yelling "Hey guys! I'm here! I brought my basketball! Here I come!" He's infamous at the playground! Everyone knows Riley and how much he LOVES basketball!
It's just a fun time of "Get me Mommy! Get me!" - which means I have to chase him while he runs almost falling from giggling so hard! We did that for a good 30 minutes in the cold, rain this morning! (Remind me of this if he's ill tomorrow am!) Then we played in a puddle of water for another 10 minutes running back and forth through it and looking at our footprints and jumping and splashing. The simplest things are the MOST fun with him right now!
We can have full on conversations about certain things! He got his hair cut the week before last, and he STILL hates it and cries the entire time! But I feel like I have to tell him where we're going - I don't want to just spring it on him! So as we drove there it went something like this:
Mommy - "We're going to see Ms Sheree"
Riley - "No Mommy! I don't like haircut!" I didn't even know he knew her name! ha!
Mommy - "Why don't you like it?"
Riley - "No Mommy! It tickles my neck!" As he grabs his neck.
Mommy - "Well you're not supposed to cry if it tickles! Remember Ms. Sheree will give you a sucker after your all done."
Riley - perking up - "Suckaaah?!"
Mommy - "Yes, if you just sit there still and let her cut your hair REALLY fast, you'll get your sucker in no time!"
Riley - "Okay Mommy."
We park at the place, he starts saying No Mommy and cries through the entire hair cut. She takes the cape off him - he magically stops and asks "Can I have a suckaaah peez?" And we're done! He even says "Thank you Ms Sheree". I think he's just conditioned and thinks he has to cry now!
Speaking of - he is a creature of habit - you do something ONE time - and the association is FOREVER made! We went to McDonald's for 'cake-cakes' (pancakes) ONE time, and McDonald's will forever be cake-cakes - he just doesn't understand they don't serve them 24/7.
Kelly went and got us donuts for breakfast ONE Saturday morning - now Riley wakes up every Saturday morning - "Daddy Donuts!" He even did it this weekend with Kelly out of town, so he and I had to go get donuts ourselves!
In the morning when we leave, Kelly always walks us out to the garage and puts Riley in his car seat and Riley says "Bye Daddy! See you tomorrow!" as we back out EVERY morning!
When we pull in the garage at the end of the day, he starts yelling "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy coming!". If for some reason, Kelly isn't home before us - I have to start preparing him before we get close!
Every night when it's bath time, he has to run in the corner of his room naked and lie down with his stuffed animals and blanket and say "I sleeping Mommy!" and breathe heavy like he's already asleep!
He always has to run a "lap" around the house naked after his bath too! Just giggling the whole way!
Every morning as soon as I pick him up out of his bed, he says "Go see Daddy" so we have to go see Daddy and wake him up too.
OMG! He's just soooo sweet! More and more we are getting unsolicited "I WUV you Mommy/Daddy!" which melts my heart every time! He even told my friend Darcy - "Bye, I wuv you Darcy!" as we were leaving from meeting her for breakfast this am.
We still have to listen to the "Buzz Year sad" song in the car almost every car trip.
As soon as I put him in his car seat at school when I pick him up, he immediately starts saying "pack-pack! snacks!" Meaning - get the snacks you better hope you didn't forget to pack this am out of my backpack please! Stat! I'm hungry!
Anytime my phone rings - he says "GiGi" because she's the only person he's ever really talked to on the phone.
Okay....that's all I can think of for now!
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