This N That!

Just a real quick post so I don't get too far behind again!

GiGi and I got all the preparations for Riley's birthday done last weekend, so I can relax for a couple of weeks before I'm sure I'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off again for the final preparations! I know! I know! Riley doesn't know, care and won't remember! But I WILL! :) Of course the theme is none other than BASKETBALL! I mean! What did you expect?!?!

I'm a little nervous the party may be too much or too long for Riley, but we'll see! It's difficult to plan when all our friends' and family's children that will be attending range in age from 8 months to 10 years old to find something accommodating for everyone! Including Riley! We're having it at Pump It Up which is an inflatable bounce house wonderland INSIDE, so it's climate controlled! Very important for a July 31st birthday party!

We went to my friend's little boys 2nd birthday party yesterday. All went well until the birthday cake and singing of the song - then Riley just started crying as everyone was singing Happy Birthday! It totally reminded me of when he used to cry when I would play the little Kindermusik harmonica for him, but then he still wanted me to keep doing it! We joked that someone must have been out of tune by his standards! I hope that's not a sign of how well his birthday party is going to go!

So as of this week - Riley's new "filler word" meaning the word he says for everything whether he doesn't know the word, or he would normally just be saying ummmm, while he's thinking of the word is Mommy! My dream come true! ha! But it's Kelly's nightmare! I went to see the Beauty and the Beast musical (LOVED IT!!!!!) with my girl friends this week, and Kelly said all he heard the ENTIRE night was Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! I thought he was exaggerating until the next morning started out the SAME way! And it's been like that ever since! Careful what you wish for! But it has to be music to a Mommy's ears! :) However, it's a little weird b/c it's almost like he's taken 2 steps forward and 1 back on his vocabulary. Maybe this is the calm before the toddler talking storm! Oh and by the way, every day on my drive home after picking up Riley all I get to hear is DaDa, DaddYYYYY, DaDaDaddY, all the way home until the garage opens and there is full on squealing until Kelly opens the garage door to greet us! The days when Kelly isn't home before us aren't fun! I try to warn Riley that Daddy will be home later, but there's always a little bit of a let down if Daddy doesn't come to the door!

Riley LOVES pancakes! He'll eat them up like the last supper! We've been having them on the weekends, and watch your fingers b/c he's coming through!! :)

He loves the play area at McDonald's too. That's our go to indoor play area lately because it's been raining so much and preventing him from going outside at school or in the evenings.

Man! Do I ever wish his last 4 molars would just COME IN ALREADY!!! We've digressed to him waking up with them about 5 days out of the week for the last 4 weeks! And Kelly and I are out of practice on the lack of sleep front!!! It's NO fun!

OH yes! A milestone today! He FINALLY blew a bubble by himself!!! Yippee! He and I sat out on our patio for over an hour practicing..and then he finally got it!! And they were cute little baby bubbles!! Just his size! Of course it took 2 bottle of bubbles before he blew any successfully! He would get so distracted trying to blow the bubble..he'd just pour the bubbles out of the bottle in his other hand! And he was so excited! He said Yea!!! When he did it too!

Okay...that'll have to do for now! I've got to get to bed in case tonight is another sleepless night!

Bub....ble! Bub.....ble!

Riley said Bubble!! ha! The things a Mom gets excited about! Dad too! Sometimes when Riley's taking a bath, I blow bubbles on him. To this point, he had been mostly been indifferent too it, and I don't do it all the time. But last Thursday he grabbed the bottle of bubbles off the ledge of the tub so I thought what the heck?!

The first time I blew them toward him - he stood up at the edge of the tub to get into the actoin and he blew too! Except he doesn't really know how to blow, so basically he tucks his top lip in his bottle lip and makes a fart noise with his mouth! OMG! It cracks me up! Then he's blinking with a quizzical look on his face like how did I blow in my own face?

Then the 2nd time I blew he said it! Bub......ble! Then the 3rd time I blew.....he said it again Bub....ble! Faster this time! So of course, I had to call Kelly to come witness this event!

I totally expected him to get performance anxiety and clam up, but the 4th time I blew.....bub...ble! bub....ble! I double header! And Dad witnessed it too! Of course, Kelly brought the camera thinking there was going to be something funny to take pictures of...not the video camera! Either way! We both heard it!!

Of course, he hasn't said it since! But I haven't blown anymore bubbles either! We've had stuff going on all weekend, so bath time has been rushed or at odd hours.

We survived church without any biting incidents today either! WooHoo! Of course, we drugged him up with Tylenol and Baby Oragel and armed him with his paci before we left! I was so sure I wasn't going to have a 2 or 3 year old running around with a paci, but all of the sudden I find myself being a paci pusher! It's definitely better than Baby Jaws and his path of destruction!!

If there's one thing Motherhood teaches you...it's choosing your battles and picking the lesser of two evils! :)

Other than that...it's been a pretty quiet week for all of us! Which is good! We needed a regular week! We've had way too much excitement lately!