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We went to Nicolas' 3rd birthday party on Saturday. Nicolas' Mom and I were pregnant at the same time at work when I was pregnant with Riley, so they've known each other since they were in the wombs! They are our big growing boys now! Getting too big every day!
Riley and Kelly had fun swimming and playing in the pool! I think Kelly was as tired as Riley was afterwards though! Nicolas loves Thomas the Train as much as Riley loves basketball and Star Wars, so it was a fun Thomas themed party! And every child wanted the Thomas train off the cake! Good times!
I realized after the fact that I didn't even get a picture of Riley and Nicolas together! A Kodak moment faux paux! Oops!
Last night after Kelly and Riley finished watching Empire Strikes Back - we were doing something later on and Riley randomly says - Darth Vader is still in my head Mommy. I AM the FATHER! LOL! THEN...when he was brushing his teeth after his bath, he says it again - Mommy, Darth Vader is still in my head! If Riley were waking up in the middle of the night right now - I'd blame Kelly for exposing him to Star Wars violence! There are 2 bad scenes in the movie where Darth Vader cuts off Luke's hand...Riley drew his own conclusion and said - Mommy - he knocked his light saber out of his hand - so we're going with that one explanation for now. Then there's another one where Yoda is making Luke face his greatest fear or something..I don't know..and he cuts off what appears to be Darth Vader's head (it sounds WAY more gory than it is), and Riley said Mommy, he knocked his helmet off! So we're going with that explanation AND fast forwarding through that part of the movie now! I'm probably overly protective of Riley seeing things he shouldn't on TV, and Kelly is overly oblivious! Which I don't get b/c he was a scared of all sorts of stuff when he was a young kid! And we already know Riley inherited his obsessive tendencies and overly active imagination! LOL!
So today...Kelly and I both went to get Riley from school and when we walked in the door at home - the FIRST words out of Riley's mouth were none other than - Where are the light sabers? Seriously...bless his heart! I can't make this stuff up!
Of course, Kelly and I don't help matters! I had bought Riley a new Star Wars shirt a few weeks ago at Nordstrom's (in the NON little boy size), and when I got it they had a Darth Vader one I didn't buy. So I gave in and bought it today, and of course I couldn't wait 2 weeks until his birthday to give it to him so I showed it to him today. He just said Darth Vader shirt! Then went to get his light sabers...then as he's playing light sabers with Kelly - all of the sudden he says - I want to wear my Darth Vader shirt! Kelly put it on him, and he said I AM THE FATHER!
I'm thinking I should have bought at least 2 of those shirts b/c we may have a daily battle because he'll want to wear it EVERY day! Bless us all.....
110 degree activity...watching Empire Strikes Back....the 1st movie Riley has ever watched all the way through! So now we have to "discuss" watching it almost EVERY day! Blue's Clues...where are you?! :)
Riley had to give the treadmill at Play for Sport a try the other day! This may have to be our "rainy day" back up plan! LOL!
And my eyes are dry from all this blogging! Hopefully I'll be able to keep up a little better now! As usual - my main hold up recently has been uploading the pictures! Whenever someone figures out how to make that seamless & easy - they are going to be rich! It's not that hard - it's just that I have to go downstairs to our desktop, and with the iPad, my phone and laptop - I hardly every make that trek these days!
I promise to try harder though! Hope you enjoy the flash blogging and catching up on what we've been up to the last few months!
Riley just randomly started doing this! Initially, he was actually jumping but by the time I started recording - he was slowing down to a plop down. We weren't watching Toy Story or anything...this just came out of nowhere! Oh to be able to know what's going on in that little head of his!
So a couple of months ago - Riley just all of the sudden starts counting in Spanish. I swear I think they have Spanish for 20 minutes a week! I never thought it would actually take! LOL!
If you say count in Spanish though...he usually starts with quatro (sp?) for some reason, then he says nueve, YEA! Insead of Nueve, Diez!
So funny and TOO cute!
