Riley Jo turns 18 months

Well, actually this Thursday she will be 19 months but life's been a little crazy lately. So Riley Jo turned 18 months May 28. This is such a big deal to me because now church becomes inportant again. I've been walking the halls for all 3 hours for about 4 months now. Sometimes wondering why I was even there. But at least I was there. She started going to nursery and she does great! I drop her off she sees the other kids and forgets about me. I take off and go to Sunday School and Relief Society. When I pick her up after church she's happy and ready to go home. It's great. Now, only if we could make it through Sacrament meeting. One step at a time I guess. On May 30th we went for her 18 month check up. She was 31 1/2" long and weighed 18 lbs. 6 oz. Yeah, I got a little chewed out for the 18 lbs. This little girl eats everything. I think she must be going through a growth spurt. But she is totally healthy and developing normally. She is such a little talker now. She can say about 20 words. She's starting to repeat things too. She makes me laugh all the time. You'd wonder why I'm ever stressed out! Riley Jo's personality is totally coming out too. She is so stubborn and independent. She is starting to refuse to sit in the shopping cart when we go shopping. Which is completely opposite of my 5 year old Kyle. He still wants to sit in the cart. I guess that's the difference between boys and girls. Riley Jo is running all over the place now, she climbs on everything too. I keep telling Chris that Riley will be our first child to climb out of the crib. She just wants to be with the big kids all the time and doing whatever they are doing. Except when she needs her mommy fix. Which I don't mind.

Tyler's Big Game

Last night Tyler played baseball against the Giants. Tyler's team has pretty much already come in 2nd place in his league. So the coach thought last night the boys should be able to have a fun game. So he put the kids in positions that they have never played in before. Tyler was able to pitch. And he did a GREAT job! The Giants scored 4 runs in the 1st inning and 5 runs in the 2nd inning. Tyler pitched the 3rd inning (there is a 5 run rule for each inning). So Tyler gets up to the pitching mound and strikes out the first batter. The second batter gets a hit and makes it to first base. Tyler strikes out the next batter. Then the possible 3rd out gets up. He hits the ball Tyler stops it and throws it to first for the third out. It was awesome! Tyler was so stoked. Tyler even got the game ball for pitching so well and he may even get to pitch again on Thursday.

Ahhhh!!!!!!!

Have you ever had one of those days where it seems everything is going to go haywire? Today was my last crazy Wednesday schedule and I was so excited for it. Now I'm glad it's over. After picking Kyle up from school here in Concord and taking him to OT in Pleasant Hill, rushing to Walnut Creek to pick Tyler up, I was 15 minutes late getting back to pick Kyle up. Then we had to run to Michael's to pick up some last minute items I needed for tonights stamp club. Riley only took an hour nap in the car today and refused to eat her lunch so she's cranky. After Michael's we went to pick Michayla up from school in Lafayette. By now Riley has had it and is screaming in the back seat. Just to let you know it has been 2 1/2 hours since we left the house to get Kyle. Riley continues to scream all the way home until I turned the car off in our driveway. Then I get in the house to find our dog loose in our house! He was barking outside when I had to leave the house because our neighbors dog was outside. Since we have been getting complaints about his barking we try to have him in as much as possible. Since I wasn't going to be home and couldn't have him outside I put him in his kennel. Somehow I guess one of the door wasn't locked so I was shocked to find him loose. So we had our garbage knocked over with everything in it all over the place. Cherries squished into the floor, plastic bags torn apart, I had just cleaned the floors yesterday (of course) so all of that was back on the floor. All I can say is good thing for hardwood floors. So after I cleaned up the mess in the kitchen, I took a quick look around the kids bedrooms to see if I could tell if he used them as a bathroom I had to use the bathroom. So I went into my bedroom and sat down an was quickly surprised to find Tyko (our dog) had drank from my toilet. Disgusting! I don't know how I missed the water on the floor of the bathroom and on the floor of my room. So even though I cleaned my house this morning, I now get to clean it all over again! From now on I will have to make sure Chris takes the garbage out every night.