Greetings everyone! I know I'm kind of hit or miss with my blogging sometimes but I am trying to be better about not going for huge, long periods of time without some pics of Miss Riley-Roo! :-)
Today was her 2 year doctor's appointment and yes, it was a tad bit late. I have NEVER missed an appointment before and would you believe, I completely forgot about her 2 year appointment the month of her bday? It slipped right by! Later when I called to reschedule they told me my FAVORITE doctor was on vacation and that when he returned, he was booked solid for months! So I was scheduled with the other doctor who is just "okay" in my book. Her first available appointment was today so a little over a month after Riley turned 2.
I asked if waiting beyond the time she turned 2 was bad and they said that it wasn't at all bad! Basically the receptionist said, "As long as it's before her 3rd bday, you're good." So whew!
Riley hadn't actually been to the doctors in forever it seemed so when we went today, she was a little wary at first. It wasn't long though before the tears starting coming and the whaling began.
The first thing they asked her to do was step on a scale and she started SCREAMING! I think she thought the scale was going to jump up and bite her in the butt or something, ha-ha :-) Next she had to stand against a wall and get her height measurement. Again, she flipped out when the plastic piece came down on her head. Yeesh. Her weight right now is 28 pounds and her height is 36 1/4 inches. Tall girl! She is in the 97th percentile for height and the 75th percentile for weight. Most of her weight is attributed to her height though cause Riley is definitely one skinny minny. I was always called a "string bean" or "bean pole" growing up too so she'll just take after her momma! And from the pictures I've seen, her daddy too :-)
Next we went into the waiting room and the nurse asked me a series of questions. I laughed at the first one. It was, "Can your daughter put 2 words together at a time when speaking?" I was like, "Um, she is using whole sentences?" Riley should also know about "50 words" according to the nurse and I think she probably knows quadruple that amount!!
The doctor came in next and she then calculated Riley's adult height when she is grown. She asked for my height plus Bob's height and then she used Riley's height to determine how tall Riley will be in the future. I said Bob was 6'3 and I am 6'1. So then she determined that Riley will be JUUUUUST under 6 feet tall. Not too tall and not too short either :-) JUUUUST right :-)
After that the screaming began again as the doctor had to lie Riley down on the table and examine her eyes, ears, nose, stomach, etc. She also looked in Riley's mouth and said that Riley has 16 teeth and sometime during this 2nd year, her 2-year molars will come in. Dr. Elias said that there were no signs that she was getting them at this time but to be aware of that. She also said to be sure I was brushing her teeth each morning and evening and that when Riley turns 3, she needs to go for her first dentist visit. Wow! THAT will be an adventure!!
Dr. Elias also noticed some wear on Riley's upper teeth and gumlines from her sucking her thumb but she said there really wasn't much I could do for that now. By 3, hopefully she will be done with that and if not, the dentist will most likely have some helpful tips to resolve the thumb sucking!
We discussed potty training briefly and jointly decided that Riley wasn't ready yet for that. She is starting to show the signs but definitely isn't there yet. For now, the best way to get her comfortable around her potty is to have her sit on it while I'm sitting on mine and let her read some books. So basically, reading books together while I'm in there and she's in there should help. We shall see! Right now she doesn't want to have ANYTHING to do with her little potty!
Oh yes, and the only other thing of note is that we can now change her from whole milk to 2 percent milk if we want. I don't really see that it's a big deal either way but the doctor wanted to let me know it's fine now.
The last fun part was getting the 2nd part of Riley's Hepatitis A vaccine...yay (note sarcasm). It was awful and WOW did she cry. I was all too happy to run out of there and so was Riley. When the nurse tried to give her a sticker, she took it (while screaming) and threw it on the ground. Yep, she was done.
So we left and I truly hope we don't have to see the inside of that place for quite some time! Oh yeah...guess for her flu shot if we follow the doctor's orders and come back in September for that.
Anyways, I thought I would post a few pictures from this afternoon after she woke up from only sleeping about 45 minutes! (I had gone to the gym at 5:30 this morning so was definitely a bit sad that she was up so early). We raided the freezer and got some ice pops and went out back to enjoy them :-)
Riley started with grape cause this was the one she picked from the freezer.
She was saying, "Cold...cold."
Then I opened my red one and she said, "Mommy,....red one....red one." So then I took her grape one and she took my red one.
Definitely a good idea to eat these outside with all the dripage that occurs!
I love the cold squinty faces she makes :-)
Taking little mini bites
YUMMY
She decided it was more fun to take the ice pop out of the wrapper and hold it. She had taken SUCH an enormous bite though that she couldn't get it all in her mouth. So she was kind of frozen in place watching Elmo while chewing the ice in her mouth :-)
Here she was telling me that her mouth was "cold mommy........cold."
I asked her to show me her mouth after she was done and here she is going, "Aaaaaah."
Nothing like some yummy ice pops on a hot summer day! :-)
She then insisted that daddy wear one also. So Bob was a good sport and put one on his head and Riley serenaded him! 
This is Riley giving me one to wear :-) That little birthday period we went through of so many birthdays must have really impacted her in a fun way!
It was BLAZING outside. Bob was pretty much soaked from sweat and water. But he's still my lil cutie :-)
Here he is squeeging his car after the bath.
Riley just followed him around :-)
More birthday singing
Bob said he was "deliriously heat fried" here.
Next it was time to wash Riley's car! Riley actually asked Bob to wash her car, which I thought was ADORABLE. I had to go inside for a couple of minutes to do something so didn't get the actual car washing pictures. Riley LOVED that daddy washed her car too :-)
Here he is squeeging it off.
Then it was time to take it for a spin to show off her new shiny ride :-)
Bob put the foot board back in it because Riley prefers to ride in it that way. Here they are rounding the corner. She just likes the ride...not doing any of the work with her feet :-)
Next it was time to walk the stroller around in the bubbles and water.
Bob is hosing off his feet here while Riley kept passing back and forth through the bubbles on the ground :-)
The last picture is of her going to the door and teasing the life out of poor Elmo who was stuck inside. It was just TOO HOT for Elmo that day and neither Bob nor I wanted to deal with a wet dog. So we opened the front door so he could lie in the sun. When Riley figured this out though, she decided to visit him and this drove him insane :-) He was barking as if to say, "Open the door sista!"
Another fun Saturday morning with daddy!
Yum...Gatorade :-)
She had just run back to me and said, "Thank you mommy!" and handed me her juice. Now she was bolting for the pool cause she didn't want to be out of the water for long.
