Deep Thoughts by Erica: October 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Hope you had a Happy Halloween!

I found these pictures tonight from Riley's first Halloween and had to post them. She looks VERY different now with one exception...she still has the same BIG BLUE EYES! :-) Here she is with her lil pumpkin outfit on from her Mimi!

And here is this Halloween :-) Riley dressed up as Minnie Mouse tonight and got 50 million compliments about how cute she looked. She and her little friend Keira looked like they matched and it was so much fun walking around with those 2 cutie pa-tooties! Needless to say, their cuteness also got them TONS of candy! I'll post pictures of our Trick or Treating experience in the next couple days.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Pictures of Baby #2!!

Okay so I had Bob scan 2 of the pictures we got last week from our 12 week ultrasound. Isn't he/she just adorable?! In this first picture, you can actually see 2 little fists :-) His/her legs are up and curved around (kinda hard to see) but they are definitely there! You can just make out the feet up high to the right.

Here is one of the other clearer shots :-) Yay! So exciting!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Outdoor Fun at Nana and Pa's

Riley has so much fun outside Nana and Pa's backyard. Recently Nana got a sandbox and few other outdoor toys and Riley had a blast playing with them all! Here she is playing with something in the blue basket. You can see the sandbox to the left :-)

Nana got Riley a jump rope and here she is trying to figure out how to do it :-)

I LOVE this pose! So funny! Her personality is VERY demonstrative sometimes, ha-ha.

Hangin with her jump rope :-)

Elmo runs all around the bushes eating all the lizards. There are A LOT out there for snacking on too!

Flushed cheeks!

Chillin with Pa

This is one of those streamer things on a long stick. Riley LOVED this thing and was waving it wildly everywhere!

Pa is being silly here :-)

Waving the streamer! I remember when I was a member at the YMCA when I was little and my mom enrolled me in this class that used streamers. I couldn't WAIT to wave those things around!

It's hard to see but Riley has a necklace that has a glow-in-the-dark star at the end. She's busy waving that.

Auntie Katie came out to join in the fun!

Nana blowing bubbles! Notice Riley's little green wheelbarrow over to the right. She loves to collect things in that and push it all around.

Bubbles!

Sandbox time! Auntie Katie played too :-) She's a big kid at heart :-) Notice Riley is OUTSIDE the sandbox. She wouldn't put her big toe in....at first.

Still not in the sandbox...

Starting to really get her hands dirty now...

And she's IN!! Yay! Ha-ha :-) Riley does NOT like to be dirty but I think she finally realized that it's OKAY to be a little dirty! :-)

Now she's REALLY in the sandbox! And buried!

Gotta love outdoor fun :-)

Friday, October 15, 2010

Fun with Grandma

As always, I am about 5,000 pictures behind in my blogging but feel like I rarely have time to sit down these days and do this! I know my sweet family looks forward to these pictures though so I am trying to be better about this!

Recently Grandma visited and here are some pictures from that day! :-)

Riley getting her hair done :-) She had just woken up from a nap!

Grandma came in the door with this plastic cup that lights up on the bottom. Riley was fascinated by it!

Here she is carrying the cup around :-)

Waiting for daddy to come in the door? Not sure here. Look at all that blond hair though! :-)

Next they went to Petsmart together and Riley ran straight toward the fish, as usual :-)

Here she is looking like she's about ready to smack the tank...something we have been working on when we go to Petsmart! She LOVES to do this and Bob and I are constantly having to get on her about tormenting the poor fish!