Sunday, October 12, 2008

10 Months Old!

Today was full of fun and surprises! Riley Anne is now 23 lbs and 29 in. long! She is waving hello and goodbye. She now has 4 teeth comming in up top and loves to show them off with her big smile. She also discovered all sorts of new things today. The pictures are somewhat out of order but I will try and explain them. Also, we were given a little playhouse and today Ryne put it together (and Corban helped ) 


One of the things that Riley learned today is that there is a world beyond the porch!

She would turn around and look ever so often. She thought it was great to go beyond the porch and explore.

Today Riley also started crawling at different heights. What I mean is, she used to be so scared of the 1 inch drop in this picture, but she just stepped right up. She even crawled up the deeper part of the porch which is about 5 inches. (she hasn't quite gotten how to crawl down :)

She also discovered how much fun it is to play in the toilet water. In this picture she has pulled her bow down around her neck and has a cardboard thing full of hair clips. I was trying to do homework and didn't notice until the cardboard was almost completly dissolved :) I took one quick picture before telling her "no" and closing the lid.

Riley LOVED the new house. It was really nice because she would sit inside there while we did other things around the yard, and she had so much fun! I think Corban was probably the most excited though. 

This is Riley waking up from her nap. If you look in her crib you can see that her bumber is gone. It has become more of a challenge to re-tie the bows everyday from her lounging her feet on the bumper, or pulling the strings, than I care to repeat. So... for now, the bumper is gone.

Please notice that although she has slimmed down some... She still has those wonderful chubby thighs. 

This is Riley and Corban both helping Ryne put the house together!

Corban loves Ryne so much, and we sure do love having him around too.


She loved to stand up in the window and say hello. Then she would crawl to the other side and do the same thing :)

Another thing that Riley learned today, was how makeup tasted. I couldn't get a picture because I was franticly trying to rinse her mouth out because at first I didn't know what she had gotten into. I was at the computer and turned around and she crawled right up to me and smiled. Black tar looking goo was all in her mouth and all over her face. I jumped up and ran into the bathroom to get all the black stuff out. After inspecting my floor, I had found that one of my eye shadows (grey and black tones) that had broken pieces in the case, were all over the floor and most of them missing. Basically, it just turned all her slobber a nice black color. She didn't seem to care at all, but she didn't like me trying to clean her up :)  She is really becoming an adventurous girl!

A Wonderful Husband

Sadly I do not have any pictures, but yesterday was a wonderful day. I think the middle of semester blues had started to hit, because last week was an extremely long, stressful week. Of course it doesn't help that my hormones are in full swing but... Saturday Ryne took me out on a much needed date. I had been craving IHOP ever since we talked about it last weekend at Clifton's homecomming (btw, I did not take a single picture of last weekend-sorry. we will just have to watch honey's and hope she will put up some pictures) Anyways, we went to breakfast then headed over to Maudd Cobb (big building that host's all sorts of events on our fair grounds) for Christmas Corner. Christmas Corner is just a 3 day event where business's all over bring booths full of christmas things to sell. It was so wonderful, to walk around, look at all the booths, get some christmas ideas, and get samples! It took us over an hour to see all the booths. 

Thanks for having a day date with me Ryne! I love you so much!

What a joyful sound

Riley pretty much always wakes up happy, but last week was even more special. I don't know what was so funny, but for three mornings in a row I woke up to the sound of Riley giggling in her room! There is something so sweet and pure about a baby's laugh. It was so wonderful to hear that at the start of my day. -I love you so much miss Riley!

Great Weather



I couldn't really get a good picture but the weather has been SO wonderful here this past week! It was even cool enough for Riley to wear a light jacket. I just thought this little Winnie the Pooh jacket was so cute, but I didn't realize how small it was on her until I got in on her :) but thats ok. Riley LOVES to be outside crawling around the porch. I got to do some homework and she played. It was great!

Good Friends, Good Times

A few weekends ago, Ryne and I got to go to the East Texas Fair in Tyler Texas! We were so excited. (I was really craving funnel cakes and a foot long corn dog!) We went with some neighbors/friends. The couple on the left is Beth and Andrew Anderson, then us, then Thomas and Christy Reese. Christy and I have become quite close these past few weeks. We have tried to go walking together about 3 times a week. It has been great! (they have a 2 month old baby boy!)

Before we left, Ryne and I tried our hand at GG's famous blueberry bannana pie! So... Look Grandma, we did it!  And they were even pretty good. (not as good as yours though :(  

Ryne and I had a nice time baking together, and an even better time enjoying the fruit of our labor.

I was a little bit more scared on the Ferris wheel than I thought I would be. It was higher than it looked!


We all had a good laugh while Ryne did the stereotypical fair thing, as he "proved his love for me by winning me something"  Funny thing was he missed and this was the poster he got for giving it a good try!   I love you Ryne...


All in all we had a great time and ate WAY more than we should have. It is such a blessing that we can have such good friends that live so close!