Monday

If you read Kelly's Korner, you know she is documenting their week.  I thought it would be neat to do this as well and  look back on it and see how much my days change when the baby arrives in October!  So here was our Monday...not that you will be that interested in what we did with our day! 

Anna Riley decided to wake up at 6:00 this morning!!! I brought her to my room and we snuggled and watched Mickey Mouse until close to 7:00. Then we got up and she sat in her favorite chair (the recliner) and drank her milk while I fixed breakfast.

We ate breakfast...multigrain waffle and fruit.

After breakfast, I made the bed, started laundry and began to get ready while Anna Riley played in her playroom.  She had gotten out all the blocks so she had a mess as usual!  She was trying to sit backwards in her car and got stuck! 

We both got ready and headed to Kindermusik for our class at 9:30.  Because Anna Riley woke up so early, she fell asleep on the way there!  So she had a 5 minute power nap before class.

She did great in Kindermusik!!  I was afraid she would be ill but she always has so much fun in class!!

However, when we left class she wasn't so happy! She pitched a fit all the way home.

We got home around 10:30 and she was too upset to settle down and take a nap which she was in much need of.  Finally around 11, she went to sleep. While she napped, I planned what I would make this week and made a grocery list.

  She had to have her picture album with her during her nap... (It's a small, plastic picture album that has pictures of when she was born and she looks at it every night before bed).  I went to wake her up around 12:30 so she could eat lunch and this is what I found...

   Riley comes home for lunch on most days so he was here to eat with us.  After lunch and cleaning the kitchen up, we went to the grocery store.  She was pretty good at the store but she has definitely been better! We had a lot to get today so it seemed like it took forever! 
     When we got back, I put the groceries up and she "helped" me and then played with her books and puzzles for a little while before she had to lay down for her afternoon nap.
      She went down for her nap around 2:45 and while she slept, I blogged, unloaded the dishwasher, got ready for the gym and started cooking dinner. Anna Riley woke up around 5:00 and we went outside to check the mail, water the flowers and her favorite...sit on the steps and watch the cars go by! haha

We just put a flag up and she was so excited about it!

Riley came home and I left for the gym to go to Zumba class. They ate dinner around 6.  I made Balsamic Chicken with roasted vegetables.  I got the recipe from skinnytaste.com...which has lots of good and healthy meals.  It was a hit and Riley said AR ate a whole chicken thigh, vegetables and a whole sweet potato! 

I got home from the gym and I ate, we played with AR for a while, bathed her and let her watch an episode of Mickey Mouse while she drank her milk and then we put her to bed at 8:30. 

I layed in bed and watched some of the Bachelorette that was DVRd  while Riley read!

AND....that was our Monday! :)

Miscellany Monday

WEEKEND:

We had a very low key weekend which was nice.  We ate Mexican, watched movies, went to a baby shower and had lunch in Berry. 

CAMERA LENS:

After we ate Friday night, we stopped by Best Buy and I got a zoom lens for my camera.  I am so excited!! Now that AR is on the go and is constantly running everywhere, it is hard to get close enough to get a good picture.  I can't wait to really try it out!

BABY SHOWER:

Saturday, Anna Riley and I headed to Bessemer for my friend, Kim's baby shower.  Kim and Eli are expecting their first child in August!  I am so excited for them!! Kim, Eli and myself were great friends in college!!  Candace (another college friend) hosted the shower at her house and she did a wonderful job!  Anna Riley had fun at her first baby shower...this Mama was a little worn out though after chasing her, cleaning up spilt drinks (sorry again Candace!) and trying to make sure she was careful with the little babies which she is obsessed with! 

KINDERMUSIK:
We went to our last Kindermusik class for the summer this morning.  Anna Riley has really enjoyed her class!  She loves the teacher, Mrs. Erin!  The past two classes she told the kids to find their bouncing partner (which is supposed to be me) and AR ran over to be Mrs. Erin's partner...I think she is already trying to be a teacher's pet!!  I am trying to decide whether to do one in the fall in the evenings so Riley can watch Ava Kathryn while we go or just sit out a semester. 

This picture was from last week.

SLEEP:

We are still having a few issues with Anna Riley sleeping.  She is "too busy" to sleep these days!  She pitches a fit every time she has to stop playing to take her nap.  I can tell she is extremely tired but she just doesn't want to stop.  At night, she doesn't go down so easy anymore and she often wakes up in the middle of the night crying.  And she is waking up a lot earlier than normal!  Its a little frustrating for this tired, pregnant Mama!