Sunday night Pizza night

 Since staying with "Papa Doug"  we have kind of developed a tradition of ordering a pizza every Sunday night.  Anna Riley really seems to love pizza nights!  She eats the supreme pizza with us and seems to like all the toppings...her favorites are the sausages and bell peppers! 

Do you love her hair? She put pizza all in it!

Such a big girl...

Sunday afternoon, we decided to turn Anna Riley's carseat around face forward.  I had been trying to hold off as long as I could until the one year mark but she was just so uncomfortable.  Because her legs are so long, she just seemed so scrunched up and it made for not fun car rides!! We even have a DVD player and she would just kick it or unplug it because she could reach it so it was just time!  Once we turned her around, she just started kicking her legs like "Wow, look at all this room!" :) 

My little gymnast...

I have said before, Anna Riley would make a great gymnast right now! I wish I could put her in a gymnastics class now because I know she would love it but the only ones I see start around 2. This girl LOVES to do flips! It scares the grandparents to death sometimes. She will wear you out because she wants to do like twenty flips in a row and then just comes up laughing!! And now since her Daddy started letting her drop her Bunny and then bend backwards to pick it up, that is her new thing right before bed...but not just one time, over and over! She throws it down and immediately bending backwards to get it! She tried doing this in a restaurant the other night!! Oh my!

Riley's Birthday

Riley's birthday was last Thursday.  He turned 33!  :)  I don't know if I have mentioned on here before but he ask for a very elaborate meal each birthday...are you ready for this...Spam and macaroni and cheese! :)  Yes, that is what is wants each year so that is what he gets!  I did make some really good 5 cheese macaroni and a couple more things to go with it.  He also wanted an Earthquake cake as his birthday cake.  Thursday night, his family went to eat at the Tin Top with us.

Since, I didn't post on this on his Birthday...Thanks for everything Riley!  I don't know what we would do without you! We love you!! Hope you had a wonderful birthday! :)

First steps...

Yesterday, Anna Riley took her first steps!  She had been walking, holding one of our hands all weekend so I knew she was so close but she just gets scared and sits down.  But, yesterday while Riley was home for lunch we were in the floor playing and I stood her up and she took off walking to me as fast as she could go!  We were so excited and she didn't know what all the excitment was for. I was so happy that Riley and I both got to see one of her big milestones!! Last night, she walked (holding my hand) from the kitchen all the way to the bathroom...and wow that took some time but she loved it!  My little baby is growing up just a little too fast!!

Picture with Santa

Anna Riley had her picture made with Santa when we went to "Breakfast with Santa" back in Novemeber.  I just got the picture back a few weeks ago and scanned it in.  She didn't cry but she wasn't too thrilled to be sitting in the Big Man's lap!  Her little eyes were filling up with tears as the picture was being taken so I am sure it was about to get ugly when I got her.  It will be interesting to see how she reacts next year!

YAY for sleep

I'm not trying to jinx us or anything but like I said in Anna Riley's 10 month post...sleep has not been so good around here lately!  She had a cold and then was taking medicine for a sinus infection.  I really couldn't remember the last time we had the bed to ourselves a whole night!  She would start coughing so bad and sometimes would cough until she gagged or threw up so she would end up with us!  BUT...I am so happy to say she has been sleeping from around 7:30-7:30 since Saturday night in her crib! Hallelujah!!!  It really reminded of the days of her being a newborn again with no sleep because that is how I felt!  She is NOT a good sleeper in the bed with us!  She literally flops like a fish back and forth from me to Riley.  One night she slept with her feet by our heads and she was holding on to Riley's leg for dear life!  Another night, she slept with her feet kicking me in the side and her head at his chest.  But, Mom just says I am getting paid back because I was never a good sleeper and always cried to come in their bed and if I was there, I couldn't be still!!  haha

Riley will probably kill me for putting this picture on here but I just couldn't resist! :)