Too Funny!

This is was what Riley was doing when I came home the other night...I had to get a video to share.



I guess we have to add "belly" to her list of words!

Words

It seems Riley starts saying a new word every day. Well at least every day for the last two days. Yesterday was Cracker (she says "ca-ca") and this evening it was Gecko ("gay-go"). She learned Gecko because we were reading a book about a gecko (Thanks Hilary!). My mom keeps saying I need to be writing these words down. How better to do that than here on this blog?

Here is a list of the words Riley can say (roughly in the order she started saying them):
Bye
Hi
Mama
Uh-Oh
Duck
Dog (sounds the same as "Duck")
Shoe
Banana
Night Night
No
Hello
Up
Go
Coat (sounds the same as "Go," so she might only know one of these words, as they are used at the same time)
More
Milk (sounds the same as "More")
All Done
Book
Cracker
Gecko

Some of these words are obvious to all (bye, hi). But some are still at the point where they can only be understood by those around her daily (shoe = "do"). Some are used frequently (banana, bye, no) and some have only been heard a few times (up, more).

It is so fun watching her learn!

Fall!

I took Riley out to play in the leaves over the weekend. She didn't love it, but she didn't hate it either. It is much harder for a 1 ft. something tall person to walk in a few inches of leaves than it is for an almost 6 ft. tall person. It was nice to enjoy the crisp fall day with a little time outside though.

Go Buffs!

CU won on Saturday. I am certain it was due to Riley sporting her CU gear to root on the team.

Thanks to Cousin Tyler for handing down such cool jerseys (even if she does get mistaken for a boy)!

(I am not sure what she is sad about in this picture. She's usually pretty content.)

Flight of the Bumble Bee

There was much discussion over what Halloween costume Riley would wear this year. Due to Riley's distaste for hats and things that go on her head, I ended up picking out something that would still look like what it was even if she didn't wear the headpiece. It ended up being an adorable outfit!

Boo at the Zoo

Lst weekend Angie and Tyler invited us to join them at Boo at the Zoo. It was a little chilly and very crowded but we decided to brave it. Riley had a great time.
This was her first go at wearing her costume in public. She got to practice the typical Halloween-in-Colorado look of wearing a coat under her costume.


Angie was smart and remembered the wagon this time (guess she learned her lesson from the pumpkin patch a few weeks earlier). Above are Antie Angie and Boopah (that's a Reagan mask beneath the Obama hat, in case you can't tell), along with Tyler (Spiderman) and Riley (Bumble Bee) in the wagon.

Riley enjoyed the wagon most of the time.....until she didn't. She did manage to do a little trick-or-treating and saw some animals too.