Recently

I've been a little tired.
For the last couple of days I've been waking up at 2:30 am. I don't know why the heck that's been happening. The worst part is that I can't fall back to sleep. Last night I was awake for 3.5 hours. So frustrating.

Riley has been sleeping in his room since we moved into the house. He's woken up several times in the middle of the night but has gotten a lot better ... and there are times when I do bring him into our bed but if he wakes up crying around midnight {which is too early} I just go to his room, comfort him and tell him to go back to sleep. He'll cry for a little bit but goes back to sleep fairly quickly. Last night he whined once but that was it. But he still naps during the day and that is a blessing. I treasure those 2-3 hours he's asleep.

The weather was in the mid to high 70's for all of last week.

Since Riley was born I've washed his clothes with ALL for baby. I still do but it wasn't until three weeks ago when I began adding a tiny bit of softener to his clothes and last week he began breaking out in hives. At first we didn't know what it was but we immediately ruled out a food allergy because given he's so picky he's got a very limited menu and he's eaten these foods since he began eating solids. So then we thought it was from being outside but thought it couldn't of been that because it would have happened before. So I kept thinking and thinking ... what could be causing these hives. I had mentioned this to my mother-in-law and she asked if it could be the new carpet or new detergent and that's when I realized that it had to be the softener. So I washed all the clothes that I had washed the last two times and used only the ALL baby detergent. Two days passed and sure enough no hives. Ah, what a relief!! It sucks that he's allergic to softener but it really is not that bad. I'm thankful that he doesn't have a food allergy where it could have been harmful.

This was during one of the times he broke out in hives. To relieve the itching and discomfort I would let him take long cool baths. That helped a lot and by the time I got him out of the water the hives would be gone. His silly face is proof he was feeling better.

He's a picky eater but this little boy LOVES oatmeal and oatmeal is good and good for you.

He was making me laugh on this one because he would look at me and still be coloring. It's funny when kids know when they are being cute.

I think it was Wednesday when we went on a walk around the neighborhood and park and it was such a warm cloudless day. I got hot and began sweating, ew! Time to go back to the house. Surprisingly I didn't get a headache.

Found one of the kids goggles. Riley wanted to try them on.

I unpacked more boxes and rearranged the garage. It looks a lot better now and more spacious. One of the boxes I unpacked had my old wine glasses inside. Boy, I can't believe I bought these. I no longer liked them. And look at the date on the newspaper, lol. These were packed for a long time. I'm surprised they didn't break from all the moves. I gave these away along with three full bags and a box to the Salvation Army.

I had been craving chinese food for a long time. Happy we found a chinese food restaurant we like and were I can go eat whenever I crave it. It's only mere minutes away. Riley ate a bean sprout and he immediately took it out of his mouth. He no longer wanted to eat his noodles. This kid.

Even though we limit his playtime it is still so annoying to me to see him engulfed playing his iPad.

Went to Ikea. Riley helped daddy load some boxes.

And hitched a ride on the cart.

We went back to the farmers market on Saturday afternoon. It was a gorgeous summer day. Partly cloudy and breezy.

I got chicken nachos with a berry lemonade again. Very tasty! The lemonade was super tasty and fresh.

Riley enjoying an orange,cream,mango hawaiian ice.
There was also a car show and a band playing. We love the atmosphere here and it's very enjoyable. Happy time.

Just wondering why there's not a beer garden at the farmers market. It would have been a much more relaxing experience.

Upon looking through boxes I also found several family pictures. This is Jacob's parents, my in-laws. The day they got married. The picture is quite faded. I love my MIL's dress. So pretty!

Jacob made me oatmeal, cranberry with white chocolate cookies. Jacob and the kids don't like them so he made a dozen chocolate chip cookies for them. The good thing is that my cookies will last more than a day.

We still watch Hotel Transylvania about every day. It's hard for me to picture Adam Sandler rapping. Too funny!

Libby is so annoying. We have a baby gate upstairs set up. At night this cat likes to go downstairs. She doesn't have a problem jumping over it to go downstairs but she can't climb it to come back up. So what she does is meow that low ugly annoying meow until someone gets up and opens the gate for her when she wants to stay upstairs.

On Sunday after church Jacob, me and Riley went to the mall and on our way there we saw smoke coming from the side of the road. Brush was burning. Good thing the firetruck was already there and putting it out.

I cannot believe August is almost over and we're a few weeks away from the 1st day of Fall. Summer flew by.
Living in WA has made me not hate summer anymore but as I've known all my life, summer continues to be my least favorite season.