Riley Lately

When it comes to crafts I am the worst procrastinator ever. I'm constantly looking up crafts for Riley and me to do but getting the supplies and sitting down to actually do them is the part I'm not giddy about ... but once I have all the supplies and everything is set out and we begin to work on our project it is actually quite fun. That's when I get probably even more excited than Riley and even during those times when Riley would rather paint his hands instead of what he's suppose to do I still continue to work on my project until it is finished.

Riley is so very active and doing crafts is a perfect way to slow him down which allows me to take in a breather, even if I'm doing crafts too. It's a win win.

Since the weather got cold Libby is more than likely to be found laying on someone's bed. She prefers Sydna's bed but the other day I found her in Nathan's room.
One day last week as I was coming out of my bathroom and I was almost out of my bedroom I took a double glance at my bed and noticed she was laying there. We talk to her all the time so I asked her, "what are you doing here?" ... she just looked at me and squinted her little eyes at me and laid her head down. Pets are too cute. They think they're human.

Sydna's school has lots of Fally trees. Most of them are in full color except a handful of them. It's a good thing because that means I get to enjoy Fall a little longer while the lingering ones take their time in turning.
Riley will constantly say, "I see Fall", meaning the changing of the leaves. I love the way he expresses himself. I am always telling him that mommy loves Fall and how beautiful the trees look. He'll then say, "yes, they are beautiful". Then he begins to name all the colors that he sees.

I had to go to Wal-mart one day last week and Sydna and Riley wanted to check out the Halloween isle. When I came by I found them with ugly masks on.

We were watching Gremlins one day and Riley began laughing hard on the scene where Gizmo is driving a toy car. It cracked me up too.

Asleep for the night. Even though he's not looking much like a toddler these days he sometimes still likes falling asleep while being held. That's so sweet!

I went to Kohls and even though we should always expect rain here I still don't always carry an umbrella with me whenever it is cloudy. When we were about to walk out I could see that it was raining pretty hard. We waited a couple of minutes but then decided to give it a go. I told Riley that we needed to walk very fast. Oh, he was more than happy to please his momma. He thought it was a game and was laughing all the way to my truck.

Can't really tell but we got pretty wet.

After we were done running errands we had lunch at Panda Express. Again, Riley will only eat noodles so this time I brought him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from home so he could get full. I tried my best to remove all of the bean sprouts, cabbage and onion but I missed some small pieces. Well, next thing I know Riley had a serious look on his face and I saw him gag once. I told him it was ok and to spit his food onto the side of the plate. He got grossed out from a tiny piece of cabbage that I missed. Geez Louise!! He drank some water and was fine and after I meticulously removed all the veggies from his noodles he continued to eat like nothing happened.
*I took this picture before the gagging incident.

I just can't believe my kid ate a pb&j sandwich at a chinese food restaurant.
It is what it is. My kids gotta eat. But oh, he's missing out on some delicious orange chicken!

I was in search of those white tiny pumpkins so I went to a local farm stand to get some. We walked around the store and came across some pretty big pumpkins. They were selling them for .30 cents a lbs. We've never carved a huge pumpkin like the ones here. I would like to try it one time but I'm sure it's gotta be ten times more tedious to work on than the medium size pumpkins we always get. I definitely will need the right tools for such a big job. Maybe we'll try it at some point.

I am SO glad Riley likes beans. Given we're hispanic and we're constantly eating mexican food it would have really been a bummer if he didn't like beans or tortillas. I cook my beans from scratch. No can pinto beans here. He has eaten two bean burritos before. Happy because beans are so good for you.

I hate that this picture is blurry but I wanted to post it anyway because Riley LOVES to pretend. We were watching the first Percy Jackson and Riley loves to pretend he's him. Just before this scene came on Riley ran to his playroom to retrieve his sword. He's got the stance perfect too! I actually like this movie a lot. I like it better than the second one.

Here he is again ... acting like Percy when he was controlling the water {because that's his power. He's Poseidon's son} with his mind.

It's a lot of fun to watch him pretend play.