Riley's Christmas Program

Tonight we had Riley's Christmas Program at church. He has been practing for weeks and I have been anticipating this since he was born. Every time children would sing on Sunday morning, I would think about the day that Riley would be up there singing. Tonight was finally the night and Tim and I were so proud of him!

Here's a video of him singing.

Here are some family pictures we took after the program.

One happy boy!!

Riley posing for the camera.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas...

The stockings are hung...

The tree is up...

and surprisingly, these 2 little boys aren't messing with it too much

These are my favorite ornaments this year. Riley picked this one out at Khols and we just had to have it since it was a monkey.

We call Ethan a snow bear so I found this ornament for him.

I think he likes it!

We even had some snow last weekend. It was beautiful!

We also have these deer that seem to be sticking around.

Thanksgiving Day

This year we spent Thanksgiving with Tim's family at his aunt's house. We had a good day eating and visiting with family.

Ethan with his great grandmother- aka Little Mamaw

"Little boy table"

The kids played after we ate

and the men did this

Family pics

Two Brothers Playing Together

Riley is a great big brother to Ethan! They are finally getting to the point where they can play together and entertain one another.

Halloween

Last week, Riley and Ethan dressed up for storytime. Riley enjoyed getting to wear his monkey costume. After his storytime teacher read books about bats, all the parents handed candy out to the children.

Riley's friend, Eva.

Saturday night we let Riley treat-or-treat in our neighborhood. It was rainy and yucky outside so he only went to our neighbors house and 2 of his friends houses.

Riley wanted to be a monkey because he LOVES monkey. My friend, Christin, let me borrow the costume.

We dressed Ethan as a polar bear because we call him "Our little snowbear."

Dum, Dum, Dummm

Anyone who has talked to me in the past year knows that I have really wanted to get Riley a playground. Tim and I decided to get him one for his Birthday. The boxes came on his Birthday but we didn't tell him about it because we wanted it to be a surprise. The instructions said it would take about 7- 10 hours and that must have been for 2 people. Tim built it all by himself and it took about 2 weeks- totaling about 24 hours. So a lot of labor and love went into building it.

For 2 weeks we kept all the blinds closed. Sometimes he would see pieces of it when we were driving home but I told him his daddy was building a shed. Last Saturday, he was looking out the window in our bedroom and it saw it. He was so excited! He has wanted his own playground for a long time. Thankfully, we've had some beautiful days so we could get out and enjoy it! Riley loves it!!
 

Right now, Riley's favorite part is the glider. He can swing on it for about 30 minutes at one time.

Ethan likes his car swing.

Ethan also likes to crawl around on the ground and eat the grass.

A Bad Fall

On Saturday, Riley was trying to take his coat off when he tripped and fell straight onto his chin in the kitchen and busted it wide open. As soon as I saw it I knew we would be going to the ER to get it stitched up. Riley was crying pretty bad and Tim and I hated to see him so upset and in pain. Tim's parents came to the ER so that they could help us with Ethan and help calm us down. He ended up getting about 5 stitches. The doctor and nurses at the Children's ER at the Medical Center were amazing! They gave Riley a rubber duck and a red ambulance. The toys helped calm him down and he held tightly onto them as his doctor put the stictches in. Today his mouth has been a little sore but his chin hasn't been bothering him. I was just at the ER with Ethan so now I hope we do not have to go back for a long, long, long time.