GO COLTS!!!

Colts vs. Saints in Super Bowl 44!!!! Here in Colorado we are SUPER excited!!! However, we do need to get Riley a new Colts T-shirt before the big game! We are thinking a 4T size because his previous one is 2T and he screamed bloody murder when we put it on him for the Colts/Broncos game last month. (That kid and his big head!!!) But maybe we can get away with that one for one more game, and then we can buy him a Super Bowl Champs T-shirt!!! Go Colts!!!

Last week was a much more fun week for everyone - no one was sick!! Friday we went over to Lacey and Greg's house to play and have lunch. It was a great time, Mommies got to catch up, and kiddo's played til they were pooped! Here's a great picture of Riley and Greg:

Right after lunch they sat down to watch TV and Greg put his arm around Riley - so adorable! I forget how good of friends they are until we find the time for them to hang out! Greg is getting a new brother in April, and so hopefully we can all hang out more since Lacey will be staying home with the new baby! Yay for good friends!

Saturday night we had a camp out in the living room, like we promised Riley. Naturally, he thought it was the greatest thing in the world!!! We set up the tent and sleeping bags, and then made brownies and watched Cars.

He was a little nervous at bedtime about not sleeping in his crib up in his bedroom, but once I laid down next to him he curled right up. He didn't actually sleep IN the sleeping bag, but then again he refuses to sleep under the covers in his bed usually too! He did very good at staying in the tent and not roaming around. But at around 6 am he had to move in with me in my sleeping bag. It seems that he had a little too much juice before bedtime, ok, a lot too much, and woke up completely soaked from armpits to knees!!! So we changed him, changed pj's and he slept the rest of the morning with Mommy because his sleeping bag needed a good washing too!

Not that Mommy got much sleep after that. It's hard enough to share a queen sized bed with Riley, much less a mummy bag on the living room floor!! We also learned that Mommy and Daddy aren't really cut out for this anymore!! Daddy moved to the couch early in the morning, and I probably would have too, if Riley wasn't so whiny in the morning (from being wet we later learned!) But we still had fun! And hopefully we can do more of it this summer (outside, where the ground is a little softer - yes I said SOFTER! - or at least on a little of a slant!)

Not much coming up for us, except a party of Feb 7th to root on the Colts!!! I have a Girls Night Out on the 4th to see a play in Denver - it should be a lot of fun! And I have decided to join the steering committee for my MOPS group. I will be planning the craft at each meeting for the next two years, starting this fall. It will be a challenge to come up with that many cheap, Mom-type crafts, but I'm really looking forward to the closeknit group of Moms that the steering committee will provide. MOPS has been such a blast for me, and I love it, so this is just the next logical step for me. Have a great week everyone, and GO COLTS!!!

Sickies

Hi there everybody! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but everyone here has been kinda sick. Daddy got a little bit of a cough and runny nose, he had it pretty easy - and missed 0 days of work. Mommy got it much worse though. She is still trying to get rid of her cough, and it's been over 2 weeks!! The first week she was sick too, and so we didn't do much. But she's better now, except for in the mornings - she sounds terrible!! Then there's me! I got sick last Thursday, not what Mommy and Daddy had, I just had a fever. But Boy was it a doosey!! When Mommy first took my temperature after lunch it was 102.4. So she gave me some Tylenol and put me down for a nap. I slept for 4 1/2 hours!!! And I probably would have slept more, but Mommy woke me up to take my temp again and give me more medicine. That was the battle for the next three days. My temperature stayed around 103 through Saturday, only coming down with the latest dose of Tylenol. It went down to around 101 each time I got medicine, so Mommy and Daddy didn't take me to the doctor. And I'm all better now!! Here's a picture of me curled up with Mommy. I don't really look sick in this picture because everytime I got Tylenol it brought my fever down enough that I could play and have fun again! (Mommy and Daddy didn't like that too much!)

And here's another picture of me (even though you can't see me!!) hehehe!!

Gran Wilson got me this blanket for Christmas - It's a Moose!! I have so much fun wearing it! Mommy has a blanket that zips up around her and she wears it around the house a lot (like in the first picture), so I like to wear mine too, and be like her!

Well, let's see . . . We haven't been doing much else. Mommy started back to work. Only on weekends though, so I get to spend all day Saturday and Sunday with Daddy. This Friday we are going to Greg's house to play! I'm so excited!! And I think I heard Mommy say that we can have a campout in the living room this weekend (since everyones all better now!!) YAY I'm excited for that!! I get to sleep in my new sleeping bag, in my new tent!!! So look for pictures to come! Talk to ya all later!

Happy New Year!!!

Well, another year has come and gone! I hope everyone had a happy and safe time celebrating the new year! We did! It was our first full day in Indy. We had a good visit, it was just so short!! Mommy and Daddy and I are exhausted from all the running around to see everyone in three days!
We spent most of the day Thursday with Gran Wilson, Aunt Anna, Unkie Rodgie and Auntie Kathie. We had Christmas again at their house! I go lots more cool toys, like a fire truck that makes LOTS of noise, and a Cars race track!! I also got a play tent and tunnel, and Mommy says that with that and my new sleeping bag we should have a camp out in the living room!!! That would be so much fun!! Mommy and Daddy got lots of stuff too, but nothing fun like I got - just some silly gift cards - I don't know why they are so excited about them! Then after that we went to play with my friend Elliot. New Years Day is Elliot's Birthday, he was turning 1, so we went to ring in the new year with him. Daddy and Elliot's Daddy, Tim, played the Wii most of the night, and even let me play a little - even though I didn't really understand. I just wanted to play with the steering wheel. Mommy and Elliot's Mommy Suzanne spent most of the night talking. BORING!! Then Mommy and Daddy both gave me a kiss at the new year at the same time - Yuck!! They said the only reason that I got to stay up for the new year was because we were in a different time zone and so it was really only 10:00 our time, which is only an hour after my real bedtime anyways. And I stayed up later than that the night before on the airplane.
Then on Friday we stayed at Grandma & Grandpa Louie's house all day and had lots of people come over! I got to play with my cousins a lot, and get MORE Presents!! But I didn't get a nap that day so after Mommy took Gran Wilson home I got really sleepy and Cranky.
Saturday was just as much fun! We went to Uncle Stan & Aunt Janice's house. Mommy did scrapbooking stuff, Daddy went shooting with Uncle Stan and I got to play with Maddie, Vanessa and Caleb some more. Well, Maddie and Vanessa wanted to help Mommy and Aunt Janice do Girl stuff, so mostly I just watched Cars and Alvin and the Chipmunks but that was just as much fun! Mommy got to play with Aunt Janice's Cricut, and now she wants one!! Daddy said "Maybe!" Then Saturday night Mommy and Daddy went on a date. They don't get too many of those, so they took advantage of all the free babysitters in Indy. They went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie, they said it was really good!! They liked it!
And then yesterday we came home. I had to get up at 5:00, that's 3:00 Colorado time!!! Needless to say, I slept some on the plane, and the whole way home from the airport (Mommy too), and then took another nap at my regular nap time!!! Mommy said it was good cuz it helped me get back on Colorado schedule some.
Mommy and Daddy say that our next visit to Indy will be in June, cuz Mommy has her 10 year reunion. I can't wait!! I miss my Grandmas and Grandpa already!!