Two Year Old Riley

One Year Old Riley

Birthday Recap

After spending Riley's birthday at the zoo, we capped off the day with dinner, gifts and cake.  Eli, Brody and Riley helped add the finishing touches to the cake, complete with little finger marks where they sampled the icing! 

While cleaning up the other two, Riley worked quickly to get the lid off the sprinkles, dip it in icing and then proceeded to feast. 

Brody went shopping for Riley's gift, I only assisted by chauffeuring and carrying the $$.  He picked out a ginormous container of cheese puffs, new markers, a monster truck, a police car and some dinosaurs.  The container of cheese puffs being the most expensive item purchased that day!  It was fun to watch Brody put serious thought into what Riley needed for his birthday.

And finally the candles were blown out and the cake devoured! 

We ended the day with some group pictures (picture of all six below) and head banging to Queen (video below).  I think the only thing missing was Aunt Michelle and Uncle Justin. 

In the end, it was a pretty big day for a two year old, but I do believe he enjoyed every minute of it! 

the art of headbanging...

cousins - july 2012

riley's birthday morning!

Turning Two at the Zoo!

TWO

Riley William is TWO today! He started off a tiny little dude, and has turned into a curly topped, chunky toddler. Happy Birthday, Ri!

(couple days old)

(7 months old)

(last week)

popsicles

Cool Dudes!

Crewe

Will turns ONE!

hotel bath

these boys thought a FULL bath tub was the best thing in the world.  brody also thought sleeping on the pull out couch in our hotel room was pretty awesome.  the mirrored closet doors fooled both of them though...brody and his nose & riley and his forehead met up with that tricky mirror that made the room look bigger. 

Harper's Baptism

VBS 2012

Last week was deemed FUN week around here.  Cohen stayed the whole week to attend Bible School at Trinity with Brody.  Emily and Paige came to watch the boys one day, Grammy and I took them swimming another day, plus there were special treats for after Bible School too.  
Neither of the boys were that thrilled with the idea of being left at Bible School the first evening, but no tears were shed and when Michelle and I picked them up that evening, they were full of stories.  Night two was the roughest on Cohen because his mama wasn't there to take him or pick him up and the third night was Brody's rough night with a few tears shed.  Each evening on our ride home they would tell me about their evening and what they learned and made for a craft.  They were both always super excited to go back to VBS the next evening...until it was time for me to leave.   

Thursday night was the final evening of VBS, complete with a small program for everyone to attend.  Unfortunately, Riley's toe and the tricyle went to battle and the tricyle won right before we were to walk out the door.  So, I stayed home to calm a very upset Riley and care for his buggered up toe and Kurt, Grampy and Grammy attended the program.  I believe the picture above shows you how eager Brody was to perform.   He told me he was too tired to stand!  I think the more accurate answer is he is shy like his mama. 

In the end, I'm so glad he had the opportunity to attend and that Cohen was able to attend as well.  Hopefully pre-school this fall will be an easier transition now that he has saw the school and maybe after a year of school under his belt, he will hopefully participate a little more at VBS next year! 

just a swinging.