She's in Kindergarten?

The day came...

She was so excited to strap on that back pack and head to school. The night before we had went to the "Kindergarten Back to School Night" - which for Riley was not back to school since this would be her first time! This is her teachers 2nd year teaching and she seems really nice. 

After we dropped her off Owen kept calling for her. He cried all the way to the car and could not believe that I was leaving her there. He was super happy when we went and picked her up at the end of the day!

Cake

I think one of my most favorite things about my kids birthday is making their birthday cake. I am always saying that this time I am not going to go overboard and that I am just going to buy a store bought cake. It never happens....

I loved Riley's pink cake - EVERYTHING was pink on this cake! The only problem I had is that I used a different recipe for the frosting and it was TOO SOFT and my house was TOO HOT and no matter how fast I was working, the frosting was melting. It was horrible, but luckily it resulted in a beautiful pink cake that Riley loved! 

CORN

Remember me saying that it will be a while before Derrick is able to eat a whole apple? Well I guess it goes for Corn on the Cob too. It is pretty hard eating corn when you are missing 4 of your top teeth.

At least he is a good sport about letting us take his picture. He had been singing "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth."
When he sings it and I laugh he looks at me and says, "I AM SERIOUS, THAT IS ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS!"

Miss Lilly

For Riley's birthday weekend my sister Ka-Rynn came to town and brought her hubby Ethan and her 3 month old daughter Lilly. It was our first time meeting Lilly and we were all super twiterpated. She is one cute little girl. Plus I am the baby whisper, so anytime I held her she promptly feel right to sleep - there is nothing better then holding a beautiful sleeping baby -  it makes me want to have another one....(Stay tuned)

She is such a good little baby and has the best features of both her mom and dad. I hope that we get to see her more often. 

5 years old.

I love this girl so much and I can not believe that she is 5 years old. I can not believe that she also will be starting kindergarten next week. She is so excited and can hardly wait. I don't know what Owen and me are going to do, we will have 3 hours all by ourselves!! 

 Best Friend : Kaleb

Favorite Food: Spaghetti

Favorite Color: PINK

Favorite Movie: Cinderella

Favorite Toy: Lego's 

I remember the day I had Riley, It was SO LONG. I had 2 nursers in the room, the midwife, and the surgeon on call. Riley was just not cooperating. When I first came in and the nurse checked me Riley was  head down. The nurse walked out of the room came back and decided to check me again before she started the potocin, (she had just checked me 2 minutes before)and Riley was BREACHED. It took two nurses, Daniel and the surgeon to hold my tummy, so that my midwife could turn her and break my water - to prevent her from becoming breached again. After hours and hours of labor, the surgeon coming in and telling me I had two more pushes and if she was not out I would have to have a c-section, I was finally holding this beautiful little girl in my arms and it was time to choose a name. The surgeon came over looked at my baby girl and said, "I think that you should name her Riley since she got us all riled up today." I already loved the name Riley and after the surgeons suggestion we could not call her anything else. 

In a sea of brown eyes, she had blue. I love her blue eyes!

Toothless

I think it was Riley that saidknow he looks like the Toothless from "How to Train Your Dragon" - he kind of does - poor, poor Derrick.

At our last Dentist appointment the X-Ray on Derrick teeth showed that his two front permanent teeth, we BIG. So big they took up 4 spaces! The dentist suggested to get them to grow in straight, that we would need to pull out all 4 front teeth on top. SO we did....

I wish I took a picture but I didn't...

He is so upset by the way he looks, calling himself a "freak" - he gets that from his father.  I have to admit it is hard getting used to. There are little carters in his mouth were is teeth used to be and his gums there are spiky. I am sure in about a month it will smooth out. I don't think he will be eating whole apples for a little while...

2nd Grader!

I am officially the mother of a second grader! Derrick started school on August 20th. He was so excited to start school that night before that he did not fall asleep until 1:30 in morning. Crazy kid!

By 7:00 in the morning he was showered, dressed, had eaten breakfast and had his backpack on ready to go! I am so glad he loves school so much.