My little Farmers Girl

Every year Eddie goes to an agent conference in downtown sac, and this year he decided to bring Riley. He did everything from getting her a custom made farmers shirt to ordering her a name tag the says Riley Medeiros, Jr. Agent. They looked so cute together and she was SO excited. My little girl all grown up.

The Look

our sweet smiling girl


"the look"

Here is our latest dilemma in our home. Eddie has decided to teach Addy how to give "the look" which is really just addy glaring at you. I realize that at first it was funny. She would glare at us when prompted and we would all laugh. But then she decided that she liked being quite the comedian and started glaring at people who would come say hi to her instead of giving her sweet smile that we are all so used to. I used to say how she was my friendly, social child who liked everyone. Now I am just trying to save people from the glare. And even though I don't approve, I still had to document this "attitude expression" as I know it is hopefully just a phase we will be able to break her of. Here is a picture of "the look". I also am attaching a pic of her smiling to let you know that she can still be sweet and loving when she wants to be.....

A video for Riley

Ok so this is quite possibly the most exciting thing that Riley has ever seen. For those of you who don't know Miss Patty Cake has a whole line of childrens christian videos....and Riley LOVES her! Check it out! :)

My Mom had the priviledge of meeting her at Childrens Pastor Conference and Miss Patty Cake was nice enough to record this for Riley. We heart miss patty cake :)

Pictures

Just a few quick pics that I love....

The Joys of Two

I feel like I am finally starting to enjoy having two children. It's not that I didn't enjoy them up until this point, it's that I was too busy to take joy in all the cute little things they do. But the older Addy gets the more she can act independantly. Sure she still rely's on me to feed her and hold her and love on her, but she can now play on her own. The first time I saw Riley and Addy play together I just about cried realizing that in such a short time the two of them would soon be the best of friends. Riley has matured into the most amazing big sister. She wants to teach Addy how to do everything and looks out for her when I walk into the kitchen or leave the room. I am so blessed to have such an amazing loving little helper in Riley.

Addy got her 1st tooth and is working her way into solids. We are still primarily on mush but we have added cheerios and noodles and scrambled eggs to the eadible list. I have learned from my food mistakes with Riley and am determined not to make them the second time around with Addy. And beleive it or not my daughter LOVES veggies! Squash, sweet potatoes, corn, peas, green beans.....you name it, she loves it!

Disneyland

For some reason the last few weeks have felt overwhelming and I have not gotten around to adding all our pictures from Disneyland. I think it could have something to do with the fact that I have been trying to potty train Riley. The idea seems simple enough but the follow-through is not all that easy, especially when you have a daughter as opinionated as mine. Things will be going perfect, she will have made it all day without an accident and then we wake up the next morning and literally refuses to sit on the toilet. By the third accident I don't have the energy to clean up anouther mess and off we go again with diapers. It has become a vicious cycle. I swear I even make it fun and I give m&m rewards for even trying! The doctor keeps telling me to just ride it out. That there will be good days and bad days, but the doctor isn't at my house having to clean it all up. Anyways...back to disneyland.....
we caravaned down in a rented mini-van (quite the experience) I don't blame Em and Angela (aka Angie on this trip) for taking Em's car instead of joining our whole crew. It was three days in literally the happiest place on earth, Riley still asks me almost every day if we are going to go back to disneyland. It's hard to explain to a two year old that you will, it will just be anouther year or so......so here are the pictures of our little trip.....