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The Rileys

We had a great time at the DOX Marriage Seminar this weekend!  Gave Nathan and I a lot of stuff to talk about!  Here is my hubby back in the day.  Such a sexy man!  This was on our one year anniversary, I took him to that place up in Newberg I think with all the planes.  He thought it was cool, I was bored.

It's sad but I looked through our pictures to get a picture of us together..... I couldn't find one.  There was this picture of him almost three years ago and then tons of pictures of him with the kids.  What happened to those years before I was pregnant?  I should find those and we should take more shots together.

Fun in the Sun!

This morning was GREAT!  Caelan slept in until 7:15 which he hasn't done in a few days!  Then we just woke up slow and hung around until about 11:00 and headed to my sister's pool.  (One of the benefits to living in an apartment!)  It was so nice!  I love summer time!  Caelan wasn't really acting himself though he was snuggling me the whole time and didn't really care if he is in the water.  I really hope he isn't getting sick again.  Hopefully he will wake up from his nap feeling great!

Ewww stinky Daddy feet!

Snuggles for Daddy

I'm all ready to swim, Mom!

Big Boy Bed

We had to make the switch to a "big boy bed" since Caelan figured out how to climb out of his crib.  Right now it's just his mattress on the floor until we can go to home depot to find all the right screws for his toddler bed.  I was really worried about the transition and how he would do with all the freedom.  First go around was a nap and he did great!  He didn't get off the mattress at all and talked/played for about 15 minutes before falling asleep!  I was so happy!  Then that night he screamed and cried and wouldn't stay in his bed.  We had guests over so Nathan went up there to help him fall asleep fast.... I went up after our guests left to wake Nathan up.  Today for nap time though he did great again.  Didn't even attempt to get off the mattress.  We will see how tonight goes....  I'm sure it's much harder when there is people over though.  I wouldn't want to go to sleep either.

Coffee and Dancing

That's what I need in the morning to get me going.  A good song to dance to and a hot cup of coffee.  Caelan just stared at me this morning as I had a dance party with myself.  He wasn't laughing or smiling, just staring.  Good thing he is only one or I would've been really self conscious. : )

oh motherhood...

Caelan had two accidents within 2 minutes.  Apparently he didn't want to go in the toilet that time.  So annoying.  I can't wait until he is totally potty trained, it has been way too long. 

Caelan has also been really really clingy the last couple days.  On monday I spent most of the day with both kids on me.  It makes it really hard to do anything else.  That night Caelan also climbed out of his crib for the first time.  My poor sister was watching him and wound up sleeping in the guest room with him until he fell asleep.  I'm pretty sure he took his nap on his floor yesterday.  We need to get hardware for the toddler bed and then we will making that switch.  Nathan also slept with him in the guest room from 3:00 am on last night.  I don't know what his problem is lately.  So because of that I have been really exhausted but I am hoping that it will only last a little bit and he will be excited about his new bed.  Luckily he can't open the doors yet so at least he will confined to his room, if not his bed.

Laidy is starting to need a little more attention too but it's fun because she is so responsive.  She is getting past the newborn stage and moving into little baby.  Pretty soon she will be walking i'm sure.

5 hours

that was how long Laidy's nap was today!  she ate twice in there but never opened her eyes

Never Again...

So this morning I decided to Adelaide a bath... it had been awhile and though I like sour baby, it was time.  Of course I can't give Adelaide a  bath and have Caelan just watch so he jumped it.  All was well and fun.  I took Adelaide out and she decided that was a goo time to pee all over her clean self and me.  So to wash off we went back in.  So all three of us are in the tub.  I decided to wash my hair since I was already in the bath but I can't put Laidy down because well, she would drown.  So there I am in the shower holding Adelaide and Caelan is yelling, "Up Momma, Please!!!"  I just have to get the shampoo out of my hair!!!  Well, some of it falls in Caelan's eyes and he is screaming, "Ouch, Momma!  Eyes!!!"  

We all made it out clean and alive but NEVER AGAIN.  

Also, I hate brushing Caelan's teeth.  I dread it every morning and because I hate it so much we rarely brush them at night.  Hopefully I am not teaching him bad dental hygiene but we can work on it later in life.  He will loose all these in a few years any way, right?  

Adelaide went down for her nap at 10:00 today woke up at 10:45 to eat and went right back to sleep.  It's now 12:15 and she is still sleeping!  Caelan and I are getting some good time together!

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Aren't they so cute?

Nathan was away

Nathan was in Germany this week so we were up in Portland staying with my parents. We did lots of fun things like go to the zoo and the children's museum.  You should check out our pictures here!