Ready, Set...Go!

Riley loves playing with her lion walker! She is still obsessed with walking back and forth across the living room. She'll run to one side and look at us with her cheesy smile that says "Moooommm, I'm stuck. Come and get me!" We are trying to teach her to turn it herself with little luck. So far she'll walk in an arc and just get stuck somewhere else!

My most exciting new to report: we have a talker!! Last Friday Riley started saying 'Mama!' I was very excited that this was her first word and made her say it over and over. I began to feel a bit sad for Brett when she refused to say anything close to 'Dada.' Well, you'll be happy to know that last night she started saying 'Dada!' Brett is so excited and now he makes her say it over and over. She is such a little talker now. It's so cute to listen to her baby babble! It is just so crazy how fast she is changing. We have also been hearing a lot of people tell us that Riley looks like her mommy. Finally! For the past 10 months all we've heard is "you look just like your daddy!"

We took Riley to the Art's Festival downtown. She was exhausted due to skipping her nap. Our hopes of her napping the whole time we were there were squashed the minute we walked out of the parking garage! She was in a bit of a daze most of the time, but did enjoy eating pizza and throwing her sippy every chance she could! We didn't purchase any art, but there really was a lot of cool stuff on display!

As you can see from most of the pictures she's finally decided to start smiling for the camera. It still takes a lot of pleading, but she has now graced us with her cheesy tooth filled grin.