Riley Nicole At 2 Years, 8 Months

Riley continues to show more and more sass as she gets older.  I think we're going to have our hands full with two little girls in our house!  Here are just a few things that we've seen develop over the past month:

• Riley pouts the minute that she is told no.  She will walk away with her head down, hold her hands out in front of her like they are hurt, and/or, cry.  She will cry for up to 30 minutes sometimes.
• She will choose (willingly) to go to timeout over doing something that she's been asked or told to do. For example,  I wanted her to eat more for dinner and told her that she had to eat two more bites of meat.  After ignoring me a couple times I told her that she would go to timeout if she didn't take a bite before I counted to three.  Before I even counted she starts to get down and said "ok...timeout..." and walked to our usual timeout spot.
• She likes to pick out her own clothes and usually does a better job than Daddy in the morning.  Sometimes if you get a shirt and she decides she wants to wear it, but doesn't get to get it out of her drawer she will pout (which will most likely include crying).
• She still loves to swing and always wants to be outside when she sees our neighbor boys "Gabin (Gavin) and his baby."
• She loves to wear her raincoat and asks to wear it almost every day.
• She is soooo excited to be a big sister.  She loves to kiss my bell and say "Hi baby Popper.  I can't wait to meet you!" 
• She loves to play in the baby's room and is always asking us to go upstairs.
• I think I've answered her "why?" questions too much with "because that's the rules."  Now she will say she needs to do something "because that's just my rules."
• Her favorite toys include: dolls and their accessories, balls, bubbles, books, Hi-Lights Magazine, movies.
• She broke out in a rash two weeks ago and the doctor prescribed her medicine for strep throat.  Her rash has turned into eczema and we are still fighting to get her soft skin back.
• She got some hand me downs from her two cousins.  Every night she has worn her "old" pajamas.  I kept asking her if she wanted to wear her new pajamas from Kennedy and Addie and she insisted that they are her "old" jammies!