Our Covergirl!

Riley won this week's Star 102.5's Person Magazine Cover contest. She truly is our cover girl. I was on the air this morning at 6:45am. I'm sure I sounded just wonderful. I was walking around the house trying to stay calm, while Brett and Riley were "resting their eyes" in the bedroom. Yes, she was so excited to be a celebrity that she didn't even wake up! As the cover girl, Riley gets a $50 savings bond.
Last night we went to see the Miss Iowa and Miss Teen Iowa pageant at Roosevelt. Brett's sister, Libby, works for Future Productions, the company that organizes the pageant. Who knows, maybe Riley will be a future Miss Iowa herself!

Here is the link to see Riley's cover: http://star1025.com/pages/3077186.php?imageGalleryXRefId=836561#imgXR

Listen if you can!

Riley just might be a superstar. Well, I've always thought that, but Start 102.5 might agree with me! I submitted one of her tutu pictures to a contest on Big Ken and Colleen and she is a finalist. If she wins, her picture will be on their website and she gets a $50 savings bond. I will also have to be on air - so that's exciting. If you can, you'll have to tune in to Star 102.5 at 6:45 am Monday morning.

Here's the website to check out the contest: http://www.star1025.com/pages/2815727.php

Riley's three month pictures!

Riley was such a good girl last night. We had an appointment at Portrait Innovations at 6pm. Of course, they were running behind and we didn't get in until after 7pm. Here are a few of the shots that turned out. They aren't cropped, but they are still too cute!

FINALLY...a full night's sleep!

Riley is such a good girl! Last night Riley slept through the night! We started her bedtime routine a little late because we were busy shopping for her pictures...which are tonight!! So, we gave her her bath (which she loves) around 9pm and then she was screaming for some food. She didn't end up going to bed until 9:30-10pm or so. But, she slept until 5:00 am. She probably would have slept longer if I hadn't gone into her room and put my hand on her chest to make sure she was still breathing! Of course, she was!




Riley seems to LOVE bath time. She is always kicking up a storm (maybe a soccer player, I don't know) and splashing the water now. For the first time, she cried when we took her out of the tub last night! Here are a couple pictures of Riley's bathtime experiences.




Here is Riley in her baby tub. Just chillin!

Here is her tantrum last night. Two things she wasn't so happy about.

1. Getting out of the tub

2. The hood...she hates the hood!

Is that funny?

Riley had her first (and second) laugh last night! What a cute little laugh she has. She was taking a bath and I decided to put some of her toys in the water for the first time. I wound up her little ducky toy and it started buzzing away from her. Out of nowhere she started laughing. It was so cute. I wasn't sure if it was a laugh or not so I wound the ducky up again. Sure enough she laughed again. I kept winding the toy up over and over to get her to laugh again...but by then she thought Mommy was lame!

Almost 3 months down

It is hard to believe that Riley is going to be 3 months old on Saturday. It seems like yesterday that we were bringing her home from the hospital and taking care of her through all of the chaos around us. I have to admit that she is one sweet baby girl and I couldn't imagine life without her. She makes Brett and I smile every day. She amazes us every day and I can't say how many times I say to Brett "we are so lucky to have such a healthy, beautiful baby girl."

We have so much fun with her and Brett is such a great Daddy. I think he was born for the job! Countless times I look over at him and he's just smiling at Riley. I always ask "what'd she do?" And he always says "Nothing, she is just SO cute!" I love (most of the time) that he is such an overprotect Dad. I think he says "don't touch her face" or "be careful" in his sleep now. Here's the Proud Papa with Riley at the hospital.

Riley's Spooky Week

Last week was a rollercoaster - halloween, returning to work, colds, and more!

I made it through my first week of work. It really wasn't as hard as I had anticipated it being. Although, I'm sure it will be worse when I start taking all of my cases (and their problems) back in the next week!

Riley experienced her first Halloween. To be honest, is was more of a holiday for me as she could care less. Grandma and Grandpa Murphy and Uncle John came over to eat pizza was we handed out candy to all of our trick-or-treaters. Riley wore her Moo Cow onsie. We put her in her Tiger costume for about 5 minutes before she started protesting. For some reason this little girl hates hoods, hats, or anything on her head! After all of the trick-or-treaters were through we went to Grandma and Grandpa Burch's house to show of our little cow. Riley got to see her cousins, Kennedy and Addie. Kennedy was a skelleton and Addie was a pirate.

Here we are: I'm not sure why the picture is so small - I'll fix this on my next entry.

It was late, and our little cow was pooped!

Riley wasn't feeling very well last week and was very congested. On Friday evening she was running a temperature and we couldn't get it to drop. She also sounded like she was having some trouble breathing with all of the congestion. We called Dr. Fred and he told us that we should head down to the ER to get her checked out. Once there, Riley's temperature had dropped and she was breathing fine. They had to draw blood and take a urine sample anyway to make sure that she didn't have any infections. It was torture for Riley and me both. After 30 minutes and several tries they were finally able to get everything drawn. All of the results came back normal and I felt horrible that we had to put Riley through hell! I vowed to never overreact again!