Life and Times of the Murphy Five

Friday, June 18, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Sneak Peek #2

I made this cute headband that Riley will be wearing with her fancy shoes and dress this Saturday.

No, Riley's not upset about being in the wedding, she's just showing her disdain for her mother taking 1000 pictures of her! I swear, she loves her headband and her Aunt Libby! Let's hope this crabby pants doesn't show up on Saturday!!

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Riley Nicole At 1 Year, 10 Months Old

It's that time of the month again...another update on Miss Riley! I don't even know where to start this month. She's tiptoeing her way right into the terrible twos. I don't think we're going to be lucky enough to detour her around this fun stage. I've been trying to tune out my mom's horror stories with me and have been hoping that it's possible for Riley to skip this whole stage...but, I think I'm out of luck. She's proving to be a real ~~handful~~ ball of independent, sassy, energy zapper!

Here's a few examples, along with the usual stuff:

Riley weighs in at 24 lbs 3 oz and is 32 1/4 inches tall. She's barely fitting into her size 5 shoes and can still squeeze into her size 4s. She wearing all size 2T clothes. Most of her shirts fit great, but all of her shorts are barely staying up thanks to her diaper.
She is talking like crazy and actually picking up new concepts daily. She's started using me, hurt, scared, hot, cold, tired, up, and down accurately.
Her go-to color is blue. I always ask her what color something is and she always say blue. She can point to each color when asked about 60% of the time.
If you ask her she's TWO with one finger in the air. I'm just rolling with it since she'll be two soon enough.
She will try to count. Usually saying one, two, three, five, six, eight, and then numbers that I can't make out.
She's starting to say everyday phrases that Brett and I find ourselves saying. Like, "lets go" or "here we go."
She still loves to say "no, no, no" while shaking her head.
She loves to point out every bus, truck, semi on the road. She'll be the first to tell you she's right if you try to correct her.
She still likes to listen to her "songs please" in the car. We had to start telling her that we must listen to all of the songs because she was yelling "NO, NO, NO!" after five seconds into each song. It's fun to watch her try to sing along and do hand motions. She usually gets the last couple words of each line right. When she likes a song she immediately bops her head left and right to the beat.
She loves watering the flowers, plants, grass, trees, weeds...you name it, she's watering it.
She also loves to wear her fancy shoes and dress. So far, we've only worn them around the house to practice in before the big wedding this weekend.
She loves to make "bunny soup" with her toy kitchen. She usually brings it over and as you take a sip she yells "hot, hot" and we have to blow on it and then take another sip.
She likes to play with her little people and little animals. She usually sits them in their little chairs and lines them up. She also likes to throw them!
She now swims in the bath tub. She'll lay on her tummy for her entire bath (except when I forcer her to turn over to wash her hair) and kick her legs and moves her arms. She hates when we have to wash her hair. She constantly says "eyes, eyes" because she doesn't want water in her eyes.
She's gone pee pee on the potty two more times. Both times were flukes and she was very confused about what was going on.
She loves horses. She especially loves the horse toy that is in our neighbor's garage. If we don't watch her closely she heads straight to their garage.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Sneak Peek

Aunt Libby and David's wedding is only 10 days away. Miss Riley may just be the cutest flower girl of all time! Check out her shoes...

She's a natural, don't you think??

Weekend Wedding

My cousin, Shane, and his fiancee were married last Saturday. It was a 2pm wedding with the reception immediately following. It was a beautiful wedding and Uncle Nick was an usher/groomsman. Riley was not the best wedding guest, however. Brett spent 50% of the ceremony out in the lobby with a moody toddler. I guess that's what happens when you get woken up from your nap an hour early! Here she is "pouting" after the wedding. She's been doing this quite often now. I guess I'll take a quiet, pouting toddler over a loud, screaming, crying toddler! (Notice the pig tails)

The best part for Riley...dancing! This girl loves to dance! She mostly loved running around like a crazy kid, but it was fun to watch her "dance" with the other kids.

and by herself...

and with mommy...

and with Uncle Nick...

Here's the happy couple...Shane and Natalie...

Riley wouldn't eat but she sure was happy to drink some water!

It was a great day (even with some good luck showers) and we're happy for the newlyweds. I just wish I were in jamaica too!

Water Fun

Riley absolutely loves to play in the water. Well, at least she says she does! Over the weekend we had a chance to pull out her new water toy.

We set it up and she stared at it for a good 5 minutes deciding if it looked too cold.

She ran through it a couple times with her eyes closed and then ran about 10 yards away whining. It was pretty funny. So we turned the water off and she began playing with her "wa wa" toy!

In the end she did run ~~through~~ under water spraying out of the hose! Daddy was a little sneaking and sprayed her a couple times which didn't sit well! I think she's more of a pool girl!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

California!

We made it back from California Sunday night. I have to say that this was one of my favorite vacations. Maybe it's because I truly took advantage of every minute free of being a mommy! It was relaxing, warm, sunny, and so much FUN! California is a beautiful place and definitely a place that I hope to make it back to. We spent our time in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach mostly. Both were great. Our days looked something like this: Wake up (whenever WE decided), shower (or not), go get a stress free breakfast at a cute diner, lay by the pool (and have a few cocktails), rest and showers, and then a night on the town. It was great to see the Mercer's again. We saw them last in DC when we both had our kiddos with us. This time it was all about us. We had fun chatting about our lives back home, reminiscing about old times, and discussing future plans and possible vacations. And yes, there was a lot of talk about Riley and Maxx! Overall, we all had a great time and were happy to get back to Miss Riley - who we hear was really good while we were gone. I swear her hair grew an inch and she started talking in sentences while we were gone! Here's a few pictures from the weekend:

The Happy Couples