Off to Chicago!

4:30 Tommorow morning, Riah and I will be leaving for Chicago for 2 whole weeks! It is a long overdue trip to visit my parents who have not seen Riah since he was 5 months old. He is now almost 22 months. Our bags are packed, I have gone to many measures to make sure I have everything I think Riah should need on an airplane. We could not go without his favorite book "Mr Brown can Moo", and his favorite movie "Barnyard" a.k.a. "Cow-Pig". A few other thigs added to my list include: some color wonder markers, fruit gummy snacks and various other goodies he never gets to eat, toy airplanes, a sticker book, and of course his Monkey. Alot of the things I am bringing are new to him and he has never seen, so it should be fun for him to explore some new territory and hopefully keep him busy. Busy is good, busy is happy! Many searches through the wonderful world of the internet led me to some great ideas for plane activities. And yes, benedryl will be close at hand if needed. :)

Motivation for another moment like that.

The other day I came across an old journal of mine and saw an entry about Riah when he was begining to crawl, and growing out of his Baby bathtub. At the time, we did not have a real bath tub, just a shower. So we put Riah in a baby tub placed in our shower. He was quickly outgrowing it, and I prayed in my journal that God would provide us a house with a bathtub for him. Boy, did he ever! But the thing about that entry made me realize how much I wish I would have entered more about Riah and the things he was up to on a daily basis. Hence, i am starting this blog. So whoever may come across, enjoy!

Good Bye Mae

So, after spending about 9 months watching Mae.  She will be leaving us this week to venture on to Daycare!  Riah and Mae have become the best of friends, and she will be greatly missed.

A stuffed up nose. Literally

Yesterday, we had a little incident with Riah and his nose! Turns out he stuck something up there without my notice, and got it stuck.  We were not able to tell what it was exactly but it measured about an inch long and 4 centimeters wide.  Thanks to a doc friend who made a quick house call to remove the foreign object, we were able to skip a visit to the E.R. To me it looked like a clove of garlic.  Poor Guy!