Playing the Lottery

Like everyone else in America, we played the lottery last night.  How can you not try your luck when the payout is $550 MILLION!

I even had to stand in line for 5 minutes to buy the tickets!  As you can see from Riley's reaction, not even his numbers won...

Guess we're gonna have to find another way to finance college...

Loving the library

Since Friday, Riley has had a little bit of a cold.  He doesn't seem to be too phased by the illness and the only symptoms he really has is being a little more tired than usual and coughing like a pack-a-day smoker.  Besides that, he's still in good spirits and nothing can hold back that smile.  According to Bibi, babies don't know that they're sick so they don't mope around.

After staying in all weekend and trying to recover, we got a little stir crazy and decided it would be ok to bundle up and run some errands.  Our first and most interesting stop was the library!  According to Zee, no grandson of his should have waited this long for his first library visit (only 11 weeks), but we just had so much going on!

Unfortunately, as is often the case, Riley slept through our adventure.  But he did smile when we went into the book store!   We picked up our very own copy of Love You Forever, Fairytales from Hans Christian Anderson, The Stinky Cheese Man and Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblin to add to our growing book collection at home. 

In other milestone news, Riley is very close to giggling and he held his own bottle for 10 seconds today!

Riley's first Thanksgiving

This week, we got to celebrate Chris' 29th birthday and Riley's first Thanksgiving!

The whole family, including Uncle Aubrey, Aunt Arlene and Bubbie came in on Wednesday to begin the celebrations with a birthday dinner.

On Thursday, we got dressed for the day in our festive onesie and started the celebration with the traditional Thanksgiving breakfast, walk and parade.  We ate all day, enjoying the relaxation, the cooking and each others company.

Everyone had a great time getting to spend time together, especially having the opportunity to meet Riley and spend so much time with him.  He was so happy being passed around, meeting new family members. 

Even without eating turkey, Thanksgiving is exhausting!

Sleeping beauty

Guess who had a great night?

Riley took a bunch of naps during the day yesterday so I was nervous that he wasn't going to sleep well at night.  But we got him ready for bed as usual and he fell asleep at 11:15 pm.  I was prepared to wake up with him in the middle of the night but he slept until 5 AM!!!

Keep your fingers crossed that we start having more nights like these!

Riley's first flight

Riley is now a frequent flyer!  We took our first trip to Pittsburgh this weekend and had an awesome time!  I was a little nervous to fly with him alone but he was a champ and we had an excellent experience.  I think we scared all of the people on the plane when they saw such a little baby - but besides a few squeaks and a minute of crying, you would never even know there was a 2 month old on the plane.

Everyone was incredibly helpful seeing that I was traveling alone and so many people were willing to help me out.  Riley now has his wings (which he wore on the flight) and they are now on display in his room so he can show them off.

Next flight... LA!

Voting Day!

For weeks now, we have been looking forward to voting day.  We explained the process to Riley and he was ready to cast his ballot.  We went to the polls and in all of his excitement, Riley fell asleep and missed the whole thing... but did come out with a sticker proving he served his civic duty.

Later in the day, he was a little more animated and ready to show his excitement for the votes to start being announced!

Now, we are enjoying watching all of the results come in together.

Mall madness

 

 

Yesterday, we spent the afternoon at the outlet malls in Kenosha.  We loaded up the car, grabbed everything we needed and hit the road.  Unfortunately, Chris and I each thought the other put the stroller in the trunk so when we got there, we realized we were strollerless.  Knowing we couldn't schelp Riley around in the carrier all day, we went to Customer Service and rented a stroller for the day.

 

 

We shopped and shopped, and in one store, Riley found something that he wanted.  We checked it out, said how cute it was and just couldn't take his eyes off it.  Turns out, it was himself in a mirror!  So we said he could keep it!

 

 
After hours and hours, shops, dressing rooms, meals and clothes, we were all worn out and headed home with our new purchases!