We're back!

Yup, we're back from sunny Florida! We had a fantastic visit with grandma and everyone and the weather was awesome (oh, how I love my flip flops). However, Jet Blue or that wussy ice storm couldn't keep us away from getting back to Daddy..although we did have to stay in Florida for too extra days (poor us).

Some things Riley learned to do in Florida-

* pee in his face, not once, but thrice.
* Since he was sock-less for almost the entire trip, he has found that he can eat his toes and he loves it.
* walk in the sand and then cry when the sand was being washed off
* be an absolute angel for his babysitters- every time Grandma watched him, he was a total sleep-a-saurus
* giggle like there's no tomorrow (it's quite a riot when he really gets his giggle on)
* sleep on his stomach, which scared me b/c he tends to like to sleep face down but everybody says that he'll be fine since he's getting in the position by himself. Jim and I will be feeling alot better about this whole belly sleeping issue when Riley has learned how to roll back over onto his back.

Riley was great on the flight going down as he slept the entire way down (so, I guess I owe him a beer now on his 17th birthday!) and was pretty good on the way back home. He fell asleep (literally) as we ascended into the air- I think he felt that weird, flutteriness of lift-off b/c as soon as we started going up, he just got this dopey grin on his face and just smiled until I stuck a bottle in his mouth to ease the pressure on his ears. He drank the bottle and then passed out- woke up again about an hour into the flight (right in the middle of an episode of What NOT to Wear that I had not seen, the little turd) and just loved being paid attention to by the 10 year old little girl and 5 year old little boy I was sitting next to during the flight. We hit a buttload of turbulence when we got into NJ since we had to circle the airport for a bit and it seemed like the entire plane population was feeling pretty green (myself included and I've been on tons of planes and have never felt airsick) but Riley was quite the trooper and just laid his head down on my shoulder and relaxed. I'm pretty proud of him since there were two ladies behind me chucking their biscuits. Next trip for Master Riley- Costa Rica in May! Wooo hooo! The flight there is a bit longer but I'll have Daddy, Poppy, Grammy, and Uncle Greg to help out with entertaining the little guy!