Costa Rica

Costa Rica was nice- super nice people, cool birdies (hi Ry!), monkeys and all sorts of cool marine life...although I would never advise traveling with an infant without hordes of family along to help out! Well, it wouldn't have been bad with just Jim and I but we wouldn't have seen/done as much as we did without having the fam along! It was hot and the water was salty but Riley never really made much of a fuss, even though he was cutting 3 teeth all week. He had his moments but was really a great traveler...he's a born flyer as he really is a great airplane baby.

Here's some more pics to sink your teeth into...

Sand crawling..wooo hooo!

Swimming makes Riley sooooo sleepy! Yesssssssssssss!

More post-swim naps!


Uncle Woobie & Riley!


Dirty Mouth!...Clean it up!


This is Riley's Costa Rican lady friend- she was the hostess at the buffet (mmmmmmmmm, buffet) and she loved Riley (and he lighted up for her every time, despite the look on his face in this particular picture)and was constantly taking him for a few minutes and showing him off to the other resort peeps. Jim and I were kinda weirded out by the rxn of most of the men in the resort- all the foreign dudes wanted to play with him and/or hold him. I guess British and Costa Rican men are more in tune with their feminine sides than American men, hee hee.

Well, Riley just bumped his noggin for the umpteenth time so I'll have to post more pics later when he's snoozing.

Home again, home again, jiggity jig

We're home! Update on Costa Rica later when crawly McCrawlawtiz goes down for a napper. But here are two of my most favorite "Riley on Vacation" photos!

Pre-bedtime playtime

Riley loves playing peek-a-boo through his cribber bars..and he loves being nekkid before his bath (He squeals in delight when he gets walked down the hall heading towards the tub). Hopefully, he'll take to the pool/ocean like he takes to the bath- we'll see this weekend in Costa Rica! yeah!

Hitting the boards with Jonah and Deville

It was a beautiful day so Erika, Karen and I took the little buggers out to Point Pleasant for a boardwalk stroll and "ice cream for 'nonah!"!


Ahhhh, I love the sea air!


Deville and Mommy..WEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


Where are the birds, Jonah? She won't be smiling as pretty when those gulls steal her french fries! tee hee, or poop on her stroller like they did on Deville's!



Ice cream for 'nonah!

how weird...

I was in the middle of posting a "Happy 7 month birthday" and I went over to check out Deville's blog and it was bizarre-ly a near identical post of grassy shots and some flowers, plus Deville's 8 month birthday shout-out. Karen, maybe we're hanging out too much? Tee hee.

Anyway, Happy 7 months Riley!


The "last gummers" shot b/c his top two teeth are coming in at full force and as of Sunday afternoon, we can see two little "rice grains" when he smiles, so sad. Farewell gummy smile, we'll miss you!


THIS IS A SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY LADIES!


This is what happens when I give Riley the bowl- it doesn't happen on non-bath nights.


Here's Riley at 7 months finally deciding to crawl on that "weird" green stuff...the first couple of times I put him on it, he just sat there and looked at it for 10 minutes before flopping down and refusing to move.


He finally realized that grass can not only be felt, but pulled out and stuck into one's mouth- GLEE!


Sooooo tough...


Maggie loves the grass too.


These are the "Jimmy" tulips, appropriately named b/c Jim's favorite color is orange.

Yesterday...

I was drinking an iced coffee in Starbucks and feeding Riley a bottle and he started a giggle-fest with me- anyway, I made him laugh so hard he threw up. It was kinda funny especially b/c he just looked at me in surprise and giggled like mad. haw!

Crazy Week!

Congrats to Michelle, Bryan and Dylan! Mia Jordan made her crazy entrance into the world yesterday and she brings new meaning to "May Day"! We can't wait to meet her!

...What else is new? Well, Riley had his first chest cold/bout of croup. It sucked, but he healed pretty quickly and even learned to CRAWL despite being full of snotsers and feeling pretty blah. I got sick at the tail end of his cold and am still feeling pretty crappy but I'd rather be sick than see him be uncomfortable, so it's not that bad. So, we have crawling (which is insane b/c he went from taking 5 "steps" to crawling all over the place with reckless abandon) and also a new tooth peeking through on his top set of gummers. We also got him to eat his peas- he apparently just hates MY peas and is chowing down on the Gerber version- oh well, I guess I had to succumb to Gerber at some point.