Baby at the park

Riley has finally got to go outside a little since the weather is starting to warm up. I am home with her on Tuesdays (my favorite day of the week!) and we go to the park every chance we get. It's the first thing she asks when she wakes up in the morning. It makes for a rough day when the weather isn't good enough to go. Baby is getting much better at accepting other children at the park. She doesn't scream and cry every time they get on a toy she has been on anymore. She does still try and block the stairs or slide so that no one else can go down them, but with a little coaxing from Mommy she'll move so other kids can go. She is such an outdoors kid which is hard for me because I am so NOT outdoors! Actually I don't mind being outside as long as it's by a pool while reading a book, but those days are over for now. It's all slides, sidewalk chalk and tricycles for the next several years. Good thing I love Mommyhood enough to let Riley pick what we do.

Riley is still growing so much it's shocking! She speaks in sentences now and repeats almost everything we say. It's quite amusing at what she picks up. Luckily, only one bad word has been repeated. Riley can count to about 15 and knows the alphabet up to P. It gets a little fuzzy around LMNO but she's working on it. She knows tons of colors and can point letters and numbers out at random. She should be good and ready for preschool later this year! I can't believe in less than a year she will be in school! What a big girl!