Patrick's 30th Birthday

So yesterday was my wonderful husbands 30th birthday! Despite his anxiety over "being old" he lived and I think had a pretty good day. We did have to do some yard work at both houses but his mom came for a visit and took up to lunch and then we drove out to show her our land. Then my parents called and wanted to watch Riley for the night so we went to dinner with them at the Brik, where Riley got to sit in a high chair for the first time, and then they watched Riley while we went to a movie...the whole movie, first one in over 5 months! All in all I would call it a pretty relaxing and fun day.

1st time in a high chair



Work was weird this week. I worked Friday and it was busy with some interesting patients and one code. Surprisingly enough the code survived and I heard is recovering well, not something that we get to see too often when someone comes in with CPR in progress and no pulse. I was actually supposed to work all weekend but somehow my schedule got messed up and all of the overtime hours I was supposed to work wasn't put on the revised schedule so surprise I get the whole weekend off with my family! I, to say the least, was not disappointed, especially since I got this picture of Riley ready a book from Grandma Kay, made me want to go home so bad.

Riley also started eating apples 3 days ago and...she LOVES them! Thank goodness, she wasn't too fond of the rice cereal after the first time. So one day we went to Andy's and picked up some fresh fruit and we went home and made some applesauce for Riley to have the next morning. The first time I fed it to her I was running a bit late for work and didn't realize until over half of it was gone that she was eating it cold. Oops! But she didn't seem to mind. The next day I heated it up and she ended up eating more of it so that was good. And this morning I added cinnamon and she seemed to like that also! We are going to go get some more fruit today and make some more so that we can freeze it for later. Riley loves to help in the kitchen so that will keep her occupied for some of the day.
Riley also started sitting up by herself with very little help. We sat in the yard and played with her taggies ball for almost an hour and for about 30 minutes of that she was sitting up by herself. It scares me how big she is getting and how fast the time is going by. She is such a big girl and so full of life, it just makes me so happy to be around her!