Riley Update

Riley is doing great about a week ago I noticed he has two teeth on the bottom peaking through. He is also being much better about eating! I give him a green and an orange veggie for lunch, plus a bit of fruit for dessert, and then for dinner we do a veggie, rice or oatmeal, and a fruit for dinner. And he has been eating all of his lunch and most of his dinner. We are still working our way up to breakfast. About a week and a half ago he started slithering. He pushes off with his feet and pushes himself to get across the floor to important things like Michaels cell phone or Michael’s sunglasses. He sticks his little tush up in the air before he pushes forward…it is so cute. He also pulled up for the first time last week, but he still does not know how to sit up from a laying down position. I am sure he will be crawling any day now and I am dreading it. He will stand holding on to the coffee table of the ledge of the bathtub but you have to help him get to that position. Then once he is there he has the best time just pounding away on the table like he is beating a drum.



Below is a list of Rileys favorite things:



Paper towels

Anyones sunglasses

Cell phones

Winter Squash

Shadows

Graduation

It happened!

I promise I am coming back...

But until I do here are some pictures to tide you over. I finish school in a week and after that I promise to blog, blog and then some. But for now here you can see Michael's attempt at getting ready for the upcoming football season...less than a month away. Riley's first words might be "Roll Tide!"

This is what happens when Mommies spend all day studying and leave Daddy's in charge of babysitting...football brainwashing. I am thinking golf would be a much better (safer) favorite sport.

Riley's 7 Month Photo Shoot

Riley had his first nights away from Michael and I over July 5-7. We went to Pensacola for the 4th and then we left Riley there for a couple of night while we went back to Montgomery to work. He did great. So since he was there for his 7 month photo shoot, Gie Gie snapped these.

Begining of our Father's Day Celebration

So the weekend of fathers day Riley and I were in Dallas, but we flew back to the Gump on Sunday and we were ready to celebrate with Michael when he picked us up from the airport. We had plans for Daddy, that Riley and I had come up with, well mainly Riley, but when we pulled away from the airport the car said it was 103 degrees. So that is why I said in an earlier post that we had only started our Father's Day celebration. Michael did not know what we had planned, so I took Riley and got him dressed for our outing and returned to surprise him. The manly man in him probably won't admit it but I think he was really excited about Riley's little outfit and outr plan. He was also thrilled with his Father's Day present...Riley's first fishing pole! Anyway, Gie Gie and her monogramming sewing machine created this adorable onsie for the big day. It says, "Going fishing" on the front and on his little bootie it say ..."with Daddy". He will be so cute in it when he starts crawling. Gie Gie also found his fishing hat. As you can tell from the picture bleow he was really excited about it too!

We never made it fishing that day due to the heat, but we plan to have our fathers day celebration later on this summer on a day when it is not so hot. My picnic basket and quilt are still half packed and waiting for the occassion! Also I would have more pictures to post, but Riley was so excited he was a big blur in most of the pics, jumping all over the place!

So it wasn't Pneumonia.

Sorry I said in the last post I was posting video and I forgot, so here it is. This is Riley after his dinner, nap, 6 needle pricks, breathing treatments and multiple x-rays. We are still in the ER at this point, but you can tell he is feeling better.

His fever broke on Saturday in the early afternoon. And he never had to have another set of breathing treatments after his set on Friday night. His breathes per minute increased and when Dr. Morrison said we could leave and he wrote Riley a couple of prescriptions. He is on a steroid and a antibiotic to cover all our bases. Dr. Morrison says that it is not likely pneumonia since Riley recovered so well and so quickly. He has been cleared to return to daycare on Wednesday, but Gie Gie is trapped here without a car until the weekend so he will be out of daycare all week.

We're home!

We were released this morning and Riley is doing great! Below are some pictures from the hospital.

Here are Riley's little feet and his IV and hospital bracelet.
Here he is lying in his hospital crib.

Here he is on my hospital cot, luckily his IV would stretch really far so he did not have to stay in the crib all the time.

He is on my cot again, with Gie Gie and please note in the picture above and this one below how incredibly pale he is.