Trick or Treat

It's hard to believe that this is Riley's second Halloween. Last year she was a little devil and this year she was a Rose Fairy courtesy of Kiki! A big thank you to Kiki for the adorable Halloween costume. Before we took Riley trick or treating we attended a Halloween party put on by the church that our neighbors attend. They had games, face painting, costume contests and a hayride. Trey volunteered to be the driver of the hayride.
Here is a shot of the hayride. And below you can see Trey dressed up as a redneck!! I'm not so sure it's a far stretch from his regular self!

Riley took a ride and enjoyed herself. She liked sitting on top of the haystack.

After attending the party Trey and I took Riley trick or treating. We only went to about five houses. She doesn't need a ton of candy and we just wanted her to get to experience the fun of Halloween! After each house she put the candy in her bag and then would walk to the end of the sidewalk and look in her bag to make sure the candy was in there. It was pretty funny!

When we got home Riley dumped her candy on the floor and started putting each piece in her mouth with the wrappers still on. I opened up a snickers for her and she chomped down on the chocolate. Here is a cute picture with her headband on eating her snickers bar. Riley wouldn't keep this headband on for the life of her, but I managed to sneak one picture!

Happy Halloween!!!

Birthday Party

Today was our neighbors, Corbin, fourth birthday. We helped celebrate his birthday by attending his party at Chuck E. Cheese. I'm pretty sure this is one of the germiest places on earth, but that is why I carry disinfecting wipes in my purse!! This was Riley's first time to Chuck E. Cheese's where she could actually play and ride the rides.
Above is shot of Riley with Abbie(Corben's mom). Riley loves Abbie! Riley squeals every time she sees Abbie. It's adorable!

I'm sure you can imagine that Trey was joining in on all the games. I didn't even see him for the first hour. He was in his own little world playing every game he could get his hands on.

Riley had fun driving all the different cars she could and riding the carousel. She didn't want to get out of this little yellow car. Riley thought it was the best thing in the world. I'm pretty sure she rode it about 15 times. Here she is having fun with Elyse.

Riley's favorite was the carousel. Of course there is a sign that says you have to be at least 3 years old to ride. But Riley insisted she get on. It actually went around pretty fast. I was trying to walk around with her each time so she didn't fall but it was wearing me out! Riley held on like a big girl and loved every second!

I was pretty impressed that Riley wasn't scared of Chuck E. Cheese. Some of the other kids, who were older, got scared when he came out. She liked the fact that he was dancing around. Riley had a great time and got a nice long bath when we got home!

New Recipe

I'm sure that I'm not the only person that gets tired of cooking every night. Being a wife and a mom I now understand the frustration that my mom use to face with us always asking what was for dinner. Or when my mom would ask us what we wanted and we wouldn't give an answer, I understand how completely annoying that was. I am sincerely sorry mom!! I'm not the best cook in the world and at the same time I'm probably the pickiest eater in the world. Trey gets tired of eating the same things and at the same time I'm tired of cooking. This past trip to the grocery store Trey decided to buy some new items for me to cook. He said that he was going to cook for me, but we all know that didn't happen!! So, for the first time I used my cookbook and tried to make some shrimp scampi. And let me tell you, it was damn good!! I was completely impressed with myself and totally thankful that Trey bought shrimp at the grocery store. It was seriously so scrumptious I couldn't eat enough! It tickled Trey's fancy too! So now I'm able to add one more thing to my short list of things I can cook well!!

18 Month Well Baby Check

I can't believe that our little baby girl is already 18 months old. Time sure does fly! I took Riley on Friday for her 18 month check up only to find out that I was apparently suppose to take her at 15 months as well. We saw a different doctor this time because her normal doctor was booked. But I'm pretty sure I was told at her 12 month check up to come back at 18 months. Oh well. This just meant that Riley had to get 3 shots after her doctor visit. Yikes! Anyway, Riley is still a healthy girl. She is now 33 in. tall and weighs 25.5 lbs. That puts Riley in the 75% for height and 50% for weight. Our girl is turning into a slender toddler. I remember when all of her doctors visits put her in the 97% for height and weight. She was just getting some good milk from her momma!!

Riley is now very entertained by movies. They keep her attention for the whole duration of the movie. However Riley will only watch certain movies. These movies include Cars, Madagascar, or 101 Dalmatians. Forget The Little Mermaid, Riley wants nothing to do with that one. It's nice that she enjoys movies now though because it allows me to get things done around the house without interruption!

Home Sweet Home

Finally, after 4.5 days of being in the hospital Trey is home!! I don't know who is more excited, me or him? Traveling back and forth from the hospital and worrying took it's toll on this pregnant woman! But I know Trey was going crazy being in the hospital and not being able to shower because of his chest tube. As soon as we got home he went straight up to the bathroom to use his own toilet and take a nice hot shower. And might I add it was a nice clean bathroom. I made sure to clean the bathroom before he got home so everything was fresh for the patient!! Trey is off of work for 14 days for recovery time. Of course if you know Trey he won't be laying around the house. He's already wanting to wash cars and clean the garage. To spare any argument I'm just letting him do his thing. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the chest tube has repaired his lung. The doctor said it works 60% of the time and if it were to collapse again it would probably happen within 2 weeks. Not to mention the fact they found air pockets on his left lung too, so we are hoping they don't burst and cause his left lung to collapse. I just hope the next time we are at the hospital it's to deliver our new baby girl!

Ping Pong

Riley has been a super trooper these past few days of Trey being hospitalized. I want to be at the hospital as much as possible with Trey but I can't have Riley there. No children under the age of 2 are actually permitted in the ward where Trey is. So we have a routine of getting up, dressed, eating, and then off to Abbie's for the morning. Once I drop her off I head to the hospital with breakfast for Trey and to keep him company for a couple of hours. To keep Riley on her nap schedule I pick her up around 11am and get her home for her nap. Riley normally sleeps for a couple of hours and then I feed her lunch. While she's napping I'm making Trey lunch and dinner to take to the hospital because he refuses to eat the hospital food. After Riley eats her lunch I take her over to Erika's for the afternoon. Then back to the hospital I go to be with Trey for another few hours. I'm normally home between 6 and 6:30 and have dinner with Erika and her family. Erika is always insisting I stay for dinner, so I do! It's nice to come home after a long day and not have to worry about feeding Riley or myself! Riley and I are both beat by the end of our day. We are both ready for bed by 8! I feel bad leaving Riley so much lately, but I know she's having a blast at Abbie's and Erika's because she's playing with kids and dogs! I am looking forward to not feeling like a ping pong ball though.

Hospitalized

As many of you already know, Trey is in the hospital. It all started Saturday evening. Trey decided he'd go with our neighbor to the grocery store to help me out. This is huge because he hates going to the grocery store. He won't even go with me, so the fact he was going shopping for me was a big deal! While he was at the store he started to feel short of breath and had pains in his chest. He got home and came inside and just laid on the floor in pain. I thought he was having an anxiety attack or something and was actually mad at him because I had to unload all of the groceries. As soon as all the groceries were out of the car Trey immediately took himself to the ER. They took x-rays, put him on a ventilator for a bit, and then sent him home with some steroids and pain killers. He was told if he still felt bad tomorrow to come back. But the doctor told him that the pain was from his lungs rubbing against his ribs or some bologna excuse like that. Trey came home and when he came to bed he was still having issues breathing. I asked if he wanted to go back to the ER, but he said he was fine and he didn't want to wake Riley.

Sunday morning Riley and I woke up and went downstairs as usual. We had breakfast and watched cartoons. Trey came down about an hour later and seemed to be feeling better although he was short of breath a little after walking down the stairs. His phone rang about 20 minutes later and it was a doctor from the ER telling him they found something on his x-ray and he needed to come back to the hospital. At that point I knew something was wrong. I quickly went upstairs, got dressed, got Riley dressed and then we all headed to the hospital. After waiting for over an hour a doctor finally came in to tell us that Trey had a neumo thorax, a collapsed lung. My heart dropped. I felt like such a bad wife being mad at him the night before for not unloading the groceries and me having to do it. My poor husband really had something wrong with him! The doctor explained that he was going to have a chest tube put in for about 5-7 days to help inflate his lung. This will work to fix the problem about 60% of the time. So once we got that information I took Riley home to take a nap and feed her lunch. She had been such a trooper being in the ER with us for 3 hours. I called my neighbor Erika to see if she could watch Riley while I went back to the hospital to be with Trey. By the time I got back to the hospital Trey was still in the ER, but they had already put the tube in his chest. I felt so bad that I wasn't there for him. The nurses told me that he did a good job though.

It's now time for Trey to get to his hospital room and into a comfy bed instead of those lousy ER beds. We get to his room only to find that it's 4 patients to a room. Yes, I said 4!! Holy tamoly I thought Trey was going to lose it. He said he'd never last 7 days in the room. My poor husband had to share this room with 3 other men who were all in their 80's. They were coughing, tv's blaring, peeing on the floor. No joke...Trey went for an x-ray and while I was waiting for him a janitor came in to clean a urine spill. I just wanted to go home and take a shower! I'm not sure how patients can get any rest sharing a room with 3 other people. I just tried to keep Trey calm about the situation which is no easy task.

Today is day 3 in the hospital and Trey got moved to a new room! Hallelujah!! It's a bigger room but is still set up for 4 patients. However it's only Trey and one other guy who just had hip surgery and is probably in his 50's. Trey was in seventh heaven with his new accommodations. We are hoping that his chest tube will be removed tomorrow. He will then be under 24 hour watch to make sure his lung is doing well. Then hopefully by Thursday we can have him back home. I am one exhausted woman. I've been making 2 trips to the hospital everyday. Once in the morning to take him breakfast and stay with him for a couple of hours. Then I'm back there around 2pm and stay until 6pm and I take him sandwiches, fruit, cookies, etc. for his lunch and dinner. The one good thing is that his room is right down the hallway from labor and delivery so if anything were to happen 5 weeks early for me I'd be in the best place! Keep your fingers crossed that this chest tube works for Trey. I don't want to find out in 2 weeks that his lung collapsed again and have Trey in surgery!

Ko'Olina

Saturday was a pretty busy day for me. It started with babysitting 2 of our neighbors kids, Gunner and Emily. After those 2 hours we headed to our neighbors to have cake and watch Gunner open his birthday presents. Then we headed outside to the park and watched the kids run around and play. It was so hot out Riley's hair was all wet and sweaty! After we got all the kids back to our houses we all changed and headed to the Ko'Olina lagoons. These pictures don't really do this place justice. We didn't get there until about 5pm so it was a tad dark. But it's so pretty at Ko'Olina. It's the perfect spot to take the kids too. There aren't any waves crashing on you. Riley just played in the sand right where the water comes over your feet and was completely content. She had her bucket and shovel and didn't want to be disturbed! We all relaxed in the lagoon for a bit and then had a picnic on the beach. It was the perfect ending to an eventful day.

Say Cheese!

Riley is finally at a point when you ask her to smile she will! Of course sometimes you get the squished up nose smile(above), which to me is still adorable! Riley has been in a great mood the past few days...knock on wood. I think much has to do with the fact she is sleeping through the night again. For the 2 weeks that she was waking up screaming she wasn't in the best of moods. I'd like to blame that on her still teething. I don't want to jinx myself, but it's been really nice having Riley sleep through the night again.
This is a day late, but Happy 2nd Anniversary to myself and Trey! I can't believe how fast 2 years have gone by. And to think here we are 2 years later with baby #2 only 7 weeks away. I'm thinking we better pump our breaks on the baby train! We didn't go out on our anniversary, but Trey did surprise me tonight and sent Riley over to the neighbors house and took me out to dinner. We went to a place called Kahuna's which is on Trey's base. Trey was stoked when we got there and the Cardinals game was on. Too bad for him they were losing! It was fun to have dinner just the two of us though. It doesn't happen often, so when it does it's a nice treat!

I've been busy getting things ready for baby girl #2. Now I'm just waiting for Trey to put the crib and dresser together so that I can get all the bedding set up in the nursery. I think it will be nice this time around actually getting to set things up instead of having to move everything in our lives right after the baby comes! It was hard with Riley because we moved 6 weeks after she was born so we didn't have her nursery set up. Anyway, I'm getting very excited for our new arrival and I think Riley is too. She hugs and kisses my belly everyday! Not too much longer!!