My Childhood Hero

That's right. Mary Poppins is my childhood hero. When I was little I am sure I watched this movie atleast once a week. I wanted so much to be able to snap my fingers to clean my room. Somehow that never worked. I still try it today and it still doesn't work. I know every song in the movie and I say things from the movie all the time that no one really gets except for my mom and dad since they usually had to watch it with me.

Well, a few years ago Broadway took the movie and decided to make it into a live musical. Ever since then I have been obsessed again. As soon as I heard that Mary Poppins was going to be the State Fair musical I knew I had to see it. I knew Russell wouldn't go with me, one because musicals aren't his thing and two, he just doesn't understand my love for Mary Poppins, her carpet bag, and talking bird umbrella. So, I immediately called my mom and said will you and Daddy please go with me. She said of course. So on Sunday at 2 pm. I will get to meet the Broadway version of my childhood hero. I C.A.N.N.O.T. wait. I have been listening to the soundtrack this week and I am interested to see what things are different. I will let you know how it goes. Only 5 days!!!

Cutie

We had to get some new diapers the other day and Riley finally got his hands on them this morning. He was enjoying himself so much. They needed to be taken out anyways and it just motivated me to stick them in their cubby. (BTW: these are the up and up diapers from Target and I just love them. I haven't been brave enough to use them at night, but they work wonderfully during the day.)

Well, Aunt Katie, turns out I was wrong. Apparently Riley does like to accessorize. (Don't tell daddy!) He would put them on, take them off, and repeat. This is the first time I have witnessed this. He just gets more and more entertaining every day. I just love him.

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo...

On Labor Day we decided to use our zoo passes. It turned out to be a great day and we went early enough that their weren't that many people there yet. The picture are in the wrong order so we will start with the end of the day and go to the beginning of the day.

We took Riley to the petting zoo last and really thought he would love it, but he was soooo not interested. He didn't touch a single animal. He wasn't scared of them or anything he just didn't really care that there were goats.

They have a bird place where you can get a bird seed stick and feed the birds and he really did like that part. He wold get so excited whenever the birds would all of sudden fly from one side to the other. These are the best pictures I got.

Daddy and Riley sitting and watching the elephants and giraffes.

We had a great day and Riley loves getting to see all of the animals. We can't wait to go back!

What's been going on

It's been a busy last few weeks around here. Riley and I both started pre-school last week and this is how I found him during a nap last week. He just looked so cute.

On Friday I decided it was time to give Riley a try feeding himself. He didn't do that bad. We just had some oatmeal and he seemed to enjoy himself. I would say he got the spoon in his mouth 60% of the time.

A few weeks ago Riley was being so funny. He had found his shoe and wanted to wear it so I put it on him. He walked around wearing one shoe for about an hour. He has also started finding Russell's hats and trying to put them on.

Well, that about does it for us right now. Riley keeps us entertained and I am just loving this age. He is so much fun and he is such a sweet baby. I haven't forgotten about menu planning. It is still going a weekly basis and going pretty good. I have a few menus to catch up on and some recipes to put up. I promise to get on those soon. Hope everyone has a great week!

P.S. Aunt Rachel I am sorry for the delay in pictures. Riley has been asking about you, so you might need to come down soon! Love ya