My First Mother's Day!

First of all, a HUGE shout-out and Congratulations to my cousin Dave and his fabuloso wife, Kris, who had a beautiful baby girl, Cathleen Maebh Edwards, yesterday, 5/12/2010... a collossal 8 pounds 11 oz and 20.5" long! PERFECT and GORGEOUS. Kris, you are AMAZING! No drugs, fast L&D, and a beautiful healthy little baby-girl! The first GIRL great-grandbaby for Nana! :) CONGRATS AGAIN to Dave, Kris and Liam!
Welcome, Catie... She's gorgeous, no?


Okay, now, back to Mother's Day... my first. HOW WONDERFUL. What an honor. It was so amazing to be on the Mom side of things for the first time! What a wonderful feeling!

I actually forgot to have Ryan take pictures of us on our first Mom's day, wahh, but I did manage to remember to take one with my cell phone, so it's not very good, but it's us! :)


So, for my First Mother's day, my WONDERFUL and uber thoughtful husband bought me a GORGEOUS ring with a blue topaz centered in diamond chips in Sterling Silver... Blue Topaz is Riley's birthstone!!! How thoughtful is that?! Anyways, I know it's lame to brag and post, but here it is... fabness?!?!!? :) I Love Yous, Ryan AND Riley!!!! MUUAH! I assured Ryan that though it was super wonderful to get such a gift this year, he is in no way expected to go so far above and beyond next year, a simple bouquet of flowers and breakfast in bed, would suffice :)

Here's my new bling...


Then, we spent the day just relaxing here at the house... we did some yard-work while Riley napped, and we got breakfast at Einstien Bagels (lox, mm)... really not too much, just a wonderful family day! And luckily it was our first truly beautiful spring day on a weekend... mind you, that quickly changed with the snow and rain we've gotten this week! HA!

Anyways, it was a wonderful day to enjoy one another and our little man. I can't wait to celebrate Ryan's first Father's Day while we're in Florida!!!
Best to all, especially the newest Edwards... ;)
xo

Catching up... Uncle Tim, Rockies Game and Rice Cereal, OH MY!!!

Okay! Well I'm a little behind for such a busy couple of weeks, so I will slam you with a longer post here and multiple pictures and then will be caught up. Phew!

While Emilia & Lucy were visiting, so were my brother Tim and his girlfriend, Kelly! They were staying at our parents' condo, and they stayed until last Wednesday, the 28th. Such fun for Riley. A couple times Tim got Riley laughing harder than Ryan and I have ever seen, it was adorably cute and we want to know Uncle Tim's secret!! ;)

Here are Tim & Kelly lovin' on Rilers


And then after we dropped Tim at the airport (Kelly was heading straight there from work), Ryan and I took Riley to his FIRST Rockies Game!!!!! WOO HOOO!!!! So fun! It was a GORGEOUS day for it... in the 70s, and in the sun, probably 80 degrees. We had our usual 2nd row seats between 3rd base and left field, and were in the blazing sun... so we all coated up with SPF 55 for babes, and then put on hats and the like to ward off sunburn. But MAN it was hot.

Thankfully since it was a 1pm game on a Wednesday in April, there were plenty of empty seats, so the gentleman checking tickets at the top of our section suggested we move into the shaded area if we wanted... so at about the 5th inning, we did just that, and we were ALL happier!!!

Riley was more interested in the banner lights blinking around Coors Field than the game itself, but he and his daddy had a great time.


Lastly, Riley hit the 4 month mark this past week, and thus had his 4 month check-up... we'll move past the icky vaccinations and post-vaccination fussiness that ensued this past weekend due to said doctor visit, and right into the good news that he is more than double his weight when we brought him home from the hospital... he weighed in at 12 lbs 14.5 ounces (12th percentile) and was 24 1/2 inches long (32nd percentile). We were therefore given the go-ahead to start him on Rice Cereal in addition to nursing. So we've done that twice so far... Saturday and Sunday nights... he gets more of it on his face and bib than in his mouth, but it's fun all the same. :)


The only other news fit to print is that on Saturday we went up to Loveland and had lunch with Riley's Aunt Megan, Grandpa Williams, and GREAT Grandma and Grandpa Williams! What fun! We didn't get any pictures, but they sure did love on him quite a bit. :) Next time we'll have to take some pictures... too bad he was still pretty fussy from the vaccinations so not really agreeable to sitting still for pictures.

Okay, so I think that catches us up...

Kristin, we're thinking of you and hoping you have good news on El Cinco de Mayo!!! I put my "money" on a little girl, right on time... hopefully the Thelen genes kick in and boot those always-running-late-male-Edwards-genes to the curb this time around. HAHAHA! XOXOX!!!

Love,
The Williams