1/2 a year. . . tear, my baby is growing too fast!

I know, its been an eternity since I have blogged. This is due to a number of different changes in my life. First, I accepted a job at a company, was there for 2 month, and after some challenges with the schedule, adjusting, and a lack of routine in our lives I decided to go back to my old job. It was a rough 2 months as far as not really seeing Luke EVER. Sure, I got 1/2 days with Riley but we rarely had family time, and although routine is so important for her, we had nothing! I took a week off of work, got to stay home with her- which was amazing, then just under 2 weeks ago, began my NEW journey at Hanger and Riley started daycare (DUN, DUN, DUNNNN!)

So Riley turned 5 months over a month ago, and we are slowly realizing that she is not our little new born anymore.

Everything is in her mouth. It seems like she's been teething for months. She's biting everything and drooling constantly. We actually got an amber teething necklace from a wonderful family of a friend, and it seems to be working really well. She's sleeping better and a lot less fussy during the days. 

Luke and I also got eachother a new DSLR camera for our anniversary so I've taken almost 500 pics with that in a few short weeks!

How can you NOT photograph this face?!

We found a wonderful daycare provider near Luke's work and she only has a few other kids, along with a 7 1/2 month old little girl that Riley has really become buddies with. I sure was nervous for her first day of daycare, but she wasn't!

Riley's personality is really coming out now. She's smiling ALL THE TIME, laughing, babbling, and constantly moving. She's playing and interacting, loves being read to, and is trying SOO hard to crawl. She does this there where she gets up on her hands and her tip toes and lunges herself forward, flopping on her belly. She gets frustrated, but I know she's so close. Lord have mercy, we have not baby-proofed our house yet!  

Melt. . . 

We also took a surprise trip to visit my grandparents last weekend. 6 hours round trip in the car and Riley was absolutely amazing! My grandparents were so excited to see us and it was sooo nice to see them!

4 generations!

Riley pulling great grandma's hair!

Now that I'm back to normalcy, I will be back to blogging, so expect updates, and lots and lots of pics!