Bless Her Heart!

Riley Mary Koyle was blessed today at our church and after Danna made this beautiful dress, I just had to snap a few (hundred) pictures. Below are some of the favorites.

My How She's Grown!

Riley is now 7 weeks old and I can't believe how the time has flown by. She is just starting to smile and we were able to capture it as well as some other shots of her typical activities during the day.

Grandma Cookie-isms

Every time I give a baby to Grandma Cookie she has a few phrases that she says that I think are worth recording. Such as:
"Aren't they wonderful?"
"Don't you just want ten of them?"
"These kids come smarter these days."
"Aren't they special?"
"These kids are saved for these days."

Caught Red Handed ... Or Black Faced!

Eli usually watches Mommy get ready for church in the mornings and watches her put on make-up. Even though she tells him that boys don't wear make-up, he couldn't resist when her back was turned. He is wearing black eye-shadow in these pictures. Look closely and you can see it on his eyes. When we asked him what he was doing, he responded that he was putting his make-up on for church.

Want Your Fortune Told?

We had Chinese food over the weekend and as a result, we enjoyed the famous fortune cookies. We read Eli's to him and then we all took turns reading ours. He then picked up the paper (as seen in the photo) and "read" his to us. His fortune said "Big boys go potty." We were so impressed that we asked him to read Mommy's. He "read" it and said "Mom goes to work and gets a donut."

Darth Vadar: Friend or Foe?

Eli Has been enjoying Star Wars a little too much. Back in September, he was being noisy in church and he had to be escorted out. On the way out, he was singing Darth Vadar's Theme song. Then, a few weeks later in October, he had a new baby sister (as seen previous blogs) and Grandma took him to see her. He then told Darth Vadar to come along in his space ship. He also told Darth Vadar to wear his seat belt. This month we are potty-training and we have a bank as seen above in the pictures. In order to potty train, we have tried everything to get him ready. We tried stickers, candy, donuts, toys, etc. The only thing that seemed to work was pushing this bank after every time he goes potty. When he pushes it, it quotes the following dialogue from the movie: "Impressive, Most Impressive. But you are not a Jedi Yet." The theme song follows along with his light saber lighting up while swinging it. Eli sure enjoys Darth Vadar, eventhough we tried to tell him that Vadar is a bad guy. We'll let him believe Vadar is a awsome. He sure saved the day for me. If only I would have known that earlier.

Four Generations

I was looking forward to getting a picture of Grandma Sibyl and my mother and new baby, but she died shortly before Riley was born. Fortunately, Grandma Jansen came to visit this weekend and we were able to get one with her, as well as Grandma Cook.