21 months

Riley is fast approaching her 2nd birthday!! I cannot believe how big our girl is getting!

Riley now repeats everything we say and she picks up on words so quickly. She can be very vocal, but can also be somewhat shy when around new people. She loves to sing songs together, her current favorite is the ABC song. She will chime in about every 5th letter or so and makes sure to end with "nex time." Riley can identify quite a few letters and associates certain letters with people. For example K is for Kristi. She can spell her name (see the last post.) She will count to 10 but not consistently "1,2,3,4..8,9 10!" She can identify almost all the basic colors, red, pink, orange, blue, black, etc. Her favorite color right now is yellow. She loves to see yellow cars, trucks and school buses when we are driving around. She likes ponytails now and it isn't a struggle to put them in her hair anymore (we are still working on bows :)

Riley just loves Elmo and gets so excited when its Elmo day (Friday). She is also pretty obsessed with bubbles and requests them each time we go outside. Riley still loves to go see "more babies" and does very well when dropped off at Sunday school. Although a few weeks back Clay went to pick her up and she was crying and upset. Apparently she had her first tiff with a friend. Haha. It was over a chair :)


Riley is just such a precious gift from God and we are so thankful to be trusted with this gift! We love you Riley!