boring BMI stuff

This is mostly for my information, so I can look back on here and see where we were at. I'm trying to be better about keeping track of how much we actually feed Riley to see where we can fit in more calories to get her weight up.

By my measurements at home she is 43" tall and weighs 34 pounds, which puts her BMI at 12.9, which is where it was last June at her UAB appointment. I know they'd love to see it over 13 so I'm really hoping she can pack on a few pounds by then. I always feed her yogurt as an after school snack and now I've switched it to ice cream (the other two girls are insanely jealous, let me tell you). The only problem so far is she seems to eat less dinner now that her afternoon snack has more fat and calories, but hopefully she's still coming out ahead a little. I'm going to do this for a month and see where we are in February.

Just for comparison, Addy's BMI is 15.0 (24th percentile) and Morgan's is 15.5 (60th percentile). Riley is in the 1st percentile, so yeah, she needs to gain a little.

A trip to the beach for the New Year

We decided to take a quick trip to the beach this year to ring in the new year as a family. The first day the weather was warm enough - about 70˚ - but the water was freezing, at least to me. I took a walk on the beach with Addy, Morgan and Lucas and Addy and Morgan begged me to go swimming. I said no, it's too cold, no one else is swimming etc. Next thing I knew they both "accidentally" fell into the water with their clothes on so they had to take them off and they just happened to have their swimsuits on underneath. Go figure! They are totally crazy. They had fun splashing in the waves though.
Lucas didn't have much to say about the beach. A few minutes after he first saw the beach he fell asleep in my arms. Riley and Mitch never even made it down because after Riley woke up from her nap it started raining.

Pretty sunset

Addy and Morgan watching the pretty sunset

Since it wasn't exactly beach weather (at least to sane people) we spent a lot of time in the indoor pool.

Look a real live mermaid!

Addy and Morgan got mermaid tails for Christmas. They are really cute!!

Riley is wondering if anyone notices she's floating around all by herself

She was happy to be in the pool!

Handsome little man

Overall a nice weekend with the family. The car ride was a little rough at times though and makes me wonder how we're going to survive the trip to Disney World next month which is more than double the distance! Earplugs?

Christmas

Rather than scanning in our card I'll just post the picture we used for cards. It's our first time doing a family photo - not too bad! We couldn't get Riley to smile much, though. I'm starting to think she doesn't like having her picture taken.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were nice overall. Christmas Eve felt rushed and a little stressed to me, so I need to figure out how to change that for next year. But the kids seemed to enjoy everything so I guess that's what matters most!

Sadie likes her new dog bed, we think. Now if we can just get her to sleep in it overnight instead of the chair in our bedroom!

Lucas LOVES his new jumperoo. :)

Riley got a new swing from Santa. We have yet to try it out but I know she uses the same one at school and loves it, so hopefully we'll get lots of use out of it at home too!

And that's about the extent of the pictures I took. Pretty bad. New Years Resolution #1 is to take more pictures!

Dear Tooth Fairy,

Riley lost her first teeth! We knew it was coming, her bottom two were very loose and she already had teeth growing in behind them. But we still didn't catch them falling out and aren't exactly sure where they ended up. So because we have no teeth to put under her pillow for the tooth fairy Addy wrote this note:

I tried to get her to open her mouth by pretending to feed her a bite of cereal, but I still couldn't get a picture of the missing teeth.
I don't think she appreciated the trick, so after that I fed her for real and didn't try to take anymore pictures :)

Happy Halloween!

Morgan the cat, Riley as Supergirl, Addy the devil and Lucas as himself. :)

I thought this was such a great picture of all of them, but especially of Riley who is standing on her own so well and doesn't have her hands in front of her face. I think she liked her Supergirl costume!

I was trying to get a good shot of Lucas's outfit but he was just trying to eat the pumpkin.

Cute picture of Addy and Lucas

Out trick or treating with dad

Overall a good Halloween, but we have way too much candy in the house now!

Riley holds baby Lucas

She just needed a little assistance holding her hands down, otherwise this might happen:

All About Riley

Riley had to create an "all about me" poster for Kindergarten so this is what we made, with some help from her older sister :)