Happy Belated Easter

hey everyone -

happy belated easter, i know we are a few days late . . .as usual. but here are some pics from easter i thought you might enjoy. in usual miller fashion we were gone for the entire day on easter going from place to place, but it was a lot of fun as usual. easter actually started off on saturday for us, i took riley to an easter egg hunt with abbi, elli, and aunt tiff. it went by super fast, but riley had a great time, got some goodies, and thankfully it wasn't nearly as cold as it was last year. then on sunday we hit mom's house for breakfast, she started a new tradition of easter coffee cake! yum yum!! she even dyed the frosting fun easter colors to match the filling inside. then we had some last minute errands, lunch with a big part of the miller clan, followed by some more hanging out at david's uncle jack's house. then we headed back to mom's to hang out with everyone there, including oma, and have another easter egg hunt in aunt tiff's basement. why in the basement, well because this is march in iowa and of course it was sleeting and snowing outside, and no one wanted to be out there :) afterwards we had a great time playing guitar hero, band style, b/c gabe got a new guitar for his birthday so now multiple people can play at the same time. then we all came home and crashed by 9pm!! including enzo who snuck in bed with us :) i hope everyone else had a great weekend as well, talk to you all soon :)

Riley Hears a Who!

Hey everyone -

so i realize i have been quite the slacker with this whole blog thing lately . . . i really do love it. but it seems last on my list of priorities and i am sadly averaging about 1 a month for the past few months. i wish i could say that was going to change in the upcoming months . . .but i kind of doubt it. we have been battling the respiratory flu from hell for the past month, david is still on an inhaler, riley still using breathing treatments, and i am still exhausted!!! now with less than a month to go for the newest addition to our family, we decided that some much needed family fun away from the house was not only needed, but deserved. so we took riley to go see Horton hears a Who yesterday, and she loved it. not only did she love it and sit mesmerized thru the entire movie, it was actually entertaining for david and i as well. it was really nice to get out, and now with easter next week, i feel as if we are on crunch time as well to get a few more things done. david has been great with everything though, despite all of my hormonal roller coasters lately, but i think we are all beginning to feel the strain. riley's once peaking interest in using the potty has now disappeared to god knows where, she hasn't gone on the big girl potty in days. so we decided it wasn't worth the effort until after baby. she also really wants to lay down in the crib on occasion and tries to convince us that she need her binky for more than just bedtime . . . when we explain to her it's only for bedtime the negotiations start . . . " how 'bout blue binky?" "how 'bout pink binky?" how 'bout orange binky?" "how 'bout blue m&m's ?" i think you can see where i am going with this. we were hoping by gradually getting baby stuff out and reading lots of books about baby on the way would help, and it is, but i find myself wondering how she will react when baby is actually here. she is at that age where she is trying to test the waters, discover her limits, and her own sense of self, and i swear she is trying to figure out where baby will fall along with all of that. speaking of sense of self, she started the really funny thing the last few weeks. we have been teaching her mommy's name, daddy's name, her name, etc. and she really took it to heart. you can ask her "are you sad?" "are you hungry?" "are you enzo?" " are you a baby?" any question at all that begins with are you? and you will get a strong steady response of "no, i'm not (fill in blank), i'm RILEY!" as she pounds her hands on her chest. oh, to be 2 and realize that none of these things, and yet all of these things describe you, but no matter what, you are who you are. what a great sense of identity, if only we could all be so sure of ourselves.