Lyla Loo

Well little Miss Loo Loo went to the Doctor today for her 4 month check up. She is 12 lbs. 25 Inches long, and her head is 16 3/4 inches (85%). So once again I find myself with another small child with a large head. Good thing this is expected of all Setzer children so I am not at all alarmed. She had two shots and only let out a small whimper which was a huge relief I was prepared for full fledged screams of pain.

Lyla is doing great she has been trying rice cereal for the past several days and finds it interesting. She is not quite sure what to do with the spoon. She can roll over from belly to back and almost from back to belly. She can hold her monster head up with ease. She is sleeping almost through the night and is fascinated by her older sister (along with the rest of us.)

Riley is also doing great. Today while at Sam's club a man offered Riley $10 to buy her sister and she easily agreed that was a fair asking price. Later while at Sam's
Riley says:"Mom, I am impressed"
Wendy: What do you mean your impressed?
Riley: You know I am really sad and we need to go home because I am impressed.
Wendy: Honey, I think you mean you are depressed.
Riley: No, mom I am impressed lets go home.

This week in addition to the regular Christmas festivities Lyla is going to be baptized at 10am Christmas morning by her Pop Pop Pastor Dennis Setzer. I thought this would be an easy date for us to remember, and make Christmas day that much more special for our family.

Well it is WAY too quiet right now so I must go check on Riley and make sure that all is right and safe our world.

Deep Thoughts by Riley Setzer

Well it sure has been a while, but here I am trying to get in a quick blog in. Riley has just been full of herself and my mother and Bentley are always telling me I need to write down all the things Riley says so that I will not forget them. So here it goes:

A recent conversation re: a necklace Riley borrowed from me:
Me: Riley stop pulling on my necklace you are going to break it...
Riley: Mom, if you would stop looking back here you wouldn't see me doing this!

While standing in line at the post office:
Riley: Mom I am boring.

Others:
Riley: Mommy I am sorry I am not nice to my friends I forgive ya, do you forgive me?

Can we leave Lyla in the car?

Can we leave Lyla at home this time? (don't worry I said no to both:)

I am sure there are others that I am leaving out but, this is all I can come up with for the moment. Our behavior has been crazy lately and "Santa's watching you" does not work here.

As for the rest of the family we are good and looking forward to Christmas at home together! I hope everyone else has a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year.

Sorry it's been a while...

Well gosh I don't know where to begin. I know its been a while but DAMN have things been crazy for us. John got sent to Dallas, TX on the 24th of September on finally returned to us on November 24th. My computer crashed, we were in Asheville for half of the two months John was gone, and then we were traveling for Thanksgiving again. It was tough being single mom but, I had a lot of help from my in laws.



The kids are good. Riley is just full of herself. We took her on the Polar Express while home in Asheville. It was a little pricey for what took place, but she had fun and that is priceless. Not to mention on the way back from Bryson City we drove through Canton and got to smell the paper mill. Riley said, "Mommy what is that smell? Man, I think a monster poop poohed outside our truck." I don't know where she comes up with some of the stuff she comes up with but she is VERY funny.



Lyla is doing good although apparently I have eaten something today that does not agree with her. I have learned that onions, broccoli, barbeque, beans do not agree with my poor child. She is growing and has graduated to sitting in a bumbo seat for short periods of time as we work on our neck strength. I think she may be working on some teeth too it seems early but she is drooling like crazy, and trying to gnaw and chew on anything she can get into her mouth.



I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I hope as things in our lives get more back to normal I can blog more often. I posted a ton more pictures on Picasa from all of our most recent adventures so check them out when you get a chance.