2009 !?!?!

Ah where did 2008 go. We have had a such a busy couple of weeks during the holidays. Let me do a quick recap. John's family came which consist of 18 of us (10 adults, 8 kids, 5 dogs, and a baby on the way) (not me:) My mom also came down. During this time we managed to have Christmas, Lyla's baptism, a baby shower for Maria, New Years Eve, New Years Day, Family Pictures on the beach, Trip to the movies, Nana's birthday and much much more. This is a far cry from the Christmas' I had growing up as an only child.

Riley had a blast through out the holidays with all her cousins and Santa coming, not to mention an endless supply of gifts and candy. She also managed to give up her pacifyer which was a big deal for her. We packed them all up in a large zip lock baggy and left them with the milk and cookies for Santa. Santa took them to little babies who need them. Needless to say Christmas eve she did not go to bed until 1am because she was missing her pacifyer. It was like she was quitting crack here is a conversation we had one night:

Riley: Mom-go get me a passy

Wendy: No honey we gave them all to Santa

Riley: Mom go get me a dirty passy, a yucky passy, go get me Lyla's passy....anything mom I need my passy.

Poor kid it was tough but we made it, despite a small relapse yesterday when I found her napping in Tarheel's bed with an old passy she had found under my bed. Ooops.

Lyla is doing great. I swear she is getting bigger by the minute. She had a great Christmas. She was baptised Christmas morning by her grandfather, Pastor Dennis Setzer. It was so cute she kept trying to put her hand in his mouth as he was going through the ceremony. She was perfect, and everyone at the church was so excited to see a baptism on Christmas morning.

Now we are just trying to get back in a normal routine. I am still looking for a job, John is working his butt off. Riley and Lyla are loving having me home and I am enjoying them!

Here is wishing all of you bigger and better things in 2009!

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.