A Great Weekend

Ridley and I started our weekend off by heading over to Grammie's house on Saturday (my mom's). Ridley showed Grammie that she loves to exercise her voice. She croaks out "Ayyyyy" again and again for minutes on end. She loves finding her voice!
Then we headed to Rose and Josh's baby shower where Ridley got PLENTY of attention. Everyone wanted to hold her and play with her and she really loved seeing all the new faces. She loves to see new faces and she will smile really big and start bopping around in spastic excited movements. She even met another baby there (my friend Ashley's little boy) while I got to catch up a little with friends and eat some good food. And it's exciting to think that in just a couple of months Ridley will have another baby friend. She already has so many!
That night, Phil came home! He has been gone to San Jose, CA for the last couple of weeks for work. His flight came in around 9:30pm when Ridley had already gone down for the night. But she got to see her dad around 3:00am when she woke up for a night nursing. He was excited to see her, but we held back on interacting with her until the next morning. I wanted her to go back to sleep ASAP! Those "sleeping through the night" nights are starting to become a distant memory since I went back to work.
Sunday morning Ridley showed her dad her voice. "Ayyyyy. Ayy. Ayyyyyyyy!" And while he changed her diaper, she showed him that she had found her feet and held on to them. This made it a little more difficult for Phil to change her diaper, but he was nonetheless very impressed with her new accomplishment.
That same morning, Ridley rolled over all on her own! And this time she wasn't propped up on a pillow. She was flat on the floor on her tummy. She arched her back and rolled right over to her back. Her little eyes got big and she looked at me as if asking, "Is this okay? I think I just did that..." Of course I made a big deal about it. "What a strong girl! You go, Ridley!" She didn't do it again all day, but I'm sure she'll be the master of the roll over before I know it.
And then Phil, Ridley and I went to Grandma's birthday dinner (Phil's mom). We had a good time and it was interesting to look back on what we did this time last year for Wendy's birthday...practically the same thing with one big exception. It was a year ago when we went to the same restaurant, sat at the same table and announced our pregnancy to Wendy and the rest of Phil's side of the family. I even posted the video on this blog! And this year we returned to the same restaurant and the same table this time with little Ridley joining us.