Friday, September 1, 2017

18 months


This young man is 18 months old already. He's busy, busy, busy all the time and loves to absolutely destroy my house. He eats almost anything and is wearing 24 mo to 2T clothes. He's not so much into water as his sister but got used to it when we were in Florida. He's opposed to wearing anything 'extra'...won't wear hats, glasses, and absolutely hates his water wings or life jacket. I even tried a pair of snow boots on him today and he threw a huge fit! His temper tantrums are starting and he's definitely found his voice. He's still pretty happy most of the time. He's definitely a mama's boy...except when either of his Papas are around...then he's a man's man. He started his montessori program last week and he cries at drop off but seems to be enjoying himself otherwise. He's still in size 4 diapers and size 5 shoes (Viv only wears size 7 shoes now!!) He loves his sister and she loves him too...but still picks on him incessantly. They are constantly rolling around on the floor together. He's got a variety of words...he can say 'mommy', 'daddy', 'milk', 'book' and I think he's been asking 'what's that?' He can also make a variety of animal noises and loves to roar like a lion if he sees a picture of one. He's still a little cuddle bug and LOVES to sit on your lap and read books. He also loves to swing...the swing set is one of the first places he heads for in the back yard. Rowan lights up our world! 


Lake Cornelia

We visited Lake Cornelia again this year....and again, it was cold. We even moved our week up a little hoping we'd get better weather...at least it didn't rain! We had fun anyway. 


Viv loves to ride on the boat...she asks for a ride a couple of times a day. 



Rowan threw a fit every. time. we went to put on his life jacket...he hates the life jacket! Except I got him to smile in this picture! 



Dad was the only one who got in the water...and only cause he went looking for my phone after I dropped it in the drink! It was fully submerged for about 5 minutes and miraculously when he found it, it still worked! I was amazed! 


Viv loved fishing...except she wouldn't touch the worm...




...and when she actually caught a fish...she ran away from it! 


Gma and Rowan weren't so lucky. 






Dad's crazy hat...







These two loved blowing the horn on the boat...they'd punch the button and laugh! 




We made our annual trek to the Rowan sign...Rowan didn't want to hold still for his picture this year! 


Visiting the family farm...


...and the Rowan cemetery to see pretty much where the entire Rietz family is buried. 






...until next year! 


Big Sky Country

My cousin Lisa got married in July in Montana...and I got to go...kid free!! She was married near Bozeman, MT at Chico Hot Springs Resort. It was lovely! We had great weather the whole time and the scenery was gorgeous. 


I signed up for plenty of activities! We were only about 30 minutes from the entrance to Yellowstone,  so Dad and I went on a white water rafting trip on the Yellowstone River. It was cold, but fun! The rapids weren't too scary and no one fell in. 


We didn't have enough time to actually enter the park...next time. 







We also signed up for a trail ride. The trail ride ended up being more exciting than the white water rafting! Mom was supposed to come too but didn't even make it up onto her horse before she called it quits. 









Our guide got off her horse to take our picture and the horse literally ran away....so I ended up having to give up my steed so she could go catch him. Then on our way back we took a more adventurous route back and Dad's horse tripped and Dad ended up falling off. No one was hurt but it was an interesting couple of hours! 



The setting was really pretty for the wedding...but hot! The Montana sun can be brutal! 






The cousins...


The food and music were great. We danced the night away. Congrats to Lisa and Corey!


Travel dorks on our way home...