Lunacy!

So Riley and I had quite a "big" day yesterday. No we didn't clean the house, or go on a walk (I'm not sure how much longer I can keep putting that off, jogger stroller schmogger stroller :)), or achieve world peace, but we did take a shower!!! I feel as though I have figured out an amazing new shortcut to clean life! No more baby bathtub, heating up the water so it's perfectly tepid, having to make sure there are no dishes in the sink to start a bath, which let's face it, there will always be dishes in the sink :), or most importantly, no more skipping showers for me because no on else is home or Riley won't fall asleep long enough for me to take one. Freedom! And did I mention the kid absolutely loved it!!

Well I found myself needing a shower in the first place because I had a pretty solid sweat mustache from playing Wii sports. My brother Freddy bought a Wii last week "for the house," which I'm afraid might mean that he will take it with him whenever he moves out and I will then need to find a new way to "workout." I have fallen in love with tennis and boxing, and I'm afraid I may be taking it a bit too seriously. Let's just say I hope Riley's first words aren't "Take that bitch!" or "Riiiiip!" Before you feel obligated to call CPS on me, just know that I always take time to do an NFL worthy victory dance when I win facing Riley's swing and I always punch the sky Rocky-style when I get a KO. Riley laughs every time, I promise.

I will actually need to clean the house today though because Joey's parents are coming to visit on Sunday and my Dad, Cindy, McKenzie, and Hannah are coming to visit next week. Considering I have had two slow work weeks in a row, everyone and their mom seems to be out of town on vacay except us :), my house should at least be clean. Seriously ever since having Riley, who by the way is 16 weeks old today, WOOHOO!!!!!, I crave family time. My dad was in town again for biz last night, so Joey, who my dad lovingly calls "sleeve," Riley, and I met him for a yummy din din at Claim Jumper, and it was nice seeing grandpa :).

Melissa, my sister who lives in Reno with my awesome brother-in-law Kevin and 4 year old niece Madison, is my oldest sibling and unfortunately the only one who hasn't yet met Mr. Riley; soon enough we'll be fixing that :). My brother Joe and his 3 boys, Isaac, Jacob, and Elijah are in Fairfield, California, but Joe and Elijah will soon be relocating to New Mexico to be with Marsha, Joe's wife and Eli's mom, and the other two boys are going to stay with their mom in California. My brother Freddy lives with us since getting hired by Clark County last summer. McKenzie just turned 16 and just got her driver's license, crazy!!, and Hannah Banana is 12 and is busy "running the streets" in Long Beach, I don't mean that how it sounds :), Banana and her friends are always outside riding bikes and practicing the "pin drop," (you'll have to ask her to show you what that is :)).

It seems complicated, but it's all I know, so it makes sense to me. We'll see how much more complicated this action will get once my mom remarries this fall and adds 4 step siblings to the mix, yowza! At least we're all grown up and moved out so we don't have to co-habitate :) Don't get me wrong, I am so excited for my mom that she has found someone and she's happy. She deserves it after devoting so much of her life to us kids.

Stay tuned for my upcoming P90X journey and how the book 'Babywise' and everyone who offers unsolicited and demeaningly judgmental baby advice can suck my butt, yikes bikes!