The Anderson Way of Life: Riley's 8!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Riley's 8!

Our little Riley-man has turned 8years old! We cannot believe how fast this very special birthday has come.

A very very blue lego cake!

His actual birthday was pretty calm. We gave him his own bedroom for a few weeks (until we move the crib in with him) and had a quiet birthday party at home with family.

Riley is quickly discovering that it is Great to be 8!
Just a few short days after his birthday he started Cub Scouts and is loving it.

He looks so handsome and grown up.
There are times I just want him to stop growing and I want him to be my little boy just a little bit longer. We love our Riley! He's a huge help around the house. He's our quiet one, and makes our family a great one.

Madelyn, Riley and Ella- Clouse cousins that all turned 8 this summer!

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I love Raising my Boys:

"You are home to him. When he learns to walk, he will wobble a few feet away from you and then come back, then wobble away a little farther and then come back. When he tries something new, he will look for your proud smile. When he learns to read, he will repeat the same book to you twenty times in a row, because you're the only one who will listen that many times. When he plays his sport, he will search for your face in the stands. When he is sick, he will call you. When he really messes up, he will call you. When he is grown and strong and tough and big and he feels like crying, he will come to you; because a man can cry in front of his mother without feeling self-conscious. Even when he grows up and has a new woman in his life and gets a new home, you are still his mother; home base, the ever constant, like the sun. Know that in your heart and everything else will fall into place."

-Anonymous

"Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero." Marc Brown

here's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother." Astrid Alauda
"Boys are God's way of telling you that your house is too neat!" Anonymous

"A boy is the only thing God can use to make a man."
Anonymous

"What are little boys made of?
Baseballs, bats and little league teams
Faith and Hope and Missionary dreams."
Anonymous

"Example is an important characteristic of a boy’s life." President Spencer W. Kimball

"Mothers of little boys work from son up til son down"

"If you are still in the process of raising children, be aware. The tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered around the house, the piles of laundry lying around to be tackled, will disappear all too soon. And, you will to your surprise, miss them profoundly." President Thomas S. Monson

"No other success can compensate for failure in the home."

"The greatest work you will ever do will be within the walls of your home."

"Motherhood is about raising & celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be, and that if you're lucky he just might be the teacher that turns you into the person you're supposed to be." - Joan Ryan

"You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read...You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with." -Dickens

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Riley's 8!

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