Happy Birthday Chris!

Happy Birthday to Chris!  Today, Chris is 31.  I think this age change is hurting me worse than it is hurting him, lol!  He claims that it's because I am about to be 30, but oh no, I still have another year before that! 

Chris is such an awesome husband and father and Reed and I are so blessed to have him in our lives.  We are so appreciative of how hard he works to provide for us, which allows me to stay home with our silly little boy.  He is such an amazing role model for our little boy, who loves him so very much and squeals with delight every time he walks in the door.  We look forward to spending many more birthdays with him!

Happy Birthday to the man who is willing to sacrifice sleep to spend more time with us, take me to random concerts that he might be embarrassed to say he went to, and run around and around our house chasing Reed!  You are the BEST!!!  We love you very much!

Our Little Puppy - Halloween 2010

Although Chris had a great idea for Reed to be a golfer this year, I opted for the easier Pottery Barn Kids costume of a puppy.  And, Reed was absolutely adorable.  Maybe I'll get started on the golfer costume now for next year.

We had a pretty busy Halloween weekend.  On Friday night, we attended Graham's 80s themed 30th birthday party.  We opted for going grunge as our costume, I know, what a lack of imagination, but it worked.  There were some very good costumes though.

Our little puppy dressed up on both Saturday and Sunday nights.  We headed to Summerville on Saturday afternoon for Reed to be able to trick or treat with our families.  He was as cute as ever and never gave his costume a hard time.  He did pull on the ears a little bit when we first put it on him, but then I think he started to enjoy having it on.  Sunday night, we were back in our neighborhood for a pizza party.  We opted to forgo trick or treating this year with Reed.  We didn't want to go around asking for candy for ourselves, lol!  Reed very much enjoyed passing out the candy at our house though.  He squealed every time someone came to the door.

Cutest Puppy Ever!

Silly Boy!

The puppy was not into sitting down and having his picture made.

But, we tried.

Reed with all the neighborhood kiddos.  He refused to sit down with them.

Pumpkins!

As grunge as we get, lol!

Chris with the Graham aka Vanilla Ice.  Happy Birthday Graham!

Luke Perry made an appearance at the party.  I love Luke Perry!

14 Months!

Our little guy is already 14 months old!  I feel like I say it every month, but he is growing up way too fast!  He is a such a special little boy and we enjoy every minute with him, even those cranky moments!

Stats:
Height: Appoximately 32 inches
Weight:

At 14 Months:

• Reed is a nonstop talker.  He will basically repeat everything we say.  He loves to say ball, golf, mama, dada, book, and baby (my favorite word to hear him say).  He will say Mike Mike, Kath, Nana, Granddaddy (pronounced "gundah"), Marc, Karlie (Kar Kar), Chattooga (Tooga tooga), blue (boo), catch, throw and many, many more.
• He can make the sounds of a cow (frequently used when at Chick-fil-a), a cat, a lion, and a dog.
• When I go to get him from his crib in the morning he smiles and then immediately stands up and says "book" and then he points to the car on his wall and says "car".  So cute!
• He loves Elmo.  What kid doesn't?
• He has started throwing his food and the kid has an arm, so unfortunately we have food across the room sometimes.  He has also been working at getting better using the spoon on his own.  He will take a few bites, but then he just prefers to play with it.  We'll get there eventually.
• This kid loves Chick-fil-A, I mean, he is our kid, lol!  He can basically eat an entire chicken breast on his own.  He also loves seeing the cows there.  He mooed the first five minutes we were there yesterday.  He also begs for my cup when he sees the cows on it.
• He absolutely loves airplanes.  If he hears a plane, he will point to the sky and try to find it.  Just recently, he has started calling them cars, lol!  I am working on helping him tell the difference.
• He has all four of his molars in now, although they still seem to be bothering him, because he has his fingers in his mouth all the time.
• He has started to sit down when we ask him to.  He even does the backing up thing when he wants to sit in our laps and read books. 
• He thinks that giving someone a kiss just means making the muah sound.  Too cute!  He will give us a kiss every now and then.
• He shocked us by not being bothered at all by his Halloween costume.  He pulled on the ears of his hat a little bit but then he didn't bother them anymore.
• He is a little monkey, but we love him!
• He loves being outside.  And, he especially loves it when the kids next door come out to play.  He chases them around and laughs hysterically at them.
• He absolutely does not sleep very well unless he is in his bed.  If we stay the night away from home, he always ends up in the bed with us which is very unfortunate.  Unfortunately, it isn't very fun for any of us.  The days of him snuggling at night are over....he never stops moving throughout the night.
• He has a book of baby's first words and he will turn from page to page and point at each picture and wants us to tell him what it is.
• He is a little dancer.  If music is playing then he is dancing!

14 Months!

We are now at the age where we listen to mommy when she says sit down.  Thank goodness!



Silly goose!  He loved rocking in the rocking chair.



This is basically how his room looks all the time.  No books allowed on the cubbies.  They have to all be out!

And, a little Halloween sneak before the Halloween post!

Pumpkin Carving....and Eating!

The night before last I decided that it was time for us to carve the pumpkins that have been sitting out front for a few weeks.  I was curious how Reed would handle the slimy pumpkin.  Not to my surprise, he wanted no part of it.  He would peek inside the pumpkin, but he really didn't want to touch it.  He preferred playing with the many tools that I had gathered to clean the pumpkin out.  And, even though he wasn't interested in touching it, he thought it might be good to eat.  Too funny!

He had to be thinking.....I'm a little hungry and this will probably work.

Reed's big bite of pumpkin!

Maybe he should have listened to mommy, lol!

And, just a few little licks off the spoon.  He had to be removed from the pumpkin carving premise after he shredded a paper towel into a million pieces.  I actually only got to carve one pumpkin with him and then did the other one after he was in bed, haha!