Sleepovers

Garrett left for Texas Wednesday evening to help Mary Beth and Alex move, so it was just Reese and I for a few days. I HATE staying the night by myself. Especially living out in the country. My mind starts playing tricks on me and then I start thinking of all these different scenarios of stuff that could happen. (I know silly) needless to say I didn't sleep very well Wednesday night so Reese and I stayed with the Lee family. We had a lot of fun. I just love those 3 sweet children, so does Reese. Then on Thursday night we stayed with my mom.

Maybe I'm just being bias but I am so proud of Reese for knowing where all her body parts are. I'm not sure the typical age for kids to know all these things but for being 14 months old and knowing where everything is, makes me so proud. She is also very well with commands. If I ask her to go get her shoes, she walks right back to her room and to her closet where her basket of shoes is. When I ask her to go find her blanket, she goes and finds it and brings it to me, same with her sippy. When I ask her if she wants milk she goes straight to the refrigerator. When I ask her if she's ready to go night night she goes straight back to her crib. A lot of times Garrett and I don't even need to make her go to bed. She will start saying night night to us so we put her down and she goes right to sleep. One night she was saying night night 30 minutes before her bedtime so Garrett put her down and didn't hear a peep. When we stayed at my moms she was laying on the couch about to fall asleep I asked her if she was ready for bed and she got off the couch and went straight to the room where her pack n play was and looked back at me like "I'm ready". It just blows my mind that she knows all this at her age. I'm just one proud momma :)

                                                   She would do this for hours if I let her

                 Our precious kiddos, of coarse we couldn't get them to all look at camera at the same time

                                                         K does not look happy

                                                                   Our fun cake

Growing Up

Gosh, it's been a really long time since I have blogged. Where to start. Reese has been walking for 3 weeks now. I look at her and still can't believe she is walking. She is turning into a little girl. I missed her very first step. Garrett was here with her and he told me the next day. It brought tears to my eyes. For one it was her first step and two I missed it. I had been practicing with her for a while and looking forward to her first steps. I guess its just a mommy thing, it wasn't as big a deal to Garrett as it was to me. But she did take another for me the next day and again I got teary eyed. My baby is growing up. She has just really started liking books. She will go get a book and bring it to us to read to her and as soon as you take the book she starts giggling and gets all excited. She has a baby doll and this bear toy that makes noises and she loves to sit in the floor and kiss on them and rock them. It's the sweetest thing. Her phrase that she uses ALL the time is "what's that". She will point at everything and say "what's that". We have Preacher to thank for that, and Preachers wife for teaching her to stick out her tongue. It's cute now, but won't be later. She can wink now which is the funniest thing to see, of coarse she squints both eyes. I put the baby gate up on the back deck and she loves to go run around with Sam on the deck. Our friends Austin and Rachael had a baby a few weeks ago and she isn't quite sure what to think of her. She is used to getting all the attention. But, I think it will be good for her and get her ready for when we have another one. Since its been a while since I have blogged, I have many pictures.....

                                                                    Rocking her bear....

                                                             First time meeting Hadley....

                                                      Yep, she got up there all by herself

                             Her favorite book has been I Like Myself (thanks aunt Mary Beth)

                                        I just love these eyes, which are starting to turn brown

Reesey in Love

This past Friday, Just a kid we go to church with came over ans spent the day with Reese and I. He is 11 years old and he just had another foot surgery 2 weeks ago. Due to stress he gets these things on his eye that are painful and affects his vision so Dr said no school for the rest of the year. So he came over Friday and the moment he got here Reese was all over him. He sat down in the floor to play with her and she just hung all over him. I have never seen her be this way towards anyone, not even Garrett or myself. It was so cute to watch. The pictures speak for themselves...

More Fun

                                                                 
                                                            Oh how I love this face.....