On the move!

I forgot to take a picture of my two valentines yesterday...oops! I think it will be fun to do cutesy things for Reid on Valentine's Day as he gets older. This year we got him a book and some cars. I realized that he didn't have any cars and every boy needs cars.

When you pull them back and let go, they zoom forward. Reid wasn't really a fan of that and got kind of scared. He would rather just chew on them.

The biggest thing that has happened this week is that Reid started crawling!! It's just an army crawl, but it counts. He started doing it on Monday and has already gotten much quicker. The only thing that seems to get him to do it is putting the remote in front of him. Such a boy! ;)

Getting focused...

Eye on the prize...

Good job, baby! This is going to open up a whole new world for him and us! :)

Our Valentine's Day

We've never been big Valentine's Day people. We decided that today was our Valentine's Day.

These pictures just melt my heart. Chris was making Reid laugh while we ate lunch. I love the joy on his face!

Tonight we made pancakes for dinner. We also tried to make some heart ones (for Valentine's Day, of course). We figured out the correct way to use the heart cutters after we had already made them.

During dinner Reid fixed his hair using organic hair gel made from peas and squash. :)

He is wearing the same thing in all of these pictures because he stayed in his pajamas all day!

I love pj days! :)

"Walking"

It seems like lately the only thing that Reid wants to do is "walk". He loves doing this and gets the biggest smile on his face, but we can't exactly do this all day long.

So, this weekend we went out and got him a walker. He thinks he's such a big boy when he is walking around the kitchen. Today he scooted over to the open pantry while I was doing dishes and turned around with a huge grin. It was like he was making sure he was allowed to be in there.

He's starting to look so grown up! :(

TGIF

I'm happy it's Friday! Chris was out of town for work part of the week. Reid and I went to Mumsie and Popsie's house because I don't like the idea of being alone overnight with a baby quite yet. Reid hasn't felt good all week. I ended up taking him to the doctor on Wednesday and she said he most likely had the mouth portion of Hand/Foot/Mouth Disease. Luckily it wasn't too bad yet. His throat was just really red. One thing I like about going to the doctor is that we can see how much he weighs! He was 20.5 pounds yesterday!

A Friday List of Thoughts...

*Reid has started having an opinion about things. All week it seemed like nothing I did was making him happy. Sometimes I just think he gets bored of me by the end of the day and is ready for a new face to look at. I also think that he wants to move around and is getting frustrated that he can't crawl yet.

*Reid is starting to hate his car seat again. He's usually fine once we start driving, but he screams every single time I put him in it.

*I'm learning that watching a baby learn to feed himself takes a lot of patience and self control on my part. It takes him 10 minutes to eat 3 puffs! :) I have to try really hard not to just put them in his mouth myself. He's slowly but surely figuring it out!

*Even though Reid is now a great sleeper, he is still a very light sleeper! When I go in to check on him at night, he almost always wakes up and stares right at me! I try to be so quiet!

*My car is turning into such a mom car. I've always been someone that loves a very clean car. Now, there is random stuff thrown everywhere! It's kind of driving me crazy. Baby shoes are in the console, a random sock is in the cup holder, toys everywhere... Luckily we haven't started having snacks in the car. I don't think I will be able to handle cheerios being all over the floor. I may just be a mean mom and not ever let him eat in the car.

*One of my favorite things to do is watch Reid's face when he sees something new. The littlest things are so amazing to him and I love it. A couple of days ago I was holding him and filling up my water bottle at the refrigerator. He got the biggest smile on his face and then started squealing and kicking! He thought it was so funny! He still stops every now and then to study his hand and fingers. I love that. Last week my dad was over and blew a bubble with his gum. Reid's eyes got so big and he was really studying it. When the bubble popped, he started laughing so hard! They did this for about 15 minutes straight. Precious...

*Reid and I have a pretty good schedule going. The problem is, I don't feel like it matches any other baby's schedule that we know! It's hard to get together with people because we are always on a completely different schedule. For now, we will just stick with what is working for us and participate in things when we can.

*We started Kindermusik classes this week! Chris' parents gave Reid these classes for Christmas! We went even though Reid wasn't feeling very well (this was before I took him to the doctor). I think he will have so much fun at music class when he is feeling better!

HAPPY FRIDAY!

beautiful weather and under the weather

What a beautiful weekend it was! We did a lot of random errand running, but also tried to spend as much time out in the gorgeous weather as possible! We enjoyed a couple of meals outside and then on Sunday went to Mumsie and Popsie's house so that Reid could swing on his new swing set! He loves to swing so Popsie put one together for their backyard! Reid is just a little spoiled by ALL four of his grandparents. They sure do love him! Yesterday morning Reid was feeling a little under the weather. He had a slight fever and was just fussy. We came to the conclusion that it is probably a teething fever. Sweet boy is getting MORE teeth. Crazy. I went ahead and went to ibloom at church (and then felt bad about that decision while I was there) while Reid spent a little time with Grandpa. I wasn't going to go, but I knew he would be napping for the majority of the time I was gone. Grandpa took great care of him!

We spent the rest of the day in the house just laying low. Poor baby...
He already seems much better this morning! It's so sad to see your baby not feeling well! :(

confessions

I always think it's fun to read about "real life". Here are just a few of my real life confessions...

1. Sometimes I leave our mail in the mailbox if I check it and there's not anything exciting in there. (exciting = a shower invitation, wedding invitation, birth announcement, thank you note, magazine, or good catalog.)

2. I currently don't own an iron. The one we used to have quit working a while back and I haven't gone out and bought another one. This is much to the dismay of my mom who used to iron our homework so we wouldn't turn it in with creases in it. :) If I bring some of Reid's clothes to her house she will iron them for me, which is so sweet of her/so pathetic of me.

3. We still have Reid's swing set up in our living room. He used it about once a day until he was 6 months old, but hasn't gotten in it since then. I'm sort of sad to put it away, but it's on the agenda to do tomorrow.

4. We don't have story time before Reid goes to bed. I REALLY want to, but he pretty much cries from the time he gets out of the bath until he falls asleep while drinking his bottle. We read a lot during the day, but I just really want to do the bedtime story thing. Oh well. I'm sure it will become part of our routine eventually.

5. Sometimes we laugh when Reid cries! He just makes the cutest/funniest faces when he cries. I feel bad that we do this, but we can't really help it. :)

This is just a picture of Reid bundled up and ready to enjoy the gorgeous weather yesterday morning! We plan to spend a lot of time outside tomorrow too!

weird day

Today has been one of those weird days. Not bad, just weird. We went to Baby Bootcamp this morning, which was fun. This is my third week and I really like it so far. It's nice to get out and interact with other moms while getting a little exercise. When I got home and glanced in the mirror I realized that Houston has forgotten it's January. My hair was out of control and all of a sudden I was in a weird mood. It's been really humid and dreary all day. Reid hasn't really napped today. He woke up from both of his naps after about 2o-30 minutes crying. REALLY HARD. He always wakes up happy. I felt so bad for him because I couldn't figure out what was wrong. :( I decided to give him some Tylenol when it happened the second time thinking it was probably his tooth that's coming in. He continued screaming, so I just got him up, and then I realized a little bit later that he was having tummy troubles. Then I felt like a horrible mom for giving my baby Tylenol when he probably didn't need it. I decided to let him take a third mini nap (which he usually doesn't do anymore) and about 3 minutes after he went to sleep, Chloie started barking really loudly and Reid starting screaming again. Luckily Chris walked in the door a few minutes ago and jumped right in to help. He is now finishing up his mini nap. Grandma and Grandpa are coming over in a little while to watch Reid while we go to small group. I think we are going to go to Chick-fil-a for a quick dinner before. We are so exciting. :) I just reread this and realized I sound like such a complainer! Even on weird days, I am so incredibly thankful for my job as a mommy! We did go to the park to swing a little earlier because I know that swinging makes him really happy!

He's my sunshine when the skies are gray! :)