And she's off . . .

This week Reese achieved the milestone I have both been looking forward too and dreading. She's mobile! Commando crawling I guess. She pulls herself with her arms and pushes with her feet and is now all over the floor. Why am I dreading this? Because Parker has thousands of tiny lego pieces. And then he got thousands of more tiny pieces for Christmas! They're bright and colourful and just the perfect size for Reese to choke on. On a more positive note, hopefully she'll enjoy being put down a little more often and for more than a few minutes.

Our attempt at a picture of the kids last Sunday. Emerson was not in the mood.

We had a really busy weekend! Kennedy and Emerson had their ballet recital Saturday morning and to make it easier for our families who travel for the kids things we decided to have their birthday party the same day. Unfortunately all of our family didn't come but we really appreciated everyone who did make it. It means a lot to the kids and to us! A special thanks to Lara for flying down from Boston in the middle of her own really busy time just for their recital and the parties! That same night there was also a surprise 60th party for my mom's husband Bob at our house. So it was a busy, busy day!

The girls did a great job on their dances.

The 2 and 3 year olds are so cute!

How did she turn 3 so fast?

Happy 3rd Birthday Emerson Rose.

Dec 2009

Dec 2010

Last weekend

Reese is 5 months old already!

Reese

A little update on Reese. She's 4 months old and has changed so much. She's no longer the snuggly little newborn who just likes cuddles. Well, she really does like to just be held the vast majority of the time which is fine. It makes it hard to get pretty much anything done but I know that it's a very short phase of her life and soon she'll be on the go like the rest of them. Though thankfully all of them still love hugs and cuddles. Anyways, back to Reese. She weighs 14 lbs but still looks pretty tiny to me. She grabs for toys (and hair and lips and noses and anything she can get her sweet little hands on) and chews on everything. I think she may be teething though no teeth have come through yet. She rolls over and over and over! The other day I set her down in the middle of the living room and a few minutes later she was crying and I turned around to see that she had rolled all the way over to the post and run in to it! No more putting her down on the bed and turning away. I was just playing peekaboo with her and she was laughing every time I said boo. She hadn't done that with me before and it was so cute. She's obviously not close to doing it yet but you can tell she really wants to get moving. When she's on her stomach she kicks and grunts and is definitely trying to get somewhere. I'm a littler worried about when she starts crawling. Parker is obsessed with lego and we have tons of it in our living room and the little pieces are always on the floor. Not sure how we're going to keep those out of her mouth.

The other three still love her. Emerson calls her Reesie Reesie now and the other two have started to as well. Kennedy recently discovered that she can hold her like we do which has been a very helpful discovery. She can hold her for me when I need to do something for a few minutes and loves to go get her out of her bassinet after her nap. Having a 7 year old at home with a baby is wonderful! She has yet to change a diaper though :)

As usual, we went bowling on Halloween. I don't know if this is a new thing or it's just never been offered to us but the little ramp really helped the kids out with their bowling!

Last week we took a little trip to a pumpkin patch. This particular one is closest to us but doesn't really have much to do. We just didn't have time to make it out to the more fun one this year so the kids were a little disappointed but at least it got us out of the house for a bit. My attempt at taking a picture of all 4 of them.




When I looked at this on my phone while taking it I thought it was such a cute picture. I didn't realize Kennedy's eyes were closed.

We also went to Monkey Joe's last week. I tried to get a picture of the three of them coming down together but they were just too fast. They had a lot of fun!