Walking Wednesday

A Day in the Life of Reese

Reese is doing new things each and every day. Here is an idea of the day in the life of Reese...
-She greets the cats each and every morning by waving at them as soon as we open her bedroom door. She then giggles and watches the cats run up and down the hallway in excitement to see her as well.
-She LOVES waving at each and every person we see while walking into daycare (which is appx. 20-30 parents/co workers). They all know her name now and look forward to her waves every morning.
-She pretends to be the ring leader of her class. She is the oldest of the 6, and you can tell that she knows it. I am happy she is an assertive little girl, but look forward to when she is a toddler and there are older children in her class to "put her in her place" at times :)
-She gets so excited to see the animals at daycare. They have a barn with horses, llamas, sheep, alpaca, and bunnies. She likes watching them eat and we even got to see a sheep get sheared last week!
-She is fascinated with opening and closing things, especially doors. We say "open", "closed" about 50 times a day now!
-She is definitely a meat eater. She can eat more ham, turkey, or chicken than Kyle and I combined! She does like veggies, but is funny about fruit. I think it may be the texture she still needs to get used to.
-She has her two top teeth in now. That makes a total of 4.
-Within this past week, she lets go while standing up for quite a bit of time. She gets so happy and proud of herself when she does it. She starts laughing, which throws off her balance and she falls down. Kyle predicts a walker by her first birthday (July 24th). I'm not going that far, but think it will be by late August for sure.

Kyle has been in China all week for work, so Reese and I have been holding down the fort. Little "BIG" girl thought a few days this week that she did not need an afternoon nap, which resulted in a 6:15 pm bedtime both of those nights. I am happy to report she got back on track and took one today. It made for a happier Reese and a happier mommy tonight :)

Not much on tap for this upcoming Father's Day weekend. I'm sure Kyle will be busy recovering from jet lag on Saturday, and Reese and I have a special surprise planned for him on Sunday. Hopefully he does not sleep right through it :)

Success

I would deem this weekend as a success. We had our garage sale on Friday morning and today until after lunch, and did a good amount of business. At the end of the sale, we packed up the rest and I made a trip to Goodwill. I also got to do some garage sailing since my mom came up and helped run our garage sale today. I picked up some nice summer and fall clothes for Reese, as well as a new little couch for our living room, a construction table for Reese, and a few other small toys for her. Kyle managed to get a neat, vintage neon beer sign (Coors light) for the garage. It was a very successful weekend.

Kyle heads to China on Monday for 5 days for work, so tomorrow we will do nothing but relax and hopefully the weather is nice enough to get outside. I am looking forward to next Friday already, as it is quite the task to manage little Miss Reese all by myself while Kyle is gone. I always try to remind myself that many parents would give a lot to be with her as much as I get to be (as she is in my room at work/daycare). I guess I shouldn't complain :)

Visitors

Today my sister took off with her kids to head back to MN. We had a fabulous weekend while they were here. They arrived Friday evening, and we spent the night playing outside, and then enjoying some beverages out on our patio after the kids went to sleep. It was so nice to catch up with her, kid free :)

Saturday we jam packed our schedule. After breakfast, we headed downtown to the Madison Children's Museum. The kids had a blast, and their naps proved it! Aidan thoroughly enjoyed painting on the windows and the water room (not to say the girls didn't!) After the museum, we headed back home for lunch,and naps. When the kids woke up, we went down to the UW Union Terrace on Lake Mendota for some ice cream. Such a good day for a nice, cold treat. The weather was fantastic. We arrived home to be greeted by my parents who came up for a few hours to spend with the kids. My mom had to work all weekend, but came up for a few hours to get in some grandkid time :) By the time they left, you could probably see the exhaustion on mine and Courtney's faces. Whew...entertaining 3 children and carting them around all day was sure a task! We had a couple drinks on the patio, and then headed to bed.

Before taking off, we took a walk over to the park this morning for the kids to enjoy the slides and swings. Fun was had by all, and Reese took her longest nap

to date (2 hr and 45 min) after they left. Maybe they should come down more often ?! :)

Nearly impossible to get them all to smile at one time...

Aidan 3, Aubrey 1, Reese 10 mo.

My favorite picture of the weekend. The lighting on her is just fabulous!

Enjoying the water room at the museum.

Bath time!