Fall Fun

We were cleaning up the yard and putting it to sleep for the winter when Reid spotted the lawn mower. He had a blast until he had to come off. Oh the tears. That one stung. Who ever knew that a ride on a lawn mower would be so much fun? (The pictures lack his enthusiasm, but he really did love it.) For all you safety people out there, the blade was not down while he was riding :) Oh and of course our yard doesn't look like this anymore. Tons of leaves and crap, why do we even bother? Ha!Well we've had some great weekends. Two weekends ago we went to Hazelhurst to visit G and G Neuman, G Oien and Auntie Peggy. Reid had a blast. He loved the fireplace and insisted there be a fire at all times! This past weekend Kevin had a successful trip to Kansas City and Reid and I along with my mom went to Madison to hang out with Paulo, Gwen, Ruthie and James. Reid had so much fun. He loved their dog Bosco, had a great time on his horse and buggy ride and liked looking at the scarecrows at the Sun Prairie scarecrow festival.
Well I better run, I've got a huge list of things to do which includes getting those Halloween packages mailed out!!

I found him here

Just hanging out having a seat in the cupboard.

Friends

These are some of Reid's buddies. They hang at the YMCA and at Toddler Music. All crackers set aside they are pretty tight.

This was my attempt at getting four 1 year olds to sit for a picture. I did pretty good don't you think? Of course Reid is leading the pack with the escape plan. He told them all, "Let's run, that stupid camera is no fun anyway, she won't ever let you touch it."

Giving Brianna a hug.....Awwww.

To the Rescue

I've found that parents spend a lot of their time coming to their children's rescue. I rescue Reid from falling down, from hitting his head, from the "tickle monster," I rescue him from his crib or just from a rough day. As a parent you hope you don't have to rescue them from serious situations, you hope that the situations are as minor as rescuing them from the bear trap they are stuck in. My mom and dad still come to my rescue and I'm 31 years old. I don't think you ever want to stop helping your own children no matter now old they are.
On a less serious note, here are some pictures of my mom coming to my rescue because if I would have had to read "Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?" or "Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes," one more time that day I was going to go insane :)

Why Decorate?

You know those crazy houses during the holidays that you drive by and wonder what were they thinking? Well I know why they exist now. When I pulled these pumpkins out into the yard Reid's eyes were as big as saucers. He kept tapping them and saying "ohhhh, ohhhh." I put up a few witches and pumpkins around the house and he just loves to keep looking at them. My mom gave him some little window decals and he keeps showing them to me and going back to them over and over again. So.....I feel compelled to keep adding to the decorations because it's so fun to see his reactions.

Birthdays and Birthdays and More Birthdays!

These pictures were taken about a month ago. Ha. Anyway we had a group birthday party for my nieces and nephews and my dad. Here are some pictures from that day!
Finally today is a nice fall day! I've been waiting. This is the first day in what feels like forever that we were able to play outside for a long time without having to come in and dry off or warm up!
Not sure if I've written this yet but Reid can say, "All Done," and he says it a lot during Tiger baseball games. He doesn't quite understand the humor in that yet but I think it's pretty funny.
Seriously, I hope the Tigers can win tomorrow!!! Come on Tigers!!

We wanted some pictures of these guys together, easier said than done. These two are going to be trouble someday. Just look at those smiles :)

My dad and Reid watching the "big kids" play.

My little cruiser

These were taken Setmember 13th. Reid had been walking for a few days but still looked hilarious trying, arms up for balance and concentrating so hard. He would fall and I would ask him if he wanted to try again and he would clap clap clap (his way of signing "yes") and I would pick him back up and he'd try again. We would repeat this until he just went on to something different. It had to be exhausting for him! Even though now he is an old pro at walking I still wanted to finally post these pictures!

I just wanted to add this one for good measure so you all know that tomatoes not only taste good, they smell good too :) Plus I just love this picture. He looks so serious, like smelling tomatoes is such an important task, but I love that you can see little scraps on his arm and dirt on his legs. He was a true summer babe this year!