Halloween Part 1

I'll start off by saying Reid LOVED Halloween. Loved, loved, loved it.

He started off by answering the door and handing out candy then we went out around the block for about an hour and by the time we got back he was just warming up and b-lined it across the street to the neighbors house where Halloween is a very very important holiday. When he woke up the next morning he grabbed his pumpkin pail and went straight to the door!
So here are a few pictures of Reid in his costume and there will be more of the actual trick or treating experience. I have a lot of great ones!This picture makes me want to run upstairs and wake him up to SQUEEZE him. Clap clap clap, I want the lights to keep flashing.

I really really needed Reid to not cry for the camera.....

......not only because I'm tired of taking pictures like thisand like this....(seriously? Wow kiddo.)

but because I really needed to document the funniest thing in the whole world....So....I did this and this ...........and thisWhich turned out to be pretty cool in his little world. He realized that whatever had been in front of the camera we could now see in the LCD screen. He now points out the rug or his pumpkin in the kitchen after seeing the picture on the camera, pretty cool association for a parent to watch happen........any whoooo to the fun stuff, like I was saying the funniest thing ever........
and here it is....I can barely look at this without busting out laughing. Let me tell you this face has given us hours of laughter. We constantly ask him to make his silly face we imitate him, we laugh. Look at the muscles in his neck, I only wish I captured the hands they are usually in tight fists.
(For all you photogs out there doesn't he crazily look like "Boy with grenade" by Diane Arbus?)

Cake Syndrome

He was interested...... even thought about digging in.....until the seeds and goo "accidentally" touched his arm.......Forget it....Definitely in need of being rescued.

You All Remember This.....

RIGHT? Well maybe you don't, so here is a little reminder of how Reid reacted to his "smash the cake," photo shoot. (click to make it big) Stay tuned to find out what this has to do with my next post. Hint: Halloween and what we now refer to as "cake syndrome."

More from the Pumpkin Patch

Some days I could just stare and stare at pictures. I can't believe how grown up he is, and how in the world did he get so cute?
So for the swimming lessons, let's start by saying he had an absolute blast. We got there and all the children and parents were sitting nicely on the benches waiting for the instructor to arrive so I ushered Reid towards the benches and tried to lure him by saying that everyone was sitting and we'd go in the water soon. Nope, definitely not good enough. He just took off into the water running in and went in head first. I scooped him up out of the water and he was laughing and smiling. I put him down again and he kept trying to run in the water and would go right under. All the parents were laughing as they were still sitting quietly with their dry children on their laps. So he has no fear of the water what so ever.

Pumpkin Patch

I have so many I mean a ton of great pictures from the pumpkin patch. It was a beautiful sunny day, in a photographers world maybe a little too sunny in some cases. I just don't know what photos to post since there are so many great ones. The cute red sweater helps I think!
I'm going to start with these because they make me happy. If you open them up big you can see Reid took K's hat off and thought is was hilarious. As the sequence progresses they remember the camera is there and the pictures are less interesting!
Reid loved the goats, you can't see them in the pictures because they are far past the fence but he would run up to them and say "Boo" and then run back and to another one and yell, "Boo!" It was a riot.

Well I will post a ton more pictures later as I have a little awake Bear waiting patiently in his crib for someone to get him out. Today we had swimming lessons. Oh boy did he love it. That is a whole other story!

Plastic Bags = Stylish Footware

Reid likes to empty the box of plastic sandwich bags. A few days ago he discovered that they make nice shoes.Excuse the bad photography, I was really hurrying bc I knew it wouldn't be long before those were ripped off his feet!