Happy Halloween!

Birthday Party for Katelyn

Today is cousin Katelyn's 1st birthday. We enjoyed celebrating at her birthday party. Happy Birthday Katelyn!

Reese and Mammy in their party hats.

Katelyn & her cake. Reese kept saying "Mess" over and over while Katelyn was eating. We actually let Reese have a piece of cake (without the icing), and what do you think the 1st thing she asked for upon waking from her nap was? "Cake!" Has a monster been created?

Sewing update:

I made Reese a Halloween skirt. Since she loves spiders, I picked out a silly spider pattern.... and it's reversible to black with white polka dots. I had a little trouble with the waist band, so I'll have to work on that.

Pumpkin Patch

We took Reese to a local farm to pick pumpkins and enjoy the other fall activities. She had a great time running through all the pumpkins!

Reese's 1st ride on a tractor.

We went on a hay ride. It was pretty chilly!

Reese's 8 second ride. She's got pretty good form!

She loved the chickens, goats and turkey..... but could have cared less about the lamas.

Catching a ride with the pumpkins.

Happy Birthday Sheppard!!!

Happy birthday baby bro! Since you are celebrating it in Afghanistan I figured I'd try my hand at posting a video. Hope you have a good birthday. We'll see you next month!

Sesame Street Live!!!

Lee and I took Reese to her very 1st show..... a Sesame Street Live performance called Elmo's Green Thumb. Reese absolutely LOVES Elmo, Abby Cadabby and Zoe, but I was a little afraid of how she was going to react at an event like this. Would she like it? Would it scare her? Would she stay in one place for so long?

Thankfully, she had a blast!!! She was dancing while shouting "Elmo Melmo" and "Abby Dabby" over and over again.

Daddy picked out a Zoe doll (which you can see sitting in her lap) as a souvenir from Reese's 1st show. She hasn't let go of this thing since we left the arena.

These are the $8 Elmo balloons that were selling like hot cakes. They brought them out during intermission and people swarmed to them. I couldn't believe how fast people were buying these up. Reese was deprived when it came to these balloons. She was almost successful at taking the one from the little girl sitting behind us though.

We had good seats too. If this were a hockey game we would have been sitting right behind the glass mid-ice. We had no trouble seeing the stage and Telly Monster even walked right past us. Reese reached out her arms like she wanted him to pick her up!

Even Lee and I enjoyed it. We hope to do it again sometime!

Pizza.... a family tradition

Lee's family has been in the pizza business for a long time. He spent much of his youth working at the family owned pizza place in Philadelphia, so he knows a thing or two about how to make a good pie. Last night we started what we think will become one of our own family traditions... family Pizza night.

Reese helping Daddy put on the pizza toppings.

She kept stealing the toppings and eating them.

The 1st pizza getting ready to go into the oven. It's a white (no sauce) spinach and tomato pie. We also made a plain cheese pizza.

Reese & Georgia cleaning up (aka eating) the mess on the chair. "Mmmmmmmmmm!" was Reese's favorite saying for the night.

Reese eating her yummy pizza.

Bow Holder, Climber, Mom-mom

Here's what I made over the weekend..... a bow holder. Reese has tons of bows and we needed a place to put them all. Cute... huh?

Reese loves to climb. She climbs on everything she can. Georgia. The sofa. The coffee table. Her crib. You get the point. She's a climbing maniac.

We went and visited Mom-mom who is Reese's great grandmother. Mom-mom and Reese had fun playing with Ernie (a stuffed Sesame Street character), sticks, leaves, and grass. Reese was able to get a few smiles out of Mom-mom!