10 Months (and all those pictures I mentioned)

Our Macbook is back! For now at least. While it's up and running, I am hoping to upload all of these fun pictures of Reese onto the blog, and it just so happens to be her 10 month birthday today.

10 Month Update:

*Reese LOVES books. She just sits and lets anyone read to her, over and over again. She also turns the pages to her board books while I'm reading to her (she waits for me to flip up the next page just a bit and then goes for it), and I've noticed her doing it by herself a few times, too. I'm trying to work on the "please" sign for when she wants someone to read to her again.

*RRW is in love with her Aden & Anais lovies, and she gets the biggest kick out of putting it over her face while I'm getting her in pajamas. She wails her arms and legs, giggles, and then pulls it off with a big smile. She loves this so much that when she is playing in her crib, she sits up, puts the lovey over her head and just bounces. And Leah and I watched her crawl around the living room with it over her head the other day. Pretty cute and hilarious.

*Reese Peese loves to crawl behind the couch and then when I say, "Where's Reese?," she sneaks back out into view and just smiles.

*Her schedule is like this: wake between 7-7:30, nurse, breakfast (stonyfield yotoddler yogurt), play, napTIME from 8:45-10:30oish, nurse a little after 11, lunch (LOVES bread and turkey, and then usually 1 or 2 tubs of baby food), play/errands/gym, nap from 1ish to 3ish, nurse a little after 3, play, independent play time/errands, dinner (some of whatever we are having plus baby food) at 6, bath, nurse, bed by 7.

*Reese seems to not sleep well at naptime for a few days and then make up for it really well the next few days. Repeat.

*RRW is crawling at a rapid pace and pulls up to her knees on most things. She pulls to stand only at her play table and toy baskets and in her pack n play at this point.

*Peese babbles all. the. time. Ma ma, da da, ba ba, and then every vowel sound possible. She has occasionally strung two consonant sounds in the same line and has thrown in a pa and maybe another one or two but not often.

*Sweetheart loves her pacifier, but I'm determined to limit it to the crib and car. After our California trip that is.

*Reese crawls up on me after she receives a little "that's a no" training. It's pretty sweet.

I think that's it for the update.

Get ready for LOTS of pictures.

Four of Reese's cousins and her Aunt JB and Uncle Benton came up last weekend for lunch after church, and here's Whit showing two of the younger gals how her twirling Barbie works. We have been so blessed to spend lots of time with these fun cousins lately.

Reese showing off her sweet smocked dress. A lady in our church made it just for her.

Crawling over daddy.

Reese's friend Campbell and her momma Leah came over to play. Leah and I quickly decided this needs to be a routine thing.

I just liked these next few pictures.

Reese's first Naturals game.

The moms look happy, but I'm not so sure about the kids.

Oh, Owen. He was happy.

And the 10 Month photo shoot.

Happy July 18th!