Oh That Reese!

It's been awhile since I've shown you guys pics of my lil' man. He's growing like a weed. It's hard to believe he's 14 months old. We've been looking through old pictures and it seems just like yesterday he was so little.....

Who knew they make baby boxers? Welll, they do! I got a pair for Reese - they were size 0-12 months and since our child is Mr. Skinny Bones, I got them for him and they fit perfect! Here he is Night #1 with them on.

(And yes, I realize for a toddler, a diaper really is like a pair of boxers, but aren't these so much cuter? And besides, he likes to run around in his diaper and I prefer to see the boxers rather than a diaper!)

Don't let that "pooched" out tummy fool you! This Mr. Skinny Bones is tiny! Clothes don't fit and we are going to start having to have things altered. His 6-12 month stuff fit in the waist and are WAY too short....
Ahh yes! The toilet flushing! Reese picked this up quickly. We've had balls and bath toys appear in the toilet - luckily all to big to go down the toilet. However, he will love to go potty when he gets bigger so he can flush! And yes, the dollar on the back of the toilet was headed for the sewage system until I stopped it!
He LOVES to watch what it does to the water! And yes, we do wash his hands off EVERYTIME he holds on like that!
So, we have this chair in our room and he's always tried to get up into it. Well, this LITTLE MONKEY ( and yes, climbing is his specialty) can now climb up onto furniture. He sat in it yesterday for about 30 mintues kicking his feet....
And now for some videos- this first one is absolutely precious. Reese is picking up his own vocabulary. So, it was no surprise to us when he started imitating us when we say "baseball" and "basketball". Here we are on our way home from seeing KJ last Saturday.

Next is his new dancing skills. Ever since he's been going to Tammie's, he's quickly picked this up. Cavin and Chandler (friends of ours sons') do a full body dance. Well, he immediately picked up the leg shake as part of his dance. I think it's presh!

And lastly, our genius! We've got some puzzles that he is starting to really take an interest in. Since I took this video, he's picked up several more pieces, but he started out with the purple octogon. He can now do the rectangle and square. By the way - the back says for ages 2 and up (but I'm not proud or anything!)

Homeless....

That's what we'll be if we don't find a house in the next 2 days. Our closing is set for 3 weeks....Am I really ready for this?????

And by the way...the house that originally made us start this whole silly mess isn't even in the running as a top house...in fact, I refuse to live there now!

OH GEEZ!

Everyone loves a baby.....well, except Reese!

Sweet baby Kenny Joe is here!!! We got to go back to Lubbock on Saturday and love on this little guy - sweet little baby!

We found out really quick what Reese would do if another baby was introduced at our house! If Garrett or I had the baby, Reese was crawling all over us trying to make sure no one else was getting all our attention!

Mom and baby are fine -as is dad, but adjusting to new life with a baby!

I'm an Aunt!

But before you get all excited to see the little fella, know that I don't have any pictures.

Brandy was admitted to the hospital at 9 on Monday night. She got some Cervadil (sp?) and then got her water broken around 6:45 Tuesday monrning. She was dilated to a 9 around 2 and they decided to go ahead and let her push a little bit to see what would happen.

After about 20 minutes of pushing, it was decided to call the dr. because KJ kept coming down during her contractions but going back up and "hiding" when she wasn't pushing. After talking to the dr. it was decided to go down on her Epadural (sp?) and to let her rest for a bit. She rested about 10 minutes (is this really rest?) and contiued pushing. She pushed for a little over an hour when the doctor got there and within 10 minutes of the doctor, Kenny Joe Pritchard made his entrance into this world. He was 7 lbs, 3 oz and 21.5 inches long.

He is still 4 weeks early, so they had to give him oxygen and put him in a incubator. He spent all night there last night and my mom has just reported that around 9:30 this morning he finally got to have some hangout time with my sister and Michael.

The reason KJ had to come early was because my sister had high fluid counts. (I have never been pregnant so I don't know about all this stuff!) Anyways, he's precious and LONG!

My sister gave me the honor of being in the delivery room with her and Michael when KJ was born. She told me she wanted me there because otherwise, I would never experience childbirth. What an unselfish decision. I will have to say at first I didn't want to go - I was very very apprehensive. However, childbirth is nothing like the movies or TV and when little KJ made his long awaited debut I bawled and bawled like a baby. It was as if at that moment, I realized what my sister let me be part of. I will never witness my own child being born, but I got to witness the next best thing - my first nephew being born. My sister will never know what her decision meant to me.

Oh, and why are there no pictures? Well, I can't find my camera charger so I have very little battery life left. And then, I was in the room with Brandy and Mike and was videoing and camera shooting for them. KJ was taken to the nursery and put in the incubator all night, so no one even got to hold him yet......so, expect some soon...we are going back to see him this weekend!

And even though there are no pictures, I got to see him up close the first 20 minutes of his life and for that, I am forever grateful!

Gone.

To Lubbock - to witness the first showing of my new nephew Kenny Joe Pritchard.

That's right folks, I'll be witnessing childbirth firsthand tomorrow. I'm sure I'll come back a changed woman.

And I know my dad sure will be proud of his 2 namesakes......

DIS-GUS-TING!

And that ain't no lie!

So, we've got our house on the market - right? Well, every night, we take a good 45 minutes and make sure everything is put up, all Reese's toys are out of sight, all clothes are hung or folded and that everything is spotless. I really want our house to make a good impression on the people who walk through it.

Well, last night, we viewed 5 houses. The first was a doozy - super cute. Concrete counters in the kitchen, big mexican type tiles throughout the house, so so cute. They didn't have quite so much out, but still very cluttered. The next house was OLD. When I say that, I mean, the furniture, the decor, the smell. Nursing home old smell. YICK! It was obvious the people were getting ready for an estate sale. The next was vacant and disgusting. The 4th house could've been cute until the add-on in the back of the house raised some serious questions! People do the strangest things! And finally....the cute, HUGE, perfect house (possibly). However, it was like these people aren't taking into consideration that potential buyers were walking through their house. Dirty laundry was piled in front of the washer and dryer, beds unmade, drying towels all over the bathroom floor......I could go on. The thing is, it was a cute house - which could possibly work for us. It backs up to the creek bank with a HUGE yard for Reese. But the fact that the people left their house so disgusting just made me wonder how well they maintained the house. I know they say people aren't looking at your stuff, they are looking at your house, but when your stuff is everywhere and you have to step over it to look, then you are looking at the stuff. It was obvious these people had kids and I get just how hard it is to keep a clean house when you have kids and I only have 1. But...every night, Garrett and I do a double check of every room just to be sure.

I'll tell ya, house hunting is a full time job....

Seems like our house has shown well, we've had 2 lookers, both serious lookers. We were told that one couple was just nervous about buying their first house and another couple said our house looked "peachy" but liked another layout better. We live on Peach in case you didn't get the joke! We'll be in the "home magazine" for the next few weeks so maybe that will help.

Sometimes I wish we would've never started this project. But, I'd rather do it now with one child than with two a few years down the road.

Other than the house news, Math TAKS is over. Praise Sweet Jesus! It's all on the downhill swing from here!

I'm still on the lookout for an elementary job, praying the Lord finds me the perfect place. He will, of that I am sure.

Maybe???

We have several house showings tonight....so many that we will be out of the house for 2 hours!

Prayers are welcome in that one of these might be "the one!"

We're on the market!

And if it wasn't official enough, our pictures of the house are up. I will have to say I wasn't ecstatic that pictures of the adorable kitchen weren't on there and pictures of "my" living room weren't up - only Garrett's "man" room! Oh well, if the buyers come, they will see just how presh our place is!

And on that note - we had lookers Monday! I know I know! And today a group of 25 realtors toured our house to hopefully show some of their buyers! Sell baby, sell!

And, an offer has been extended on the Lexington house. Hope this all works out!

It's all a little scary! Especially where I think about us moving with a 1 year old!

It's Official!!!

And more than one thing, at that!

First things first, my Reese has his molars! Yes, yes, the big boy has his "chomping" teeth and we couldn't be happier. He got his first 2 teeth in so fast and then nothing.....we got all top 4 in at the same time and they are still coming in a bit. At our 1 year checkup, Dr. Wiley said his molars were coming in (all this just by looking in his ears) and sure enough, today he let us get a glimpse of them! We have gotten to where we don't really look for them because now he knows he can bite our fingers to get them out of his mouth! We've learned that we can hold him upside down and tickle him and he shows it all! Finally we can tear his food a little bigger! (This is the most tedious thing to do when we eat!!!)

And second, our house is on the market! GULP! It felt so weird. We went to dinner tonight and when we drove back up, the sign was in the yard and I felt so sad and violated already. I mean, we could have people as early as tomorrow walk through the place we call home and say they hate it! I love my house - think it's adorable (and don't worry, when the pictures are up online, I'll post the link so you can all see how adorable the house is!) It's just, this is our first house as a married couple, the first house we had our son in.....all those things. It's just hard to pull up and see a sign in your yard advertising people to come on in!

But on another note - it is the most perfect starter house. Reese's room is painted in vintage baseball with Red and khaki walls. The kitchen is cute - it's all cute. If you know of any newlyweds, this is the place for them!!!!!

And now, some pictures....I know, it's been awhile!

Noble and Reese. Noble is Garrett's cousin on his dad's side (it's his step-mom's nephew). Anyways, he lives in Stephenville and he was going to Odessa to see his family for the week so Gare's dad and step mom came to Abilene to pick him up. He had a blast RUNNING Reese up and down the street in his car. Needless to say Reese almost fell out (they were on 2 wheels) and mom isn't quite ready for that, so the ride had to stop. This is LONG before the wild man came out in Noble!

Oh Chuck-E! We were in Lubbock for Easter and it was Reagan's birthday. (Reagan will most likely be Reese's cousin one day. My mom dates Reagan's Paw. It's so fun because we all have kids the same age). Anyways, Reese LOVED Chuck - E and couldn't stop staring, or poking!

Mr. Happy.....this shirt says it all!

My son, the lover of books. Today, he found out that these books on my shelf weren't books, but pictures. I walked up behind the boys while Garrett was flipping through this book with Reese and telling him about all the pictures. Garrett really takes time to explain and go over things with Reese - and that is one of my favorite "fatherly" qualities of his.

Second Easter-First Easter Egg Hunt. We did this in mom's backyard the Saturday before Easter. We were leaving Sunday and it was supposed to be in the low 40's, so we did it the night before. Here he is heading out the door.

He found these baseball eggs earlier in the week at home and was dying to have them....when he saw them, it was like he found an old friend!

Two eggs at once!

Trying to figure out why they were going in his basket!

A little bit of dad's help

Ok, next the shirts!I think they are the most precious things ever! Thanks to Baby Sew Trendy for hooking us up. You really should go check her out! Her website is undergoing Construction, so check back soon. I wanted the camo one because we have everything camo and then I wanted cowboy. I asked her what she had and she said a "vintage cowboy look". Well, if you look closely, on the middle of the "r" is a little boy cowboy. HOW CUTE! Anyways, these shirts were only $15 each and so worth it! Just look at how cute he is.

Sorry the pictures of these aren't great. Reese realizes now that the camera has an orange light on it and he wants it....

Furry Puppy Kisses

Last night, I called Garrett when I was leaving Bible study around 9:15. He said - hurry home, Reese is ready for bed. I get home and find my little bed bug digging through his toybox for books.

We pull some out and read them before bed. He gets to read 3 books a night. The first 2 can be any two books the reader likes ( I like this rule because I get to read the books I like - I know it will change when he starts to get favorites) and then the 3rd book is always "Goodnight Moon".

Before I go on, let me tell you how smart my little boy is. While reading "Goodnight Moon", he can look at the pictures and point to what you ask him to point to. The old lady, the balloon (BY FAR his FAVORITE!), brush, kittens.....anything. And, he turns the pages for you - such the helper!

So last night we are reading "Peek-a-boo I See". Basically it is one of those books with a little patch of furr on each animal that he can feel. You turn the page and the animal is covering his face and it says "peek-a-boo I see....." and then you open the page and it says "furry puppy kisses" or "soft kitten kisses"....you get the drift.

So we are reading it and Reese wanted to be facing me with the book in his lap while I read it to him. He was turning all the pages and opening all the flaps while I was reading the words. I would say "furry puppy kisses" and he would scratch the patch of furr and then bend down and kiss the animal! AHHHHH! (Heart melts here!) I got such a kick out of it, we read it about 6 times...and everytime a kiss!

On the "Squeaky mouse kisses" page, you can push on the mouse's belly and it squeaks. Well, Reese knows that you can't scratch it, that you have to take your finger and "poke" it. So when we get to that page, he takes his finger and just pokes away.....(Go ahead and melt again!)

Garrett tried to say "Reese, give sweet mommy kisses" and you know what that little boy did???? Blew me kisses!!!!! (And melting more...)

I need to get a video of him blowing kisses because it's not a normal blown kiss....but something much much cuter!

I never knew how much I could love until Kenny Reese came along....