Reid - 8/31/2016

Reid ate three servings of jelly toast and two servings of mangoes for breakfast.  For lunch he ate chicken/rice/bean burrito, sweet potatoes, and three servings of tropical fruit.  He said, "If you'd only gotten just bean (burrito) I could've farted like Master!"  Haha!

It's been so nice to have Reid play with Cooper 4 out of the last 5 days here at Little Treasures.  It's made Coop's last days here very special. I took this picture of them playing under the legos table this morning.  They had some Star Wars toys with them and they stayed there for probably 20 minutes or more.  What are you guys doing?  Cooper said, "Chill-laxing."  Ok, that has to be a Mommy word.

We made a "Goodbye poster" for Cooper at Art Time.  They were expressing their love for each other and it was so sweet.  Cooper said, "I'm gonna miss you Reid."  Then Reid; "I'm gonna miss you too Cooper."  (That was repeated several times.)  Then Cooper talked about how they'd see each other and especially when they were both going to "Kenzie's School."  They also talked about their upcoming birthday parties.  Reid said, "Cooper, no nerf guns at my Birthday Party.  Only Light Saber."  Haha!  (Later he kind of reversed that decision.)

I took this picture of these three after they were done with the poster.  (Hudson is not here today.)  I like how Sophie has an arm around each of the boys.  (With some help from Gary.)

Baby Nora has a VERY high pitch squeal with impressive volume!  Ha!  Reid thinks it has to do with having too many Babies around!  He said, "When you have too many babies they squeal!"  Haha!

Reid - 8/30/2016

Reid ate 4 cinnamon rolls (they're not real large ones) and ate a good serving of canned prunes for breakfast.  He was cracking me up!!  He was said, "I'm gonna keep eating these all day and in the night time!!"  Cooper had washed after breakfast and Reid yelled out at him; "Cooper, I'm never gonna be done eating all day!!"  For lunch he ate half of scrambled eggs, hash browns, and sausage combo; also ate two servings of waffles and two servings of cantaloupe.

This first picture was from this morning when these four were waiting for Pat to drive by with Nora.  Cooper was standing on his tiptoes when I took this picture and he told Reid, "Now we're the same amount."  Haha!!  He was stretching as high as he could.

I took this picture when Reid and Cooper abandoned Reid's "Millennium Falcon" and Hudson moved right in.  Good job Bubba!  :)

Reid and Cooper were playing Hide-n-Seek and that's always entertaining.  They usually hide in the same spot over and over, but when they switch it up they are frequently successful because the other person is expecting the same spot!  Cooper immediately started quizzing the youngest spectators who frequently aren't aware of a game being played!  "Which way did he go?!?"  "Sophie, do you know where Reid went?!?"  Then Reid asks, "How did you find me?!?"  The funniest one happened when Cooper was counting and Reid had to go potty.  Cooper just kept on counting!  Reid found the best hiding place all morning.

Cooper was quizzing Reid, "Do you know where I live?"  I couldn't understand Reid's answer, but apparently Cooper did because Cooper's response was hilarious!!  "No, it's not on another Planet!  It's on your Planet!"  Hahaha!  Then he added, "Don't you remember the Monte Party!?"

Reid - 8/29/2016

Reid ate half of kix cereal and three servings of mixed fruit for breakfast.  For lunch he had three servings of ham sandwich, ate two servings of peas, and three servings of mandarin oranges.  At breakfast Sophie was sitting beside Reid and said, "Hi Reid, hi Reid, hi Reid..."  Just like she hadn't seen him at all prior to that!  So cute.  She loves her Reid.

I asked Reid what was his favorite thing he did all summer.  I know you guys did some fun things!  He said, "I did nothing."  Hahaha  That was funny.  Then about 10:30 he asked, "Can we just eat right now!?!  I'm starving!!"  :)  Poor fellow!  It was almost an hour since we'd eaten with about another hour to go.

We have a full house today - six children are here.  Kenzie and Riley will also join us after school at 2:30.  (My license has a provision called "overlap" which allows for after-school children for 2 hours per day.)  I actually got a picture with 5 out of the 6 children that I'm posting below!  They're rarely all that close playing together to get a picture.  And then they're moving so fast even then it's not easy!  Baby Nora was napping and she's the only one not in the picture.

Here's a picture of the boys playing with Reid's Star Wars thing again.  They told me it was a Millennium Falcon, but I told them a Peregrine Falcon was my favorite.  Ha!  They both said, "No!!  Millennium Falcon!"

Reid - 8/25/2016

Reid ate three servings of cinnamon toast and three servings of grapes for breakfast.  For lunch he ate two servings of baked chicken, ate dinner roll, bites of hash browns, and three servings of canned cherries.  Cooper was SO excited for Reid to come and had been quizzing me every few minutes;  "How many minutes until breakfast?!?"  At breakfast Cooper literally grabbed a handful of grapes to shove in his mouth in an attempt to keep up with Reid.  (Uhhh...just one at a time Coop.  You'll notice Reid's eating with both hands at a high rate of speed, but not shoving in handfuls!)  Cooper finally asked Reid, "How many grapes can you eat?!?"  Reid said, "One."  Cooper said, "One Thousand!"  :)  It's been a treat for all of us to have Reid here today!

Do you think Sophie was happy to see him?  Here's a picture to answer that question!!  Is this cute or what!?!  I took this picture at breakfast and I love how she's basically left her spot at the table and snuggled up right beside Reid.  (You can see her abandoned plate - actually she'd ate a good meal and maybe she was as mesmerized as the rest of us to watch Reid eat!!  Ha!)

I love this picture of the two buddies discussing some important concepts about Star Wars.  Reid brought some Star Wars "thing" with him with lots of characters.  (They told me the name of it, but ...Millennium Something maybe.) They were also discussing what was for lunch.  Haha.  Well, at least Reid was interested in that and Cooper went along with it.  Cooper said, "You like elbow noodles."  Reid said, "Hey Gary!  Are we gonna have elbow noodles?!?"  No, we already had them this week.  His loud and boisterous response cracked me up; "AWWWW!!  COME ON!!!  I'M HUNGRY!!!"  The time was 10:00 and we'd finished breakfast about 9:30!  :

Oh I have to tell you something funny Reid said about Hudson.  Bubba was doing his guttural throaty sounds that he makes.  You probably haven't heard him do it, but he does it a LOT and with a fairly deep voice.  Reid came over to me and said, "Hey Gary!  He's getting some poop out."  LOL  That made me laugh so hard.  (Actually Hudson had pooped about 20 minutes prior.)  Yup, that's pretty much what it sounds like Reid!!