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!!

Reid - 6/13/2016

Reid ate raisin bran cereal and three servings of dried cranberries for breakfast.  For lunch he ate two servings of homemade canadian & sausage pizza (no cheese), ate two servings of corn, and two servings of tropical fruit.  I asked them what they'd done this past weekend.  No one could remember anything, so I just started being silly and asking Reid things like, "Chasing squirrels!? "Nope."  Penguins?  "Nope. They live on the ice."  Cooper jumps in with; "Did you chase Dinosaurs?!?"  Reid said, "Nope!  They can take you down!"  :)

Also at lunch - When Hudson was almost done he started howling about something for a couple of minutes - it sounded like a cry of pain.  All I could think of was biting his tongue - even with minimal amount of teeth!!  Reid (sitting at the table a few feet away) immediately said,  "I didn't do nothing!"  Haha!  So, if you did not do nothing, does that mean you did "something?"  :)

The big boys were trying to show-off for the little ones again.  Reid started it by saying, "Hey Bubba! Watch this!!  I'm gonna land on my face!"  So then Cooper started saying it as well and to Sophie too. (You can see Cooper's orange shorts in the picture.)  As you can also tell by the picture, Bubba and Sophie were super impressed, right!?  :)

Cooper and Reid had a fun morning.  They played with the babies, but when they got tired of that they played with the Star Wars cars and people.  I heard Cooper say, "That Tate is getting SSOOOO big! He's almost bigger than a giant!"  Ha!  They also used the big pieces of red and green legos to play "red light, green light."  That was on their own initiative and they kind of made up some rules as they went along!  My favorite was when Reid said, "Red light AND green light" and held up both colors!  Ha!  I guess it's your choice!!

We did some dot painting at art time.  Reid almost always gets excited for art time.  Cooper worked on his for quite a while, but eventually became more interested in making shapes with the paint containers.  (Again)  He said, "I made a trapezoid!"  And it was a trapezoid.  Then he said, "I made a triangle."  Yup you did that that too! And Reid just kept on working on his painting.  (Which he labeled "the tunnel.")

Reid - 6/7/2016

Reid ate two large servings of waffles and ate half of hash browns for breakfast.  For lunch he ate bite of chicken, ate toast, half of carrots, and ate mandarin oranges.  Before breakfast and before Reid arrived I told Cooper that Reid was scheduled to come to Daycare today.  He immediately asked, "Are we having elbow noodles?  Reid LOVES elbow noodles!"  So cute.

Cooper brought his Star Wars encyclopedia and the boys were looking at it most of the morning, except for breakfast and outside time.  They didn't play with the Star Wars toys, just studying the characters in the book.

We played outside this morning instead of waiting until it gets too hot in the afternoon.  (Then it rained just after we went inside so that worked out well!)  The boys were being silly outside and trying to "balance."  The first picture Reid said, "I'm balanced on my nard!!"  LOL, Ok, no additional comment needed for that one!!  Then Cooper said, "I can balance on one foot!"  And he did for a long time, quite easily.  The boys also played on the little teeter-totter and, as you can imagine, Reid has to do all the work. Cooper just puts his legs on the top and enjoy the ride.  :)  In the second picture Reid is just being his sweet silly self.  I love this Kid!!

Here's a picture of HOFIE hanging out with her Reid and Bubba.  I took this picture when Reid was going through a whole series of antics trying to help Hudson be happy.  (And he was doing that because he's a Sweetie, not because I asked him too!)  First Reid was bonking himself in the forehead and of course Bubba thought that was quite humorous!  (And so did Sophie.)  Reid said, "Hey Gary!  I made him laugh!!"  Then Reid was bouncing up and down in my chair (in picture) and saying, "Ow! My butt!  Ow!  My butt!"  (over & over)  And a couple more antics, but you get the idea.  Thank you Reid!  I love your sweet heart and how you like to help others!  Sophie was intently watching it all!

Reid - 5/25/2016

Reid ate blueberry bagel and three servings of peaches for breakfast.  For lunch he ate ham, three servings of whole wheat elbow noodles, ate corn, and two servings of apple slices.  Reid asked Coop, "Do you love elbow noodles?"  Cooper really didn't answer the question, but told Reid, "you're going to turn into an elbow noodle!"  Ha!  Reid didn't act too concerned!  He finished off the serving bowl of noodles and then ate all the rest that Cooper didn't eat!  That was a lot of noodles!  We took a break from the breakfast table to watch the water truck spray the street, followed closely by the street sweeper.  Cooper was on the patio waving his arm like crazy!

I asked the boys who'd removed all the books from the book rack and made a big pile.  Cooper immediately said, "REID!"  And Reid followed that up with, "COOPER!"  And back-n-forth it went with lots of finger pointing and laughing.  At one point Reid said, "A ghost dumped them out!!" Eventually they both started pointing fingers at Sophie and said she was totally responsible.  :)

This picture may be a clue to the unsolved mystery of the emptied book rack!!  The boys were using it to play a game.  They were shooting and tossing food toys into the racks and as you can tell in the picture it didn't seem too challenging!  Ha!  Reid was doing most of the tossing and shooting and Cooper was rattling off rules and rule changes as fast as his tongue and brain would allow!  :)

It's been several days since I've done "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if....."  Today Reid just randomly said, "How much wood could Woody Woodpecker peck?"  LOL!!  Then he was looking at some plastic shapes and asked, "Do these glow?"  I don't think so.  He had an idea!  "Gary, can I stay at your house when it get dark to see if they glow!?"  :)  Yup.

I took this picture right after Story Time.  We were sitting on the couch reading and as soon as we were done Sophie was hugging Reid and kissing the back of his head!!  It was so cute!  By the time I got the camera she was sitting down, but still loving on him.  She loves her Templeton Boys and they are so sweet to her!!  :)  Yesterday after nap Cooper asked, "When will Kenzie be here?"  I told him it would be a few minutes and Sophie asked, "Bode?  Bode?"  So cute.

Reid - 5/23/2016

Reid ate several bites of rice chex cereal and two servings of mixed fruit for breakfast.  For lunch he ate two servings of beef sandwich, drank tomato soup and ate crackers, and licked the pickled beets two or three times.  When Cooper was washing his hands before breakfast he saw the beets and said, "Hey Reid!"  RT; "What?"  CC; "We're having your favorite!  Beets!!"  He knew he was being funny and it was hilarious!!

It was interesting and enlightening to listen to their breakfast conversation.  I didn't participate; I just listened.  They were talking about their birthdays and then Cooper started expounding on his upcoming party!  And it went like this;
CC; "My next birthday is only for boys and Hudson can come!!  And my Dad can come because he's a Boy.  And you can come Gary.  And you you can come Reid!"
RT; "Thank you Coop! And Tate and Bode?"  CC; "Yes."  RT; "My Momma?"  CC; "Nope.  And my Grandpa can come because he's a boy."
They went on to talk about Grandpas and Reid said his Grandpa died and I'm pretty sure he was talking about TJ's Grandpa.  RT; "My Grandpa died."  CC; "My Grandpa never dies."  All of this conversation took place before they even started eating and I was furiously taking notes.  I'd given Reid his cereal, but not Cooper.  Reid started laughing and said, "Hey Gary!  You forgot something! Coop's food!!"  LOL  Yes I know, but your conversation is too interesting this morning.

The boys had a blast playing together this morning!  The first thing they did was start jumping and playing on the mattress.  I took this picture when Cooper was jumping "over" Reid.  Reid kept saying "Hey Coop!  Jump over me!"  I don't know what he expected but then he kept saying, "He not even bonk me!!"  LOL  They also played with the food toys, legos (making lightsabers), and of course Star Wars.  Cooper told Reid, "I'm Yoda.  You're Luke."  Reid randomly said,  "Hey Coop!  Funny story; Bode was 13 when I was a baby!!"

Reid was having love surges when Sophie arrived.  He kept following along behind her with his arms extended wanting some hugs.  It was so cute!!  I took this picture when Reid took a break from from jumping onto the mattress to talk to Sophie.  They were jabbering at each other about something!

Reid - 5/18/2016

Reid ate three servings of whole wheat toast and ate mixed berries for breakfast.  For lunch he ate ham, crackers, bites of bean & bacon soup, and ate strawberries.

This first picture I took yesterday afternoon after Reid and Sophie woke up from their naps.  Reid said, "She was standing down there and I pulled her up here!"  :)  Reid always brings his special blanket with him and today he brought another special "puppy blanket."  As soon as Sophie arrived he went over and gave it to her.  Later in the morning I saw Bubba about to grab the puppy blanket and Sophie sprinted to rescue it!

Yesterday Reid was talking about Hudson's Birthday - which is coming up in less than two weeks and so he's probably heard his Momma and I talking.  Anyhow, Reid said, "I know Bubba gonna invite us to his next Birthday! Because Tate and Bode love him!"  He's a pretty sensitive male!!  Love it!!  :)

This isn't about Reid, but I thought you might like it.  Yesterday afternoon outside on the patio Cooper came running and yelling, "There's something BIG coming toward you!!"  Ok, I'll get the rifle!!  Then he pointed at an earwig crawling along the concrete!  Ha!

The kids were building a "box" for their blankets.  They hid their blankets and then continued to build on top of them.  I love how they can express their ideas!  Cooper said, "This is a cage for blankets; now they can't escape."  I said, "I didn't realize you all were having trouble with runaway blankets!"  He said, "We been thinking all day for one of these!"  :)

We sang songs, did dot painting at art time, did some sign language, and also the shapes.  It's been awhile since we did signs and shapes and the boys did awesome with both of them.  Reid is doing well with the shapes too, except for the 4 hardest ones; Parallelogram, trapezoid, octagon, and hexagon.  I wrote the words on the shapes and I think Cooper has the words memorized for octagon and hexagon because he doesn't count the sides, just looks at the word.  Pretty cool for 3 year olds.

Reid - 5/17/2016

Reid ate two servings of blueberry bagel and ate apricots for breakfast.  For lunch he ate chicken, three servings of whole wheat elbow noodles, ate peas, and applesauce.  The meal conversation was all about Star Wars: "Star Wars battle front, Star Wars infinity game, Emperor, Darth Vader, blow up, Flame Trooper....and on and on and on and on........."  :)  Cooper asked, "Are Flame Troopers nice Reid?"  One word answer; "Bad."  :)

Reid loves the book in this toy set about Cookie Monster and he's eating a bar of soap!  Reid always laughs about that and asks for me to read it.  He said, "I like this one!  Cookie Monster eat the HOPE!!"  :)

These first two pictures are ones I wasn't able to post yesterday so here they are!  I like the first picture because they were holding hands and wanting to jump at the same time, but there isn't enough room for both of them to stand side-by-side on top of the igloo.  And then I liked how far Cooper was stretched out. I love the next picture with Reid holding Cooper.  Then he was carrying him to the mattress and diving on it - over and over again until they were both sweating profusely!!  Just by looking at the picture you'd never guess those two boys are only 6 days apart in age!!

This block creation in the last picture was "Our helicopter.  The guns are up here on top!  This is the Dark Side ship!!  This is our Fort!!"  :)