A Small Sample of Us: Baby's First...

This week marked Reed's first Thanksgiving as well as his first trip to Rockford, IL to visit his great grandparents. I cannot believe that this time last year I was as big as a house with just about 5 chins, only days away from meeting my amazing little boy. Ca-razy. But, I digress...this is about Reed's latest first's.

Thanksgiving was spent at my dad's house with my brothers, Pop, sis-in-law, niece, and Pat's dad, brother, wife and kids. It was really nice. Dakota (my 6 year old niece) was super sweet with Reed. He was really taken with her too. The last time they saw each other was Easter so it was neat to see them actually really interact. At one point, I went downstairs to try and get Reed to take a nap. Dakota was playing a Dora game on the Wii and Reed (although super tired) was stubbornly refusing to sleep. After about 10 minutes of fighting with him, Dakota said, "I know what he needs." Then, before I could do anything to stop it, she started belting out "Hush Little Baby." Not only does she have a surprisingly good voice (although, why am I surprised knowing how musically talented my brother is?), but she knew every single word to that song. Who knows every word to "Hush Little Baby"? Anyway, Reed was tickled by his cousins performance, but by golly if it didn't work! 5 minutes after she was done singing, Reed was asleep. Such a sweet little girl.

On Saturday Dane's Dad and sisters went with us up to Rockford, IL to visit Reed's great grandparents. We survived the 3.5 hr drive and enjoyed a day with Dane's family.

Today, Reed had his 1 yr pictures taken by an old high school friend of Dane's. It was just about freezing cold and the sun was not shining at all, but there was no rain so we went for it. She's already posted some pics and they look great so I'm excited to see the rest.

Here are some pics of the last few special, yet very exhausting, days.