Top 10 Reed List

Top 10 cutest things Reed does:

10. Says "bye bye" and blows a kiss to the stars when we come home after dark.

9. Sniffs repeatedly EVERY time he sees a flower, whether in person or a picture.

8. Now says I love you Adalae, which we have finally deciphered from "lal luv la lallalay"

7. Says a prayer before a meal (which consists of covering his eyes with closed fists while we pray).

6. Cheers, screams and claps when the golf ball goes in the hole or someone catches a pass (no matter the team).

5. This one requires a short story so try not to lose interest. Rustin's brother and his wife have a ceramic chicken in their living room. Anytime we are there, Reed stops what he is doing every 10 minutes or so and frantically points at the chicken while chanting "bak, bak, bak" and proceeds to hold his arms in the "chicken pose" and shake his hips (rather than flap his arms). Only video does Reed's chicken dance justice.

4. We sit sometimes and look at photos on the computer. Reed gasps with excitement at each new photo. He also always kisses pictures of girls, whether cartoon or real people.

3. Always "retrieves" Adalae's bottle or pacifier and personally tries to return to its place (I'm sure his aim is her mouth but we usually end up with a screaming baby with milk in her eye or a paci jammed in her ear).

2. Climbs in the toilet (obviously).

AND the #1 cutest/sweetest Reed attribute:

1. Always kisses Adalae after he steps on her.

Halloween was fun (sort-of). I mean, how much fun can you have chasing a 1 year old, keeping your tired 6 month old happy, and somehow entertaining an 11 year old?

Anyways, we went to the Fall Festival at our church. Honestly, I was sold on the petting zoo. Reed LOVES petting zoos. We get there around 6:30 and go directly to the petting zoo where Rustin and I proceed to take turns standing in line because the other needs to chase Reed around (since we have recently been blessed with the terrible 2s early, Reed will sit or be held in one place for approximately 3 seconds before it's meltdown city). After an hour (maybe it was 20 minute) wait, we finally get in and let me tell you, it was yucky! There was yellow water? pee? all over the ground and as you see Reed's costume tail was dragging the ground. And of course, you have to SIT DOWN to pet the animals apparently. Within 5 minutes, Reed was covered in water? pee? which means within 5 minutes after that I, too, was covered in pee water from picking him up. But really, that was OK. After 3 kids, I've had worse things on my body/clothing than goat pee I'm sure.

So, next was games. That was fun for the most part except that Reed doesn't understand the concept of 3 soccer kicks and it's the next kids turn. We tried 3 games and gave up after 3 meltdowns.

Thade complained that he didn't get the usually 32 pounds of candy so we stopped by his cousins house and cleaned out their supply.

Adalae was an angel the entire night.