January So Far

Apparently I'm not good at balancing things, especially with a new baby.  Sometimes I think I need to make it happen-clean and blog and sew and read and bla bla bla, but then Jess reminds me I have to put my baby down to do those things, and that's not gonna fly.  :)  Those things will still be there when he's older and crawling and doesn't want me to hold him.  

So for now, every 2 weeks or so I'll dump 140 pictures on you here.  Reed continues to be a lovey boy.

Also a handsome boy.

 He thinks he's pretty big now, and doesn't very often want to be held facing us anymore.  He wants to see the world.

He's seriously considering rolling from back to front now, too.

So far it's been a really warm January, so we've spent some time outside.  

All the big kids have new bikes, now.  Paige got hers for Christmas, and the other two needed them too.  Neely's never had her own and Cason was getting a little too big for his.  They helped pay for their new bikes with gift cards they got at Christmas (Thanks Aunt Mindy and Uncle Randy!).  Cason helped Neely decorate hers.

 

She does great on her bike. 

Cason took a couple of weeks to get the hang of his (It's pretty big) but loves it now. 

We've gone on lots of bike rides.  Jess makes sure all the bike riders are safe, and I push Reed in the stroller, which he enjoys..

  

...and he falls asleep in there a lot of the time.  It's especially nice when this happens during the weekend.  We can just park him there in the front yard, with pandora playing for him, and Jess and I both can get work done at the same time.  

Reed likes his stroller naps and wakes up happy.

One things we're working on is the backyard.  It's currently a wasteland.  Jess and his dad tore out the junky little wall that went around our grill.  

 

They had help.

 

We have plans to make it nice back there again.  Hopefully a playhouse will be in the works before too long.  We had to tear the fig tree out, for a few reasons, one of which being that it was the main culprit in our plumbing disaster right before we moved to OKC.  So the playhouse will hopefully go where it was.  Paige loved climbing in it, so she staged a protest, sitting in the branches to keep Jess from chopping it down.   Cason was a big help to Jess though.  In fact, he's pretty big on helping his dad with everything lately.

When we are indoors lately, the kids have been playing so well together.  Cason and Neely usually try to convince me to let them play their Lego Marvel game on the PS3 in the morning, but when I remind them they can't until daddy gets home (no real reason for that, other than it automatically cuts WAY down on how much time they play) they give up and go to the playroom.  I'll hear them playing the cutest games together for HOURS in there.  Even Paige gets home and plays really well with them lately.  (Usually she has a bit of a cranky spell when she first gets home, after all that time having to be nice to everyone all day.  Ha!  But not lately, she gets home and they all play really well.)  

It's usually Lego related, or superhero related.

They throw in some fun with the books and toys they got at Christmas too, though.

Neely plays doctor with her kit from Aunt Veronica.  Even Reed had his blood pressure checked recently.  He's good to go.

I'll end this with a few pictures that have no story to go with them.

Sleeping in:

Bros:

Random funny toy discoveries.  This time it's cat hugs in a boppy:

 A boy who loves his daddy:

Dog treat maker:

Stinkbug napper:

 Cat lover:

Multitasker:

Smoothie spiller: