First off, I just wanted to share some cute pictures of Reid that I've been meaning to post. He is just cutting his first tooth (and working on others, I imagine) and has been really rough to deal with lately. For the past week and a half if I'm not holding him he pretty much follows me around the house screaming at me every day. I hold him as much as I can, but sometimes I just have to put him down to do some things! It's really frustrating. He's also been waking at night again. I feel bad for him because I know his mouth hurts, but it's still rough to deal with. Neither J nor E teethed like this... I usually never even knew they were teething until I saw teeth in their mouth! We have had a few days where Reid has been his usual happy, content self, though. But we are seriously regressing at church... he won't spend more than 15 minutes in the nursery before he's absolutely screaming bloody murder. And he doesn't want to sit in the dark nursing room with me so we end up standing and rocking back and forth in the lobby of the church during the sermon... watching the pastor through the window. (And I don't want to leave early because J and E really love their Sunday school classes. E cried when I first dropped him off this week saying, "I want to go home!" but after about a minute he calmed down. He has the same teacher every week - Miss Robin - and she is wonderful. She told me when I picked E up how well he did and how sweet he is. Apparently, while they were eating plain old Cheerios for a snack (that he doesn't really love at home) he said, "MMMMM! Miss Wobin, this snack is so goooood!" Haha!) I know this stage with Reid will pass, though. We are just pushing through.
Here he is after eating a cereal bar...
And he loves to sit in his high chair without the tray. I guess he likes being up high like the rest of us. He loves to pull his bib and socks off.
He also loves to ride on Daddy's shoulders...
And he loooooves the shower. So much so that I have to keep the bathroom door closed so he doesn't open the shower door and climb in there and get all soaked like this... :)
Even though he's been difficult lately, he is still so very precious to me. He is very snuggly and yummy and I just want to eat him up when I look at pics like this....
I just love those big brown eyes. He used to be really bad about scratching his nose... I keep the boys' nails really short but the edges of Reid's nails get to be like little razors even if they're not that long.
Here he is in the shower again... this time with the nice warm water on...
Ahhhhh... nice!
I have a newfound love for Instagram on my iPhone. I never really used to understand why people liked it so much because I thought the pictures always looked a little grainy and blurry-ish. But now that I have it and have used it myself I am kinda obsessed with it! It's so easy to take pics on my phone and all of the different filters are so fun!
It's so hard to get pictures of the older boys because they don't like to sit still and smile at the camera. But they do like to see themselves on my phone screen so sometimes I can bribe them with that. And I pretty much always have my phone handy so it's much easier to snap pics with that than run to the cabinet and get the camera.
Emmett is growing up so fast....
Here he is at toddler gymnastics. He absolutely loves this. Jackson was never that keen on it, but Emmett is all into it and usually tries everything and follows directions. Here he is doing all of the warm-up movements by himself. With J I used to have to do everything and even move his body into position myself, but Emmett just goes off on his own!
And please notice in this picture... NO DIAPER!! Yes, Emmett is potty-trained!! It was like a miracle from above. We were totally dreading potty-training E because he is our little stinker and really digs his heels in with most things we ask him to do, so we thought for sure that making him go potty would be a huge battle. Not so! He really surprised us and was pretty much completely potty-trained (including #2) in a week. It was unbelieveably easy. He still has a potty accident every once in a while, but is so good about telling us he has to go. As soon as he gets up in the morning he asks to go. It is totally amazing. Who knew?? I am so very thankful. I really think that seeing Jackson go all the time helped a lot. And so did Hershey's kisses and marshmallows. :)
He keeps us laughing all the time with the things he says. After Christmas he would say totally out of the blue, "You better be good, o-wise no pesents!" We don't remember saying that to him, but maybe we did and it obviously stuck with him. Then last night at Fred Meyer he wanted to hold the receipt and said that he was going to read it to me. So I asked what it said and he said, "It says be a good boy!" Haha! I know we do tell him that a lot. :)
He loves to line things up in rows...
Here he hooked Lightning up to Mater and was so proud...
Next up with E is getting rid of the pacifier. Ugh... I don't think that's going to be as easy as potty training was. He is obsessed with his "bink". And I don't mean to make him sound like he is all stinker. He is all about Mommy lately and can be very sweet and loving. He is really good about using his manners and is an excellent helper.
We went to the park yesterday even though it was freezing outside because we were all stir crazy and just needed to get out. It was nice and sunny, though, and the boys had fun.
E didn't want to wear his hat (of course!) but I asked him to put it back on and this is the best he could do. :)
I just had to post this video of Reid. He really loves chocolate Cheerios and just cracks us up with the way he totally dives into them as soon as we put them on his tray. Slams his hands into the pile and shoves handfuls into his mouth... so funny!
And then there's this one of Jackson reading Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! to Emmett. We have three of these pigeon books (which Phil and I think are kind of the dumbest books ever - haha) and the boys are obsessed with them. They both have all three of them memorized. Jackson is reading the part of the pigeon, who keeps asking to drive the bus, and Emmett keeps telling him, "No!" They love the saying "no" part. :)
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