Boys Lately

One morning when Davis woke up Reid wanted to "hold Davis in the chair"... so, of course, I took a bunch of pictures.  

Davis just adores Reid (he adores all of his brothers, really) and Reid loves him, too, but also gets very frustrated with Davis touching his things.  But Reid also loves him lots.  I asked the boys a bunch of "survey questions" the other day and when I asked Reid who his best friend was he immediately said, "Davis!"  :)

Here Reid was rubbing D's arm.  :)

Davis loves wearing big boy hats and shoes...

Phil gave the boys some summer haircuts and he made Reid's a little short... I had two family members chastise us and tell us it was too short... but man it sure makes those adorable big brown eyes stand out! :)  We always make the haircuts really short so we don't have to do them as often.  Their hair grows so fast!

We don't have a real pool (yet?  maybe someday?) but this slippery plastic pool sure is fun on a scorching hot day!

J and E have a bunch of these science readers and the other day when I walked in their room they had separated them into "sea animals" and "land animals" and were reading them to each other.  J read sea animals and E read the others.

The big boys were watching Charlie Brown while eating dessert the other night and were cracking UP at Snoopy.  It was so cute.  :)

Emmett loves to make himself a little snuggly cocoon on the couch in the mornings.

New favorite game... Bird Bingo!

Reid looked so cute in his helmet the other night but kept running away when I would hold up my phone to take a picture.

So finally I bribed him with two chocolate chips.  :)

This does not have to do with the boys but I just had to share.  The other morning at the gym I was on the rower and right in front of me I saw that someone had brought their CIGARETTES into class with them!!!  Seriously?!? Can you see the red pack of Pall Malls there next to her water bottle?!?  Only in the Redneck Riviera.  Lol.  (Do you see how stealthily I took that pic on my way out?)

On Friday we went to the library and Reid checked out two digger books.  He was so excited and rode like this the whole way home (after paging through them for a few minutes).

This is Reid after he laid down by himself and fell asleep on the boat a few weeks ago...

Davis rides in the wagon to and from the neighborhood pool...

J and E off on one of their many fishing trips with next-door-neighbor friends...

Davis becoming a big boy...

When he's playing out on the porch and we are inside, he loves to go to this window and look at us and laugh, then squat down so we can't see him for a second, and then pop back up and laugh and laugh!  It's so cute... I need to get a video.  :)

It's SO hot here!  We've been in the water a LOT!  Stay tuned for some beach/water-related pictures...

Photoshoot

So the other day I tried to take some posed pictures of the boys together.  J, E, and R were already sitting on the couch so I was able to get this cute one...

Then I put Davis up there and got this one, which is so great except for one thing...

Emmett and the crossed eyes!!!  Grrrrr!!  He has started doing that at random times... especially when I am fussing at him about something.  He can make them move separately so that one will cross a little bit and the other will be still.  The first time he ever did it I completely freaked out because I thought he was having a seizure or something!

Anyway, then we figured out that Davis had an issue going on "down south"...

Then Davis wanted to get down...

So I said, "Jackson... try to hold him real quick!"

That didn't really work, so I gave D his bink...

And got a couple more cute ones.

Not quite as good as that first one, though.  I need to buy some face-swapping photo software or something!  Oh, how I love these boys of mine.

A Few Little Things

This post is mostly about Reid because it seems like he consumes our lives lately.  The older boys are usually playing Legos in their room or outside playing or fishing with the neighbor boys so Reid has been my little buddy lately.  I love him to pieces, but goodness gracious he can also make me out of my mind with frustration.  Three is a darling age but also the most difficult age!!

He has been obsessed with his tools lately (after watching a few episodes of Handy Manny)...

He is always, always sweaty and dirty (and usually sandy, too)...

He loves to dig with his diggers in the sand on the side of our driveway (even though he has a perfecly good sandbox on the side of the house)...  At first we tried to get him to stop digging there and just use the sandbox, but now we're to the point where if something is keeping Reid occupied and happy for a few minutes and it's not hurting anyone we just leave him be!

I mentioned in passing one morning that I needed to water my plants on the front porch and then went inside.  A few minutes later I wondered where Reid was and went out to check and he had completed this chore for me all on his own.

Although I'm not sure how much water actually went into the plant pot.

He is so absolutely adorable, though... it's hard to stay mad at him.

So is this guy... my baby...

 

And this one...

 And, of course, this one, too...

Everyone wants to be just like Daddy...

Another Reid obsession has been this cowboy hat (a birthday party favor from years ago) and plastic Nerf gun.  He came down from his bed the other morning like this...

Loves to pretend he's a cowboy.  It's really cute, but then five minutes later everyone is screaming, "Mom!!  Reid's shooting me!"  Lol!