Reese and his Tongue

It seems as if Reese has discovered his tongue! Another notable milestone is that he will now wave "hi" or "bye" to people when we prompt him to wave. He waved for the first time to Mommy on Thanksgiving from Aunt Betsy's arms!

Anyway, here's his tongue!

On the Couch

The boys love to play on the couch, that is the "thing" to do right now. Clayton takes off the cushions and then Reese can climb up there all on his own. He can get down very well too. He has fallen a few times, but hasn't ever cried about it, just gets up and tries again. (He is truly the yin to Clayton's yang!) One day during Clayton's nap Reese, was standing at the couch just hollering and upset, and it took me a minute to figure out that he was mad that the cushions were on the couch and it was too high for him to climb up! I actually had to take them off so he could play. . . . O_o

Here are some cute pictures that have been taken "on the couch." I didn't even notice how funny the first two were until I made this blog post.

caught mid-jump

unhappy about the landing I guess!

"Yes, I can get up here all by myself!"

I know  he's leaning in the corner, but he looks so little to be standing there!

You probably noticed this one and the next one in the picture across the top!

Looks like trouble. . . . 

"Did we get caught?"

From Nov. 4th

My mom took these pictures the same weekend that Clayton fell of the bed and hurt his nose. It happened to be my Grandma's birthday and they were at my parents' house since they all just got back from visiting family in Phoenix, AZ. So we had a little family dinner to celebrate. The boys always have a blast with the toys and books Grandma keeps for them there and the rocking horse my dad made for my sister when she was little.

Clayton doing his favorite bear book with Great Grandma Erna

Reese being a total ham with Grandpa Mark

Reese loves when his big brother pays attention to him!

Bucket head!

So sweet to see them engage each other

Peek! On the steps!

Reese wants to GO!

I should have posted this right away of Reese, but I was waiting to make sure it wasn't a fluke. He seems to be saying "go go go." Which makes sense, we say it all the time. Reese is usually up first in the mornings and nap time, and when we hear Clayton fussing over the baby monitor, I say something like "Reese, let's go get your brother, let's go go go." We also tell Clayton to hurry up and go go go. Reese is still saying it and it seems to be intentional. This is the first time he did it, and you can probably hear Clayton crying from his room in the background. I think Reese was telling me it was time to go get that big brother that he so much adores!

(I apologize that it is so shaky but Reese was grabbing at the wrist string of the camera!)

A few pics of Clayton

These are pictures from Grandpa Doug's birthday almost a week ago now. Clayton tried to helped blow out the candles. However, he was not impressed with the coconut pecan frosting on the German Chocolate Cake. More for the rest of us - it was even homemade!!

This next one is just from Friday, this "new" pair of pants that I found in his hand-me-down box has big slit type pockets, and Clayton was just standing there watching TV with his hand in his pocket. He looked so grown up like that! Later, I showed him how to put some small toys in them!

These are even older, from two weekends ago now, Clayton had fallen off of the guest bed at my parents house, he went face 1st and must have caught his nose on the night stand on the way down, and it made a really strange ouchey around his nostril. You might have noticed the scab in some other pictures, especially the one with their Ohio Bobcats gear on. At first it was just bleeding a little around his nose, but it was hard to say where the blood was even coming from. As time went by the scab starting making it look worse and worse! The scab has peeled loose a few times, making it look worse yet, but now it is finally on the mend although there may be a little scar for a few weeks yet. He seems to be so accident prone lately, and his face certainly tells the tale!

The next morning, not quite 24 hours later

That next night, more than 24 hours afterwards.

Soooo Big (and messy)

I took this video during breakfast this morning.

Wearing a Hat

We went to the Children's Museum here in York this morning for a little break from the routine. Both boys had a lot of fun and both let me take a picture of them (on my phone, so kind of low quality, sorry about that) wearing this hat