Picnic at the park

Eating some lunch at our picnic at the park.
"I can't wait to go and play........."
"Wheeeeee" or "eeee" as Reed imitated when he would swing real high!

Today we went to the park and had our first picnic! It was another warm and spring like day, so we packed our lunch and ate there before getting in some play time. Reed could also see the ducks in the nearby pond and would say "du" as I told him they were ducks. He had a blast climbing up the slide, swinging, sliding, and bouncing on the alligator and jeep.

Our Kentucky "Blizzard"

Reed got to experience his first taste of snow today! He loved it! We bundled him up and let him walk around in our 6 inches of snow in the yard...as you can see the mittens we put on him didn't last very long. But he didn't seem to care, he loved touching the snow and moving around in it. He truly had a blast! He pretty much cried until calmed down by Elmo (his new favorite thing these days) and a cookie from the oven to enjoy after some hard play in the snow. "Can you believe they made me shovel this sidewalk!"

Oh yes---our latest news! We are moving! As of Thursday our house has been up for sale--no calls during the "blizzard" though. We will be launching a new team with Campus Outreach on the campus of UK this fall, so we obviously want to be close to the campus, and be in Lexington. We are very excited, and very excited to be closer to church and our friends down there! So even though we have been in this house less than a year, we house hop once again to hopefully stay put for awhile. If it works out for us to move before our little gal arrives, great! If not we'll maybe be moving after she is here. We know the Lord will work it out as He knows is best.

Hello??

Ok, I'm trying my take at downloading our first video--hopefully it works! Obviously we must be on the phone alot, since the little man has figured out how to "answer" the phone, or what he thinks is a phone!

Finally a warm one!

See here I am showing Momma and Daddy the big stick I found.Finally, after getting over my bug---starting Friday and continuing to today---I'm still not up to my complete normal self, but a little better after getting to play outside in the sunshine this afternoon! Daddy and me walked all over the yard picking up sticks, and playing with my ball--it was so much fun! I'm hoping March will bring some more days like this, because boy have we all had cabin fever! But in Kentucky you can't count on anything. Oh, and very excited that the VOLS beat the CATS in Knoxville today 63 to 60--yeah!!!! I held my TN basketball while the game was on.

I'm 17 months old!

Reed had a great time visiting with Nana last weekend! He started to get sick Sunday, so even though he had a slight fever and runny nose we could tell he still really enjoyed her being here!
Trying on Daddy's boggin!
Lately Reed is loving his little chair he got for his birthday. He likes to sit in it with books!

Reed had a blast with his Gigi this past weekend! While Daddy went on a men's trip to Chicago she came to stay with us--and he was so excited to see her arrive, just giggling and laughing as she walked in the door.

I know we haven't posted in awhile; well, we finally got our new camera! And we've been trying to figure out how to use it and then today finally downloaded the pictures onto the computer. Whoooo! It is a high tech thing, but seems to be taking some wonderful pictures of our little guy! We've also had lots of vistors; most of our family hasn't seen Reed since Christmas. So needless to say, he's had lots of fun and playmates! But it's been cute to watch him with Nana and Gigi.
Lately, we've been talking about the baby to him, not that he probably understands completely. And he will lift up my shirt and say "baby"--though I'm not for sure he really knows there is a baby, but it is cute to watch!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today I went to my friend, Addison's house. She was my valentine date! We played and made cookies and a surprise for our daddies.

As you can see I loved the cookies!!!!!

Funny Sayings of Reed

My friend Deacon came over to play last week, as you can see we had some fun together!

In this picture we are pointing to our body parts--me to my nose, and Deacon is pointing to his eyes!

One of my favorite things to do is sit with Daddy in his office---I run in there when I hear his music playing. My favorite is anything by Mac Powell (from Third Day). We just sit and snuggle together and sing to Jesus.

Well, we haven't posted in awhile---but thought I'd share some funny new things Reed is doing lately. Recently, after working on it on and off since he was 8 months old, he is signing for 'more' all the time now! He really uses it without prompting too--so that is cute to see. The other day we tried 'please' (which he will actually imitate the word "piz") but numerous times instead of rubbing the palm of his hand on his chest (which is how you do that sign) he rubs anything other than himself! He rubbed the floor, the couch, his tray---it is too cute! We just couldn't stop laughing after he did it the first few times. He also is using the word "eat" and "bite" every time he sees food! The boy loves to eat! Especially anything sweet---cookies (which he makes a real distinct and hard 'k' sound as he says /kuke/. Apparently, my sugar tooth is rubbing off on him--yikes!