Happy and healthy again!

Reese is finally back to himself... After four days of sickness and a trip to the ER, he's finally recovered - Gabe and I managed to avoid getting sick as well. After four days in the house, we were feeling some serious cabin fever, so it was good to make it to swimming on Saturday. We even made it to a birthday party Sunday afternoon, Reese enjoyed "catching up" with some friends. : ) Another highlight of the week was watching NE volleyball practice at the Quest Center. We knew we wouldn't make it to the game, so we took Reese to watch the practice. He loves to watch any sport, so this was pretty exciting for him.

The below picture is his new bear crawl walk... He's also doing a few yoga moves lately - not sure where he learned those.

Poor sick baby...

Oh what a long week it's been so far. Reese came down with the stomach flu Sunday morning. We thought it'd be a 24 hour deal... Not the case. As it turns out, it's still going on today, Tuesday, with yet another "emesis" (trying not to gross you out, so I'll use the medical term) this morning. Selfishly, I was happy to hear from Gabe this morning announcing that his flight to Rapid City had been delayed and it would be a waste of time to go on the trip, so he canceled it all together. I did feel bad for Gabe though, because he was up at 4:30 am to make his flight. He ignored my advice of checking the status of his flight before leaving - with word of the "big storm" coming and all I thought it might be a good idea. Good thing the airport is only a 10 -15 minute drive from our house. Gabe worked around Lincoln today, but at least he's around tonight for a little moral support. I think Reese is on the mend, we just feel so bad for him. Poor little guy just wants to be held and lay on the couch. Even just bringing the little yellow bucket around makes him cry. He'll push it away and shake his head "no, no". As many of you know, little kids can't exactly tell you when it's coming, so the little bucket hasn't always helped anyway... Hopefully today is our last day and Gabe and I can somehow dodge this nasty little virus.

Oh Christmas tree...

Gabe brought home the Christmas tree the other night and Reese was SO excited about it! I think the idea of having a tree inside of our house was just so surreal to him... He kept running back and forth wanting us to go look at it again. He helped dad do some decorating and wanted so much to play with all the ornaments... That's been a challenge, keeping Reese away from the ornaments. So far two have been broken, even moving them up high hasn't helped. Somehow he manages to get them down... He'll bring them over to show us and tell us what it is - his favorites are the airplane, golfclubs, and of course, the little glass balls. Surprisingly, he hasn't even bothered to mess with the presents under the tree. I put a few under to test the waters and he really doesn't seem to care. We are really looking forward to seeing his reaction on Christmas when he realizes all the presents are for him... In the spirit of the season, he is quite interested in the nativity set - luckily it's non-breakable.

Visitors from up North

My good friend from Kearney who now lives in MN was here visiting with her husband, Kevin and little girl, Stella. Reese and Stella got along very well and with them being nine months apart, this was the first time they were able to play together more actively. On our previous visits to MN, Reese was still a baby or just learning to walk. Now he's able to hold his own and even managed to keep up with Stella and her busy ways! : ) He loved having her here and seemed kinda sad when she left! It made me happy to remember that he'll have company in a few months... Although, realistically, he might not be too happy about the "company" for sometime!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent our Thanksgiving in Kearney this year. Reese enjoyed the food very much and even helped Grandma out by licking the spoon. We were actually in Kearney for a full week spending time with both sets of Grandparents. With it being a longer stay, we also had time to visit some friends and Reese enjoyed his play dates with their kiddos. It was a fun week, but I must say, after late nights and early mornings - it was nice to get back on somewhat of a schedule here at home. All in all, it was a great time with family and Reese really enjoys spending time with his Grandparents!

The big feast!