Funny Stuff

So Reed has figured out a few new things this week. He clapped a few times yesterday, and discovered that it's pretty funny to hit your knee... I guess you could say it's a real "Knee Slapper"!

Mother's little helper

Good thing I'm wearing my camouflage jammies so mommy can't see me sitting in this drawer!

Really? I can have this frosting for breakfast?!

A busy week!

We have had quite the week! It started with the snow and rain last weekend, then on Monday, I witnessed Reed take his first two deliberate, balanced steps (as I'd mentioned before, he'd taken a few lunging steps before but they definitely didn't have this level of control). I thought maybe he'd forget about the walking trick for a few more weeks, but he's continued to take a couple of steps every day or so. It may still be a little while before he's walking all over, but he's moving in the right direction.

Then we had Reed's 12 month checkup. He gained almost half a pound over the last month, which should make our dietician relax a little (we see her this week). While Reed was getting his vaccinations, I notices a little white spot on the roof of his mouth. I felt it, and sure enough, it was one of his pre-molars. When I got home, I discovered he had a pre-molar erupting on each side. Then a day or two later, one of his eye teeth broke through.

Reed has also figured out how to make truck noises when he plays with his dump truck which is really cute. Especially since they are more of a high pitched growl than a truck noise. He's also figured out that if he hands us a book, we will sit down and read it to him. It's fun to watch him sort through his box of books, find a favorite, and bring it over. Very sweet!

And Sunday, we headed out and got a Christmas tree. We were a little hesitant about getting one because we figured it would be a fair amount of work to keep Reed away from it, but what the heck, we'll only have it for a few weeks.

This one? I don't know...

The top of this one is a little straggly Daddy.

Here it is! This is our tree.

RAIN!!!

I thought some of you may have heard about the state of emergency that has been declared for Kitsap Couty and I just wanted to say that we're just fine here. Despite the fact that we've basically had a hurricane here, Gerry is still going to barbeque chicken tonight!! :-) He wasn't feeling so well this morning and stayed home, which turned out to be fortunate as stretch of Hwy 3 got shut down which would have made for a long drive home for him. We decided to drive around town and see what we could see. Here are some of the more dramatic scenes.

The water in Sinclair Inlet was really high! This was taken an hour after high tide. Thank goodness there was no wind or the swell probably could have caused a lot of damage to docks like the Annapolis dock here. You can also see (kind of) in this picture how brown the water was from all the eroded dirt in the stormwater runoff.

Lots of flooding near houses. I'm glad I don't live here!

And standing water in any low area. This is actually taken from the foundation area of a piece of land that's for sale. Gerry and I have toyed with the idea of buying it. It's good to know that the foundation would be on dry land, even in a catastrophic rain event. Still, I don't know how well I'd sleep with the water creeping into my back yard. Incidentally, the tree covered hill in the distance is where we live.

The water here is pouring out of one yard, across the road, and into another yard. This is taken from the shared driveway of the previous property.

Reed had a good time riding around in his new "cow-moo-flage" car seat. "Check out my new tooth!"

SNOW!!!

It was still snowing here this morning so I got Reed all bundled up to go experience the snow. He got to see it and touch it last year, but he was so young, he didn't really react to it. Even though we got dressed and ate breakfast as fast as we could, it had still turned to slushy rain by the time we actually got outside. Sigh... he'll get faster at eating breakfast when he gets older, otherwise how will we have time to make a giant snowball/snowman (so there's still snow when Reed get home from school) before the school bus comes. Anyway, I took these four pictures (the first four ever with my new digital camera Gerry gave me for my birthday). I thought they were a funny series, so I'm posting them all.

Hmmm... I don't know about this Mommy.


Are you sure this is supposed to be fun?


You know what, actually, this is pretty cool!!


Okay, please pick me up now, I'm done.