Finally, another video!

It's been a while, so we grabbed the camera tonight and filmed a couple minutes of Reed, encouraging him to show us his vocabulary. We'll just let him to the narration...

-Gerry

First haircut

Well, I don't know what came over me today, but while I sat by Reed who was having a snack, running my fingers through his baby mullet, I decided we should go get his hair cut. Actually, I think it had something to do with him being called a girl numerous times last week. Usually that doesn't bother me much, but for some reason, the frequency of him being called a girl last week, got under my skin a little. I'd been hesitant to have his hair cut because he's still got his newborn hair. I just couldn't bring myself to let that get cut off! I'm still kind of surprised with myself. Gerry had taken the day off today, so all three of us went along for the momentous occasion! Reed did really well, except he absolutely didn't want to have a cape around him (you can tell in this picture). As a result, he got pretty hairy, but there are worse things!

Part way finished with cutting his hair. I thought this was just a funny picture!

And the finished product. He looks like such a big boy now!!!

Birbies!

Here's the post the got preempted by the last post: Reed's new favorite word and animal is "birbies"... or as you might call them, birdies. Or perhaps you're not the parent of a toddler, in which case, you'd probably call them birds (you probably sleep under blankets, not blankies too! :-) ) Anyway, whenever Reed sees a bird, he exclaims over and over, "Birbies, birbies, birbies!" We even have a book which guest stars some birds at the end. Whenever Gerry gets to the part of the story with the birds, it becomes difficult to hear him over Reed talking excitedly about the birbies. Birbies is also the only word that I can consistently get Reed to say on the phone, such is his love for birbies. We took the family to a picnic hosted by one of Gerry's coworkers who happens to keeps chickens. Reed spent a good part of the evening by the chicken coop, just watching the chickens; he didn't even care when one pecked his finger. I think when it comes right down to it, Reed just loves animals. Takes after his momma that way!!

This pic has nothing to do with birbies, but it's another one from our recent photography session with Kathryn, and as I went through the pictures with my parents last night, I remembered how much I love it!

Try this on for size

I was planning on blogging about something else entirely tonight (which I will post eventually), as I was looking through our pictures tonight, I noticed a great theme in our pictures from the last week or two, and I couldn't resist posting them all together!

Reed has hit the age where trying on mommy and daddy's clothes is really fun. I hadn't realized how often he was doing this, till I looked through our pictures.

Here he is walking a mile in mommy's shoes.

Gerry found these sunglasses in the street and Reed loves them! He always gets the biggest grin when he puts them on!

Daddy's hat still doesn't fit, but he likes to check every once in a while.

In other news, I had my 30 week prenatal checkup this afternoon. Baby bun is growing just fine and is already head down which I'm really pleased to hear!! I thought that I was feeling that familiar "head squishing my bladder" feeling and was hopeful that she was already in position. They generally won't deliver breach babies at the birth center where I plan to deliver, so hearing that she was already vertex, really made my day!