Hooray! Horning's Hideout!!

Gerry, Reed and I just came back from an AMAZING weekend at a String Cheese Incident festival at Horning's Hideout. Gerry and I were a bit worried about how Reed would do with the being away from home, being up later and in a very noisy environment. But we wasted our energy worrying because Reed was nothing short of perfect! Here are just a few pictures of our weekend. If you'd like to see or read more, please go to:

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Hangin' with Grandpa Darrell

Clearly Reed's toys are good for children of all ages!!!
I noticed there is a pretty strong hammock theme among the pictures I've posted. I guess that just shows how much Reed likes hanging out in the hammock... or maybe it shows how much his family likes hanging out in the hammock!!

Fourth of July at Lake Chelan

Gerry and I decided to head over to Lake Chelan for the Fourth of July. We wanted to escape the all night noise caused by the pyromaniacal patriotism that is rampant in our neighborhood. It was really hot over there so I tried letting Reed splash his feet in the lake, but I think the combination of big open water, waves and the fact that the water if fairly cold, was all too much for him. Instead, we went for our old favorite, bath-in-the-kitchen-sink. Reed is usually happy to take a 10 or 15 minute bath, but when he stayed in for over a half hour (maybe closer to 45 minutes) I knew he was appreciative of the cool down.
In order to escape the heat, we let Reed takes his naps outside in the shade (don't worry, he had on lots of sunblock!).
And the next day we took several more baths. We thought he might like to get into the kiddie pool, but we tried several times, with various water temperatures, and it was definitely not a hit!

These are a few of Reed's favorite things

Eating is definitely one of Reed's favorite things! He makes happy squeaky baby noises (very cute) when he's in his high chair and is generally a very happy fellow during mealtime. One of his favorite parts of mealtime is the wet washcloth for cleaning his face at the end. He doesn't like to have his face wiped off, but he likes to suck on the washcloth. I'll have to post a picture of that.

So far he's tried rice cereal, bananas, carrots, squash, pears, peaches, avocado, oatmeal and apples. We're taking the food introductions slowly since, as many of you know, he was having an allergic reaction to something in my diet. The good news for me is that I've been able to start reintroducing some of the foods I've been avoiding since January. So far, I've gotten dairy and soy back into my diet. I tried eggs, but he had a bad reaction to those, so no more eggs till he's a year old. Still have to reintroduce, fish, shellfish, tree nuts and peanuts.

One of Reed's other favorite activities is evening story time. After naked baby time (you'll remember that from a previous post) we read a few stories. Reed's favorite books right now are peekaboo books. He absolutely lights up every time we read one. We have several of these books and he knows right where the peekaboo flaps are in each one. Perhaps I'm just being a proud Momma, but I consider this to be quite an accomplishment considering that the peekaboo flaps are different in different books, some you lift up, some you pull down, others fold out to the side... you get the picture. Can you say genius baby??