Strawberry Pickin'

I was trying to show Reese how to hold the strawberry to eat it!

Jenny, Abby, Reese and me at the Strawberry Farm

YUMMY!!!

Abby and Reese talking about how to pick strawberries!

Still working on the strawberry

Her basket of Strawberries!

Abby eating her strawberry!

Quite isn't always good!

On Sunday Reese was taking a nap. She had been asleep for about

2 1/2 hours and then she started to stir. We waited for a second

and no noise came from her room. We thought she had just fallen back

asleep. A few minutes later I went to check on her. I got close to her

room but didn't hear anything. I peeped in the door and

saw she was sitting in the corner of her bed with her back to me.

She was just sitting there not really doing anything. I slowly opened

the door to a stinch that I am quite familiar with, but she still didn't move.

As I got closer to her bed I noticed her diaper had been removed

THEN I noticed there was a little surprise missing from the diaper!

Yes, she had taken off her diaper and her little "stink" had fallen out

onto the bed. She was just sitting there in amazement looking at it!

Lauren: "Oh NO!!"

Greg: (running down the hall) "What, What, What is she ok?"

Lauren: "She's fine....we just have a mess!"

Quite, then straight to the bath tub!

Nothing a little washing machine and soap can't clean!

Does anyone else have a chipmunk?

Reese now has four teeth with four more breaking through.

Once her teeth came in she started using her crib

as a chew toy! A lesson for me....keep things

in perspective and keep a little toy

for her to use rather than her bed!

" Is this lead free paint?"

Easter - what a wonderful day!

As I look back, I am so thankful for our Easter Sunday. I know it was a while ago but I'm just

now able to write. Christ is Risen....He is Risen indeed! We had a great time at church where

a wonderful sermon was preached. We also were able to fellowship with friends and family

after the service. Then we went over to Mary Beth's house with the rest of my family.
Dad was living with Mary Beth so it was easier for all of us to just go over there. The weather

was wonderful - a beautiful day actually! The guys (Will, Rhett, Greg and Brett -

a friend of the family) played a little basketball. It started out as HORSE but then

turned into a 2v2 match. Allison, Mary Beth and I got the food together in the

house with dad. Nanny was playing with the little ones, as usual. And Dad just

took everything in! The little ones would walk in and out of the house,

stopping by his chair to "talk". At least they thought they were talking to him

and he would just listen to their babble :)

Everything was just as it should be, all of us together!
Dad was getting a little hungry and requested some food.
Dad: "I'm hungry"
Mary Beth: gives him some ham then says "Dad, EAT YOUR HAM"
(those of you familiar with Napolean Dynamite it's a familiar quote)
Allison and I thought it was pretty funny!
After his second helping of food, we decided to give dad his Easter basket so he could

finish the meal off with some fine candy and chocolate! Everybody else got their Easter

baskets too. We've continued the tradition of being together on holidays trying to be

together at most of them, knowing that mom LOVED holidays. I think it's something we

do without saying it. It's just a way to remember mom. I was surprised by how fast the

time flew. We stayed there almost all afternoon. All of us were having fun playing

around and laughing with/AT each other! Dad enjoyed just watching everything go on

and eating a good ole' meal with all of us! I do have to say Dad had to endure Greg's

story of his male massage therapist! I think Dad got a good laugh at Greg's expense!

For this day I am so thankful and it will be with me forever!
Christ is Risen.....He is Risen indeed!

Happy Easter!

Our family

Nanny with me and Reese

Give me a kiss!



My sisters!

Hey Reese, can you an Uncle Will say "Ahhhh"

Dylan showing her how to put eggs in a bucket!

Can I eat these eggs?

Uncle Rhett and Aunt Allison...."Little Jacque say weeeee"

Greg and Reese

The boys playing basketball.

Little Reese

Reese with her best friends.....Nanny and Emma

Reese giving Nanny a kiss.

Empathy.....something we have mastered!

Empathy: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to,

and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another

of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience

fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner . (as defined by webster)

Reese has this mastered. She feels so deeply for the other kids, she cries too!

Or maybe she is just scared and confused! I like to think she has mastered

empathy but it's more likely the latter!

This past weekend we were in Virgina visiting her friend Emily Ruth

(actually, my friend since grade school - Lauren). Emily Ruth is a month

older than Reese. They played to together very well but Reese spent a lot

of the time crying. She cried when Emily Ruth cried and she cried when

Emily Ruth would scream. I guess this shows that Reese was either scared or

confused....or maybe both!!! But overall is was a great weekend. Reese and I

rode up to Virginia with Lauren's mother to surprise her for her 30th birthday.

We got to her house while they were on their way back from being out of town.

We decorated the house and stood in the dark waiting!! She opened the door....

we turned on the lights....yelled HAPPY BIRTHDAY......she cried!!

Great birthday surprise.........I LOVE SURPRISES!

It's amazing we have been friends for 25 years!

We are starting Emily Ruth and Reese out early :)

A little bug!

We have had our first experience with the stomach bug this week.

Reese is 16 months old and this is the first time she has EVER t

hrown up. I have been quite amazed that she never really spit up or

threw up much as a baby. This little bug started Tuesday morning and

hasn't been that bad. She got sick Tuesday morning but after she got sick

she seemed fine! All day she played around and seemed to enjoy herself

but last night around 3 am she got sick again. So, now we are just trying

to "sleep" it off! Hopefully it will work! I do have to say that I hate that she is

sick but I LOVE how much she wants to cuddle with me and be with me!

Hopefully this little bug will leave soon and all will be back to normal!