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Recap on 2010
Reese started out 2010 by moving to the three year old room with Miss Jaybee. She did well in the adjustment and stayed there until June when she left for the summer. She made some friends, Taylor and Will. Will is now her best friend, and she talks about Will all the time. Miss Jeanie (Will's mom) has also moved to the three year old room, and Reese loves her also. Because Reese has trouble adjusting to change, we decided to keep Reese at her school for another year rather than transition her this year and then again next year for kindergarten. She is excited about going to Riley's school next year for kindergarten.
Reese continues to love and look after her brother. One day, she was at the flower shop and YaiYai asked her if she wanted some chicken wings. Her response was where is Riley? When YaiYai told her she bought two orders, Reese said, okay. This school year, PaPa picks Reese up from school and brings her home to meet Riley's bus, and they wait at home until I get home. Reese has her PaPa twisted around her little finger. She has figured out how to get him to stop at the gas station on the way home and buy her snacks. Sometimes, she gets Icees, one for her and one for her brother, sometimes candy. Recently, PaPa had to stop for gas, and she asked PaPa if she could go and get a treat. PaPa told her no, because YaiYai had bought a pizza and he did not want a snack to ruin her appetite. She told PaPa, "Next time, can YaiYai not buy pizza?".
I have found that Reese really enjoys going to PaPa and YaiYai's house and will go every chance she gets. Her grandparents' house is a novelty to her because she has gone to school since she was one. She did not get to spend the time with them that her brother did. Sometimes, she stays the night and her brother will come home.
She still likes my hair. She will ask me all the time, "Can I touch your hair?", especially if I am putting her to bed in her own bed. She needs to be able to touch my hair to go to sleep at night at home. We inherited a set of bunk beds this year, and Reese and Riley share a sleeping room and a toy room now. We repainted the sleeping room, two walls blue and two walls green, their favorite colors. Riley is suppose to sleep on the top and Reese on the bottom, but it does not always work out that way. Sometimes, they trade and sometimes, they sleep in the same bed.
We started our summer by going on vacation to Las Vegas. We went to Hoover Dam and Red Rock Canyon as well as the pirate show at Caesars and swimming in the pool! Although our trip was delayed by a day, we all ended up having a great time. In July we went with the grandparents to Chicago. It was a short trip, but we got the chance to see the Legoland Discovery Center, and it was worth it! On the way home from Chicago, Reese was playing with her brother and his new handcuffs and she kept saying what I though was "I'm not on the wist (list), but, three days later, it became clear that she was saying, "I'm not under arrest." We finished up our summer attending library programs, going swimming at the Tuttle pool, completing the summer reading program at the public library, and hanging out with friends. By the end of the summer Reese could swim with a life jacket or noodle. Hopefully, she will be ready for swimming lessons next year!
Over the summer Reese also had her first dentist appointment. After watching her brother go first, she climbed up into the chair, let the hygienist do her job, and then went off with her by herself to have her x-rays done. She left with no cavities!
Reese "read" her first book this summer, Wonder Pets Save Little Red Riding Hood, after I read it to her. She, like her brother, takes books wherever she goes, and looks at the pictures and acts like she is reading, but when asked what she is reading, she says, "I don't know how to read". By the end of the summer Reese could tell a story in sequence with and then. She was also able to put her own Toy Story III LEGO set together by using the picture.
On the first day of school as I was trying to rush her out the door, she told me, "You're making me grumpy". She is not a morning person on the best of days. Thankfully, her dad gets her ready in the morning and takes her to school!
In September Reese completed her first 5K with the family. I pulled her along in the wagon and walked COMAPC's 5K Race for a Pro-State of Mind. Afterward, we celebrated Reese's fourth birthday with our extended family that were in town for the race. Even with a Diego cake, she did not like the attention and grumbled as we sang Happy Birthday to her. She did not blow out candles or open presents in front of her guests. On her actual birth date we tried again. I went out and bought an ice cream cake, and she was upset that it was not a Super Why cake. I stopped by Toys R Us on the way home for Super Why figurines to put on the cake. She was very pleased with that solution and at home with just her dad, mom, and brother, she blew out her candles twice and happily opened presents. Being the musical child that she is, we bought her an MP3 player for her birthday. One of her nicknames has always been Sister, and this summer, we started calling her Soul Sister after the song by Train. In an attempt to get my cell phone back, I downloaded the same songs onto her MP3 player. She has since figured out that number 18 is "her" song! She also got a Toy Story III comforter and sheet set as well as a Super Why costume.
For Halloween Reese wanted to be Super Why until she got the stuff for her birthday. Then, she changed her mind and wanted to be Spiderman. Since you are only young once, I let her be what she wanted to be. It was very cold for Trick or Treat this year, so even in the wagon, we did not end up going to many houses. We got plenty of candy though.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday we went to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Reese has really warmed up to her Auntie Marie and now spend time conversing with her. It is very sweet.
Throughout December Reese has been really excited for Christmas. She kept pointing out that everyone was decorating for Christmas, CVS, the library, etc. She was so excited to put the tree up and put ornaments on it. Riley had more ornaments that Reese did because he is older and he has taken as his own the Star Wars ornaments. Reese felt left out until I found some of the character ornaments that I use to put on the tree before she was born. The year is her fifth Christmas so we put up her last cat; it was bittersweet! We still have the angel collection that I started the year she was born to finish. Once the tree was up and the lights and ornaments were on the tree, she kept talking about how the tree did not have a Christmas star. So, one morning when I was at Walmart, I bought her a star for the top of the tree. She was thrilled with it. She kept telling me that she wanted Santa to bring her Toy Story toys for Christmas. Well, Santa, her auntie and uncle, and her grandparents followed her wishes, but did not get her the Toy Story Dolls that she wanted most. Thank goodness, Grandpa came through, and we were able to go out and buy Woody and Jessie after Christmas! By early Christmas afternoon Reese had opened every Christmas present that she got and played with it!
As the year ends, she has gone from being a baby to a big baby (going potty by herself) to being a girl. She has slowly adapted to wearing some girl colors and actually settled on a red winter coat this year! Her best friends are still boys, but that is okay!
Reese continues to love and look after her brother. One day, she was at the flower shop and YaiYai asked her if she wanted some chicken wings. Her response was where is Riley? When YaiYai told her she bought two orders, Reese said, okay. This school year, PaPa picks Reese up from school and brings her home to meet Riley's bus, and they wait at home until I get home. Reese has her PaPa twisted around her little finger. She has figured out how to get him to stop at the gas station on the way home and buy her snacks. Sometimes, she gets Icees, one for her and one for her brother, sometimes candy. Recently, PaPa had to stop for gas, and she asked PaPa if she could go and get a treat. PaPa told her no, because YaiYai had bought a pizza and he did not want a snack to ruin her appetite. She told PaPa, "Next time, can YaiYai not buy pizza?".
I have found that Reese really enjoys going to PaPa and YaiYai's house and will go every chance she gets. Her grandparents' house is a novelty to her because she has gone to school since she was one. She did not get to spend the time with them that her brother did. Sometimes, she stays the night and her brother will come home.
She still likes my hair. She will ask me all the time, "Can I touch your hair?", especially if I am putting her to bed in her own bed. She needs to be able to touch my hair to go to sleep at night at home. We inherited a set of bunk beds this year, and Reese and Riley share a sleeping room and a toy room now. We repainted the sleeping room, two walls blue and two walls green, their favorite colors. Riley is suppose to sleep on the top and Reese on the bottom, but it does not always work out that way. Sometimes, they trade and sometimes, they sleep in the same bed.
We started our summer by going on vacation to Las Vegas. We went to Hoover Dam and Red Rock Canyon as well as the pirate show at Caesars and swimming in the pool! Although our trip was delayed by a day, we all ended up having a great time. In July we went with the grandparents to Chicago. It was a short trip, but we got the chance to see the Legoland Discovery Center, and it was worth it! On the way home from Chicago, Reese was playing with her brother and his new handcuffs and she kept saying what I though was "I'm not on the wist (list), but, three days later, it became clear that she was saying, "I'm not under arrest." We finished up our summer attending library programs, going swimming at the Tuttle pool, completing the summer reading program at the public library, and hanging out with friends. By the end of the summer Reese could swim with a life jacket or noodle. Hopefully, she will be ready for swimming lessons next year!
Over the summer Reese also had her first dentist appointment. After watching her brother go first, she climbed up into the chair, let the hygienist do her job, and then went off with her by herself to have her x-rays done. She left with no cavities!
Reese "read" her first book this summer, Wonder Pets Save Little Red Riding Hood, after I read it to her. She, like her brother, takes books wherever she goes, and looks at the pictures and acts like she is reading, but when asked what she is reading, she says, "I don't know how to read". By the end of the summer Reese could tell a story in sequence with and then. She was also able to put her own Toy Story III LEGO set together by using the picture.
On the first day of school as I was trying to rush her out the door, she told me, "You're making me grumpy". She is not a morning person on the best of days. Thankfully, her dad gets her ready in the morning and takes her to school!
In September Reese completed her first 5K with the family. I pulled her along in the wagon and walked COMAPC's 5K Race for a Pro-State of Mind. Afterward, we celebrated Reese's fourth birthday with our extended family that were in town for the race. Even with a Diego cake, she did not like the attention and grumbled as we sang Happy Birthday to her. She did not blow out candles or open presents in front of her guests. On her actual birth date we tried again. I went out and bought an ice cream cake, and she was upset that it was not a Super Why cake. I stopped by Toys R Us on the way home for Super Why figurines to put on the cake. She was very pleased with that solution and at home with just her dad, mom, and brother, she blew out her candles twice and happily opened presents. Being the musical child that she is, we bought her an MP3 player for her birthday. One of her nicknames has always been Sister, and this summer, we started calling her Soul Sister after the song by Train. In an attempt to get my cell phone back, I downloaded the same songs onto her MP3 player. She has since figured out that number 18 is "her" song! She also got a Toy Story III comforter and sheet set as well as a Super Why costume.
For Halloween Reese wanted to be Super Why until she got the stuff for her birthday. Then, she changed her mind and wanted to be Spiderman. Since you are only young once, I let her be what she wanted to be. It was very cold for Trick or Treat this year, so even in the wagon, we did not end up going to many houses. We got plenty of candy though.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday we went to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Reese has really warmed up to her Auntie Marie and now spend time conversing with her. It is very sweet.
Throughout December Reese has been really excited for Christmas. She kept pointing out that everyone was decorating for Christmas, CVS, the library, etc. She was so excited to put the tree up and put ornaments on it. Riley had more ornaments that Reese did because he is older and he has taken as his own the Star Wars ornaments. Reese felt left out until I found some of the character ornaments that I use to put on the tree before she was born. The year is her fifth Christmas so we put up her last cat; it was bittersweet! We still have the angel collection that I started the year she was born to finish. Once the tree was up and the lights and ornaments were on the tree, she kept talking about how the tree did not have a Christmas star. So, one morning when I was at Walmart, I bought her a star for the top of the tree. She was thrilled with it. She kept telling me that she wanted Santa to bring her Toy Story toys for Christmas. Well, Santa, her auntie and uncle, and her grandparents followed her wishes, but did not get her the Toy Story Dolls that she wanted most. Thank goodness, Grandpa came through, and we were able to go out and buy Woody and Jessie after Christmas! By early Christmas afternoon Reese had opened every Christmas present that she got and played with it!
As the year ends, she has gone from being a baby to a big baby (going potty by herself) to being a girl. She has slowly adapted to wearing some girl colors and actually settled on a red winter coat this year! Her best friends are still boys, but that is okay!
Friday, October 10, 2008
Reese's Second Birthday
We celebrated Reese's second birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. She had a good time and did not want to get off of the school bus. It was her first time there and I think that she was a little afraid because there were so many people there and she is so little.
She loved the book that we got her, Reese's Adventure on Sesame Street. I made it through Shutterfly and she loves seeing herself with Elmo.
PaPa and YaiYai got Reese the couch that she really liked from Walmart. The two times we went there and she saw it, she had me get it down for her to sit on while she read a coloring book and did not want me to put it away when it was time for us to go.
Reese also got a Barbie motorcycle like her brother's, but we had to get her one since he is not ready to give his up yet. It is on its last leg though with a crack in the front wheel.
It seems like since she turned two, she has grown up so much. She is gabbering all the time now and sometimes she is understandable and sometimes not. She is still a pointer, a nodder, and a shaker, but she is using more words such as here, when she wants me to take something from her, no, when asked a question, and Mommy, when she wants me. The other night, instead of crying in the middle of the night for me, she called Mommy, Mommy until I went to get her.
Where has time gone?
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Going to the Amusement Park
We went to an amusement park/water park about an hour away from our house. Reese had a blast. She was able to go on the littlest water slide all by herself. She took me by the hand and pulled me up the steps to the slide. When she got to the top, I thought that she might not go down becuase she hesitated, but when I called to her dad to catch her, and she saw him at the bottom, she went right down the slide.
She wanted to go on the land rides also. And, she was not afraid to go by herself. At first I was hesitant, because she was only 22 months old and I would have never let Riley do it. In the kiddie area we went on all the rides that I could go on with her and she still wanted to go on other rides that her brother was going on by himself. I kept reading the sign and it said no hand held children could ride the ride, and I finally figured out that Reese was not a hand held baby anymore, she could actually go by herself because she was old enough to sit by herself. The first ride that she went on by herself was the Go Diego Go! ride. I tried to convince Riley to go with her, but he had already ridden the ride and did not want to go on it again.
Reese then went on the Swiper, No Swiping Ride which she did not like as much because it would whip her around the corners. She was so happy and proud of herself to be able to go on the rides that she wanted to ride all by herself!
What a fun day we all had!
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Fishing
We have gone fishing a few times this summer. Reese seems to enjoy walking into the water and letting the minnow or other bait go.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
I Eat Caesar Salad
Last week my mom and I took Reese and Riley to Red Lobster for dinner. I ordered a caesar salad and since Reese was sitting in my lap, she ate it right along with me. When I was done, I put her in a highchair and moved the salad over to that space. She continued to eat the salad until our meals came and she saw pasta!
Friday, February 8, 2008
Another Point of View
My aunt is here from Thailand and she enjoys taking care of Reese. She was never married and never had kids of her own. She notices things that I don't pick up on about Reese.
Reese likes bananas, and if you give her a banana, she will turn it to the slim side (the ends) to hold it and eat it.
If Reese is upset or does not like what my aunt has done, she will go and sit in her Little Tykes car.
If my aunt has food in her hand, Reese will race her to her feeding chair to climb in and eat.
There are a bunch of things that I am forgetting right now, so I will try to remember and post again!
Reese likes bananas, and if you give her a banana, she will turn it to the slim side (the ends) to hold it and eat it.
If Reese is upset or does not like what my aunt has done, she will go and sit in her Little Tykes car.
If my aunt has food in her hand, Reese will race her to her feeding chair to climb in and eat.
There are a bunch of things that I am forgetting right now, so I will try to remember and post again!
Monday, December 24, 2007
Update
Last week, Reese had a virus. She had a fever for 4 days and when Mommy took her to the doctor, she had another ear infection, this time the left ear. She is on the mend now and enjoying time with our family.
This is Reese's second Christmas, and I think that she will have more fun this year. She enjoyed unrolling the wrapping paper on the floor and then sitting in the middle of it. Of course, all my gifts look like I recycled wrapping paper because the paper was so wrinkled! But, why waste paper!
This is Reese's second Christmas, and I think that she will have more fun this year. She enjoyed unrolling the wrapping paper on the floor and then sitting in the middle of it. Of course, all my gifts look like I recycled wrapping paper because the paper was so wrinkled! But, why waste paper!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Elmo Makes Music
Reese loves Elmo. When he is on TV, she just sits and watches. If she sees him in a book, she will keep flipping though that book and carry that book around with her. She will also carry the DVD box with Elmo on it around and try to put his DVD into the DVD player. La La is her name for Elmo. We think that she likes Elmo because he is red, and she has always been attracted to things that are red.
A few weeks ago, Yai Yai found out that Elmo was coming to town. She offered to buy tickets for us to see Elmo Makes Music and so that is where we went yesterday. Reese absolutely loved the show! She was standing in my lap or in Daddy's arms almost the whole time. She would clap and move to the music. She was enchanted!
Seeing her almost made me wish that I had taken her brother when he was younger, but I am not sure that he would have enjoyed it as much as she did. We all had a great day and a great time seeing Elmo and his friends.
A few weeks ago, Yai Yai found out that Elmo was coming to town. She offered to buy tickets for us to see Elmo Makes Music and so that is where we went yesterday. Reese absolutely loved the show! She was standing in my lap or in Daddy's arms almost the whole time. She would clap and move to the music. She was enchanted!
Seeing her almost made me wish that I had taken her brother when he was younger, but I am not sure that he would have enjoyed it as much as she did. We all had a great day and a great time seeing Elmo and his friends.
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