Baby Party and Recent Happenings

September 18th was just a great day! We went to the National Firearms Museum (see the previous post) and then had a baby party that evening. It was a party for all the babies that are turning 1 between August and January. Phew - Eve barely made the cut!

It was such a cute idea put on by a friend. Her little boy turned on September 11th. All the couples that could make it came, brought a side dish, and watched while all the little almost 1 crowd played on the floor. Reed was lucky enough to have a friend there his age as well. The babies played, the adults chatted.

We did remember to get a picture of all in the group. All the little babies were lined up looking so cute. After a few shots some had crawled away. Then Eve was tackled! Well, not really tackled. Another baby was trying to stand up and decided that Eve looked sturdy enough to hold on to. Well, that really didn't work out too well. But, both babies were fine and it was pretty funny to watch. :)

Fun party, cute idea - thanks, Katrina!!! It was awesome :)

The baby club

Eve being taken out

This is Reed pushing Juliet on the swing. Ever since Eve first got in the swing, Reed has loved to try and push. He hasn't quite mastered the art of standing back and waiting for the swing to come to you. He runs up to it and sort of gets trampled by the swing. But, he is getting better and better.

We have also had some fun recent happenings at our house:

Eve is climbing on everything! She has two favorite spots to climb - this is one of them.

She pulls herself all the way up and is just itching to move.

We are sort of potty-training. I tried it for a couple of days, but that just happened to be when Tyson was out of town. Bad move on my part. Reed just doesn't really care if he pees in his underwear. But, he does a much better job in a diaper. Weird, I know. We are still halfway doing it. He wears a diaper, but he usually goes #1 in the toilet. He s so proud of himself when his diaper is 'clean' (dry). So, we will see if he can get that same mindset when he is wearing underwear as well. Advice is definitely welcome on this topic. :)

Reed loves playing with friends and is getting more vocal when they are over to play. This is Taryn and Reed. They spent the morning copying each other. It was so cute!

Eve has now explored all sides of her jumperoo. She can even turn the elephant that is super hard to turn. She is so grown up!