So we've all heard that full moons can make people crazy. They act wild, do strange things. See examples below.
Doing her best "Fabulous pose" (picture Real Housewives of NJ)

I'm not lying when I tell you that last week I asked her to wear this dress. We had a fight over it. She won. Then for two days at home she had to try wearing it before she agreed to go in public with a dress on.

Hair bows/ponytails are a horse of a different color. The kid HATES having her hair done. I bribed her last week to wear a ponytail. Told her if she did I would take her to the splash pad. I kid you not she kept it in her hair until the moment we left the splash pad. Then she told me we were done with the water so she was done with her ponytail. She's no fool.

She woke up this morning and went about her usual routine. Then out of no where she asked me "Can I wear my dress?" So of course I told her yes. As we were in her room getting her dress she pulled out her Maryland Crab bows (Thanks Beth Schminke) and told me she wanted both in her hair. I explained that she would need pony tails in as well to keep the bows better in place. I figured we were done at this point...and low and behold she agreed. I am still in a slight state of shock.

I am also slightly worried what the rest of the day holds, if the full moon made her act this crazy at 8 a.m. Don't get me wrong I'm thrilled she agreed to all this stuff but it's just very out of character for my sweet girl, who LOVES digging in the mud.

Classic

Reese has a cat piano that looks like a cat and plays all kinds of music. She really enjoys listening to the music and dancing, and likes for us to dance along with her. This morning while Ryan was still home before work, she started playing songs...and out of now where she yells:
"Come on everybody, let's dance, this song is really annoying"

I almost fell off the chair laughing so hard.

Moonwalk Mania!

Reese gets Highlights Hive Five....Highlights magazine, which I loved as a kid, only the High Five version is for pre-schoolers. She loves when her magazines come in the mail. Thanks MeMe and Grampy.
I guess she needed some time to herself to get her reading done. I wish I had the ability to use the bathroom myself...ahh the joys of motherhood.

This past weekend we had Moonwalk Mania! Stroller Strides of Corpus Christi celebrated it's 4th birthday so we needed to celebrate. Our good friends the Gratland's (see blog on side of my page) just invested in a Moonwalk company where they rent moonwalks to people on the weekends. So in honor of Stroller Strides and Emma Lu's Rentals they brought out 3 of their moonwalks to showcase. Two regular jumping ones and one with the slide. They also have one that is a water slide, which I have used before and is a BLAST. I am trying to talk Ryan into letting me rent it for him for his birthday next month. I know he would have fun and 31 still seems like an appropriate age to partake in activities such as water slide moonwalks.
Reese and I jumped our hearts out, despite ridiculously hot temp. outside. She jumped for about 3.5 hours on Saturday and then we came home and hit the pool for 2.5 hours. Sunday we celebrated our friend Ethan's 3rd birthday with a moonwalk AGAIN. So Reese jumped for about an hour on Sunday as well. To say this kid is pooped today from her long weekend is an understatement.

Jumping in the princess moonwalk. It's hard to see from the glare but Reese is jumping in the dead center of the picture and you can't really miss my big ass. I'm the only one in there taller than 3 ft.

Coaxing in my friends. Yes I jumped with kids under the age of 4 and had a BLAST. A great work out as well. I will post a video of our fun soon and I must say the moonwalk is the place where I perfected my cheerleader moves. Too bad I'm about to turn 30 and was never a cheerleader. I coulda been a contender.

In sad news, our beloved washing machine died. My parents bought it from Lowe's when Leslie and I moved into an apartment together in College Station in 2002. It has made 4 moves, done TONS of laundry and held up nicely these last 8 years (never needing a single repair). It literally died to the week of it's 8th anniversary with the Herbst family. It didn't pay to get it fixed because it was the world's cheapest washer so we took the plunge and got a new fancy washer. I debated for a long time about front and top loaders and despite wanting a top loader, Ryan (who does NOT do laundry) felt that it was more cost effective to buy a front loader. He also insisted that we get a dryer, even though ours was not broken. Sometimes boys are dumb. Esp. because the top loaders without agitators are JUST as energy efficient, but what do I know...I'm not the one working on my PhD for the ump-teenth semester in a row :) Love you Ryan!

I have to pick my battles so I would rather fight about him needing to graduate than a washer and dryer. I am still very nervous about the mildew smell I hear so much about but I am hoping for good things. Just in case I'm leaving the door open after I wash clothes. I'm not thrilled about that but such is life.

Obviously she's mesmerized by my new appliance. Thank goodness for the "child lock" feature on my machine.

Who needs toys?

Taco! Burrito!

I can proudly say that I taught her everything she knows. Including this lovely Spartan Spirit Cheerleaders song! We're working on the second portion of the cheer. I think it's important to teach kid some of the more quality cheers out there!

Video Recap

Here is a quick recap!

Build a Bear

We headed to Kingwood last week to visit Auntie Darlene, Uncle Tom and Uncle Bill, and to handle some family business. Reese had sooooooo much fun spending time with everyone, I am not sure who had more fun in the swimming pool, Reese or Uncle Bill. Reese stayed home with Stacey and Uncle Bill on Monday while Leslie, Dad and I handled some things for my Nana and Pop-pop. Sadly we dropped Stace off at the airport on Tuesday morning as she headed back to NY. The rest of the week we visited with the family and spent time making the rounds with all the grandparents. This trip was a little more chaotic than normal but Reese of course, handled it like a champ, as she usually does when we go to Kingwood. She never complains about going to visit everyone, is so friendly to all the old people she sees at my Grandma's assisted living community and tolerates spending hours in places without a whole lot of things for her to do.
I figured since she did so well I would reward her with her first trip to Build a Bear. She built a dog, which looks exactly like Thurman, and shockingly she named him Thurman. She really delved deep on that one. We built it with Uncle Tom and Uncle Bill, Reese was apprehensive at first about the process but warmed up afterwards.
Telling Uncle Bill all about it.

Slightly nervous

While in Kingwood we also played at the park with our good friends. Reese enjoys spending time with Talon Benton and Henry Chesser. Sorry no pictures from our excursion.

Reese's outfit from her Oma

I am currently working on uploading some videos of Reese swimming for the first time this year. Looks like she remembered all the things she learned last year in swim lessons, and that we'll be spending a LOT of time in the pool this year. I will try and post those later today!

This weekend is Beach to Bay...think of me fondly on Saturday morning at 7 a.m. (CST) when I will be running 4 miles on the beach for my portion of the race. Think of Ryan at 5 a.m. (CST) when he takes on the task of babysitting Reese and our friend Keaton (7 months old).