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).