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Oh another depressing loss in Aggieland...yet another game down the tubes. However we had a lovely visit as usual, got to see some friends and as always Reese was the life of the party. Well minus the fever she got on Saturday night...clearly the Aggie loss made her sick. She's all better now, got her flu shot and is back on her normal schedule. Just a few pictures to update everyone. Also some videos for your viewing pleasure.
Last weekend when we were in San Antonio, Aunt Erin was kind enough to take some FAB pictures of Reese in her tutu. IF you would like to view them feel free... http://www.erinhomann.com/ Go to proofing and the password is Reese....and if you are in the market for a tutu, I'm your girl. I made the one Reese has on and would be more than happy to sell you one made to order.

Seriously how cute is this kid?!?
Erin you are an amazing photographer...she still has spots available for her mini sessions...get your Xmas card shots done, and custom made Christmas cards with her one stop shopping. Visit her site at http://www.erinhomann.blogspot.com/ if interested. Tell her I sent you

Reese is over the hump, a few weeks ago she screamed bloody murder when we put her in the swing. She finally realized that she actually used to like it and enjoys it yet again.
Crazy ass dog. Barks EVERY time Reese and I use the swings...so I thought I would put her on it. Once again circus freak Chewie proved her fell off the circus train. She sat in my lap and didn't budge the entire time she was in the swing. I think she was going for like ten minutes. She even walked back over to go on a second time. I need to invent something like a dog swing with a motor. The dog was the most mellow animal I have ever seen after the ride on the swing.
Reese after her first haircut. I am a bad mother and did not take her picture of the event. I figured since we cut the total amount of 2 hairs (only around her ears) we would document the first real haircut when more hair is actually cut.
How do you know your pants are too big? When you bend down your ENTIRE ass hangs out of the pants. Ghetto Reese

Reese moved into her "BIG" girl car seat this past week. I had the infant seat in the house so I could wash it and put it away. Clearly I just should stop buying toys. She played in the base of the car seat for close to an hour. Climbing in and out, talking to herself and having a fine time.
Oh stickers!
So happy in the morning

PANTS...ok well they roll up to Capri pants but she's a shorty like her Mom. However it was cool enough this past week to pull out the pants. Only one day but there is hope for cooler weather in Corpus at some point.

Here's Chewie enjoying her ride.

This is just a video of Reese playing at the house...as you can see she likes to talk a lot.

Tammy talks a lot!

Gas is $2.89 in Corpus...

Not that the price of gas has anything to do with this post but I thought I would let everyone know. Sadly I think that is cheap, which is crazy because when I started driving I can remember gas for 99 cents. Oh my have times have changed. I'm just happy it's been going down, now my credit card bill will be lower too!

Well Reese celebrated her birthday 4 times in the course of a week. My family, just us, Stroller Strides and then Ryan's family. Needless to say she LOVES cake but we discovered not really cool with being the center of attention. I think she's done with cake again until the next major holiday...she loves pumpkin bread so maybe I'll let her try some pumpkin pie for Turkey Day...oh well and I guess she can have some cake on my birthday as well.

As previously mentioned she took her first steps this week, won't do it again but I know it's just a matter of time. We're off to another Aggie home game this week. We have all faced the reality that they are done winning this season but just because they suck doesn't mean we can't all enjoy a GREAT tailgating season. Thanks to Les and Lucy, Reese's favorite tailgate duo, Reese has been staying cool with the port-a-cool...it's like a/c for tailgating. GREAT invention and we all love Les a little more than we did before just for bringing it. Reese also loves Les because he fed her some of his cupcake at the Army game.

Well here are a few pics from the past week. We'll try and take more this weekend when we enjoy other tailgate and post those next week for your viewing pleasure.

Reese holding the clock...Ryan's silly idea to take a picture at the time she was born.
A little pre-party celebration of cake eating. I had to even off the top of the cake to ice it properly so she sampled my handi work.
So good I think I'll eat my fingers as well.
Yeah for the Giant Cupcake!
Family shot...sure wish I showered after Stroller Strides but nope...nasty sweaty Mommy from working out earlier in the day. However during the week what you see is what you get...who has time for a shower when you are chasing around a 1 year old?!?!?!?

As you can tell she's LOVES chocolate icing.
We never really took too many "neked" (as they say in TX) pictures so I figured I would throw one in the mix.
Balloons from HEB....Corpus Christi HEB's only redeeming quality
Who needs toys when you can climb on your travel high chair?
Ride Em Cowgirl!

WALKING!!!

Reese officially took her first steps today. We have to thank Erin, Atlee and Jason for getting her the super cute backpack which seems to have propelled her to walk. I guess the backpack helps her balance because as soon as I put it on her she looked up, laughed and walked right to me. I am super pumped I was here to witness this and at the same time realize that life as we know it (crawling) is soon over....yikes but whatever Reese walked today!!!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Reese!

Mommy loves you!

Updates!

Reese and I enjoyed a week out of town visiting family and doing a little pre birthday celebrations. Grampy even made headway and got to play with Reese and hold her for a long time without Reese crying. Major accomplishment.
Reese really picked up a few more tricks this week, it was like a small light bulb went off in her head. We're looking forward to celebrating her first birthday this week.


Her new little denim overall dress. I bought this for her before she was even born and she can finally wear it.

When I get dressed, and she's not playing in the kennel, Reese spends her days taking my clothes out of the dresser.
Busted!
Reese trying to decide....a crawfish po'boy or a fried oyster basket
Ahhh meat!
Dad and his grill
Mom and Dad's house sans fence
Fun with Aunt Leslie, my number one favorite Aunt

She knows what she's doing
Playing by the fireplace
Can I pleeeeaaaase touch the camera!!!

Cooler weather! YEAH!

Yeah for an update with actual pictures! So things are back to normal here. Mom and Dad were able to get power on this evening. Grandma and Grandpa have power but no TV, and Nana is still using the extension cord which is powered off the neighbor's generator...hopefully she'll have power in the next day or so.

We are back on track at Stroller Strides after taking a short vacation due to the Hurricane. Next week we'll be running on our own in Kingwood (fighting off mosquitoes no doubt) as we'll be visiting the family (Ryan will be out of town all week).

Reese is standing up on her own for longer periods of time now, although she still likes to have something to hold on to. She's talking up a storm, it's still Chinese sounding, but she talks a LOT. We're getting ready for our second BIG Aggie tailgate this weekend and visiting with our friends from College Station.
Reese playing with the box of items we packed up while we "fled" Hurricane Ike. This is what we figured we would be sad if we lost had something happened to our house.
What the windows looked like after being boarded up. Tiny little holes for your hands to hold the boards while putting them up. As weird as it is being inside and having no sunlight, Reese slept

like a champ that morning. The bigger hair bow...before Church...
We didn't make it out of the living room before she pulled it out.
I think her thoughts would be "It's 7:15 a.m. what's with the pictures?"
Corpus is having a fluke weather system right now. It was 61 degrees when I woke up this a.m. It's WONDERFUL! I can't tell you how much I am enjoying Stroller Strides without choking on the humidity. I didn't have her in pants long, when it warmed up to 68 I put her in shorts. I think even she was thinking "WTF" about wearing pants.
Ok, so she looks slightly scary in this pic. Reese is in the process of cutting a tooth (or at least I hope so because she's been a bear lately) and so she has a runny nose. I think I took this as she was coughing up snot.

The madness was in FULL force on Monday night. I guess I would say it started at 1 a.m. that morning. Reese decided it would be fun to get up and not go back to sleep. We chilled on the couch for 2 hours before she finally passed out. At least she was nice enough to lay there in the dark quietly during that time. (I tired letting her stay in her crib but that induced a mad hysteria) The real fun was after her evening bottle. I should also preface this with...No Ryan was not at home, he was at a football meeting...OF COURSE!

She chugged her bottle like she was dunking her ring in Aggieland. I think I timed it at 1 min...needless to say after that we had a happy camper. I guess dinner that night didn't sit to well with her. After brushing her teeth she let me know just how much she loves me by throwing up directly on me not once but twice. I was holding her while we walked to her room so she hit me dead on the chest. I think I had 6 oz. of formula in my sports bra. Sorry folks, when discussing mothering madness I don't skip details.

So I cleaned that up, she played in the bathroom while I tried to hose myself off. I laid her down, she started to whine so I figured I would hold her for a little while since pretty soon she won't be a baby anymore. As I sat down in the chair...she graced me not once more but twice...dead on the chest with chunky dinner puke. Not cute baby puke anymore. This was full on big kid/adult puke. I think she took a note from the Exorcist because this was NASTY and had some force behind it. However after that she felt so good she stayed up until 10:15. Then Ryan wonders why sometimes I silently curse him in my head for always being gone. I would also like to point out the three times she has puked like that I was home alone each time. I think Ryan owes me. I'll tack that onto the list of IOUs.

I like Ike...

Well at least that was what the buttons said when Dwight D. Eisenhower was running for President of the United States. Well I fled to Houston only to have Ike follow me. We boarded up the house, took in everything from outside and the end result was NO rain and a little breeze here in our neck of the woods.
Now when I say Ike followed me to Houston, I really mean it. The whole thing pretty much passed right over Kingwood in the middle of the night. Leslie has had power, lucky girl and managed to take some pics and send them to us. Nana, Pop-pop, Grandma, Grandpa, Mom and Dad are all in Kingwood surviving. They don't have power right now but Mom and Dad have the generator turned on and are of course watching TV. All the old people survived the storm without any issues and amazingly our soon to be cousin in law James showed up from Alabama (he drove into the storm) so he would be in Houston to help with storm clean up. He worked magic as soon as he arrived, helping the fire department move trees off the streets. Mom reported he was driving the Bobcat around cleaning up before it even finished raining. Talk about good service. I will post a picture of the trees near Leslie's apartment...but just reporting that thus far all is well.
I on the other hand decided at the last minute to leave Houston as well. Reese, Chewie and I drove to Kingwood Wednesday morning, spent the day visiting grandparents etc, and by Thursday at 7 p.m. we were back in the car headed home. I never hit any really bad traffic (never had to go below 60 mph) but there was always a steady stream of cars on the road with me. So we made it home about 24 hours before Ike decided to wipe Galveston and Surfside beach away. I guess in the future I will just stay and rough out the storm at home, that way the damn thing won't follow me and cause problems for other people.
Before I left I did help Mom and Dad bring the stuff in from the yard and three strapping young men helped Dad put up all the boards on his house as well. Nana, Hurricane expert that she is, said the winds would never get more than 40 mph...her predictions were however wrong. She said the wind was pretty bad, Mom and Dad's biggest complaint as well. Kobi was scared too, sleeping with Mom all night. Poor dog...