Do You See a Problem Here?

Carter has become obsessed lately with my manual breast pump, my breast pads, or bottles. He thinks he needs to feed Cole just like his momma does! When Cory was arranging the living room furniture tonight, this is what he turned to find. I was laughing so hard! Carter says, "I pa for Cole, I baba." ( I pump for Cole, I bottle) He has seen too much!

Another Craft Idea

Here is another idea I stole from that great blog - No Time for Flash Cards. The boys really had fun painting and it took quite a while to get it done!

When you get on her blog, click on crafts at the top to find it, or just scroll down through the posts. It seems like there is a new craft up daily. We are going to try and make the Santa tomorrow, but who knows. I also have cut the pieces for the train and I am saving that one for an afternoon when they are driving me a bit batty :)

Each boy got to paint two letters. Caden decided he wanted to use green and he did really well! He was adamant about staying in the lines with his paint.

Carter just kind of painted everywhere, but when I cut out the letters they were actually all painted!

When we finished the letters, they wanted to use the other's paint, so we decided to add some polka-dots!

Adding the jingle bells was challenging but we got it down! It was a fun project!

Cole's New Toy

Cole has upgraded from the boring swing and bouncy seat! He is doing so well with his neck and head control and always wants to sit up and look around at the two monkeys in our house, so we have been putting him in the saucer more! He loves it!

Caden's Christmas Program

Here are a few pics of Caden's Christmas program at school. Because of my yucky camera, I really didn't get any good pics of him while he was singing. The lighting was not really great and he was standing right in front of the big tree, so it was messing with the flash too.

I have some great video of one of his songs. It is a little dark, but that is him on the end!

After the program, if they were good, Santa got to come in and visit. They were so excited. We already went to see a Santa this year and told Caden it wasn't the real Santa because he was busy in the North Pole. Well, Caden informed us that the "real Santa" was coming to his school party, all the way from the North Pole! He was so insistent on it!

He and his buddy Sam, waiting for Santa to come in.

Carter wanted a turn to see Santa too, so we had to throw Cole up there as well!

Christmas Music

Here is a little Christmas Music from the Reid band and dance crew!

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town -
Cory on Sax, Caden on Drum, Pops on some percussion instrument, and Carter on Tambourine

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer - Cory on Sax, Caden on drum, Pops and Carter dancing

Early Christmas Present!

Cory's mom decided to get Cory and the boys a trampoline for Christmas and had it shipped here to our house! It arrived Friday and since Cory had some help on Saturday, they all put it together after the party! It didn't take too long and it really helped to have the other guys here!

The boys tried to help lay out all the pieces.

Papa and Pops discussing what to do next!

The frame is up and the springs are getting put into place.

Here comes Momma's favorite part, the safety net!

They jumped some on Saturday because it wasn't too cold. But then a cold front came through big time on Sunday. Caden just begged and begged to go out there, so Cory bundled him up and let him jump for about 10 minutes. It was so cold, his cheeks were bright red. It snowed Monday and Tuesday so I kept him off of it for now. We will see what happens on Wednesday!

Carter's 2nd Birthday Party

Last year, I tried to have a party for Carter before Christmas, like a normal birthday party that didn't have to deal with the Christmas hustle and bustle, but it didn't happen because of the weather. So this year, I tried again and it worked!

It made for a crazy weekend, because I also planned the party the same weekend as our play at church. But it was easier for everyone to travel up for one weekend and do two things, right?!

Anyway, Carter isn't actually two yet, until the 26th of the month, but he thinks he is! He had a great party and got lots of new things to fight with Caden over...wait, I mean play with! We did a Mickey theme, since he is still big on Mickey after our Orlando trip!

He got some great gifts! He is big into music right now, so his Aunt Jana got him this really cool drum! He also got a band in a box and a recorder (from Caden) My boys love to help Momma cook - which is odd, since I don't cook alot - anyway, now Carter has his own apron! He was proud, can you tell?

This is my attempt at making his birthday cake. Not great, but not bad either!

Here is the reason the "y" is messed up in the above picture. Little man couldn't keep his fingers off the cake. He just kept sneaking bites of icing!

I loved his reaction while we were all singing "Happy Birthday". He thought we were funny and he was just grinning from ear to ear!

He tried to blow out the candle before we even started singing, so I am surprised I actually got a picture of this! He was so fast!

Children's Choir

Caden sang in church last Sunday morning with all the kids in choir, and I thought I had posted pics but realized I had not so here we go...

Here he is before the show with his buddies, Grady and Sam.

He is showing off those glow sticks
Singing pretty :)

They did a great job! They loved having their glowsticks and sang for the most part! It was really cute this Sunday because Les did their song again. Caden was so excited..."this is our song, Momma!" He sang along with all the words he knew and was pretty proud of himself.