Halloween and Growing Babies

Well, I'll start by saying that I'm glad that my belly has somewhat caught up to my, ahem, rear end. For a while there it just looked like I had a bigger bum for no good reason. Which reminds me, I need to take a belly photo!! I started taking belly photos with Reece at week 14 I think. I'm going on week 19 with this one! Just today starting to feel the belly encroaching upon my ribs if I don't sit up straight enough. Baby has been hanging out verrrrry lowwww. Way down there. Just poke, poke, poking away!

Reece went trick or treating on Sunday night after we got home from evening worship. It was pretty chilly out, so we only went to about 10 houses behind our block. I rode him around in the wagon with Ethan's lantern setting on one end, and Reece on the other. He never let go of his little pumpkin bucket (which used to be mine when I was little) or his little pumpkin flash light that he got from the Halloween party we went to. He loved going up to the houses to see their Jackolanterns. "Pun-ins!" he would say. When prompted, he was very good about looking the people in the eye and saying, "Treat," (he usually omitted the "trick"), "Tu tu," and "Buh bye."

Reece and I went to vote today. I gave him a mini Tootsie Pop to lick out of his Halloween stash. He loved it to the Tootsie middle. He handed me the stick and said, "All done!" He got a "I Vote, I Count" sticker and said, "Tu-tu" (thank you) to the nice man. Such a good little guy. We then went to the mall so he could play in the play area with the kids. Really all he wanted to do was sit in the big car all by himself. He got very defensive if anyone else wanted to sit with him in the car. After a while he began to play in the house and go down the little mini slide, with some slight interactions with other children. I gave a mom my number that I had been talking with. She was new to town this week from North Carolina. I thought she could use a contact in the area.

Reece took a 3 hour nap today, preceeded by a 4 hour nap yesterday, and a 3 1/2 hour nap the day before...I think we're looking at a growth spurt here!!

Well, I don't know why I'm still up because I didn't get a nap today, and I'm super tired! Off to bed for this sleepy head!