Same Old Awesomeness

Yup, it's more pictures of the kids and the little stuff we've been up to in the last couple of weeks. Sometimes I feel bad that this blog is pretty much all about the kiddos and nothing else. But then I remember that one of the main reasons I have it is to keep family, friends, especially birth-families updated on these precious little ones. I'll keep trying to intersperse with other things, but I make no apologies for mostly posting pictures and stories about these little cuties!

Here's Rachel setting up a book on a stool so her pink monkey can read.

I love pictures of blurry arms because it shows Reed's penchant for flailing his arms pretty much all the time.

Reed has officially gotten too big for his infant car seat, so we had to upgrade. Rachel's car seat (the brown one) is now Reed's and Rachel has a new bigger one. Well, bigger age-wise - that brown seat is huge! We actually didn't like the new one and returned it and got one at Costco that I love!

This is Rachel making a train for her animals out of the cardboard inserts of the car seat box.

So, several months ago, Shelah and Chris (Reed's birth parents) got him this awesome outfit, which I kept forgetting to post pictures of:

So cute. :)
Also, Reed is holding a green rubber snake from Walmart. Best $1 we ever spent, I tell you. Rachel and Reed both love that snake. So much so that we went back and bought another one in a different color. Why is it that they always love the cheap toys best? I don't know, but I'll take it.


This is what happens when we tell Rachel to smile for the camera:

Earlier this week, both kids woke up sick, but with completely different symptoms. Weird. Reed vomited for the first time ever (one of the few firsts we were not looking forward to), and Rachel had a temperature of 102. She spent her day like this:

Poor girl.

Even though it's sad, I think her hand placement here is funny.

"Woa is me, Mommy!"

Fortunately, Rachel's fever went away by the end of the day (a day full of snuggling, sleeping, and tv watching), and Reed only threw up once, and now just has a little runny nose and some, shall I say, interesting diapers.

But most of the time he looks like this:

All grins. He still just has those two bottom teeth that he got almost 4 months ago. No sign of any more. Mike says maybe that's all he has. :)

Seriously, this kid smiles all the time. He's such a happy dude. Except when he's hungry. Then you better watch out or he'll eat your face off. Literally. He likes biting faces. I wish I had a picture to go with that statement. I'll try to take one soon.

Reed's latest accomplishments are sitting unassisted for brief periods, and army crawling. Between that and rolling like a champ, he can get pretty much anywhere he wants.

On another note, we are so excited about the warm weather we've been having lately. Rachel loves going outside, and so does Reed. His favorite part is trying to eat grass. My favorite part is getting out of the cabin-fever funk we've been in for months. Yay for spring!