We have a baby who is moving!

So this weekend, we noticed that Reid is beginning to push up on to his knees when he is on his belly. He has also figured out how to scoot on his belly backwards and can spin around in a circle. This is how it started with our other two kiddos! Look out world, Reid is learning how to move around!!!
look mom, I just moved under the couch!

under the couch

taking a break from scooting
Here he goes from sitting to a crawling position!
Here is he pushing up on his legs! soon he will be crawling!

And for fun, I found pictures of Payton and Shae learning to crawl as well! Both of them got the hang of moving around at about 9 months old. The pictures of Shae are so small but it's fun to see these 2 as babies.
Shae learning to crawl at 9 months old
Shae moving around 9 months old
Shae 9 months
Payton at 9 months old scooting under the couch
Payton at 10 months old crawling

Friday Fun





"whoo hoo! NO school, let's party, I'm sassy!"

nugget 3 perfectly content to chew

nugget 2 SO happy to have his sissy home today


our nuggets before lunch time today (10/3)


this is the only way Reid would sleep yesterday (10/2). He is cutting another 2 teeth up top so he was a bit grumpy on Thursday. We now call him our alligator baby---when the next teeth cut, he will have 6 up top and still only 2 on the bottom! too funny



Nala hiding in my clothes

Vice Presidential Debate....


OH MY GOSH; the vice-presidential debate was SO fun to watch with this handy game!!! We had a group over at Jeff and Ashley's place and we played "Palin Bingo" courtesy of Tony (Ashley's mom).

Palin did do a bit better with the debate, okay she did much better than her interview with Katie Couric, but she did have quite a few slip ups and she flung the mud quite a bit! We of course as juvenile as we can be (Travis and I) made it into a drinking game and by the end of the night we were quite giggly! Don't worry we are responsible parents, we keep our cool and didn't get too tipsy.

I'd love to hear others opinions about the debate. Joe Biden is so calm and collected---what a great speaker who is so passionate. Palin, hmmmmmm. I'll keep my opinion to myself:)

And so with our bingo game, which Palin didn't say many of her key words, but who would have thought Travis would have called Bingo after she mentioned "special needs?" Dang it!! Although she did mention Wasilla so that was a highlight for me as it was on my card----she even said Hockey Mom which was in Travis's winning row. We even caught her calling Biden "Obiden"

Have a great weekend!!!

Fishing pictures

Travis went fishing the end of September out to the WA penninsula with his cousin Kyle and brother-in-law Clayton. He brought us home a fishy and it was quite tasty!!




the kids

Here are some recent pictures of the kids.


Reid with his Jungle Friends
Reid and Payton


The kids hanging together watching TV


Tractor fun

Reid with Emma


Shae's self portrait. Yes he has figured out how to take his own picture


Payton and her creative outfit for school