New Trucks

Reed and I had a busy day of playing outside. He's doing much better with his car - no meltdowns today. Mom's doing better with dealing with his frustration fits, too, which helps. We met Ashley and Logan at the park this afternoon to play but didn't get in too much fun before the rain started. Reed and Logan actually played together which was fun to watch. But Reed's a little timid when it comes to roughhousing, so we'll need work on his toughness.

Tonight Neil, Reed and I walked down to the neighbors garage sale. We ended up finding a few trucks for Reed, which we got for a steal! We brought them home, cleaned them up, and he had fun playing with him the rest of the night. Each night he's allowed to take one or two toys with him to bed. He'd been taking his little cars to bed for the past week or so. Tonight he decided he wanted to take his new trucks to bed. So he picked up each truck, one at a time, and walked them over to the stairs.

I don't know what's wrong with the photo uploader but I've tried numerous times to upload these images (which are perfect on my computer) but they won't upload correctly.

After a good laugh and Reed being quite pleased with himself for getting them all to the stairs, I carried them up to his room and set them on the floor by his bed. Obviously that wasn't what he had in mind so he picked each one up and put it in his bed. He didn't want rocked or anything so I left him basically like this:

This picture was blurry because he was moving around but I don't know what's up with the color issue. Again, it's the photo uploader.

We'll have to see where the trucks are in the morning.

Sicky icky...

Reed was sick all last week. I'm not sure what he had or where he picked it up but it wasn't a welcome guest in our home. We've been indoors a lot over the past seven days and it's been interesting. He's been playing a lot with his farm and animals. He likes to line his animals up in a row - then move them from the couch to the love seat to the chaise lounger. He cracks me up! When I saw this I had to capture it! The sheep must have been misbehaving.

We played a lot with animals (he knows almost all of his animals and their sounds - "heehaw" is my favorite by far), spent a lot of time counting (he can get up to 20 - with help), have started working on letters (these have proven quite tough), and watched our fair share of Sesame Street, WordWorld, Veggie Tales, Nemo, and Monster's Inc. Very thankful that he's feeling better!

During the past week he woke up almost every night coughing. On Saturday night Reed woke up at about 4:30 am coughing and Neil went in to rock him. He pulled his blanket off of him and Reed moved only enough to grab his blanket back and told Neil, "No, nigh nigh". Neil put the blanket back and left the room. I overheard everything on the monitor...cracked me up! What a stinker!

He's become quite opinionated as of late and likes having options to choose from. He started wanting to pick out his shirt in the morning. I likes shirts with footballs, baseballs and basketballs on them. He's completely adorable.

I bought him a Little Tikes Coupe today. He loves getting in and out of the car. He doesn't have the hang of going forward yet but it came with a removable "floor board" so I can push him around in the car. Lessons that I learned today from Reed's first experience with the new car: (1) Reed knows what he wants and what he doesn't want; (2) Reed gets frustrated very easily; (3) Reed shows his frustration by screaming and whining; (4) When he doesn't get what he wants he puts his head on the wheel of the car and sobs; and (5) I almost set the car by the curb. Okay, it wasn't that bad but it was trying! Goodness! I had no idea the car would cause such drama. I suppose it's a learning experience for us both.

We'll see what lessons the car teaches us tomorrow.