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.