The 2009 Reese Family Christmas

Christmas was good times this year at the Reese house. Lots of toys, sledding, cookies and fun. For a larf I put together this little video of stuff I shot over the weekend with the new camera. Forgive the shakiness! Note- Youtube is acting all funny for me on this video, so you might want to hit play and then pause it to let it load a bit so it's not all choppy.

Pippa Sings The Hits!

I got a new Flip HD video camera for Christmas, so to test it out I had Pippa run through from standards to test the quality and sound. I thought, as long as I have them, that I should put them on the Internet so that in 20 years completists of her work will have some long lost demos to find. Plus I thought you might like it. Christmas videos to come soon!

Hot Dog Pippa

Just wanted to post this little video my friend Rob shot of Pippa sledding this weekend. I always send her down and it always looks fine from up there, so this is the first time I've ever seen it from the bottom looking up. Great googly moogly, that's fast! About four seconds into this I decided to buy Pippa a helmet!

Little Mover

If our little Oliver keeps this up, he may break my record of walking at 9 1/2 months! We'll see about that, but right now at 7 months he is beginning to pull himself upright on steps and furniture. He is also eating most of the foods we eat, and can't seem to get enough. That boy is growing up fast!

Here are a couple of videos of his most recent antics. They are not exciting, action-packed movies to the random person, but to me they are Oliver getting one step closer to running around with Pippa and William.

Dress Up, Sit Up

Oliver! He's growing up so fast, I love it. After weeks of getting really good at crawling on his belly and being able to balance when you sit him, he finally put the 2 together and can get himself into the sitting position from laying down. He is so determined to be mobile and to do what Pip and Will do. I look forward to 3 children throwing themselves off the sofa and bouncing on the beds.

You saw the pictures of Pippa is her new dress-up dress. William saw Pippa wearing that gorgeous dress and wanted in. He's little, he's young, and all he sees is Pippa wearing something cool. I let him wear it for a while and he was over the moon! He smiled and ran around wearing this pretty dress and when it came time for him to take it off, he happily obliged. He looked so adorable in it though! Time to make him a cowboy outfit...

Children say the funniest things!

More specifically, Pippa. This is how one of our conversations went today:

Mummy: Lets make French toast for lunch today.
Pippa: What's French?
Mummy: People from France are called French. I'm from England, so I'm English.
Pippa (looking enlightened): And I'm Spanish.

Thanks, Dora.

Happy Halloween!

This week has been a week of waiting for Halloween. Pippa remembered very well from last year how Halloween works: It gets dark, you go knock at strangers doors and you get free candy. Over the week she had to conserve her energy by taking a few naps here and there. She no longer naps in her bedroom with William, but she often still falls asleep either in our bed or on the sofa or floor. She seems to be transitioning away from a daytime nap. The other day she fell asleep sitting upright on the sofa. I moved her to my bed, and when she woke up 2 hours later she was upset that she wasn't on the sofa anymore. Toddlers!


Recently we bought Pippa a real bed frame off craigslist.org. Funny story as the anonymous ad I replied to happened to be put up by our friends, the Johnsons. Rob Johnson is Nick's work wife and Pippa loves Ginger and Wyatt, their young kids. Bend is a small town. Anyhow, the bed. It has a high clearance so Pippa and William like to crawl under there pretending it's a cave. One night we went in to check on them and we couldn't find Pippa. Yeah, she was blotto under the bed!


A big shout out now for GrAuntie Michele. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE COSTUMES! She made 3 costumes for my children; a bumble bee for Will, a teddy bear for Oliver and a princess dress for Pippa. Pippa was actually a ladybird/bug for Halloween (I had already made it!), but the dress will be for dressing up and boy, does she love it!




Now, here are some of the better Halloween photos. We went to the police station to Trick or Treat, then to Auntie Jess's house, then back to our neighborhood for over an hour of walking the streets and knocking at doors. The result: 2 buckets of full of candy and 2 hopped-up, tired but very excited children...