The Rest of 2009

Here are a bunch of photos from in between all the other fun. William is now talking a lot, telling me things like 'Daddy's asleep on the sofa' and 'Oliver's crying'. It's so cute and never ceases to amaze me. Pippa is a little girl that nothing gets past. She is recognizing words, telling me she is not going to suck her thumb anymore and is generally a pretty helpful. Oliver is a little chuckle-head. He is a pro at pulling up to stand on anything that doesn't move too far and he only needs to hold on with one hand. He is getting into cupboards and toy boxes and before long that downstairs stair gate is going to have to go back up. He still does the commando crawl, unless he's naked and on a wood floor. Then he proper crawls! On New Years Day he then cut his first tooth!

The Train Man came the the Bend Public Library for the weekend.
There were many fascinated small children!

T'was The Night Before Christmas...

Christmas Morning!

On Boxing Day I took Pippa to see her first movie at the theatre.
We saw The Princess and the Frog.

Last week Pippa and I built a snowman. It was a great snowman.

'When it melts, it will be a waterman.' -Pippa :)

Oh, Christmas Tree 2009!

We did it again. We went into the Deschutes Forest with our $5 permit and cut our own tree. It was fun to get out into the wilderness before it got too snowy. We drove until we could see enough of a selection of trees from the access road, then got out and started the hunt. Nick was carrying William in the backpack, I was carrying Oliver in the Ergo and Pippa was a walker. She wasn't too happy about this, but she kept going. We found our tree about 30 yards from the car, cut it and took it home. It was the perfect Christmas tree.

Back-Tracking to Portland

Over the Thanksgiving weekend we ventured up to Portland for 1 night to get out of town and to see the holiday lights. We went to a huge light display at the Portland International Raceway. You stay in your car, turn off the lights and drive around the circuit looking at the lights. I thought it was fun, but the kids were tired and cranky and needed to sleep.


On Sunday morning we went to the Portland Children's Museum, which is pretty awesome if you're a child. We stayed until Pippa and William could no longer function as pleasant kids, and then we went to look at the steam train that is parked a few steps away. Their heads were going to explode with so much excitement.

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.