Easter Fun

We have had a couple very busy weekends. We went to Grandma and Grandpa Thompson's and the boys had a lot of fun playing with Ella and Chase. Grandma and Grandpa Gall and Uncle Troy, Aunt Diana and Drake all came to visit for Easter. We went to an Easter Egg Hunt, Bass Pro Shop, the boys went fishing (Mark of course forgot to take pictures), flew kites, dyed Easter eggs and that was just on Saturday. After finding Easter baskets and church on Sunday, Aidan and Ashley came over for another Easter Egg hunt and dinner. We were exhausted after all of it.

Checking out our loot.

Helping Dad cut the ham.

Playing with Drew's hat.

Checking out our Easter baskets.

I can't get enough of watching this baby sleep.

Dying Easter eggs with Grandma

Drake and Drew at a Easter Egg Hunt.

Reid loves to play with hair. Ella's was being such a good cousin letting him play with hers.

Drew and Reid's "House" Drew's new thing is to build a house with whatever is around him. Usually it is with my dishes. I can't believe he actually allowed Reid to play in his house.

This could be the scariest Easter Bunny and the boys didn't mind one bit.

We have a picture of Drew and Papa in their IL gear at the same age.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this picture. These boys are cute!

February Fun

Ty, Drew and Conner shooting some hoops at Chuck E Cheese.
Drew wanted to help make Reid's baby food. Couldn't have done it without him!
Reid is doing a great job sitting up now and he LOVES it!

We celebrated Reid's 1/2 birthday last week. Drew helped decorate the 1/2 cake and then dug into the frosting.

Aidan LOVES helping with Reid. She will say, "I help, I help." It is so sweet.

Reid got his 2 teeth last week. Drew was kind enough to allow him to teeth on his fingers.

Happy Valentine's Day

Sweet Brothers

Drew is starting to have a little more interest in Reid now. He still will only refer to him as Baby Brother or Baby Reid. He likes talking to him and holding his hand now and telling us what Reid thinks. He is also known to blame things on Reid occasionally...I'm sure this is only the beginning. Reid loves to watch Drew playing and will smile and laugh at him all day.

2010...already going too fast

Not sure why Drew was measuring Reid, but I couldn't resist snapping a picture. Both are so innocent...for now.

Reid sits with us every night when we eat dinner and looks at us like he wants to eat some too. We tried cereal for the 1st timethis week and he did pretty good. Didn't even make a face, he just kept crossing his eyes looking at the spoon.

What a sweet laugh this boy has.

Grandma and her boys.

Drew had to join in on the feeding fun. Bear was hungry.

Aidan's baby was hungry too.

Aidan had way more fun playing with Papa than Drew.

Eating the pizza they made.

Holidays 2009

I haven't posted anything in a long time because it has been so busy and we had to get a new computer on top of everything else going on. I uploaded pictures to Walgreens to order and just posted the link. It is a lot of pictures, but you can never have too many during the holidays!

We had a fun Thanksgiving with the Girsch/Thompson clan. Reid was a big hit with the girls! We celebrated Christmas early in Peoria. Reid got to spend time with his buddy Caleb. Lori and I of course had to pose them for their pictures, they will hate us some day! There are a lot of pictures from me trying to get that perfect pose for the Christmas card, Drew wasn't being cooperative, but did provide me with some cute pictures. We ended the travels with a trip to Waterloo to celebrate with the Thompson family. Drew had more fun than he could imagine with his cousins. He also was pretty excited about Santa, his response to every present he opened was, "my present." Santa did a pretty good job this year, Drew has been having a lot of fun with all of his loot. Reid had fun just watching all of the chaos. He is getting very vocal and loves to smile and laugh.

During all of the holiday travels, Reid had his 4 month check up. He weighed in at 15 lbs. 5 oz. and 24 1/4" long. He is a little more proportioned than Drew was 50th percentile for weight and 25th for length. He is a very healthy happy boy!

We had such a wonderful holiday and feel so blessed to have gotten to spend time with our family and friends. We hope everyone else had as nice of a holiday as we did.

Album 11/29/09 (67 photos), by Meagan Thompson

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