We are home now and adjusting back to life in the chilly Midwest. I'll have to take some pictures soon of the trees in our neighborhood. I love Fall! I thought I would post some pictures from our trip... up until my camera battery died.

Carter meeting my best friend Lisa.

Carter and Oma.

Hanging out with Uncle Scott and Aunt Cari.

Reading with Aunt Erica.

Sitting with Great Papa.

My Dad introducing Carter to Ranger.

Carter meeting some of our favorite people... Luke and Beth.

Sitting with Papa and Lexie.

Beautiful Bidwell Park. Our first home together in Chico was right across the street from this.

Reading with cousin Lexie... this was fun until the book accidentally got dropped on Carter's head.

Meeting Great Grandpa Elliott and Great Grandma Betty.

Meeting Great Aunt Carey.


I'll post our missing pics later. Now it's back to life. I have a week's worth of mail sitting on the kitchen table.

California!

Carter and I are in Chico for the week visiting family and friends. It's so fun to get to see some of our favorite people, take walks in the park, and eat great food! Here is a family picture... minus Dan :(... that we took on Saturday when my Aunt and Grandpa were up from the Bay Area.



Carter will meet some of Dan's family today. It just feels so good to be home!

Johnny Jump Up... or Carter turn in a circle

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Carter will not sleep unless he is swaddled TIGHT!! Every time we think we have mastered the art of swaddling... Carter will get an arm out. Here he is about a half hour after I put him down for his nap today...

A couple cute pics from this morning:

Lost in the laundry...


Trying to keep the boy awake so he would sleep at church. The fan in our room always works for some entertainment...


This is what happens when I let Dan dress Carter for church on the Sunday his favorite baseball team is playing. Thanks for the outfit Dad...

It's been a while since I have had a chance to sit down at the computer. Last Saturday we went apple picking with some friends over in IL. The guys had fun playing baseball with rotten apples. I am still finding apple pieces on Carter's car seat and diaper bag.


Monday my Aunt Jan and her fiance Alex visited from Seattle. They were on a road trip and came 7 hours out of their way to meet Carter and drop of the high chair we will be using. It was my Grandma's when she was a baby. My Dad, Aunts, and Cousins have also used it. Jan also brought my Dad's old bib that my Grandma found just before she passed away in April. It was really sweet to be able to put it on Carter and see him sitting in the chair.




Dan was out of town on a school trip for a couple days... so my super sweet friend Amanda stayed with me. It was fun having a roommate again... although I'm not sure she enjoyed having to listen to lullabies all night long! Sorry Amanda!!!

I forgot to take my camera... but Carter had his first music class on Friday (led by my good friend Katherine). Carter loved it.

We went to Babler State Park for Carter's first hike today. It was such nice weather and the trees were beautiful. That's one of the nice things about Missouri... you really get all four seasons to the extreme. We've had a hard time enjoying the outdoors here. Dan and I were talking last night about how amazing it is to be out in God's creation. Although we kind of wished we were in the Redwoods in Nor Cal... it has been nice to see a different kind of beauty here.



Dan's holding the plant used to make root beer.

This is going to make Dan mad... but I should end by saying GO CARDS today!!!

Sweet time with Dad last night. We are going to be away from Dan for 11 days in the next couple of weeks. It's going to be hard.

Sometimes I love technology and sometimes I hate it. Here is how we spent last night... Dan watching a movie on his computer in the living room while I watched ER. I guess you can call that quality time together...

We've had a couple of rough days at the Reeve household... but things are finally looking up. Carter took a 3 hour nap today! Here are a couple pics from this week:

Carter moves so much that we have a hard time keeping his legs in the tub. He usually ends up with his legs hanging out like this.

He is a water boy... just like his Dad.

He loves this dinosaur book from my Mom. He has actually started to reach out and touch the different pictures on each page.

Here is before today's long nap. He looked so cute holding onto his bear that I had to snap a picture before I put him down. He wasn't so happy after the flash went off.

3 things I've learned in the past 24 hours...

1. Never EVER leave the house without at least 2 pacifiers!

2. Do NOT check on a baby 10 minutes after you put him down for his nap.

3. ALWAYS use a burp cloth when burping!

3 Months!

I was looking through the pictures of Carter's first couple days of life last week. I thought it would be fun to put him in one of the outfits he wore then to show the difference in his size.

Wireless from the Couch

Some one came up to me the other day and said that they like seeing the pictures of Carter on Alyssa’s blog. Well I guess I need to publish more often. So here it goes. First off my new job is going well. My School District is very forward thinking and progressive which creates a great atmosphere in which to teach, yet at the same time I've never had so many meetings in my life. Our Middle School is the first public Middle School in Missouri to roll out a critical thinking/inquiry based learning initiative that gives each individual student their own laptop. So we are working out all the kinks that a pilot program typically faces. All the kids get new iBooks and all of the teachers get new macbooks. So as a staff we are trying to move towards a classroom which is non-traditional as it seeks to instruct towards a student’s higher/critical thinking skills. As a result the use of computers in the classroom is secondary to the integration of new teaching/instructional strategies and philosophies.


Enough of that, I sound like a news release. All is going well in St. Louis. Carter is changing and is hilarious in the morning. He’ll wake up and just laugh and giggle in his crib for 20-40 minutes. It’s hard to leave him sometimes, sometimes because he does scream, then again all I have to say is, “Here he is babe, I have go to work.” It is nice, though, living so close to school because Alyssa and Carter can come visit me between meetings and the like.

Alyssa and I just finished watching End of the Spear. I was a little leery of the movie at first being fully aware of the typical production quality of most “Christian” movies (Kirk Cameron fan’s club www.ilovekirkcameroninchristianmovies.com). I was surprised to watch a thoughtful movie that demonstrated and revealed the heart of the gospel without idealizing the gospel and missionaries.

Well I guess this consitutes a post.

I can't believe Carter is almost 3 months old. I kept thinking he was only 2 months until one of my friends reminded me. Here are a couple cute pics from today:

He loves to be held up in the air. That's when we hear his little giggle.


Here is where he spends most of his day... just like his Dad :).


After his bath tonight. His hair is really starting to look more red and curly!