Reid has been a nutball since school has started. I suppose it's a combination of things. He knows things are different because Mommy has a baby in her belly (and I think he's a little confused...he calls Grant, who also goes to our sitter and will be one in January, "baby brother"). I'm back at work full time. Reid is at preschool twice a week and will not nap, so he's totally overtired. We are attempting to put him to bed early during the week, but he's the master of dragging dinner out forEVER and I don't want to skip reading books every night because I think that's very important. So our afternoon/evenings are kind of nutty. And when this kid gets tired, he winds up, not down!!
We finally got some much needed rain a few weeks ago and Reid wanted to go outside to play in it. It was almost bath time anyway, so I asked him if he wanted to take his shirt off so it didn't get wet. That, of course, let him to take off his shorts so they didn't get wet. And the undies automatically came of after that. Who can argue with preschool logic, lol? We let him run around in the nude and enjoy the rain.
The rain was getting him wet (imagine that!) so I offered him an umbrella. One corner was broken, but I figured it'd get destroyed by the end of this play session anyways.
This kid had more fun running around in the rain than you could imagine. We realized it was getting pretty buggy, so bath time it was. It was then that we realized just how buggy it had really been...poor Reid suddenly had mosquito bites everywhere (including his crotch!) even though we hadn't been outdoors that long.
Our evening schedule needs some tweaking, but I'm not sure how that's going to happen. Somewhere after school, when I pick him up from preschool or Holli's house, we have to have playtime, exercise, dinner, bath, pack lunches, read books, and put him down for bedtime. Then we adults still need to shower and eat...and only then do I get to get off my feet, finally. I've tried combining Reid's dinner with ours, but it's usually a disaster, plus he will NOT eat what we do. But the biggest problem is trying to get dinner ready in time for him to eat. He needs to eat at 6:00 since he dawdles on forever, but we usually don't get home until 5:30...and by the time I unpack the car and lunch boxes, we wash hands, then play for a few minutes, it's already 6! He decided to pack his own lunch for school one day after I'd gotten out his lunch box. Pretty cute and he was trying to be independent/helpful, but I'm thinking this carb-filled "lunch" didn't quite cut it.
Not too bad for a three year old, though!
His new favorite face isn't the cutest thing on the face of the Earth. Hopefully, he doesn't do this at preschool. Or, maybe that's where he learned it...
We had a nice cool front blow through a couple of weeks ago and my gym was closed for renovations the whole weekend, so it was the perfect day for a family hike. Reid loves going to this park to hike (although it was too wet to hit the off concrete trails after the previous day's rain) and as an added bonus, it has a great playground at the end of our hike.
The lookout has a great view of Plano. It actually looks like Fall in the pictures, but I think the trees just really need water!
Our little Energizer bunny kept going...and going...and going. Daddy continued the walk with him, and I went on ahead to find the ladies room before meeting them at the playground.
Afterward, someone requested his favorite lunch... (the only thing he actually requests, besides dessert/treats) Sonic for "cheeseburger and tots, but Mommy wants onion rings!" This kiddo cracks me up.
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