Ah, Pizza

On Christmas Eve, Reagan made a request for "ah, pizza", it was very clear and he was very adamant. It reminded me how far his language has come in the last few weeks. I have been cataloging his words over the past few days. I was going to wait until he was 2 to post them, but he has so many new words every day that I can't keep up and am already missing many!

One somewhat unique thing is that he usually says "ah" before saying a word. I made this observation to Chris who said "ah, he will probably do that for the rest of his life." Family traits run deep!

There are 82 on the list, but he probably has closer to 100.

Here is the list:

Again
Ama (Grandma)
Apple
Ball
Beach
Bee
Block
Blow
Boat
Boots
Bottle
Bounce
Broke
Bubble
Bus
Bye bye
Carry
Cheese (when a photo is being taken, not the food product)
Chicken
Chips
Clock
Cold
Cookie
Cooper (said only once when asked who a picture was of, refuses to say again. . .)
Daddy
Dog Dog
Door
Dump
Eyes
Face
Finish
Fork
Guys
Hello
Help
High
Hot
Inside
Jac (cousin)
Lick
Light
Lots
Me
Milk
Mommmmeeeee
Moo
Moon
More
Mouse
Mouth
My (muslin)
Nic (cousin)
Night night
No
Oh no
Out
Outside
Owie
Pick
Pizza
Plane
Please
Police
Poo poo
Pool
Press
Rain
Run
Shoes
Sip
Socks
Splash
Spoon
Stuck
Thank you
There
This
Tree
Truck
Up
Wet
Wipe
Yes

A few days at the beach

The weather has been incredible in CA so we rented a house and headed down to the beach for a few days. Here are a few of my favorite pics.

Unwinding with the cousins



Reagan, always finding interesting places to drink his milk...



Playing on the porch before breakfast



Playing in the water at sunset



And my favorite. Watching a beautiful sunset with (2 of my 3) favorite boys.

Best swing location ever?

Really should have brought swimsuits…

Yes, this video is from today

And yes, the London boys do think it is warm enough to go in the water. Their cousins are sending them on errands to get water for their project. :)

Jingle bells!

Tractor driving

Naturals! (The boys had so much fun at Mimi and Papaw's ranch. Cooper even shot his first gun! Picture coming later from Papaw's camera.)

Working hard at Papaw's ranch

Reagan makes himself comfortable

I have no idea why but Reagan has decided this is the best place in San Angelo to have a bottle of milk. :)

Now that was a party!

We are in San Antonio for Chris's younger brother's daughters' 1st birthday (triplets). The party was at their mom's office. She runs a Pediatric clinic and has an amazing office!!

Happy Birthday Mommy Lou!!

Texas, here we come!

Oops, forgot the stroller.

Mommy off to India

I took my first business trip since we had Cooper last week (I was supposed to go to California for work last year but Reagan ended up in the hospital the day before...).

This was my send-off:



When we did FaceTime the next day everyone was a bit happier:




I spent 4 days at a hotel sorting out iPads for an event...




I left a day early so I could get back for Halloween, I just couldn't miss it!

Halloween

Better late than never, here are some photos and videos from Halloween.

Picking out pumpkins the weekend before Halloween.

Reagan, the prisoner

Cooper, the cop

Reagan's first trick or treat, Cooper showed him how it is done


Reagan picked it up very quickly!


We were softies and couldn't make Reagan wait until we got home to have some candy. Both boys LOVE lollipops. Reagan was literally searching through the candy at each house looking for lollipops. ;)

Is this what a room would look like if a toddler designed it?