Reese ...On the Move

More Pieces

Here are a few pictures from the past couple of weeks. Reese is growing faster than our ability to blog it all. Stay tuned for some quick videos to follow. Enjoy...

See, proof that underneath those cheeks there actually IS a neck!


Deep in thought


Here is our other daughter, (the dirty one)


Here's Reese with her Great Grandma Messal

Faux Hawk

The hair is a gettin' longer. Here is Reese post-dinner, pre-bath...it's amazing what a little applesauce'll do for the coiffure.

Picture of the Day, No Picture of the Year!

If this picture don't get yer grinnin' goin'...Yer happy must be broke!

Random Pieces

We know you all love the pictures, and some of you may even prefer it if we offered them up sans colloquy...Well this post is for you. Below are some random images that we thought were befitting bestowment...enjoy.

Following the Gator Gallop, Reese watched the floats pass by during the UF Homecoming parade.

The Nugget perfects her pimp strut with the assistance of her new 'mail cart'.

This photo, taken a month ago, is just plain ol' cute!

Editor's Note: Any of these images can be viewed in a larger format simply by clicking on the photo.

Life's a Beach

It's a hard life being halfway through your sixth month of living...spending your days being waited on, entertained and cared for by a couple of warm, thoughtful and good-looking parents. Hungry?, they feed you...Tired?, they'll lay you down for a nap...Gotta poop?, no worries, just expel it into your pants and they'll clean it up later. Life aint bad!

Top all of that off with a trip to the beach. Sand, surf, tiki bars, fancy hotels, swanky restaurants...funny thing is I don't remember any of those things, but I do recall getting lots of rest...Ahh, aint life great?!

Below are some pictures from my trip to Bradenton Beach. The first one is me doing some 'four-wheelin' on the beach, followed by a raucous time at the Tiki Bar (where I promply passed out from all the partying). Enjoy.

Reese

A piece of the Pretzel

What do you do while driving three hours to the beach while your wife and daughter listen to a children's "sing-a-long" CD with 44 tracks on it? You nibble your way through a big bag of pretzels which results in this.

Breakin' off a Piece...

...of sweet potato
"Sure, give the 6 month old some solid 'adult' food. Just give her one bite at a time on her tray so she can develop hand-eye-mouth coordination." said the pediatritian.

It's amazing how far a 6 month old can stretch one bite of sweet potato. Reese stretched it all the way from the back of her head to her eyebrows to her chest to the dinner table to the floor. How's that for coordination?

Editors Note: Reese IS perfectly capable of picking up food, and bringing it to her mouth...she just has more fun painting with it!

Pieces of Halloween

Due to an overwhelmingly large amount of requests for pictures from Halloween...we proudly present to you, photos of our 'Chicken Nugget'...enjoy.

A milk cow and a cute little chicken frolick lovingly on Messal farms


The Chicken Nugget sits upon her perch awaiting trick-or-treaters


The Nugget gazes curiously into the Milk cow's eyes and wonders if she is her Mommy


"Do you know where my Mommy is?"


The little Punkin in the Punkin patch awaiting to be picked [up].

Catching up with Reese...

Well, it's been almost a full month since our last entry and we've been busy. Our home computer has been slowly running out of storage space due in part to the copious amounts of photos and videos that we've been weighing it down with as if it was a pack mule setting off on a cross-country excursion. With a new external hard-drive in place, we're now galloping smoothly along like a thoroughbred en route to the triple crown.

I'm now going to diligently populate this blog with a few of the "Reese's Pieces" that you've missed in the last month. I'll start with:

Reese's New Kicks:
No self-respecting father is going to let their child wear any type of athletic attire without a good pair of sneakers. A Gator cheerleading outfit and a pair of butterfly sandals just don't jive. So we took a trip to the Kid's Footlocker in the mall. The result was a slick lil' pair of Nike 'Shox' (I highly doubt that there is anything that would remotely resemble a shock in these shoes).

Reese loves the shoes and they add a great deal of stability while she is attempting to stand. The best thing about the shoes, according to Reese, is the taste. I haven't taken a nibble, but judging by her eagerness to open mouth and insert shoe, they must taste great.


No Likey Peas
Our daughter hasn't met too many types of food in her short life that she hasn't liked, or at least tolerated enough to fill her little belly. But when it came to peas, Reese's little tastebuds just couldn't handle it. Instead of crafting the image of the event with words, here is a series of photos that will better illustrate her reaction.

•1• The dreaded peas

•2• Just prior to contact

•3• The reaction