He is my current favorite pronoun...

My 7th graders are just finishing up a chapter in their grammar book that was all about pronouns. I had no idea that there were so many different kinds: reflexive, intensive, possessive(I knew that one), objective(that one too) interrogative, demonstrative... then there are all of the different pronoun agreements; antecedent, indefinite.. the list goes on. YIKES! The way I look at it... by learning to speak correctly from a young age, we all use these pronouns the correct way without realizing that they even have a name. I think my students are more confused now:( Oh well, we are on to comparative and superlative modifiers next week... that won't confuse them at all;[
The whole pronoun thing got me thinking though, about how much we have been using certain pronouns around our house for the past four months. Mostly variations of HIM & HE: He's hungry. Is he OK? He's so cute. Look at him. Will you get him? Will you change him? You should have seen him! He's so funny! Will you get his rattle? He's asleep:) I guess pronouns come in handy sometimes.

All is good... he's well, and it was a great Monday!

Today Forest had his 4 month well child exam... and he's in tip-top shape. He's actually pretty close to the top of the growth curve too. He weighs 16.7 lbs, which puts him in the 81st percentile for weight, and he is in the 83rd percentile for length, at 26 inches long. We couldn't love our doctor more.... he is a general practitioner, so we all see him. Because his office gets visits from people of all ages they are thrilled when babies come in.... everyone in the office makes it out from wherever they are working to get their Forest fix:) It is very sweet. He (Forest) was super charming, as usual today and was all smiles throughout almost his entire visit... which takes quite a while because I am always '20 question girl'! He also got his shots at the end of the visit:( He only screamed for a few seconds, and as soon a Jorian picked him up and held him close he was our smiley boy again:)

I have been super lucky, and through all of our doctor & hospital visits and one specialist visit, I have never had to go alone. Jorian or one of his parents has always been able to go with Forest and me, and today was no exception; Jorian was able to clear his work calendar to be with us this morning. On our way downtown to the appointment we got a view of the thick fog bank in the Valley and Jorain commented on how yucky it looked; he is always so bumbed to leave our sunny hills and drive into the flat-land fog 5 days a week for work, but he's gotten pretty use to it.

After Forest's appointment we were walking downtown to go get our property map from the County Clerks office to see what kind of future digging we can do on our property. We couldn't help but comment about what a beautiful morning it was, and how nice it felt to be out-and-about together on a mid-week morning. Then he shocked me by saying he thought he could probably take the day off!!! A few blocks later he had made all of the calls he needed and it was a done deal.... I couldn't believe it:) We ran a few errands, then went home and packed a picnic lunch and headed out to Tuolumne to the old RR grade trail and had an awesome walk and lunch over-looking the Tuolumne River. Forest was super happy to have his dad with him ALL day... on a Monday of all days!

Lucky to be alive...

Here's the new bumper.... how did he ever survive to be 4 months old with that old 'suffocation hazard?' ;)

To bumper or not to bumper...?

When we were registering for baby stuff we were pretty much clueless..? I was 20 question girl to all of my veteran mom friends, but still...
We were lucky, and most things we got are proving to be great and practical... except for the crib bumper. It's cute and soft.. (I think they call it 'plush') but we freaked out the other morning when we found his face up against it. Obviously he was breathing (not only because he was full of color, but also because his breathing monitor told us so) but we freaked none-the-less. So the next day I ordered a breathable bumper. It came the other day and it's great. I put it on today after he woke up from his nap. I only tell this story because this is how I found him when I went in to get him today. It makes me laugh and I had to post it and didn't want to hear about the danger of suffocation we are putting him in when our old bumper is exposed. And I think it is hilarious how hyper-worried we are about things! Never thought that would be either:)

I never.....

So I never got into the scrap-booking thing, (I taught kindergarten for a year and did enough cutting and pasting to last a lifetime!) but I do love to organize my photos and thoughts... aaannnd have been told by a few friends that it is a must do.... so I figured I'd start this fancy little blog:) Super surprising I know, since I am pretty un-techy, but now that we've become members of the 'got a cute kid' club I think it may be fun!

I also never thought I'd be an active participant in this whole narcissistic and voyeristic on-line society.... but here I am. I don't expect many readers, but I do hope to chronicle some of the nice, fun things in the life of we three Reeds. And for any of my near or far-away friends and family... I welcome your visits and input.

I have, however, always had a writing 'bug' and as many of my e-mail friends know I can be very long-winded (maybe it's long-handed) when I write..... so here you can read by choice. The birth of our son, Forest, last October is really what prompted me to get this going. Not that Jorian and I didn't have a fun, cute, blog-worthy life before Forest, but ya know, he makes it all that much more fun, cute and blog-worthy! I wish I would have started this when we first found out we were pregnant.... even though those 39 weeks were ridiculously easy and great; they were exciting none-the-less and I would have loved to have had that time documented. The big obvious 'slackerness' comes from the fact that Forest is already almost 4 months old. I don't really have the 'I've been too sleep-deprived and busy dealing with my newborn' excuse either, because he is such a rad, happy baby, and he has been sleeping through the night since he was 2 months old. Oh well, I'm starting it now. He has hand-written letters from me that he can read someday to learn about how I was feeling in his first 4 months of life. So.... we'll see how this goes.