Merry Christmas!!!

Santa Claus is coming to town.

Decorating our tree :)

 

Jude's Birthday Party!

I'm excited to share the pictures from Jude's Birthday party! It was such a fun day and I was so happy with how everything turned out. Most importantly, we got to share the day with lots of close friends and family which made it even more special. 

View photos HERE!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from The Reeses!

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

Jude's First Easter & Trip to Santa Cruz!!

Jude had a very fun & adventurous first Easter. We got up bright and early Sunday morning, packed up the car and headed to my older brother Tony's house in San Jose. Jude slept most of the drive, which  was nice for him as he was having a little pain from cutting his first two teeth.

 Ummm, Mom can we go now?

Once we arrived, Michael & I helped hide eggs for the other little kids (Stacy, my brothers girlfriend, has two sisters and combined they have six children).

Jude hung out with Uncle Tony.

Oh, and Jude kept trying to put anything in his mouth that may help ease his teething pain...

After we watched the Easter egg hunt, we all relaxed for a while. Jude had a very good time watching the other children running around hopped up on sugar! Later in the afternoon we went over to our hotel to check in and take a look. We were very pleasantly surprised, even the Easter Bunny wanted to kick it there.

Dolce Hayes Mansion. San Jose, CA

Easter evening we had a glorious dinner prepaired by Stacy's family. Michael loved not having to cook, he said it tasted twice as good because someone else made it. After dinner we played Wii with the kids and hung out. Eventually we made our way back to the hotel and had fun relaxing. It was a really great first Easter as our new little family. I can't wait to watch Jude run around next year scooping up eggs :)

Enjoying watching the Sharks game with Uncle Tony.

Relaxing with Daddy after a fun filled day

The next day was Michael's 25th birthday! We were very excited because this was one of the first times Michael had two days off in a row since Jude was born. Jude & I let Michael "sleep in" and Jude got to take a bubble bath in a big boy tub. He loved it, he very much enjoyed splashing water everywhere, and since I didn't have to clean it up, I enjoyed watching!

Daddy then got up and we got ready for our day. We were excited to go to Santa Cruz but we had heard on the news that it was going to be rainy. Well, it couldn't have been further from the truth. It was probably 65 and beautiful! We had a fabulous lunch and walked around Downtown for 3 hours or so. We found Jude an awesome cardigan & suspenders at American Apparel. He was such a good boy and greatly enjoyed taking in all the new sights.

Bug was VERY interested in the people next to us' conversation at lunch.

Taking a snack break Downtown.

A few hours and a parking ticket later we were on our way back to San Jose to have dinner with Tony and Stacy at this really yummy taqueria. I am not sure how to spell it in Spanish but it sounded like "Ta-la-kee-pa-kee". We were planning on taking Jude to see the ocean & beach before heading out but it got very windy and he fell asleep in the car so we drove by instead. Michael & I decided we need to move into one of those 10 million dollar houses on the beach someday. All in all we had a wonderful trip & most importantly Michael said he had an amazing birthday!

Happy New Year Jude!

Our first Christmas holiday with Jude was awesome. We spend time with both sides of our family and some time just the three of us as well. Many thanks to all who made our first Christmas with Jude so memorable.

It is a new year and I am having a hard time processing how quickly time is passing each week. Jude is already getting so big, which is wonderful yet saddening too. He smiles all the time now and is starting to hold his head up for quite awhile when on his tummy. He loves to grab things (including Mama's hair) and everything goes right into the mouth. Meatball has been teething here and there but no teeth to show for it yet. Jude loves to "talk" and yell too! Not in an upset way he just likes for us to be very clear on what he is trying to tell us. He will start saying a vowel and then over the span of a few minutes that little "Aaaaa" turns in to "AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!". It is very humorous.

We are very blessed, he is a very happy baby 99% of the time. We have been working on getting him to sleep in his co-sleeper(next to the bed) more at night and he has been doing quite well with it. Jude has his four month checkup on February 8th and we will most likely start introducing a few solid foods at that time. He is very interested in food already(Hmmm I wonder where he gets it).

I wish I had more videos to share but unfortunately our brand new camera already broke so it may be a while until we can afford a new one. I have taken some on my cell phone but I still need to figure out how to transfer them.

By Request: Jude's Christmas list

Hello! Because I had so many requests/inquires about what Jude needs I have made a list on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2EJ7HMI53NC4Z

He has been very good this year I can assure you.

New pictures posted: http://tiffanyreese.shutterfly.com/


Here is a video of Michael & I trying to get Jude to smile.




Jude is doing very well. He is growing so fast!! He is already almost out of his 0-3 month clothes and starting to wear some of his 3-6month stuff. Next Tuesday he has his 8 week check up and first shots :( I will post his new stats after his appointment!