Tuesday, February 9, 2010

My little slugger

Happy times with Elmo
This is not a very flattering picture of Rayna, but this is a very common expression of hers and I thought I should share it.


Rayna is really into the Johny Jump Up now and Brock loves to push and spin her.
She just laughs and laughs when he plays with her.
They as so sweet together.
Today he sat down next to her and said, "I love you Rayna". It just melted my heart!



Brock is quite the little athlete. He's usually a lefty but he swings like a righty.


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Family Bath

Brock and Rayna took their first bath together. Check out Rayna's crazy hair.
It's so nice that she can sit up unassisted now.
Brock usually has to wait until after Rayna takes her bath, but tonight he said he wanted to take a bath "with" Rayna. So I thought, let's give it a try. They had a blast together.
They both have Josh's blue eyes but Rayna's eyes are electric.

February Snow



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Well, we got more snow. Not as much as the east coast, but about another 7 inches.
Brock and Henry absolutely LOVE the snow.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Around the house

Rayna is 5 and 1/2 months old now. She just started sitting up on her own.
We've also started feeding her rice cereal. Here are a few pictures of this great adventure.

Here is Brock wearing Rayna's new tutu and matching head band.
Brock had a play date with Keira and they had a blast!

Our Trip to St. Louis

We went to St. Louis the week after Christmas and here are some photos to recap our trip.
This is Taylor, on the left, Brock's cousin and Megan, Brock's Aunt.

Me and Mikey

Above: Rayna, happy to see Grandma Joan
Below: Taylor with Rayna, and Aunt Sherry with Jolee
Aunt Chris with Rayna
Grandpa Rick, Jake, and Daddy
Grandma Joan with Jolee, all dolled up.
Noah and Rayna
Mikey, Noah, Jake, Brock, and Daddy playing at Grandma Joan and Grandpa Juan's house.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

A crazy weekend

It was a pretty crazy weekend for Daddy at home with the two little ones. He was so busy with work and taking care of Brock and Rayna while I was working. I don't know how he still managed to send me some photos of them having a good time, but he did. Here are a few.
Brock is really into taking pictures now. He's getting pretty good.








Thursday, January 14, 2010

Time to Catch up!


We got a lot of snow over Christmas. Here we are in the backyard with Brock's first snowman. I haven't built a snowman in so long I forgot we needed parts for the face and such so we were scrambling to finish it as Rayna was waking up from her nap. The eyes and buttons are Oreo's.Brock got a guitar for Christmas with the money his Great Aunt Judy and Great Uncle Pete sent him. I think it was his favorite gift that day. He is quite musical. Hopefully he'll continue to impress us with his musical abilities.

He usually holds his guitar upright like a bass.
I had to force him to sit down and show him how to hold it correctly.

Rayna got a tutu with a matching head band from Aunt Britta and Uncle Matt.

Brock's first snow angle.

Brock also got this awesome track with trucks that run on batteries.
And a new Thomas track.
Check out the snow! We got between 12-18 inches over Christmas Eve and Christmas day.
Brock and Henry LOVE the snow.
We spent Christmas Eve at Nana and Grandpapa's house.
Brayden and Brock sure loved Nana's new pillow.
Brock painting
More snow...this was a storm that came before the Christmas storm.
Brock's new "Cool Trick".
We can't forget about Rayna. Big blue eyes and lots of drool.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

The Reitan's family photo, 2009

It's not easy to get the whole family together for a photo these days. This one's a keeper... everyone is in a good mood with smiles and open eyes!
Thanks for the delicious chili Nana.
December 2009

Santa's visitor


Nana and Grandpapa brought me to see Santa on Saturday. We also went to see a real live Nativity scene. I got to pet a donkey! Thanks for a fun Saturday....Love, Brock

Monday, November 23, 2009

Halloween 2009

Brock playing with leaves in front of our house.


Brock and Brayden had the same costume this year. How cute are these two?

Photos of Rayna


I took lots of pictures of Rayna for her birth announcements (which will probably be sent with our Christmas cards since we haven't addressed the envelopes yet). Here are few of my favorites that didn't make the cut of being on the card.



Our trip to the Minnesota Zoo

Ben, Emily, Brayden, and Gabrielle went to the zoo with us at the end of October. We had a blast. Brock was SO exhausted by the end of the day he needed to sit in Brayden's spot in in Ben and Emily's stroller. We took the smaller stroller because Brock always wants to walk. I guess it was too much walking for him that day.
Brock has a book called, "The going to bed book" and he loves to find the moose on each page.
Here are Daddy and Brock watching the video of Brock watching the bear. You can find that video a few posts back.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Rayna's birth announcement

Here it is! Rayna's birth announcement.