Happy Birthday Camryn!

Camryn Ella is turning 2 years old today!

Here are some things that she enjoys...

• Watching Dora the Explorer
• Singing all her favorite songs
• Dancing with Sydney
• Dress-ups, purses and shoes

These are some typical phrases you may hear when spending a day with this fun little girl...

• "Press play Mommy!"
• "Good Morning Sunshine"
• "I want to cuddle Daddy"
• "I hungry"
• "Like Daddy does it" (referring to bedtime routine)

Don't Turn Your Back!

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This is what happened at our house last night when we were cleaning the kitchen and doing the dinner dishes. Camryn disappeared for 5 minutes and apparently threw the soap dispenser and shattered the bathroom sink. She had the hot water running and made a huge mess under the sink as well. When Greg picked her up to take her out of the bathroom, she exclaimed "That baby did it!" Calling Doctor Freud!

2 Weeks Old

Here are some very fresh pictures of our little guy. I have not done well posting updates for our family who live far away...so this is for all of you and anyone else who peeks in on us. Walker is such a sweet baby and is fitting well into our family. He rarely cries, loves his bath and likes to cuddle. It may be hard to see in these pictures, but he does have very dark brown hair. Now, it may not be a lot of hair by most standards, but when compared with the first 2 Reid babies, he has a good start

Austin loves his baby brother! He has even been willing to share his favorite blankie with Walker.
Just moments ago after having a warm formula bottle and bath

Quite a serious close up!

Sydney tried her hand at photographing her baby brother!

10 Days Old

Take a look at these guns...

typical boy posing for a photo!

Welcome Baby Walker!

I can hardly believe that he is 10 days old already! Time flies when baby number 4 comes along. I am finally making time to post some pictures of our newest family member from the day he was born.

Sydney's 6th Birthday

I think that this year Sydney had the birthday that was celebrated for more than one week. I am trying to figure out what was so magical about turning 6, but I think it was merely circumstance.

Sydney reminded me the beginning of January that we had told her she had to be 6 to get an American Girl Doll. I had completely forgotten all about it. Perfect, I thought to myself. I will go and get one for her on my next trip to New York. Then the second thought, why I don't I cash in miles and take Sydney with me? We decided that we would not tell her and surprise her the day of the trip. We were also able to rope Aunt Stephanie and Celine into joining us for since the girls have birthdays just 4 days apart!

We had 3 days of fun, broadway, shopping and of course American Girl Dolls!

Yummy!

Yesterday my friend called and said she was on her way to pick up some lunch. We just had an In-N-Out Burger open by us. The lines have been ridiculous and I have refused to be any part of it and wondered if it really worth all the waiting? The excitement has been wearing off a bit and the lines are not so bad. So about 30 minutes later this arrived at my front door! Yes, it was sooo good!

Secret is Out!

Our big secret is no longer...

We are expecting our 4th baby on April 20, 2010. We finally shared our news with a fun announcement for my parents. For some reason, I had ideas of doing something better than a phone call, as was done with our previous three babies. So we waited till we knew what we were having and shocked them with that news as well. Now that they know, I thought we could make a post on the blog.

We had an ultrasound last Friday and found out we are having a boy we plan to name Walker. We are all very excited and Austin can hardly wait to share his room with his little brother!

3 Injuries only 15 hours into Vacation!

We spent our Fall Break in Colorado visiting the Nielson's. The night we arrived Austin took a really hard fall and smacked his face on the hardwood floor. His mouth was bleeding quite a bit, but thankfully we were with Uncle Kirk who is an orthodontist. He took great care of Austin and his injury and thought that we should probably get an x-ray the next day.

So the next morning we went to Uncle Kirk's office to have x-rays taken and to look at Austin more closely (both front teeth are now dead and starting to turn gray). I suggested that maybe we could have Sydney's very loose tooth looked at while we there too. It was indeed ready to come out and since this mom wants no part of pulling teeth, this was the perfect opportunity to leave it to the professional! All went well and Sydney was given a "sparkly silver tooth case" to take her treasure home in. With gauze in her mouth, we started to leave the office. Uncle Kirk told Sydney to give her dad the gauze pad and swap it for a clean one. She pulled out the gauze, looked at it and did a face first fall to the ground. She then started to convulse a bit and we quickly discovered she had passed out! Thank heavens she is not the only person in our family with this genetic problem (Jake, Grandpa Devlin, this mom and other aunts uncles which will remain nameless). Uncle and Kirk and Aunt Steph jumped right in and knew exactly what to do. With Camryn in my arms I was helpless to even be able to catch her when she went down.

I guess Camryn did not want to feel left out, so she had a nice spill just a few hours later on the cement path while we were at the Butterfly Pavillion. Another goose egg for one of the Reid kids. If DFS was anywhere nearby, they would be questioning these parents. We just hope that we are invited back to Denver to visit again!

1st Piano Recital

Sydney started taking piano lessons in March of this year. She begged me since she was 4 and I was able to hold off till she was 5. We gave her all of her books as part of her birthday present. She loves playing and only gives me grief once in awhile when I remind her she needs to practice.

On September 24th she had her first recital. She had to memorize and perform 3 pieces: 1 classical, 1 fun piece and 1 piece she composed herself. She also had to memorize 5 facts about her classical composer who was Beethoven. I do not know who felt more pressure Sydney or me. I am sure it was me, because when I asked her if she was nervous, she said, "No not at all."

First Day of School

Austin's first day of preschool with his friend Wells

Wait for me!

Everyone ready to take Sydney to school!

Sydney with her friends Carmen and London

Signing her Class of 2022 paper

I can hardly believe that Sydney started Kindergarten today. She was so excited to go and even woke up 15 minutes earlier than she needed to. Austin had his first day of preschool on Tuesday and was excited to take pictures with his sister on her first day. Of course Camryn had to have part of the action as well.

July 4th

We had a great 4th of July this year. Our morning started out with an incredible neighborhood parade (thank you Brooke). We had a BBQ with the Atwood's and then went to Sandy to watch the fireworks with the Tuellers. Everyone had a wonderful time!

A week with Papa

My dad was kind enough to drive back to Utah with me after our trip to California. Greg had to fly home to be back at work after the party. We enjoyed having him in our home for a week. We ventured to Park City, went on hikes and had lots of fun!

Papa is so good to our kids and is always game for lots of fun and wrestling.

Papa's 60th Birthday Party

Mid June we took a road trip to California to celebrate my dad's 60th birthday. The kids had a great time playing and swimming with thier cousins. We also celebrated the other 4 June birthdays and welcomed a new nephew on dad's actual birthday.

New York City

We had a wonderful trip to New York City the end of May. We decided to piggyback some family vaction time with mom's business trip. Thank goodness Aunt Kim was able to come with us, which made getting around the city with 3 kids so much easier. We enjoyed getting together with old friends, eating at our old favorite spots, and showing the kids everything we love about the city!

You never know...

It is always a little frightening what may come out of our 5 year old daughter's mouth. When my friend, Tara, brought Sydney home after taking her to run some errands yesterday she said, "Sydney makes me laugh." "Oh no," I thought, "this could be interesting!"

They were shopping at Michael's for some party favors. Sydney was looking around and said, "Wow, look at all these great deals! I can hardly stand it!" (I am sure I have never said that!) Then, as she continued to browse, Tara heard Sydney say, "Good friends are like wine, they get better with time." Hmmm...what are the Reid's teaching their kids? Thankfully, she then noticed Sydney was reading a card and not reciting a memorized quote!

Camryn's First Birthday

We can hardly believe that we brought this little girl home just one year ago! Camryn is such a sweet little girl and has brought so much happiness to our home. She is very busy and gets into everything! We do not leave bathroom doors open in this house anymore.

We enjoyed a nice evening at the park celebrating Camryn's birthday with our family. She was more cautious than we expected when it came time to dive into her cake. Aunt Kim decorated a large cake and a small one to match for the birthday girl to enjoy!

SmArT COokiE

It is 9:30pm on Tuesday night...way past bedtime for all good children! Austin comes in my room and the rest went like this:

Austin: "Mom, I need a cookie."

Mom: "You already had a cookie before your shower and they are all gone." Referring to the two sugar cookies Sydney's Primary Teachers brought her earlier in the day.

Austin: "No, they are not."

Mom: "Please get back in your bed, it is very late."

5 minutes pass and I realize the light is still on in Austin's room, so I get up and walk down the hall to turn it off...only to discover this!

Tulip Festival

Aunt Stephanie and Celine were in town for a brief 24+ hours and we were able to enjoy a beautiful afternoon at Thanksgiving Point. This was the first time we attended the festival and it was so amazing!