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Sunday, March 21, 2010

First Smiles!

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
Albert Einstein

Reed's imagination is growing more and more each day. He has worn his Buzz Lightyear outfit so much that he had torn holes in the knees of his pants. Daddy & I were in Cordova the other day, so we stopped by the Disney store to by Reed a new Buzz Lightyear outfit. While we were there, we picked up a Woody outfit too.

Woody
(This picture was taken with Daddy's cell phone, so it is a little fuzzy.)
When Chase wears this outfit, Reed calls him a LGM (which are the little green men from Toy Story). Woody asked if he could hold the 'LGM,' so of course I had to take pictures.


Reed has become very protective of his little brother. The other day, he went up to Chase to love on him and started holding his hand.

Precious brothers!
Reed wanted Chase to play with him, so he gave Chase the small Buzz. He got a Buzz too, then started telling Chase all about Buzz Lightyear. Hopefully, he'll want to share his toys with Chase when Chase gets older.
Chase has been giving us the sweetest smiles for almost two weeks; however, I've had a hard time capturing them on camera. Here are some pictures of his precious smile:

He wasn't smiling in this picture, but I thought it was sweet.

Starting to smile at Daddy!

Saturday, the Houstons came to Hernando to bring us a couch and chair. We had to take advantage of the sunshine and play outside.

Knox loved the red car.

Peyton was a sweetheart as usual and entertained Reed.
Racing to the football.
Reed & Knox sharing a plate of M&M's. Knox says M&M so cute that I couldn't resist giving him as many M&M's as he wanted.
I finally was able to capture Chase's sweet smile on camera. All I needed was Uncle Benjie!

Uncle Benjie is so funny!
He loved his whistle!

I could just eat him up!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I could just eat up both of my boys!!! Lala LOVES her boys!!!

Tina said...

Super duper post!!! Loved every bit of it! And love all of you!

THE CHITTOMS said...

Reed and Chase holding hands and Chase's precious smile melt my heart :)! Loved the post!

The Martins said...

What sweet boys. Reed is a great big brother and Chase's smile is adorable.

Anonymous said...

Buz has a great partner. I know Chase will hear all about Buz. The pictures were so precious. I am glad I clicked on and found these new ones. love them

Anonymous said...

I meant to tell you---I love the quote you have at the beginning of 'smiles'. It is gooood.