Congratulations Matt and Tara

Welcome Greyson Matthew Reimer! Born at 6:45 this morning, weighing in at a whopping 6 lb 2 oz 19 inches long. Mother and Baby are doing wonderful. Tara is Ryan's cousin, for those who don't know, and her older daughter Bergen was the flower girl in our wedding. In a few years Adam and this little guy will have a lot of fun running around together.

Here is the new little guy!

Ryan juggling Adam and new big sister Bergen.

We spent this last weekend in Duluth. It was a nice relaxing weekend. My Aunt Margaret had a soup and pie night. The pea soup was amazing, and Ryan beat out everyone in the poker game! Uncle Dave sent us off today with a big breakfast this morning. Adam had a lot of fun running around exploring Granny and Papa's house and playing in the leaves in the yard.

Fun fall days.

Well, Adam's bruises have healed and the whole biting thing did get resolved. Apparently, there was a little girl at the daycare who thought she was just giving kisses, but instead was biting the little boys.

Anyway, we have had a lot of visitors the past couple weekends. Grandma and Grandpa Fried were here last weekend and Grandma and Grandpa Childs were her this weekend. Adam got ignored the whole time and was not spoiled at all. Poor little guy. I actually have no pictures from either of these weekends. I am really slacking.

Today we decided that before the weather got to cold we would take Adam to the park and let him run around and explore. It is probably one of the few nice fall days we have left before (dare I say it) winter. I also thought I could make up for the lack of picture taking by posting a new video of our fun time at the park.

If you think this is bad, you should see the other kid...

Ryan picked our little man up from daycare today and saw a bruise on his cheek. Turns out some other kid bit him at daycare. Then, I found the bite mark on his shoulder when I was giving him a bath. Needless to say, I am not very happy that this has happened. Ryan did mention it to the head daycare lady as he was leaving, but if I see any other marks on him it is not going to be pretty. It is kind of hard to see, but on his cheek there is a purple, almost circle, where the kid bit him. Adam is still all smiles. He would never bite another kid, his is much more of a lover than a fighter. :)

On a much cuter note, Adam has found that the DVD player is his new favorite toy. If I am attempting to watch a movie in my bedroom, he thinks that he is being very helpful when he can hand me the DVD. I do try to discourage him from doing this, but I think taking all these pictures may have sent him mixed messages.

Let see what this button does.

Wow, it opened up a magic door. Oops, mom's watching. I better do something cute so she doesn't suspect I am up to something.

She's still watching. Maybe she won't notice me checking out what's in this door.

Here Mom, I found this for you!

To all of our faithful viewers...

I must appologize. I really try to update the blog at least once a week for you all, but I must plead no time due to work, school, and being mommy. I promise to do better in the future. Our little man has been battling two more ear infections this week. He has been a little more restless at night and for the first time in a very long time we have actually had to get up with him. The medicine is kicking in and it has gotten much better. I was NDSU homecoming this past weekend. We all went to the parade (except Ryan) and then Rikki and I snuck into the game as students and got a chance watch the Bison win over Southern Illinois. It was a great game. To make up for the lack of posting, I have a bunch of pictures and a new video for you all. Enjoy!

Feels like fall!

It is really starting to feel like fall, my absolute favorite season. The Halloween candy is starting to come out, the Bison football season is in full swing, and Starbucks has their pumpkin spice latte back. Today Adam and I got to do a fun fall activity, apple picking. We joined Rikki, Joel and Meeks at Orchard Glen in South Fargo for a fun morning of fresh air, climbing trees, and of course picking apples. This is actually a fairly popular thing to do, so all of the low apples had already been picked over so you really had to get up in the tree to get the good ones up top. On a side note, Adam is getting much better at walking. He still needs a little encouragement to get going, but he can take a good five step before losing balance. Watch out everyone he is almost on the run!

Rikki in a tree.

Meeks in a tree.

Joel attempting to get the biggest apple.

You can kind of seem me in the tree throwing apples down at Meeks.

Even Adam got a little tree climbing in.

Riding along with uncle Joel!

The whole apple picking crew!

A very nice lady showed us this swing, Adam was a little small for it but he still had fun.

Everybody loves a parade!

We took Adam to the West Fest parade this weekend. It was the longest parade ever, lasting just over 2 hours. Adam was quite the candy magnet as well. He even had two West Fargo volleyball players come over from their float to give him a handful of candy. He got a taste of his first tootsie roll (brown drool everywhere). Saturday night we had some friends over to watch the bison game. They unfortunately lost, but it was still great having everyone over. Of course, here are some fun pictures from the weekend.

13 months

Again, another busy week. Our little man had to make a trip to the doctor this week for a double ear infection and pink eye. We did get his weight. He is now 24 1/2 pounds. He is healing well and still up to all of his old tricks, and a few new ones. On Friday, I was down in the cities for a Microbiology workshop. It was fun to meet my mom for a full day of talking shop. Ryan has been with Coke for a couple weeks now, and things are going really well. We both think that this was the right move for Ryan. Yesterday, we went up to Funcle (fun uncle) Aaron's to watch some football. Adam was decked out in his huge Farve jersey. See below.

No Daddy, I don't want to be a Packer fan!

Cuddle time with Funcle Aaron

Here are Adam's new tricks!