Oct 29, 2009

October in Review

As previously mentioned in my September in Review post, I am doing a quick recap on the three months that I was not blogging.

Here is what the Lillard's were up to for the month of October


Oh my goodness. In the beginning of October, Randy and I had to question whether our child was part monkey. He was climbing in and out of everything. One Saturday during Reese's morning nap I heard a thud and then a small whimper. I turned on the video monitor in his room and couldn't see him in his bed. I run into his room and see him sitting on the floor playing with a toy. That following Monday, I walked out of the livingroom while Reese was playing, walked back in to see that my child had managed to climb onto the recliner and onto the tv tray nearby. He was standing all the way up and was more than pleased with himself. Within a few days of that I walk into the kitchen to see Reese up on the dinner table grabbing a pacifier. He had used his truck to climb onto the chair and then onto the table.

Also in the beginning of the October, we spent one Sunday morning tailgating for the Texans game. It was a blast to see the little ones (Reese, Chase, Markus, and Samantha) playing together. They had constructed a play room right in the back of the Clem's SUV. The kids loved it and had plenty of toys to keep them busy. The kids were also able to sit on one of the police horses and kept wanting to go back to see the horse from then on. The pouring rain made it a miserable day, but everyone had a wonderful time anyway.


Towards the end of October, I began back to work. Currently, I work 24 hours a week and depending on the work load, I have the option to work more. Reese began daycare and seems to like it. Within the first two weeks of him being there, I received three phone calls to let me know that Reese had hurt himself. All very minor accidents but it is standard procedure to call with every scratch. His teachers tell me he is very active, loves to play outside and in general is very sweet. He loves outside time and they all laugh at him when he goes down the slide because he sits down way before he gets to the slide and begins to scoot on his bottom on the flat platform before he even reaches the slide.

At the end of October, Randy had the oppurtunity to go see a launch at Kennedy Space Center. He went to see the Ares 1-x launch, it was a test launch for the Ares 1 booster. He left here on a Sunday afternoon with our friend Brandon and drove to the cape, arriving there Monday around lunch time. The launch was scrubbed on Tuesday and launched on Wednesday morning. Two additional friends of Randy's, Jeremy and Alan, flew in and hitched a ride back. They all drove back Wednesday and arrived home Thursday morning early. Only to have to turn around to drive back to New Orleans with us for a vacation (more details about New Orleans in following blog) For a more detailed story visit our friend Brandon's blog with amazing pictures.

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