The Manley/Coleman Family

We scored some last minute tickets to the Friday of Lollapalooza. Rob went down for most of the day, but Allison and Reeve only went for a few hours to see Ben Folds and Thievery Corporation. Good times!

Taken July 21, 2009. This is technically his fifth time taking some steps.

Let it be known: on Sunday, July 19, 2009, Reeve took his first steps.

Not once, but twice during the day! Three forward steps each time!

No, there is no photographic record, since it came very out of the blue, but there were witnesses. So we just wanted to acknowledge it for the blog.

Now we are officially in trouble. Time to get the baby gate.

Every once in a while Reeve does this strange little backwards scoot on his butt. We like to think it’s the baby version of Michael Jackson’s moonwalk. I am thrilled I caught this on video, since he doesn’t do it often and it comes out of nowhere. So here’s to you Mr. Jackson . . . the moonscoot:

I have cute pictures too that I’ll post later. But here is Reeve and my friend Kim playing in Lake Michigan on July 13, 2009. He had a blast jumping up and down in the waves:

Yes, it’s been a while since we gave an update to Reeve’s activities and whereabaouts. So to make it up, we’re posting a lot today.

Reeve went to the east coast for his Grandpa’s 75th birthday party. We spent a few days out there and tried out many new activities:

He tried eating grass . . .

Then he accepted a new gift from Bonnie and Bob . . .

but decided Bonnie’s hat was far more interesting . . .

Then we visited with the polish neighbor . . .

Next, adventures in swimming! We had lots of fun with Reeve in the pool. He was obsessed with the cleaning snakes that made a small fountain against the stairs . . .

Then Reeve had fun just enjoying the pool with daddy . . .

Here are some cute videos of the pool . . .

Then one afternoon we went into the city to play with friends both old and new. We visited Allison’s friend Adrienne and her two kids, Max and India . . .

And went for a walk around their neighborhood and saw cool murals.

In the past few days, Reeve seems to have developed this new facial expression. We have no idea where it came from, but we like to call it the Donald Trump face.

Reeve loves gravity games!

Reeve was very chatty today. So we decided to figure out how to upload videos tonight so you could all hear the conversation!