The Manley/Coleman Family

We went back east for Christmas to visit the grandparents: first Allison’s, then we took the train down to visit Rob’s family. Reeve was an amazing traveler! We barely made the flight out due to blizzard conditions in Chicago, and were stuck in the airport for hours. Reeve was cool as a cucumber! Daddy showed him the planes:

When we finally made it, Grandma Manley showed Reeve the Christmas tree:

Then we took him to a Christmas eve party at my parent’s friend’s house. Rob’s mother sent a fantastic Santa suit for him to wear. So cute!:

Christmas morning we opened gifts and had a good time:

Christmas Day eve we had dinner with my parent’s friends, and Reeve tried a taste (a drop off of Rob’s pinky finger) of a very fine Dom Perignon. We figured his first wine should be a very, very good one:

As mentioned in earlier posts, Steve Gross took shots of Reeve for his first Christmas card. This was the one we chose:

Though this came in a close second:

Ranger . . .

Sporty . . .

Stripes . . .

Bunny.

Steve Gross strikes again! He offered to take some shots of me before Reeve was born. This was taken August 29th, 2008, just one week before Reeve arrived. DISCLAIMER: these are the rough shots, in other words, not color corrected by Steve.

Here is the FTP link to Reeve’s shoot, by photographer Steven Gross. If any of you want to order prints, there are instructions on the first two pages of the ftp link.

http://www.reallifeweddings.com/reeve/

Please visit Steve Gross’ site to see his other terrific work.

Giggles all around!

Wednesday . . .

Thursday.

Kim has blue Uggs too. So we had a fashion show:

Today we went to our friend Steve Gross‘ photography studio to get Christmas pictures taken. Reeve was amazing, and in a great mood the whole time, even giggling with our friend Kim while we reviewed the shots.

Reeve, like all babies, loves to look at his own reflection, and make faces and sounds. Almost as much as daddy does.