Happy Mother's Day!

It was such a great day today :)  It is so hard to believe that one year ago today this was me...

One year later, here is my baby girl and I in front of our magnolia tree!

The day started with the BEST first Mother's Day gift of all...Reaggie slept through the night for the first time in a long time!  It was SO nice!  I woke up a few times in the middle of the night waiting for her to start crying, but thankfully she didn't, and I was able to go right back to sleep!  Keith and Reaggie made me a delicious breakfast and then gave me my gifts of a gift certificate for a pedicure and my JACK ROGERS shoes!!  I was so excited! :)

We hung out the rest of the morning and then went out the lunch at the Carolina Ale House.  Reaggie was a very good girl even though she decided she didn't want to take her morning nap!  (She passed out in the car within a minute of driving home, thankfully still went to sleep when we got home.)

Keith's good friend, David, was in town from Colorado and the boys cooked us a DELICIOUS dinner!  We had filet, crab cakes, potatoes, and grilled corn on the cob....it was GREAT!!

Overall it was a WONDERFUL Mother's Day celebrating with our sweet little girl!  Being a mommy is not the easiest job, but it is the best job in the world!  I felt so thankful all day to have such a precious, healthy, and happy baby girl in our life!

Fun at the Park!

On Saturday we met up with my friend Heather and her two girls, Jess and Colby!  I taught Jess when she was in 2nd grade and she is now about to graduate from elementary school...how did that happen!?  Heather is one of the sweetest parents I have had and I am so glad we keep in touch! 

(The pictures are also courtesy of Heather!)

She was kind enough to drive in our direction to go to the park for a picnic and for all the girls to play!  Reaggie had SOO much fun with Jess and Colbs...I sure do wish they lived closer!!

Priceless!

Blow up pool at Wal-mart: $10

Plastic Watering Can: $1

AN HOUR of confinement: PRICELESS!! :)

Today started out as one of "those days" and I was NOT at all looking forward to it. Reagan has been waking up in the middle of the night, sometimes wanting a bottle, and then getting up at 5:30ish. Thankfully at 5:30, most mornings, I can just put her in bed with us and she goes back to sleep for about an hour. (She does and Keith, of course I can't!) This morning she did that and from the moment she woke up at 6:30 until about 8:15 she was SOOOOO FUSSY!! I mean, fussing over everything! What on earth child?!?! Finally I put her down for her nap early and she slept for over an hour! PHEW!!

When she woke up we were off to a make-up swim lesson. I had us all ready to go, we got to the pool, watched a private lesson or two, then her little class was told to get in. I hopped in, put Reagan in, and within TEN SECONDS we are told, "time to get out of the pool!" Someone, well a kid, pooped in the pool!! A) GROSS!!! B) Are you serious?!! Now we are both wet, towels will need to be washed, we smell like chlorine...ugghhh! We went to the locker room, I attempted to change Reagan and her outfit didn't fit, thankfully she had her cover-up to wear and we were off to the house.

I was slightly frustrated, not really, but kinda...it is work to get out of the house that early! :) I pulled in the driveway and I thought you know what, we'll go get our own pool to play in! SO off to Wal-mart we went!

Needless to say the rest of the day was MUCH better than how it started!! Reaggie even slept for about an hour and a half this afternoon, which sadly is a "good" nap now. We had a great day and enjoyed playing in the pool together, and I'm not going to lie...Momma kind of liked getting a little sun too!

Here Mom!

Let me tear through this cabinet for you Momma!

Oh you took the gate down for five minutes, let me climb up the steps! 

(Oh and YES, I got a gate!!  It is WONDERFUL!!)

Zoom Zoom!!

And this is why at 8:35, I am just about ready for bed!! :)  Happy almost Friday!!

Eleven Months!!

I can hardly believe that today Reagan is ELEVEN months old!! It is just so hard to believe that a year ago I didn't know if I was having a little boy or girl, even though I would have bet money on a boy! I didn't know how much I would love this baby or how happy that baby would make me!

Well we all know by now, Reagan is into EVERYTHING! She has been so busy this month learning how to walk and climb up the stairs. (She is in fact trying to climb on everything now...every toy...it's funny!) She LOVES to open and close doors and cabinets. I don't have a tupperware cabinet, but she does play with koozies and cookie cutters all the time. I am surprised I don't have an Easter Bunny cutout on my foot by now with how many times I have stepped on it! :)

Other things Reagan has mastered this month...she is GREAT with sign language now!! She does all done, more, and eat. We are working on drink/water now. I love her "communicating" with us! If we aren't giving her what she wants, she is sure to point to whatever it is she wants.

Speaking of pointing, her new found love is with lights and fans. She will point to them everywhere! We were in the post office yesterday and she kept saying "uh, uh, uh" until I finally said, "do you see lights?!" I just had to acknowledge her! :)

Reagan is starting to understand more and more of what we are saying, which I LOVE!!! She knows when we talk about daddy, mommy, and brother (yes, we refer to him as brother Bailey...terrible I know, but it's too cute!). She knows where her head, belly, and toes are and when you ask her to brush her hair, she'll do that too! When Reags is in the bath she is always standing up now and when you ask her to "sit down please" she will do that. I kind of feel like we are training a dog sometimes, but it's so sweet to see how she understands us!!

One of the best new tricks this month though is giving kisses. I LOVE IT!! We will be playing and I will say, "Reaggie, give Mommy a kiss" and a wide open mouth comes right towards me. :) She is such a sweetheart!!

Reagan is TOTALLY off of baby food and we (especially Keith) are counting down the days until no more formula!! She eats pretty much anything we give her, which I LOVE!! Hopefully that stays!

A Few Stats:

Teeth: Reagan is currently working on teeth #7 and 8! She is doing pretty good with them :)

Clothes: Pretty much totally in 18 months now!

Diapers: Just moved up to size 5!

We continue to be so blessed with such a sweet baby! I cannot believe that ONE MONTH from today we will be celebrating Reagan's FIRST birthday. The time has certainly flown by and it just keeps getting better!!

We love you Reagan Mae
SOOOOOOOOOO much!!

Story Time!

Today we finally made it to story time again! With Reagan having a cold and changing morning nap times we haven't been in a few weeks. We were even ahead of schedule this morning, how did that happen?! Anyway, just snapped a couple cute ones on our way out! One more storytime before she is ONE! I can hardly believe it!!

4 Generations!

I can't believe I never posted anything about this before! When I was home in March my friend Heather came over to take Four Generation pictures for us. My Gran wanted to submit an article to her local paper showing off that great-granddaughter of her's, and I guess my mom and I! ;) haha! She gave me a copy of the paper while I was home and it made me remember I had never posted anything about it!

I think it is so special that there are FOUR generations!  I am so lucky to have such a young Gran and mom...I am the "old" one not having a baby until I was 27!! :)

Trip to PA!

Reaggie and I got back yesterday from a big week in PA! We went on Wednesday and stayed an extra day, until Monday. It was a great trip, but, as always, B-U-S-Y!! I'll let the pictures tell the stories, but we shopped, went out to lunch, I picked up Mike from the airport after being in Italy for four months (rough!!), we had a birthday party/welcome home party for him, yard saled with Heather, watched the Derby, and hung out!

It's also VERY official that Reagan is a WALKER now! She is sooo busy and into EVERYTHING!! I know I keep saying that, but she really is! My dad said a classic "dad" line, "don't you have any place to just 'put' her!?" It was so funny!! She tore through the tupperware cabinets at both my mom's and dad's house, she even got into Grandpa's plastic cup/towel drawer too! She had lots of fun though and is really enjoying this new perspective!!

Giving Aunt Jamie kisses!  She LOVES to give those these days!

Shopping with Mum-Mum!  Daddy is in trouble :)

Tasting ice cream at Friendley's...not a huge fan!  She'll learn!

Playing with some of her new yard sale finds!

What a "Reagan face" tearing through Mum-Mum's tupperware with Gigi!

Reading "I Love You Stinky Face" with Gigi and playing with her toes!

Gran is SET for the Derby!

Watching the Derby with Mum-Mum, Gigi, and G-Gramps!

Happy 21st Birthday Mike!!  (Hi Chase!)

Terrorizing through Grandpa's house!

On a lawn mower ride with Grandpa!

It was a great trip!  It will only be a month until everyone is down here for Reaggie's birthday!!