Reagan

I thought that I would fill everyone in on Reagan. She is such a pleasant baby, and we have so far enjoyed having her in our family. She just turned 10 months and I am so sad at how the time has flown by so fast. Here are a few things that she is doing so far:

~At her 9 month appointment she weighed in at 18 lbs!

~She started crawling right around Thanksgiving, and is super fast

~Loves to smile and it doesn't take much to get her to laugh

~Says: mama, dada, daw (for dog), nana (for banana, which is her favorite)

~She loves dogs. Everytime she sees a dog, wether it is Winston, or a picture of one, she points and says "daw"

~She has just 2 bottom teeth, and has "a few teeth" on top (according to her doctor) coming in.... since November, ahhhhhh!

~She loves to eat. Anything you offer her, she will eat. She loves baby food, but lately wants to eat what we are eating. Her new favorites, are banana and maccaroni and cheese

~She has been pulling herself to a standing position and pulls herself up on everything

Snow

While we were in Arizona for Christmas, we got snow....... in Arkansas. Yes, it snowed Christmas Eve, and we missed it. Well, we got home New Years Eve, and three days later it snowed again. It had snowed during the night, so when Addison got up that morning, she immediately wanted to go out and play in it. I convinced her that she needed to eat breakfast first, but by 9:00 am we were tired of hearing her ask us over and over, so we bundled her up. Brad was a good daddy and volunteered to go out with her. It didn't last more then 10 minutes and she was back in the house crying that her fingers were numb, and she didn't ask to go back out the rest of the day. We need to invest in some nice snow gloves for her, because her mittens just didn't stay dry long enough.

Christmas 2009

I know, I've been slacking. Christmas is over, and things are back to normal, so I feel like I have some time to blog.

We had a great Christmas this year. We spent it in sunny, warm Arizona with Brad's family. We ended up being sick for the 1st 3 days with the stomach flu. Thankfully it was just a 24 bug, so it didn't last long. It just hit is all on different days.

Addison loved Christmas last year, but loved it even more this year. She got the whole Santa thing last year, so we decided to teach her about the true meaning of Christmas this year, of Christ's birth and of giving. She even took her part of being Mary very seriously when we acted out the nativity.

This picture was from a family get-together with my family before we left for Arizona.

Reagan could have cared less about what was going on during Christmas. She has been crawling, and fast I might add, so she is just busy getting into things that she isn't suppose to. The week after she started crawling, she started to pull herself up to things to stand, I know my life just got more complicated! She is a happy baby for the most part, except when she is teething which is now. She can be happy one minute and then get super cranky then next.

She did not like sitting on Santa's lap. She hated it so much that she started shaking before she even got to his lap.

Not Christmas related, but I had to show off her cute smile

Halloween cont.

Reagan, 7 months, as a baby chick

Addison, 3 years, as Cinderella

Addison and Reagan

Addison and cousin Pagelynn

Pumpkin carving

On Saturday, before we went trunk or treating, we had my sister Whitnie and her family come over for some Halloween festivities including carving our Jack-o-lanterns.

Addison scooping out the guts

more pumpkin guts

so proud of herself for helping daddy create the design

finished product

our jack-o-lanterns lit up at night

Preschool Halloween Party

Addison's preschool had a Halloween party last week. It was fun to see Addison among her classmates. She talks about all the kids in her class by name, and so it was nice to have a face to go with the names. They went trick or treating to some stores in the area. It was raining that morning, but it stopped as soon as they started, so it turned out to be a nice day. I dressed Reagan up and she was mistaken for a boy about 90% of the time. I finally got tired of correcting everyone, so after awhile I just agreed that "he was a cute baby chick".

The class outside of the bank

Addison as Cinderella

at the grocery store, where they gave out sugar cookies from the bakery, and apples from the produce section

Addison in her classroom on the "circle time mat"

Fall= pumpkins

Fall is right around the corner, and it is pretty much my favorite time of year. What better to do in the fall then visit a pumpkin patch. There is a farm about 1/2 an hour north of here in Southwest City, Missouri, that I took Addison to last fall. We had so much fun that we decided to go again this year. We met up with some ladies from our ward and let the kids enjoy all the fun stuff that the farm offered.

They had 2 really fun slides. This particular one, you sit on a plywood board and the bars would roll you down the slide.

There was a really long, hayride that they stopped various times to "educate" you on how corn growns and how they plant it. Let's just say the kids didn't listen and threw hay at each other the entire time, I didn't blame them though, it was pretty boring.

Addison's favorite, the Cow Train. It was a train of cows that was pulled by a tractor

The pumpkin patch

We were there pretty much the entire day, and Reagan was really good to sit in her stroller the entire time. I had the sun shade down on the stroller, but sometime during the day the sun got her and she got a mild sunburn on her cheeks, nose, and chin. I felt so bad, but she didn't seem bothered by it. What a cutie all bundled up in her jacket!