A Second Set of Firsts

Poor Reagan has already succumbed to the second (well, really third) child syndrome. There are far fewer pictures of her at this point than there are of Hannah and Kate. Such is life. Reagan has great neck and head control so I figured I'd give the bumbo a try.

I love that chubby cheek smile! When I go in to wake her up in the morning, she gives me a weird look as she tries to focus in on my face and then she gives me the biggest smile! It makes my morning!

Smiley

You always read me write about how happy my little Reagan is and here are a couple of pictures to prove it!

Here are my other usually happy girls bearing not so happy faces. I told Kate to say cheese, but her smile looks a little scary.

George is finally home. You may have picked up on some of my references to how busy we were last week. He went on his 3rd annual mission trip to Kentucky with some others in our bible fellowship class to help build a church. I didn't want to come right out and say he was gone for safety reasons. I more than survived my week. We stayed busy going to the park, Busch Gardens, and having a dinner with some of the other moms from our class who had husbands gone. Now it's time to get back to our regular busy life of working around the house. Today's project is to clean out our garage. Ever since we moved into our house, I've wanted new, working garage doors. It's not fun getting caught out in the FL rain showers trying to get 3 kiddos into the house and getting into a HOT car. We are also have our electric company come out and inspect our attic for insulation so that we can get a money credit in order to put some insulation in the attic. Our electric bills are climbing and it's ridiculous. George said there's no insulation in most of our house. While cleaning out a garage doesn't sound like much fun, I'm super excited. Call me crazy, but I guess that's just the organizational neat freak in me!

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Kate has been one rambling woman lately. I was instructing her to pick up her blocks yesterday afternoon and she was doing everything she could to distract me from enforcing my instruction. That wasn't too difficult because I was nursing Reagan. She was just jabbering away. My exact words to her were, "If you would exercise your arms and your feet as much as you are exercising your mouth, then you would be done cleaning up a lot quicker!" She didn't seem to understand what I was saying. Sometimes I wish I had a mute button. The following videos are from breakfast this morning. I taught them the "You got it dude!" saying from Full House. Nanny Lantz (I think) taught them the "My name is chubby" (just in case you were wondering what they were saying) thing.

Reagan had her 2 month doctor visit yesterday. She's healthy and growing. She's 12.5 lbs and 22.25 inches long. We decided to up her dose of the stool softener because it just doesn't seem to be working. She also has put her on some special baby wash because of her sensitive skin. Just normal baby stuff. She took her shots like a champ and gave me the best gift of all last night...she slept from 10:30 until 6:30! Not sure if she was worn out from her shots and all of our activities this week or she's going to make a habit out of sleeping through the night...let's hope so!

Elmo's World

Also affectionately known as Busch Gardens. We headed out there with Sarah, Rachel, and a friend from our bible fellowship class and her two boys. Although it was sweltering and we were sweating, a great time was had by all, even the littlest of the bunch. Here are a couple of pictures:

Mama & Reagan-isn't she precious in her bathing suit. I put her feet in the water to cool her off a little bit.

Using her fist to occupy herself. She's such a happy baby! If she cries, she stops the second you pick her up. She's pretty easy to read, at least for me. She is still having some pooping issues, but we go for her 2 month well baby visit tomorrow morning, so I'm going to address it with the doctor then.

Have a great week!

At Your Own Risk

So you all know that George has been working on this playset for the girls. Well, it's not exactly the way I would've pictured it and there is still some work to be done. I don't think as he was building it he realized how steep it was, especially for 2 year olds...so if you bring your kids over to play at our house, just know that they will be playing on the playset at their own risk. And if you would rather them be a little older to play on it (for safety's sake), I won't blame you. I'll let the slide speak for itself.