Christmas Day 2010

This morning, Reagan got up and thought that Santa had not come. She was upstairs crying. Jordan had to talk her into going downstairs to look for stockings that were hung with care. They were. Once she saw the mantel, she was ready for the day.

The girls were excited to get their presents. Reagan got hung up on the stocking - candy and stickers. Too funny. Once we got to the basement, we opened up gifts. Again, Reagan wasn't too interested. She wanted to continue to eat her candy and play with her stickers. I think I wore a Minnie Mouse sticker all day.

Once we were done opening presents at our house, we were off to my parents. Once we got there, it was pure craziness. Both of my brothers' families were in town and ready to open the gifts from Mimi and Pawpaw. Dinner and presents were the usual drama. The kids got a ton of stuff. I enjoyed watching Reagan play.

After that, we took off for Connie's house. There we had some more craziness. The good thing is that it was much quieter. It was just a small gathering with food and fun. We had a great time. Maddy got a play mat from Grandma. She LOVED it. She had a place to play. Reagan got a game from them that looked like a ton of fun. Papaw Thomas played with Reagan a lot. He really enjoyed her. She did pretty well considering the day.

She almost fell asleep on the way home, but as soon as we hit the main road into our subdivision, she popped up. Darn. The family came up after and played until late. Both Jordan and Reagan went to bed pretty late. They had a super busy day. We all did.

Tomorrow is Reagan's party and then we get a break.

All in all, we had a great Christmas with our families. We are totally blessed with how many folks we have around us. :)

Christmas Eve

We had a pretty lazy day. We've been prepping for the holidays for two weeks. Everything we did this year was last minute, so we are still working on wrapping presents this morning.

Maddy has been patient with me. I usually spend a ton of time with her on the floor. I haven't done much of that in the last few days because of all we have to do. I can tell too. Whenever I get her on the floor or interact with her, she completely lights up. Guilt!

So tonight, we are going to Papaw Carman's house for dinner and fun. I expect all the normal stuff. It will be good to see the family. I hope all goes well.

Moving up

Reagan is moving up to the older classroom - thank goodness. Since we moved her to her new school, I feel like she's regressed in her behavior. It's hard to tell if it's the cast, move or the baby. Whatever the reason, we are not thrilled.

We are hoping that when she moves to the older classroom that she will fall in line with those kids regarding behavior. (fingers crossed)

Hands and holding

When Maddy sleeps, she sucks on her hands. I'm figuring out that she actually eats her hands - it pacifiers her some. She's constantly moving her mouth, sucking on her hands or chewing on her shirt. I haven't figured that out quite yet because that's also a cue for hunger. Hmmm.

The other thing I've noticed is that she tries to hold things. When I am feeding her, she either holds on to "me" or to the bottle. Reagan never really did that.

Maddy's like a melody

She is so active. If she is left alone too long or if she is "bored", she fusses until she's on the floor or sitting up interacting with someone. It's cute. She will play and smile the second she's put down. The best is turning on her mobile, in her bed, and watching her kick. She will kick the entire time the music is going. She just loves it.

Today, I put her on a blanket and got a bunch of the baby toys out. Some stuff she will track, others she will not. I haven't figured out which items interest her yet. Today I tried the puppets from the Baby Einstein shows.

When she gets done playing, she just starts fussing. But she LOVES to play. Second to that, she loves to sit up and watch. She would rather sit up on your lap than lay down.

Jim's birthday

Jim had a rough start to his birthday today. Maddy woke up at 3:30 am with a blow out diaper... literally. She woke up at her normal time to eat. I picked her up and went into the bedroom to change her - purposefully not waking Jim because it was his birthday. That didn't work out. I touched her diaper and it oozed poop. Ugh. It was so bad that it was up her front and back. She got a bath. He finally got back to be about 30 minutes later.

At 7:30 am, Jordan woke up and started hollering from the upstairs. She didn't feel well at all. She was sore, shaking and nauseated. Nice. He took her to the doctor. She has the flu. Even better huh?

Needless to say, it was a rough morning. We did, however, have a nice dinner of leftovers, eat some homemade cake and ice cream and chill out after the kids went to bed. At least it ended nice. :)

Reagan and sleep

Tonight is night three for Reagan to sleep with no pull up on. Woo hooo. I hope she really is trained to not pee in the middle of the night. We have hardly had any issues with that since we started potty training.

Said Hi today

Maddy said Hi today. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I swear she did.

Jordan was playing with her on my lap. She was, of course, repeating "Hi" over and over again. It was obnoxious to listen to, but after the 10th time, Maddy cooed. The coo sounded like "Hi!" in a very positive and upbeat manner.

Jordan and I both giggled like we had a great secret. It sounded real to us even though I know she probably didn't really say "Hi!"

We'll just pretend she did. :)

Mama

Madelynn is a mama's girl so far. She seems to cry if she goes to anyone but me (or Jim). I keep trying to let Reagan hold her, but she fusses every time. Tonight, I picked her up to calm her down and didn't "provide suction" for her and she started crying. I thought it was nothing at first but a fussy cry. Boy was I wrong. She went into "meltdown mode" pretty fast.

She creid so hard that shed had tears rolling down her face and was turning red and purple. Wow was all I could say. She calmed down after I sat down in the chair and let her nurse for a few minutes.

Back to normal

Today, Maddy went back to normal. She took a few bottles, took normal naps and overall seemed happier and more alert. I guess the shots effected her more than I thought they would. I was really worried for a bit, but hoped she'd get back to normal. The only bad thing is I think her new bed time is 11pm. Ugh. I hope not because I could really use some more sleep than that will allow.

Merry Christmas

Today we went to Best Buy to do some shopping. We were leaving the car audio section and Reagan started talking to the employee that was helping us. We actually call it flirting. She gave him part of her snack (which he didn't eat), smile and blinked her eyes at him and when we left, she said "Merry Christmas"!

Poop day

Today was poop day for Maddy. The only reason I'm even writing about this is because of our adventure at church today. She only poops every other day. Yesterday, however, was actually her poop day. She also hasn't been eating or sleeping great (since her 2 month shots), so I wasn't surprised she had skipped a day.

This morning, we all piled in the car and went to church. We got there, late of course, in time for the message. That was fine. I missed the carols, but did get to hear them on the way in. We sat down and in about 2 minutes Maddy was awake. I picked her up so she could "see" everything going on. That was nice.

Another five minutes goes by and Maddy decides that TODAY IS POOP DAY!! Wow wee. Holy cow did that girl have to go. She started with one and kept going. Jim looked at me like "get her out of here". She was smelling up the place quite nicely. I giggled the whole way to the nursery.

It took me just a minute or two to walk to the nursery. I put her down on the table and let her go just a bit longer. She practically gassed out the other lady in there nursing. I felt bad, but there was not a whole lot I could do.

So pretty... so dainty...