Words

Maddy is starting to mimic what we say. Most of the time is some version of her cooing and chattering, but today she said Reagan and Jordan both. Wow!

Tooth #5

Maddy now has five teeth. Oh My!

Playroom with Sean

Tonight, we went over to Paul & Emily's house to hang out for dinner and playtime. It was probably the first time I let Reagan just go upstairs on her own to the playroom with Sean. It was more out of pure laziness than anything, but she was fine. Emily walked them upstairs and locked them in with the gate. They played HARD. It sounded like elephants were going to come through the ceiling. But they had fun.

Maddy and Lily played together in the kitchen while Emily put dinner together. At one point, the two little ones crawled out of the kitchen, down the hallway together and just turned around to "look". I leaned over to Emily and said "oh, we are going to be in trouble". They had done it together. They must already have their own communication. It's cute.

Maddy is also trying harder to walk. While there, she did some little leap/fall/walk thing from the coffee table to the couch. I keep waiting for her to just go for it. Not yet.

Park

The girls love to go to the park! Tonight, we took both girls up to the park to play and run. We put Maddy in the stroller and made Reagan walk. She hates to walk, but loves to get there. Maddy kicked and cooed the entire way there. She loves the stroller.

Reagan is getting really good at the hanging bars. She's starting to attempt to walk across the monkey bars. Tonight, she actually hung by herself and tried to move across to the next one. I was proud. She will hang forever on one bar, but has yet to start to move across. I loved it.

We both took Maddy around the park for a run. We actually thought that she would fall asleep, but she didn't. She had her eyes wide open and was taking everything in.

After getting home, Maddy was very anxious to walk. She's getting really brave. She has started to throw/walk herself from object to object. When she lands, she looks up and just giggles. SO cute.

Church

Reagan asks me every day "can I go to church?" I love it. She was so happy tonight when I said that it was Cubbies night and she could go. She had an awesome time. She loves to go and sing and do all the activities. It's such a good program. I'm loving it.

Piano girl

Maddy is my little piano player (and stair climber). Every time we go to the basement, the first thing she does is crawl to the piano. She climbs up and starts tickling the ivories! I love it. She always reaches up and then turns to see if I'm looking. So cute. Eventually, she will start making noises and pointing as if she is asking to "get up".

I usually pick her up and she then will slam her hands onto the keys and just giggle. I love it.

Maddy is better

Maddy slept through the night. Finally. I'm so happy because that means that she is finally on the mend from this crazy infection and croup thing she had. She got a shot at the doctor yesterday as a "boost" to the meds she is already on. This is her second round of medication plus the croup. Ugh.

Anyway, she looked good this morning. I actually had to wake her up. Yea! She was happy to see me. She ate most of her bottle. She didn't cry when I put her in her seat. She looked happy to be at school. It's the first day I didn't worry about her all day.

Tonight, she was great. Still a bit tired, but she's still healing. She was happy all evening. Her ear was draining not as badly and her cough was so much better. I'm so thankful she's getting better.

Stuff I love

Reagan is really growing up a lot. It's funny - I don't write every day here, but it seems when I sit back to review in my mind that I can't account for all the cool things she does. The funniest thing she's done lately is her story telling. She has gotten to be such a dramatic story teller. She's very colorful and loves to use combinations of words that most of the time make sense, but not always.

The latest thing is her new family - her step family. At first, we thought it was just a new set of parents. But it was come out that she even has a step-jordan, maddy and even step-reagan. I believe she even has a step-neighbor family and some others. It's funny to listen to her talk about them. I remember when my neice, Sarah spoke this way. So funny to listen to their minds work. I love it.

She also loves to sing. She will just burst out in song while riding in the car or before bed. She'll ask me if I know a song and when I tell her no, she will just start singing as if she is teaching me. Most of the time, it is around love and friendships with her. She sings about how much she loves me and her sisters. So sweet.

My favorite catch phrase of hers is "Quit it out". It's a combo of cut it out and quit it. Love it. She also likes to tell me to "keep it up" and "i'm not laughing". Man she really is a mirror isn't she.

When I look at my girl, I see this little baby still. She is my baby. I love watching her grow, but honestly can not believe that it's been almost four years since I've been blessed with such and amazing child. I love her!

Walking

I think they practice walking at school with the babies. Maddy gets so excited when we "walk her" between us. JIm and I started sitting on the floor and encourage her to walk between us. She had started walk/falling towards large objects this weekend, so we were helping that process along. She just starts giggling when we do it. It's awesome to watch.

Tonight, she walked a few steps on her own. I'm still waiting for her to do it literally on her own - but man is she close. Yea Maddy!!

Still sick

Poor Maddy can't win. This morning she woke up and she was worse. Her cough kept her up all night and her ear was, quite frankly, disgusting. It was draining some crazy yellow/green stuff that was crusting over. Ewww. We called the doctor and they said to bring her in. Fever, ear nastiness and the horrible cough should have all been better by today.

Jim picked her up and got her to the doctor. They gave her a "booster" shot to help her along and a new ear drop to try. If this doesn't work, they suggested we go back to the ENT. Good news I hope. I'm really hoping that this helps her get better. She seemed to go to sleep a bit easier tonight. I also haven't heard her cough. Crossed fingers.

Jordan

She said "jordan" folks! Jim told me that she had said it to him when he picked her up. She didn't repeat it, of course, during the evening. But later, she was cuddling with Jim and he said "say Jordan" in a high voice. She did!! HOLY COW!

Maddy just tried to walk

Over the last several days, I've watched Maddy take one step and then fall. I've watched her fall towards an object (person or thing). And, I just now watched her hurl herself towards the Dora Dollhouse in the living room. She walked two steps in a falling motion and landed with a BIG thump. How cool is that?