Lots of fun

Tonight I was playing on the floor with Reagan and she started rolling the ball to me. We rolled it back and forth multiple times - she laughed the whole time. After that, she crawled over to her "walky thingy" and pulled up. She was just standing there barely holding on. Since we’ve been trying to get her to walk, I thought I’d prompt her to let go. I said “So Big” and she let go. She thought about it, but she let go. Of course, she didn’t walk, she sat down. Drat, we’re trying to get her to walk. :)

She absolutely loves her dog – the one that makes all the music and noise. It’s a great learning toy, but she likes to hug and kiss it.  But I think her favorite toy by far is her piano. Every time she gets on the floor she crawls right over to it. As soon as she hits a key, it starts pumping out music. She loves it – she starts rocking back and forth and laughing. It’s awesome.

Ball and other stuff

Reagan said "Ba" tonight while signing "Ball". Wow! How smart is that!?
She now blinks when you ask her too, knows what a giraffe is and some other cool stuff.

Meagan and Amy both said that she was so talkative today. She just kept jabbering on and on and pointing at things. She is so busy.

I think her favorite game is peek-a-boo (or our version - Where's Reagan). She played that with Grampy tonight at dinner. Grampy turned it around on her after a while and covered himself up with the napkin. Reagan would pull it off of him and then hand it back as if to say "do it again". We reminded Dad that she could do this forever! he heee

Achilles update

Yesterday I went to my "first" doctor for my MRI results. So far he's had three different opinions on the care of my achilles and the urgency of my care. He's gone from "no surgery" to "surgery only" to "well you can wait until after your 2nd degree bb test". Hmmm.

So today, I went for my "second opinion". This doctor is in the same practice as the one that did my knee (who is one of the best in the country). I felt safe there. He examined me and made some interesting comments.
1) I am WAY too flexible - stop stretching completely.
2) The reason why I am hurt is not because I don't take care of myself
3) I am apparently one of "those people" that are more prone to injury due to "hyper flexibility" and something else I can't remember. When you are really flexible (like me) apparently those tendons and fibers don't protect you if you were "normal". Hmmm. So I guess it's settled - I'm not normal.
4) This is the BIG ONE! I am absolutely at risk (high risk) for rupturing my achilles. OUCH! I let him know that the other doctor said that I was at absolutley no risk and that I could continue with my exercise program and train for my 2nd degree. This doctor said "no"!

So where I'm at now - I have to wear my boot for a month, do some more therapy and go back in January to see where I'm at. He did say that tendon injuries can heal and he thought I might. His only concern was getting back to my activities. But we'll take it one step at a time. I wonder if I can do my P90X?

Please keep this in your prayers. I really don't want to be immobile with Little Reagan getting ready to start walking. Ugh.

One nap a day

It's official, she is down to one nap a day. That means that she now gets hungry easier and then also needs to go to bed earlier. She's been in transition for a couple of weeks, but Amy said she was really starting to go to one nap and they really couldn't do much about it.

Wow. So tonight, she got fussy about 600pm. I gave her a solid meal then instead of a bottle and she was ready for bed about 830pm. I am just amazed at that. I really never thought I'd see the day she'd go to bed before Jordan. Wow!

Easy afternoon

Well today was an easy day. I was able to leave a tad early and get Reagan by 430pm. I love those days. I love surprising her a little. I am always greeted with a smile when I pick her up. I love it! Melt!

Tonight, we played piano. Literally. I played something, she would wait til I was done, then she would play. We did this over and over again. When she got bored, she'd crawl down off my lap and stand there while I played. I hope she likes music later as much as she does now. I know she LOVEs the piano right now.

I'm sick

Well, I've now gotten sick more times in the last month than I have in the last year. Oh gosh. I have a throat infection? What is that? I've heard of sinus infections... but not throat. Oh well. I have a dose of antibiotics and that should take care of things for me. I just hope little miss doesn't get it.

Baby Proofing step one

Ok, we've finally taken the time to get some baby proofing done around the house. Of the countless drawers and cabinets Reagan can get into, we started with the kitchen. She is now offically not able to get into any of the doors in our kitchen cabinets. That took Jim a while. The next task is to take care of the 13 drawers. Then I think we'll move onto the bathrooms. I can't believe all the places you have to lock up with a baby.

As soon as Jim was done baby proofing the doors, she tried to get into them. She tried and tried with no luck of course. She'd just turn around and look at you like "hey what happened"? We do have a door that we can open with a bunch of old tupperware in it. She definetly needs a place to play while we're in there.