Sick kid

Today, Jim stayed home in the morning to take Reagan to the doctor. Unfortunately, Reagan was just sick enough that he asked us to keep her out of school for 48 hours. UGH! So I left work around lunch time to take the second half of the day. She was very clingy but fortunately took a nap for me. She didn't have the flu, just some nasty cough/cold that she was not able to kick on her own. I'm hoping that she'll get rid of her fever by the morning so she can go back to school on Thursday.

elphant

Elephant is always said "phft" (very short and sweet). Not really sure why she does that now, but she does.

Goofy looks

Reagan is starting to get some pretty neat facial expressions. She gets such a playful look on her face at times - it's hard not to laugh. She also has figured out how to "stick out her lip". How does that happen? She is getting so grown up right before my very eyes - it's scary. Wasn't she just born? Hmmm. Can we stop time at all? (then I remember we're potty training...) :)

My kid refuses to sleep

I don't get it. She just won't go to sleep. For the last month, she just refuses to go to bed. Does this mean that she may be ready to not take a nap during the day? This early? All I know is it drives me batty that she is still going 100 mph right now... I need to sleep.

Guess I'm calling the doctor to find out when this happens.

Cookie Club 2009 ROCKS!

Tonight we met, ate and traded cookies. YUMMY!!!

Thanks Ladies! You are all wonderful women - I love getting to see you.

So cool

Reagan is getting so big and so smart. She's really starting to put several words together in sentences, follow more complex directions and is so loving. Every morning, she looks for everyone. She asks where the puppies, dad and jordan are - almost in a routine.

If she hears the dogs start barking for no apparent reason, she's take a breath in and say "I wonder who's here!?" while cocking her head to the side.

She's also really starting to potty train more seriously - or at least for the moment. She refuses to go potty on the baby potty - it must be on the big potty. She's starting to get better at recognizing when she has to go as opposed to waiting til she's done and asking. She did poop for the first time Tuesday night on the potty. :)

Tonight, I was baking cookies and she came running when she heard the timer go off. I put my hand up and said "wait baby, it's hot". She just stood there watching me pull the cookies out. Later, while playing with the train set, she put the people down and said "wait there, it's hot". Totally cute.

Lovin' the train set

This morning, I got Reagan up at 7:30 am despite her late bedtime last night. The first things she asked for was "Daddy?" and the second thing was "rugurt". :) I'm waiting to tell Jim that she was asking for him all day because it might make it hard on him to be gone.

Anyway, as soon as Reagan was done with her Rugurt and oatmeal, she immediately got down and pulled out the box that had Jordan's old train set in it. She played with that for over an hour - no joke. And when I said, let's go see Mimi and Papa, she said no. Wow! She loves that thing.



She hung out there while I ran some errands and of course, refused to take a nap for them. So I put her down after a snack at 3:00 pm today and we both slept right through til 6:00 pm. (So much for going to the Christmas play tonight). Ugh.

Anyway, Reagan and I played all night. We ate veggies and cookies (I had to make 12 dozen for the cookie exchange). At 8:00 pm, I realized that I didn't have enough dough. I screwed up my count. So I piled her in the car at 8:30 pm and took off for Wally World. Weeeeee. It really wasn't that bad. But I had to get some premade dough because I was "done" making cookies. I totally cheated on my last 3 dozen. Oh well.

We got home with a few extra things like a Dora doll and a Dora book. :) (It kept her quiet). I finally convinced her about 10:00 pm to get in the bath and into bed by 1030 pm. Woo hoo. So I'm still up relaxing. I have a feeling that tomorrow will come very early for me.