LIttle Reagan

Last night, Reagan refused to go to sleep. I put her in bed and she just could not calm down. The bad thing is she's in a big girl bed. That just means she can get up and get out of bed and walk around her room.

So Jim and I settled in to watch a little boob tube and listened to Reagan chat away. She would fall silent at times which meant I was hoping she was asleep only to hear her start chatting again. I finally fell asleep sitting up about 10:30 pm.

This morning, I went to wake her up and found her snuggled around most of her animals and way too many books to count. I'm guessing by the scene that she had read multiple books to all her animals last night prior to passing out on top of them. Way too cute.

Potty Training

So over the last two and a half weeks (of four) Reagan has had perfect days at school with potty training. She no longer has accidents at school which is awesome. She's actually close to being accident-free at home too. The only time she has one is if she is in a bad mood. Then it's expected unless she hasn't had fluids. But for the most part, I think we're down to 2-3 accidents per week.

Last night, we ventured to the store after she went potty and had no trouble. When we got home, she had to go. But the great thing was that she held it. Woo hoo.

So the last thing is her night time stuff. So far, she's dry almost every night. I think in the last week, she's had no wet mornings. She did one time over the weekend, but that's it.

Potty Training is good today. :)

Temper temper

Reagan has finally broken out of her room. Jim put her in bed tonight and she was just not interested in going to sleep. She was fighting everything he tried to get her to calm down and get into bed. Between a challenging bath and a frantic attempt to get her into her PJs, Jim walked out of her room and left her to scream and cry. He waited for her to calm upstairs in the bonus room.

Little did he know that she was a step ahead of him. After a period of time, she fell quiet. All of a sudden, she appeared before him with both halves of the door handle lock and threw them on the floor like "you think you can keep me in my room - take that!"

How do you NOT laugh at that?

Bad thing, all those door handle covers that we have around the house are probably useless at this point. :(

Get away weekend

So this weekend Jim and I went to Great Wolf Lodge. We struggled for a couple weeks to find any place (spa or other) that had reservations available. This was the only place that was open. It actually only had two rooms left which I found funny.

We dropped Reagan off with my parents on Saturday afternoon and came home to pack and drive to Mason. Mason... lame. But guess what - it was awesome. I loved it. There were kids running around (they weren't mine). There were babies crying (they weren't mine). There was a water park with lots for us to do (huge plus).

We got there and immediately went to the water park. It was wonderful. It had a lazy river, hot tubs, water coasters, obstacle course, kid areas, wave pool and just tons of fun for all. We stayed at the water park until we played enough and then got ready to have a "date". Yes a date.

We went to Outback and saw "The Karate Kid" (a total waste for me and Jim, but a date none-the-less). We had a nice time. We came back and crawled into bed and just relaxed. How nice.

We slept in Sunday til 9am. Holy Cow - that just never happens. :) We got up, ate, and swam. I got my toes done (me time) and Jim took a nap. Again, stuff we can never do. We ate a late lunch and then went right back to the pool. Again, lots of fun.

Jim rode the water coasters several times and loved them. We played until late and ran up to the restaurant about 830pm to eat dinner. After that, we watched "Date Night" and relaxed again.

Of course we slept in again on Monday, got up and ate about 10am. Wow. The cool thing about that place was that we could play until the park closed at 10pm on our check out day. Perfect. We ran down to grab Reagan and brought her back up to play all evening. We didn't get home until almost 930 pm on Monday. We were all tired and done for the night. Whew!

I am so happy we took the chance to go. It was a better get away than I expected. I had fun with Jim, relaxed and missed my girl. :)

Who won? Reagan or the Waterslide?

So you be the judge...

Monday after our "get away weekend" we drove down to get Reagan from school a bit early and take her back up to the Great Wolf Lodge for an evening of fun. She was curious as to where we were going, but we just kept telling her the waterpark. Confused as she was, she was happy to be going.

We got there and she lit up. She played in the water, went down the water slides confidently and played in the fountains. There were several structures that kids could play on - Reagan found them. She climbed up one - and just kept going. Jim and I followed her curiosity and ended up face to face with two water coasters.

Of course, Jim and I both thought that she could ride down with daddy, so I headed back down. I looked up and Jim was waving at me and I figured out that she had to go it alone. Uh oh. It was a big kid slide, not meant for kids at her level. I was worried. But Jim said "she's going down alone and the lifeguard is okay with it". Hmmm.

So I waited. He sent her down and I waited. As she came down, I heard nothing. No screams nothing. But she appeared butt first, face down and plopped right into the pool of water. I, of course, scooped her right up expecting her to cry or something. Nope! She had this look of terror and shock on her face. But no noise. She didn't make one until she saw her daddy and immediately wanted to go to him. :)

I still haven't figured out what happened. Did she flip out, was she in shock? I'm guessing the answer to my question is that the Waterslide won!

Dora

Last night, I gave Reagan a Big Sister Dora dolly. I wanted to give her something last night to focus on since Jim and I were going "out of town" for two nights. (She's just staying with my parents actually.) I put it on her bed and put the twins on the pillows next to her bed. She walked in her room and saw the surprise dolly and smiled really big. She loved it. She immediately picked Dora up and started holding her and talking to her.

Then she realized that she had the twins too. That was way too cute. She pretended to feed and rock them while Jim and I read books to her. So cute.

At the end of the evening, we tucked the twins and Dora in. Then we tucked Reagan in. Yea!

Sleeping better

So tonight, it was my turn to put Reagan in bed. We had a bath and read books. To my surprise, she crawled into bed, said "mommy tuck me in and turn out the lights". That was it. No arguing, no singing, just done. Hmmm. I miss my snuggle time with my little stinker. Ugh.

Jim said that last night he got the same thing. She crawled up into bed on her own and just went to sleep. Wow.

But really? She's only 2.5. Do they really start now - I already miss her. Ugh. I'm a mush.