Candyland

Jim decided to introduce "Candyland" to Reagan tonight. I was totally surprised how well she did. Of course, we stacked the deck for her so she could win. She had a good experience and had a ton of fun. She didn't have really any issues handling the rules. Yea Reagan.

Reagan has big feet... I think

Today we went shoe shopping for Ms. Reagan. To my surprise, she is now fitting into a wonderful size 9.5! Holy Cow. Is that big for a two and a half year old? I have no idea. Funny thing - she liked her old shoes so much she wouldn't change. So she has the exact same pair of shoes, just one full size bigger. Wow!

One week left... and then I can sleep

I have one more week left at work. I am so happy. It's been a really rough few months at my contract - there are so many politics and things that have started to occur that it has been tough to even go in to the office.

I went from wanting to go back there to being determined to never go back because the people are so bad. This place really treats their employees poorly. The people I respected at one point have lost a lot of my respect because of how they have handled things.

Too bad. It was a nice gig for the first 15 months I was there.

Baby C and Reagan

Reagan and I were laying in her bed last night and she reached over and said "there's Madelynn mommy" and pointed to my belly. She hadn't done that yet. :) I was so happy she finally said it. She's known that there is a baby in my belly, but has resisted calling her by her name. Although, she's only had a name for about a week. :)

Jailbreak!

Last night, Reagan did not want to go to sleep. Jim put her in bed about 9:00 pm and at 9:45 pm she was still very restless and gabby. So Jim went upstairs to "calm her down" and she was up with the lights on peeling all her Dora stickers off the wall. Whoops. That's the second time she's done that.

So he put her back in bed and we went downstairs to the basement. A few minutes later, I heard this loud thump and some other clatter from the upstairs. I asked Jim "do you really think we could hear her all the was in the basement?" He nodded his head yes. Hmmm.

Well, we soon found out that we were not hearing noise from her room - Reagan had made her way to the basement. Reagan had broken free!

So I took her back upstairs and laid down with her. She fell asleep eventually. I left her room about midnight. That lasted for a few hours.

A few hours later, I woke to a loud slam. It was the baby gate at the top of the stairs. I jumped out of bed and waited for her at the bottom of the stairs in the dark. Funny thing, I couldn't hear her. All I could see was this skeleton walking around the corner (she was in her Halloween PJs). Needless to say, I had to then take the rest of the Dora stickers down in order for her to go back into her room and there I slept until 6:00 am this morning.

I'm tired, but completely impressed by her ability to get out of her room and get to us.

Potty training update

This year, Reagan's room teacher is committed to getting all of her kids out of pullups at nap time. Reagan has done great with potty training. She has done better than I thought. She routinely wakes up dry at home, but I am too nervous about letting her sleep in underwear. But her teacher asked if they could try it because she always wakes up dry. So far she's been dry for a week with no accidents. Woo hooo!

I'm so proud of her!

Baby C (Madelynn)

I had my doctor's appointment today and they said she was still breech. Needless to say, the C-Section is still scheduled. I have kinda gotten over the initial shock of it all. I just want her here healthy. I've talked to so many people and gotten mixed reviews of a C-Section. So I'll just hope for the best at this point and pray that it all works out the way it is supposed to.