My Reagan

She is just amazing me every day. Her vocabulary and communication is growing so much that it's often hard to keep up with at times. We dropped my mom off at her house yesterday and Reagan popped out with "Can I join you?" Join you? Really, a three year old. Hmmm. Maybe that's normal? She picks things up and seems to process them very quickly.

I told her she had on a gorgeous dress on last Sunday. Now she reuses that word in appropriate settings and circumstances. Mom, your hair looks gorgeous. Just amazing.

Proud mama

Walked into the men's room

This morning, on the way to work, I felt really tired - overly tired. I got into work, pinged my friend, and walked down the hall to meet her for coffee. She met me. We chatted outside the restrooms. I said "I just need to run in here" while I grabbed the restroom door. Too bad it was the wrong door. It was the door to the men's room. I turned to walk in and she said "uh Cathlynn..." at the same time that I recognized I was in the wrong place. Nice!

Going to sleep

Tonight was interesting. Reagan has started to dress up to go to bed. She will often be put to bed and then we hear her moving around. When I go up to explore, she often has on dressy socks and shoes. Too cute. She always says she has to be dressed up to go to bed. Odd.

Maddy also had an interesting bed event. She's been sleeping on her stomach. I would worry except we have a really good monitor. Tonight, she just didn't want to go to sleep. So I walked her to my parents hoping to wear her out some more. I got her home about 30 minutes later and she seemed ready. After another bottle, she still seemed too awake, so I just laid her down. She immediately got up to play with the crib toy. We turned on the monitor and just let it go. She never cried, never complained. An hour later, I went upstairs to check on her. She was sleeping on her face - literally. She was curled over in her "sexy" position and on her face. I debated for a bit, but finally turned her over onto her back. Luckily she did not wake up. ahhh.

Violin lessons

So tonight Reagan amazed her teacher again. In four lessons, Reagan has gone from not playing one note on the violin to holding, playing multiple notes and sounding good. She can now play part of the twinkle variation well. We are now on to working on the arm work. Wow. The teacher seems to under react to most things. So when she said "she's doing really well", I took that to mean she really was. Either way, I'm proud of how well she's done and am impressed with her ability to absorb all of what she's learned so far.

Bumps and bruises

I picked Maddy up today and she had a lovely open mark under her left eye. Sigh. I said "she has pictures this weekend". Not that it matters much, but I would like her to look good. That gash is in addition to the nice cut she gave herself with her nail on Saturday and then the bruise she gave herself Saturday night. Then comes the bump from opening the dog crate on her head. Oh and now she has another cut on her right temple.

Should I cancel pics or let it go?

How do I do this now?

Maddy is learning how to get around. She commando crawls most of the time. But tonight, she tried something different. My mom was watching her and said she got up on her knees and "walked" forward about four steps before going to her hands again. Odd. Just odd. I don't doubt it though. Right after that, she did a bear crawl and a real crawls in a matter of moments. I thinks she's trying to figure it all out. Cute.

Mastered the Walker

She can get in and around just about every place she can. Unfortunately, today she walked over to the jumparoo that hangs in the door way. She pushed it and it bopped her in the face. Ugh. Not good. She cried for a good little bit today. That was it for the walker today.