Picnic in the basement

We've had family in town for a little while now. We all decided to stay home tonight and play at our house with our new toys. We bundled up and came home about 6 pm. We ordered pizza and had a picnic in the basement and watched "wipeout".  

The girls played with all of their stuff. Maddy played with her new toys, Reagan played with her Princess Castle and her cash register. She and Maddy eventually climbed under the fort and hung out with Furbie for a while.

Reagan is getting the hang of the cash register and how it works. Now we need to find the directions so we can play some of the games for her to do.  Maddy played one of Reagan's new strategy games - it was cute to watch her play with it. She and Reagan also played with the basketball hoop. It was way too cute to see them play together.

We let them stay up until almost 11pm. Wow. But we've stayed up all week. Needless to say, I'm tired. But it will be nice to sleep in.

Reagan's 5th birthday

Today, my wonderful, beautiful daughter turns five. Sniff. She is getting so big and is growing up fast... She woke up in such a good mood - excited to be turning five. We went to Mimi and Papaw's house for the morning to hang out with the family. All the cousins were here.

Jim and I ran home to put Maddy down for a nap and to get all the stuff ready for the party. This was the first time all her cousins were at her party for her ever. So cool. When I was about ready for the guests, they all started showing up. As usual, we got the party decorations done at the last minute. :)

Reagan had a blast. Playing and laughing. She is so different this year than last year. She is so much more assertive and in control. She definitely knows what she likes and does not like.

She loved blowing out the candles and being sung to, but the funniest part was when she opened her presents. I told her "let's open presents next" and she immediately went to the pile in the living room and waited. Waited... not patiently, but waited. She said "I'm waiting". In normal circumstances, I would have been mortified, but she had already waited for five minutes. Anyway, she was so excited.

She started opening gifts and shouted "Oh Yea!" about every time she opened one. It was hilarious. She loved literally everything she got. I was so happy to see such a positive response. She opened one present and actually did a whole fist pump and said "OH YEAAAAA!"

hilarious.

Maddy talks a lot

Maddy is cracking us all up. She is so vocal and is able to speak in clear descriptive sentences it is amazing. She literally mimics everything that is said around her... even Furbie. We noticed yesterday that she was saying some things that Reagan's Furbie animal said. When you listen, she actually will say "tay tay nu nu" or some of the other things. 

At first, I started to worry about it. I thought, "what happened to her vocabulary". Then I realized it was the new martian language that had entered our home. Whoops. :) My little parrot.

Loose tooth

My darling Reagan officially has her first loose tooth. Her top, front, right tooth. The only reason I noticed it is because her teeth are basically perfect. The one was pushed back. So either she had gotten bopped or it was loose. :) Sigh, my little girl is getting so big.

Updated on December 29th...
Reagan finally told me what happened. She actually fell into a piece of furniture in my parents' basement. Nice. So I will probably take her to the doctor to make sure no damage was done. Either way, she will probably lose this tooth. :(

Updated on December 31st...
Yup - there is nothing we can do. Her permanent teeth didn't look effected at this point. Her gums are good. So no visible damage. But they also decided to do nothing with it. So my little girl officially has a loose tooth and may get to lose it soon. I'm hoping it stays in a bit longer. I'm not ready for her to be toothless, but she certainly is. :)

Hot dogs are for eating

Maddy decided today at lunch to put her hot dog down her shirt and dress. We looked over and she was holding the top of her shirt looking down. We figured it out. "Maddy, did you put your hotdog down your shirt?" She answered no promptly. Then looked back down.
We asked, "Then where did it go?" She answered "no" again.
So we asked one more time... this time we got a "Yesssss" with a smile. Nice Maddy.

Airplanes and Santa

Today, the girls went to go see Santa. We got them dressed up and was trying to take a picture when Maddy took off "flying". Vrrooooommmm she said as she flew around the room. We didn't know what to do but giggle. I just wanted a stupid pictures, but she wanted to fly. How funny. Then Reagan got into the act. She started hoping and flying around. There goes my picture. But boy was it fun watching them have a great time playing with each other.

Maddy is sick :(

My poor little girl is sick today I think. The school called and said "loose stools" and said to come get her. Of course, there is no fever and no other issues. Interesting.

So I basically came home from work to turn on Dora and watch her play. Fun for me. :) Right now, she's curled up on the couch all tucked into "bed" with her red blankey and her animals.

Cruver me up mommy!