Christmas 2014

It was a fantastic Christmas! It was so fun watching Raegan's excitement over her gifts (especially the Santa gift), and watching Ava take it all in.

 

Checking out Ava's Santa gift

Raegan did a flailing crazy dance over her Barbie gymnastics set. :)

She was so excited!

Ava liked her walker.

I see you photobombing, Radar.

 

#avassillyfaces

 

 

 

 

Silly brother.

I love watching the three of them together. <3 p="">

 

 

The bow was just as exciting at the rattle. ;)

 

Some Christmas morning reality - Raegan pouting while her siblings watch on.

And the cute, less realistic picture.

Trash is fun too!

 

Presents at Grandma J's house

:)

 

Lowe's Build and Grow Workshop

Raegan and I had a blast building a Christmas train at Lowe's this morning. For every workshop your child attends, they get a patch for their apron. I'm super excited to sign up for more and get Raegan All The Patches. :)  

Family Picture Outtakes

 

We had our family pictures taken in mid-October by Thomas Gray. We got some amazing photos, but I think I love the silly photos just as much as the beautiful ones that made our Christmas card and our living room wall. They all show the kids' personalities so much, and they are perfect!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Changes

It seems like every day Ava is changing. I think my favorite time during the baby months is like 8 months-16 or 18 months. There are so many changes, and I love watching all the wonder on their faces as they discover new things about the world. Really, I love every month of the baby months, but the mobile infant stage was so fun with Raegan and I'm excited for it with Ava too.

Ava is basically crawling. She can crawl 5 or 6 paces before she plops down and goes back to army crawling. I think she realizes that she can move so much faster by army crawling so that's her default. On Wednesday last week she pulled herself up on her toy box. It's not tall enough for her to have been completely standing up, but she had her legs straight with her butt up in the air. :) And this Sunday she finally (after practicing all weekend) mastered going from crawling to sitting, or sitting to crawling. She so badly wants to be mobile and keep up with the big kids.

Lots of babbling - bah bah, ma ma, da da, and a scolding sounding one that sound likes blah blah blah. Her favorite thing to do these days is shake her head no whenever we ask her a question. It's hilarious. I love this silly girl so much.

Raegan-isms

Some gems from Raegan to remember:

Talking about how she's going to get her own house someday: "Because you're older than me so you'll die first Mom." I told her that was still a ways off and she said, "No Mom. You're really old. I bet it happens soon."

After I took braids out of her hair, it was really poofy. I said, "Raegan you've got some 80's hair going on. You need to leave the 80's to me and your dad since we were born then." She said, "Mom, I don't even know what you are saying to me right now."

Showing me a sparkly bead, "Mom, look at this really special thing I found when I was not napping during nap time today."

My girl is such a character!

Silly Faces

Ava is quite the talker these days. And she loves her tongue. She's always sticking it out and curling it up and down. She's such a silly, happy girl. Anytime I get out my phone to take a picture of her, she gets very quiet and focused on my phone. I've handed it to her a few times and she instantly grabs it and gets super excited about it. It's amazing that she stayed on her back long enough for me to take these pictures. She's always rolling over to her stomach and she's getting really good at holding her head up. Several times she's rolled three or four times continuously, and I've found her several feet away from where she started off at. We wonder if she won't be a little quicker to crawl than Raegan was, but who knows. I'm okay with not having to babyproof for awhile longer. :)

 

New Room

Finally, finally this week we got Raegan moved into her new room. There's still a few things we need to get out of the old room, and we need to paint the dresser for Raegan's new room still, but basically she's moved in. She was super, super excited to sleep in her big girl bed Saturday evening for the first time. There's so much more room for her to play, and I've been working hard to organize it so that it can stay tidy (ish).

 

Bonus picture: Raegan as a walrus. :) Love my goofy girl.