Disney Downtown!

Sister's here and we're going to Disneyland! We weren't sure if my sister was going to be able to make another trip back out here, but she had a small break in between spring and summer classes, so we were able to squeeze in a few days. She got in today around 1 o'clock and we headed straight to Anaheim, it's only about an hour and a half drive from us. We arrived at our hotel, changed our clothes and left to walk the streets of Disney. Darrin made reservations at The Rain Forest Cafe for dinner and we had a few hours to kill before dinner time. We ended up walking Disney Downtown and it was so fun!

There were tons of little cute shops, restaurants and entertainment in the streets.

I love all these pictures of her, she is such a performer. (and she was extra attached to her baby today)

Wordless Wednesday

Mother's Day

I had such a wonderful Mother's Day this year. My very good friend Shannon, whom I have been close with since high school, came to visit for the weekend and we had such a good time. We spent the first few days just shopping around and enjoying being outside, the weather was beautiful. We had dinner out just the two of us a couple nights and caught up on everything in each other's lives, thanks to Darrin who stayed home with Reagan. Then today we woke up and headed for La Jolla for breakfast. The weather wasn't so great, we didn't get any rain it was just a little chilly and windy. However, our breakfast was delicious!

After we ate we went down to La Jolla beach and hung around there for a little while. Reagan was in a good mood and was interested in getting her feet dirty in the sand. (you never know with her, some days she doesn't mind the sand, others she hates it)

I love this one.

I hope all the Mother's had a wonderful day today. I am so lucky to have such wonderful women in my life and even more lucky to be Reagan's mom. Thank you Reagan for allowing me to take part in such a special day. I love you with all my heart.

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother never. A mother is something absolutely new." - Anonymous

I Love You Mommy

Dear Mama,

Thank you for being the best mother in the whole world. You do so many great things for me that I don't even know where to start, but here are a few things that you do for me that I am thankful for.

1. Thank you for posting blogs and pictures of me so one day I can read about the fun things you took me to when I was little.

2. Thank you for warming up my milk to 30 seconds because it makes it juuuusst right.

3. Thank you for allowing me to sleep in your bed in the morning when I am still tired.

4. Thank you for feeding me breakfast, especially when Dad's home and I get eggs.

5. Thank you for playing with me out on the porch, and teaching me to color.

6. Thank you for taking me the park, even if sometimes I almost fall off and it scares you.

7. Thank you for taking me to "My Gym", because I have so much fun there with my friends.

8. Thank you for teaching me all my first words, especially "mama", "ugh oh", and "where'd it go" because I've noticed that you react so fast to these words.

9. Thank you for making my clothes for me, I know you have learned so much and I appreciate that you work so hard to make me look soooo good (even though it doesn’t take that much work to make me look good)!

10. And finally Thank you for being you and loving me soooo much, I Love You!

Happy Mother's Day,

Thoughts by Reagan Marie but typed by Daddy

21 Months

I can't believe that in 3 short months Reagan will already be TWO. I know I say it every month, but this really has been one of my most favorite times with her. And before we wonder when she actually became a toddler, I would have to say now more than ever I realize how big she is. She is talking so much and everyday she surprises me with something new. A few new words to add to the list are: snack, Mae Mae, Niney (Honey), plane, colors, birds, milk, bath, bubbles, water, duck, thank you (dank do), good girl (goo girl), bless you (shu shu), outside, eat, stuck, boat.

She loves loves all her babies. She still does have a favorite, but she is always playing with all of them.

She also LOVES tea, especially if it's from Chick fil A.

Now she has everything she needs, all 3 babies and her tea.

She has become such a great helper, she loves to do what I am doing. If I am cleaning she wants to clean with me and as long as I give her some sort of task she always wants to help out.

She is really into reading her books. I will hear her in her room just talking and talking, then she usually brings them to me to read with her. She has a few favorites and knows what part in the book is coming up, or what is on certain pages.

She has gotten so much better at My Gym and she loves it there. She is so friendly with the other kids and is doing the daily events with the instructors. Before she would cling to me and wasn't interested in trying out the new event, but now she loves doing the new things.

She no longer sits in her highchair. We decided that it was taking up to much room and that she would probably like a booster seat better, so she now eats in her booster seat. At first we kept the little tray on it and she ate off that, but now we give her a big girl plate and she sits right up to the table like us. She loves it.

She LOVES bubbles, especially bubbles in the bath. Which is really good because it seemed like before the bubbles she started putting up a fight to get in. Once she was in the bath, she was fine, but for some reason she wasn't wanting to get in. And remember how I mentioned I hated doing bath time when Darrin isn't here? Well, now that she loves the bubbles, bath time is wonderful!

She is now taking off her diaper. If I try to let her go with just a diaper or just a shirt and no pants, within seconds her diaper is off. So, I have to keep pants on her otherwise look for trickle spots! (I wanted to post a picture, but Darrin wouldn't let me. He said bare butt could not be shown on the blog.)

And she is starting to look just like me! She still looks alot like Darrin, but more and more I hear how much she looks like me. Look how long her hair is getting, I love it!