Night-night babies (and mommy)

Reagan loves baby dolls. She carries them around, gives them bottles, and is just super nuturing with them. Her favorite thing to do is to play "night-night babies". She covers her babies up with blankets (or dish towels) to tuck them in. Each baby needs to be multiple towels/blankets and their heads are always covered!

The other day, I was washing the dishes. Reagan kept pounding on my legs saying "down mommy. night-night mommy." Finally, I layed down on the floor. This is what happened.

Presents, presents, and more presents!

I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday! We got to spend a lot of time with family and we enjoyed Santa's visit. Presents were a HUGE hit for Reagan. On Christmas morning, she was totally shocked to see the presents beneath the tree. Of course, we had to open them immediately. She had a blast! As she ripped the paper, she said "trash". Then we she got to the gift, she was so excited. She clapped when she openned her cabbage patch doll!

The Christmas Tree on Christmas morning. Looks like someone was a good girl!!

Not a good photo of mommy, but I like that you can see Reagan saying "trash" as she tears the paper.

Checking on the new gifts.

Of course, presents didn't stop on Christmas morning. We had more gifts at Grammar and Gramper's house.

Also, Christmas marks another milestone for Reagan. She is now 18 months old!

Enjoying every moment

Reagan and mommy have been home together all week. We have been enjoying every moment of playtime! I thought I would share some of Reagan's favorite things:

Reagan loves to play "night-night babies". She uses dish towels and baby blankets to cover up her dolls and stuffed animals all around the house. She uses our entire drawer of dish towels and demands more when they are all gone! She always insists that the baby's head be covered up. Its entired body will be exposed, but its head will have 5 blankets on it! Hopefully she will outgrow this phase before we have another baby... it could be dangerous!

Reagan loves to look for birds (tweet-tweets) and squirrels out the window. She will stare and stare saying "tweet-tweet-tweet". Too bad its winter time, the birds aren't around very often anymore! She will be thrilled when spring comes back.

Reagan repeats (or tries to) everything you say. Its adorable. We have definitely been sensoring what we say! She never forgets anything either. Last week, Boone was in the trash can and when we got home there was trash everywhere. We yelled at him and told him he was a bad boy. Everyday, Reagan recaps the situation and tells us "Boone- bad boy. Trash. No trash."

We are definitely the luckiest parents in the world. She is definitely going to make our holiday season bright!

Old toy, same fun

We got Reagan a doorway jumper when she was like 8ish months old. She loved it! She would jump and walk around in it every day. We let a friend borrow it. It was returned on Saturday. Typical of me, I put it on the couch instead of putting it away. Reagan demanded that we put it up in the doorway. I didn't think she would actually want in it or care to play with it. I was definitely wrong!! She still loves it just as much as she did 10 months ago!

The holidays are approaching...

Grammar asked me to take some holiday photos of Reagan. Here are some highlights:

As all children know, boxes are the best toys! Reagan and I helped Grammar and Gramper put up their new Christmas tree.

Uncle Max was making her laugh. :) Chasing the dog is always good entertainment!

I cannot believe it is almost Christmas! It just seems like time is going way too quickly. I am definitely ready for this week to be over- the kids at school know break is approaching so they are acting like maniacs. I can only handle so much 7 year old drama!! I am so thankful that I will spending the next two weeks home with my little girl! Nic will be super busy at work, but after the new year he should be able to relax. So here's to succesfully completing the next 3 days of school! I can do it!

Getting naked

Reagan's new skill is dressing (or undressing) herself! She is always unzipping everything to take it off. She loves to help put her shirt on and is pretty good at taking it off. We are definitely just waiting for the day when we go in her room and she will be completely naked! It definitely won't be long.

Christmas ornaments

Not surprisingly, Reagan loves the Christmas ornaments. I decided that it would be too annoying to keep yelling "no" everytime she wanted to touch the tree. Therefore, we just put the ornaments she could touch down low. We explained how to touch the tree gently and showed her how to turn on the lights (its a foot button not a wall plug). She loves the ones with bells and photos. There has just been one ornament we had to actually put away...

Grammar likes to give us a "theme" ornament each year, to summarize the events of the year. In 2007, she created a little stork ornament since we were expecting Reagan. Reagan loved to carry it around and actually suck on the super hard plastic pacis.

Then she started to throw fits because she could not take the pacis off of the ornament. She is yelling "cicis off mommy". So we changed the subject and removed this ornament from the tree. :)