Sunday, March 28, 2010

Lately...


Raegan officially turned one this past Wednesday, March 24th. She still weighs 18 lbs, is walking petty well and can stand up on her own without having to pull up on something, say's "up", "dada", "mama", and "again", she gives hugs and kisses, loves to talk on the phone, claps, and waves. Needless to stay she keeps us entertained.

The other day I was hanging up clothes in our closet, which is attached to our master bath, when I heard, "splash, splash" I turned around and Raegan had her hand in the toilet playing with the water! So disgusting I couldn't believe she did that! Now we have to be very certain to always put the lid all the way down, or I could buy the toilet seat locks?!? We haven't bought any cabinet/drawer/door locks yet, Raegan knows how to open them and often gets in some of my makeup drawers or kitchen cabinets and throws things out, but its hasn't been a big problem for us.

We went to the Baylor Sweet 16 game Friday March 26th and there were so many Baylor fans at the game, it was great to see all the green and gold! The first half everyone was pretty loud, but we had such a big lead in the second half that the game was pretty boring! We left after Baylor won, instead of staying to watch the Duke vs. Purdue game and went to Lauren and Nathan's house to stay the night. They have a very pretty two story home in Houston. Raegan was amazed by the stairs and showed us that she knew how to climb up them! Raegan got to open a birthday present from Nathan and Lauren and she got a 1st Easter bib, a nite time glow seahorse, and a Good Morning, Good Night book. Lauren and Nathan have a gorgeous bengal cat named Mia, that was terrified of Raegan. http://www.encorebengals.com/ I'm not a big fan of cats, but if I did have one, I'd get one of these.
Saturday morning Lauren made us apple cinnamon muffins and then we packed up and headed to Dallas. Saturday we had lunch and celebrated Raegan's birthday with Philip's parents, my parents, and my little sister and brother at Chick-fil-A. Raegan had a pink and green butterfly cake. She got lots of cute summer outfits, more pop-up books, her first laptop, sunglasses, and a super cute stuffed elephant that she liked so much she kissed! Saturday evening we left Raegan at the hotel with the grandparents and went to David and Stephanie's wedding at Royal Lane Baptist Church. The wedding was beautiful and their reception on the top floor of the Thanksgiving tower was even more beautiful as we could see all of Dallas at sunset. Texas sunsets are so pretty! We got back home in time to watch the Baylor men's basketball team play Duke, it was a good game, but they didn't make it into the final 4. The Baylor girls did beat Duke Monday night to advance to the final four though!
EASTER ACTIVITIES



I took Friday April 2nd off, but since Raegan's daycare was having an Easter egg hunt I took her up there for it. They basically just poured all the eggs in the middle of the floor and then let all the litte ones play in them! It was good practice for the Easter Egg hunt our homeowner's association held on Saturday. Raegan learned to pick up the eggs and place them in her basket and I replaced the candy with goldfish crackers. She's such a smart little girl, she'd pick two eggs out of her basket and shake both of them and then whichever one made noise she'd open it.

On Sunday we went to the early service at church and then had this "great" idea to pave the area in front of our front porch where the grass doesn't grow well. We bought 45 8'' x 16'' paver stones and tore out the stones that were already there, dug up some of the dirt to make it more even, laid out this black ground covering and then laid the paver stones, but I could see the foundation and decided I didn't like the way it looked so we put the paver stones back in my car and Philip took them back and bought 16 bags of concrete instead. We took a break to go to our friend's two years old's birthday party at 2pm and then got back to business once we got home. We only had a 5 gallon bucket instead of a wheel barrel so I played the water girl, while Philip lifted the 80 lb bags of concrete to mix with the water. It was a hard task, but eventually (2 large black trash cans full, 1 very flooded yard, 4 muddy shoes, 4 concrete dusted hands, and 1 attention-hungry baby later ) we got it done. I was too buy to get any pics of our "project" but here's another pic of Raegan :)

Monday Philip and I both went back to work, Philip definitely didn't get a day of rest this week. Around lunch time I got call from the daycare (these are never bearers of good news). Raegan had a fever off 101, I old them it was probably because she's cutting two teeth and to give her some tylenol and let me know if it doesn't get better. I get a call a few hours later saying her temp is now 104! I was working about 30 miles North so Philip went and picked up Raegan and called the doctor's office who told him to take her straight to the ER. The ER in Moore had a minimum 1 1/2 wait so he took her to Norman and was able to get right in. At the ER she was breathing really heavy so they checked her lungs which were okay, and then did some tests to see if she had a bladder infection, those tests came back negative so they gave her Motrin. About 5 minutes later her fever was gone and she seemed back to her usual self, smiling and playing!






Monday, March 22, 2010

Raegan's Birthday Celebration


Despite the blizzard that blew through this weekend, Raegan's 1st birthday party was a success. Here are a couple of pictures from her party, I didn't post any of the other children, because I'm not sure how other parents feel about having pictures of their children posted online. Raegan had a great time and got to taste cake/icing for the 1st time!

This is her, "did I do that" face. Poor lil' panda cake :)
Our friend, Jessica, made the #1 cake, panda "smash" cake, cupcakes and cookies!


Raegan did a good job opening her presents!

Such a big girl, she can climb up the stairs and go down the slide all by herself. She also is walking much more now and started drinking milk this weekend from a sippy cup.

Happy Birthday Raegan!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Raegan Walking

Spring Break - March 2010
Raegan's walking improves. Sorry for the sideways view, I recorded it wrong.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Peek-a-boo


Raegan playing her favorite game

Raegan smacks her lips


Raegan just started doing this a couple of days ago...not sure what it's about yet.

Raegan eating

This was Raegan 2 months ago...she now has 4 teeth. More videos to come later.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Just saying "Hello!"

Raegan's hair is finally getting long enough to wear bows without headbands, yay!

Raegan's messy face after I tried to give her antibiotics (pre-tubes).

Hope you all had a happy Monday!


Thursday, March 4, 2010

As promised...


Update after ear tube surgery...

To prepare for the surgery Raegan wasn't allowed to eat after midnight Wednesday night. As her surgery was scheduled for 7:30am, this wouldn't seem like a big deal to most; however, Raegan still eats on a newborn schedule (i.e. every 2 -3 hours). Yes I have woke up every night for the past 11 months to feed her in the middle of the night. So I feed Raegan right before midnight and she slept until 2:47, when I had to have Philip rock her back to sleep instead of nursing her. The time between 2:47 and 5 o'clock is kinda blur, but consisted of crying, changing a diaper, rocking, playing lullabies on the ihome, pumping 2 bottles, and more crying. I think I caught a nap between 5 - 5:30 and then woke up, bathed Raegan, and ate breakfast before we had to leave for the surgery at 6:15am. We arrived a little late, filled out a lot of paper work, I drank a cup of coffee, and then had the risks and procedures explained to us. They weighed Raegan at 18 lbs. (same weight since she was 5 months old), checked her heart rate, and stuck a thermometer sticker to her forehead. Philip and I weren't able to go into the surgery room with Raegan. Instead nurses came over with a white glove blown up like a balloon (you know the kind that look like cow utters) and Raegan was sold, she went to them and didn't even notice that we weren't going with her.

The surgery went well and was very quick, it actually took longer for Raegan to wake up from the surgery then it did for them to put her under and do the surgery. When Raegan woke up, they came and got us and I nursed her until they told us she was good to go. She seemed a little sluggish/tired for awhile, but soon was back to normal. I went ahead and worked from home after we got home, just so I could keep a close eye on her.

Anyways, thank you for your prayers, we are so thankful everything went well.
Here is a pic of Raegan patting her babydoll on the back.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk

I'm not sure if I've said it before, if not I've sure thought it many times. Whoever came up with the saying don't cry over spilled milk, definitely never had to pump breastmilk. Its not an easy job! Today was an interesting pumping day. First off I don't have my own office where I can just shut the door and the blinds when I need to pump. I work at different client sites and my "pumping spots" can vary from a private room with a fridge, leather recliner, sink, magazines, and a door with a lock to a big bathroom stall with a chair in it. Today I was in the big bathroom stall with a chair in it, when the cleaning lady busts in and I catch the door as quickly as I can trying to explain to her not to come in. She apologized sincerely, but I still don't understand how she didn't hear the loud annoying sounds coming from the powerful motor of my pump. The second time I tried to pump today there was someone taking up that stall, I waited for about a minute and then decided I'd try the restroom upstairs, to my dismay someone was taking that one up as well. I thought surely the one downstairs ought to be empty by now, so I walked back down stairs and checked and it wasn't, so I just gave up.

Philip decided to close tonight to train a new leader, so I had to leave work early to pick up Raegan. At the daycare I walk into Raegan's room to see her and another little girl pulling books off of a bookshelf, another baby asleep in a bouncer, and the teacher with her legs up in the recliner looking at/texting on her cell phone. This specific afternoon teacher/teenager is the one who I think is really scared of me, because one time she 'accidently' dumped out one of Raegan's bottles and I called the director very upset about it. I say hi to Raegan and the teacher puts her phone down real fast (I don't think they are suppose to have them out) and immediately tells me that she had to give Raegan formula. Instead of freaking out, I just said "oh ok, did she take it" her response, "yah kinda." Me thinking "I spend an hour (at least) a day with my loud pump so Raegan can have the benefits of breastmilk and you did what..." anyways, turns out Raegan still had 4 ounces (1 bottle) of milk left in the fridge in her bag at daycare, that somehow got missed so the teacher had to give her formula instead?!? Luckily when we got home I gave Raegan that bottle and she showed me how much she appreciated it by drinking the entire thing along with some air after it was empty because she wanted more.

Raegan's favorite morning teacher from the daycare, found another job and isn't working there anymore, we miss her. This afternoon though Raegan jumped out of my arms to go to her favorite afternoon teacher who was in the room next door at the daycare and then waved bye to me :( It made me realize how much time I've been spending with work this busy season and not enough with her. I'm looking forward to having a full day off each week again so that she and I can spend more time together! Hopefully by the end of March, busy season will be over, well at least until September.

Raegan's surgery is in the morning and I'm really nervous, yet hopeful that things will get better. I'll keep everyone updated on how it goes.