Saturday, January 29, 2011

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Monday, January 24, 2011

22 months old!

Raegan you are 22 months old! Wow, I can't beleive its only 2 months till you are 2 years old!

You are about 271/2 or 28 inches tall and almost 22 lbs now.

New words:
move
spoon
purple
"where's hello" - when looking for your phone
"I've got two babies"
Abba - for Abby from Seaseme Street
all mine

Anytime you see a pencil/pen/crayon and paper you bring the writing utencil to me and set your hand flat on the paper for me to trace around it. Sometimes you even trace your own hand on paper.

Every graying or balding man who think is "Papa" and you will scream "Papa" until you get them to acknowledge you no matter where we are at. You love going to the library to play with puzzles and pick out movies and books.

We have already started planning your 2nd birthday party. We booked the Story Time room at the library, as we expect we'll have to have it indoors. Last year a blizzard came in the day of your birthday and we considered cancelling it because the weather was so bad.

This week we took you in your favorite monkey pj's, to "Brinner," Chick-fil-A's breakfast for dinner event. You got to see the cow or as you call it "Moo." You weren't scared of it at all, you gave the cow high fives, and blew it kisses when we left.

You are the best little caregiver to your dolls. You take care of them like its your job. You change their diapers and say "peeeeeww baby." You get each of them their own blanket for when you lay them down to go "night night" then you pat each of them on the back while they fall asleep. I guess sometimes they wake up crying because you will pick one up and softing bounce your knees or rock it in your arms and say "ssshhhh" and then put it back to "night night." Recently you have started getting on to some of the babies when they misbehave or take the other one's spot in the stroller. You will say "no, no, move baby." We love to watch you pretend.

You are such a wonderful little girl, we love you more and more each day!
Wow, what a week!  This past weekend my mom came in town and drove me and Raegan to Kansas for the Beasley family Christmas on Jan 15th (just a little late).  We got to hang out see our family and exchange gifts, swim in the hotel's indoor pool, and then while the other adults went to a concert I hung out in the hotel room with Katelyn (13), Braden (12), Corey (11), Kylie (8), and Raegan (1).  We ordered in pizza and watched the Miss America pageant and then How to Train a Dragon.  None of the kids had ever seen a Miss America pageant!  This was really surprising to me, seeing as it was a grand event every year at my house when I was growing up.  The funny thing was they kept asking me questions like: "How many episodes are there?" "Are we going to find out who wins tonight?"... To them it was just like any other reality tv show, when I explained to them those were real girls, one of them said, "I think American Idol is live." They made me feel really old, especially when it was after 11 and I could barely hold my eyelids open and they were hyped up on sugar!  It was definitely a good time.  We didn't get up and out of the hotel as early as we had planned the next morning.  My mom and I were both really tired.



Raegan and Katelyn enjoying ring pops!
On the way back from Kansas, we stopped in Edmond to visit some family.  Kara, my 2nd cousin once removed (confusing I know), now lives in Edmond.  She is a year older than me and has a sister close to my sister's age.  They used to live down the road from my grandparents in Kansas and when we would go visit we'd go to their house or they would come to my grandpartents' to play.  I hadn't seen Kara in over 10 years.  She has 4 kids now, the youngest ones are twin 3 year old girls.  Raegan had fun playing with them and they liked not being the youngest while Raegan was there.  Kara's mom was also there and the four of us (my mom, Kara's mom, me and Kara) had a lot of catching up to do.  I'm hoping I'll be able to meet up with Kara for playdates or lunch sometime when work slows down.


This week was my first official week of busy season.  I'm currently working on two clients simultaneously, feels kinda like a juggling act, but it keeps things interesting!  Wednesday night Philip and I met with a Chick-fil-A consultant for dinner.  We're really excited about possible future opportunities and all the changes they may bring!  An ice storm blew in early, early Wednesday morning.  Robby (Raegan's daycare teacher and Wednesday night babysitter) sent me a text EARLY Thursday morning to let me know the daycare was going to be closed for the day because of the ice.  Philip still had to work on Thursday, so I stayed home and worked from my laptop.  We had small group Thursday night.  We are working through a series called, 'Tough Questions.'  It helps us grow stronger in understanding and defending why we believe what we do.  This week the question was, "Is Jesus the only way to Heaven?"  The Bible teaches that there is no other way to salvation than through Christ. Jesus says in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." There are multiple verses in the Bible that teach this; therefore, I feel that if you believe in the Bible, then the answer to the 'tough question' is YES.  I'm really enjoying this new series we are doing, they make for great discussions. I'll keep sharing along the way.


Friday after work I went and picked up Raegan from daycare.  She was in a different room because a group of daycare teachers were bleaching all the toys in her normal room because one of the little girls in her class had thrown up.  Raegan seemed fine, but on the drive home I reached back and touched her hand and noticed it was very hot.  We sat down to have dinner, but Raegan wasn't interested in eating.  She wanted to sit in Philip's lap, so he held her while he finished dinner.  The next thing we knew she was throwing up all over.  We gave her a bath and not soon after she was throwing up again.  This went on all night, we gave her tylenol for her fever and made a pallet for her to sleep on next to our bed.  We had multiple instances Friday night and our washer and dryer were running nonstop.  Raegan probably went through 7 different sets of pajamas that night.  She's had times before were she's had a 24 hour stomach bug thrown up a lot over night and then maybe once or twice the next morning and then been fine.  But this wasn't like that, all she wanted to do on Saturday was sleep on me.  Philip was at work on Saturday, so it was such a quiet house, I got a lot of sleep as well. She ended up getting dehydrated and we went through so many diapers.  Even with getting extra sleep, I was exhausted from carrying her around all day and all the clean up I had to do.  Saturday night wasn't much better, in fact in may have been a little worse.  Philip and I were talking about taking her to the Children's hospital just in case it was something other than the flu.  He went and bought some pedialyte and we let her have apple juice instead of water, which she was much more willing to drink. She's doing better now, but still not 100%. 

Monday, January 10, 2011

growing up so fast!

Conversation with Raegan on the way home today:

Raegan: "Where's Gigi?"
Me: "In Texas"
Raegan: "Where's Papa?"
Me: "In Texas"
Raegan: "Where's Texas?"
Me: "South of Oklahoma"
Raegan: "huh?"

Sitting on the potty playing with playdoh, oh the joys of potty training...

New Year - new me!

Well I still haven't made any New Year's Resolutions and my husband thinks they are silly, but I feel like even if I don't call them "resolutions" looking back at the past year and setting goals/aspirations for the new one is important.  Plus our outside christmas lights are still up, so I think that means I'm not too late to make 2011 goals (hmm I don't like that word too cliche') thoughts.

So here are a couple of my thoughts:

Talk less, listen more - this has always been a struggle for me

This past year I realized that some of my best friends, the ones I can call anytime, the ones I can tell everything too, the ones who we can go weeks, months or even years without talking and then pick up a conversation like no time ever passed don't live near me, they actually all live in Texas.  This next year I plan on doing a better job at keeping in touch with them!

Take my vitamins!  Raegan is still nursing and not only does she take alot of calories from me she also gets a lot of my nutrition/vitamins etc... I've definitely noticed that since I haven't been taking my prenatal vitamins regularly, my hair isn't growing as fast, my nails are weak and brittle, and I don't have as much energy. So I'll make this one of my 2011 resolutions thoughts. 

There are probably many more things I could improve on, but I've been listening to KLOVE http://www.klove.com/blog/ and if I don't keep my resolutions thoughts short and simple, I probably won't be as successful. 

Also our church is starting a 21 day period of fasting starting today, Monday, January 10th.  We believe that by giving, praying, and fasting we can get rid of some of the "gunk" in our lives and make more space for God.  Philip and I have both made choices to fast these next 21 days.  Please keep us in your prayers as it is still early and I have already been tempted twice today!

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You can watch some of the recent sermons from Pastor Clark at the link above.