No more peanuts!

Wow, what a long week! Last night Philip, Raegan, and I went out to eat at Texas Roadhouse, because Philip was craving peanuts and a good steak. We were surprised by how busy it was, we had to wait over 30 minutes. Raegan was entertaining, waving and smiling at all the other guests waiting to be seated. Once while Philip was holding her she even got a hold of a ladies pretty curly hair! The lady didn't seem to mind that our daughter was yanking at her curls though, lol!

Raegan has gotten so much better about eating foods! She still won't let us feed her anything, but if we set it in front of her she'll go after it.

When Raegan was like 5-8 weeks old she seemed to be colicky every evening, until one week she wasn't. We thought she had grown out of it, but then the next week it started back up. I figured out that the one week she hadn't been colicky was the one week when I forgot to buy peanuts at the grocery store. (Right after I had Raegan I was downing peanuts multiple times a day, thinking they'd be a good source of protein, since nursing and very little sleep were draining me of energy! ) We talked with the doctor about it and she said its possible Raegan may have a peanut sensitivity and that when I was eating them it was bothering her. So last night (nearly 8 months later) we went to Texas Roadhouse and I had a couple peanuts. BAD IDEA!

Raegan was up multiple times during the night crying and nothing would soothe her except softly bouncing her and walking around, so that's what I did for a long time last night. Then she calmed down and I set her in her swing in her room for a little while, and laid on the floor in case she needed me. 20 - 30 minutes later she was throwing up. Needless to say it was a VERY long night and I may have got 4 hours or so of sleep. This morning when Philip woke us up to say bye before he left for work, he was like why is she wearing different clothes? Must be nice to sleep through the night, I thought to myself.

So we're taking it easy today, its actually after lunch on Saturday and I'm still in pajamas, but I did do some serious cleaning this morning around the house and Raegan and I have watched Baby Signing Time at least 6 times this morning!

See the sign behind Raegan and I in the picture... I'll remember that next time!

Update: Raegan is all better! yea! We think it must have been a stomach bug because Philip and I each had a dose of it ourselves after Raegan got better... and actually Raegan still has an ear infection. A friend of mine said that we should drip garlic oil in her ear to get rid of the ear infection, has anyone else heard of that before?

This was my first week of busy season, but since I'm on a flexible work arrangement it wasn't bad at all. It really helps that Philip can be so flexible, he picked up Raegan from daycare all week. He also took her in to the doctor for a follow up appointment on Thursday. She weighed 17lbs and 9oz (20th percentile) and was 27 3/4 inches long (45th percentile). She really hasn't grown since she was about 5 months old, but the doctors told us not to worry about it.

This week Raegan has been practicing her wave often! She'll wave with both hands most of the time her hands are palms up when she does it though. Every morning when she wakes up and Philip and I are still pressing snooze she says "up", "up", "uuuhhpp"!

Right now we are snuggled up watching our Baylor Bears men's basketball team. Earlier this week we watched our girl's team beat OU! Raegan thinks its funny when Philip hollars at the tv and we have been known to throw up a bear claw, its ok in the privacy of your home (Philip didn't like when I did it at Ikea once though).

Well Miss Raegan just woke up so I have to go... until next time.

Sick Baby

Picture from Raegan's 6 month old photoshoot (about 3 months ago)

Well you probably wouldn't guess it if you saw her but Raegan has been very sick the past couple of days. She's still smiling and laughing like always, but occasionally usually soon after she eats she has been vomiting. :( We took her to the doctor on Saturday and she still has an ear infection, but he didn't seem concerned about the fact that she threw up 6 times that morning prior to seeing him!?! Saturday evening I called the triage nurse at the hospital and spoke to her about it and she suggested limiting the duration of her feedings, which has helped some but not completely. This has made for some very long nights and lots of loads of laundry! We are going to her pediatrician today and hopefully we will get some answers!

I'll try to keep you updated amidst all of our busyness!

Humble Husband

Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. --2 Philippians 2:3

I'd like to take a minute to brag on my husband. Philip always puts other before himself. This Christmas God used Philip to bring joy to a team member at Chick-fil-A. This team member has a past history of health problems and back aches. She just recently moved into an apartment where the bus could pick her up to take her to work, since she doesn't have a vechicle. She had recently started renting furniture for her apartment, which she thought came with a mattress, but it didn't. She resorted to sleeping on the floor and then another employee let her borrow an air mattress. These arrangements just made her back problems worse. When Philip found out about the situation, he went out and bought her a new box spring and mattress for her apartment and coordinated with others to deliver it to her apartment. She was so happy she cried!

I'm so thankful to have such a sweet husband.

Pre Christmas Celebrations

Dec. 17, 2009 This morning Raegan waved to herself in the mirror! So cute! She's wearing one of her frilly Christmas dresses and a big red bow to daycare today! Can't believe Christmas is next week! Since Nana sent Christmas presents early, we let Raegan practice opening presents last night! She got really cute Christmas pajamas, a mickey mouse piano book, and an Elmo cell phone that says her name!!! She loves it and her Nana! Thank you!

Happy Thanksgiving!

To celebrate Thanksgiving Raegan, my parents and I (Philip had to stay in Norman to serve Chick-fil-A to black Friday shoppers) went to Olathe, Kansas (just outside of Kansas City) this past weekend. It was a 5 hour drive and Raegan did very well, she rode in her big girl carseat. I think she likes it better because she is sitting up instead of laying back, but its not good for sleeping in, her little head just falls straight forward I spent the majority of the trip holding her head up with my hand so she could sleep without straining her neck… (Spoiled, maybe?)
Friday night a group of us went out to eat in Olathe to El Ranchito… mmm it was delicious! They have a queso dip they call Espinaca that I loved! If anyone knows a recipe for it please send it my way! We stayed the night at my Aunt Amber’s house on Friday night. Most of the rest of my family on my mom’s side came up Saturday and we ate around 2. In total there were 32 people at her house, 14 of which were under the age of 14 so it was quite a wild bunch!
Raegan is still not crawling to the point she can get wherever she wants to go quickly, which was hard because she wanted to run and play like the older kids! She loved the dogs and when one of my Grandma’s dogs licked her she opened her mouth and licked him back! Gross, but oh so cute!
Saturday evening the kids played hide and go seek and were running all across Amber’s 3 story home. The men watched sports in the man cave aka the basement and us girls (my mom, grandma, 3 of my aunts, and myself) played Apples to Apples. I also got to see the ending of The Last Castle which was really good. I wanted to stay up and watch My Sister’s Keeper with my aunts, but it was nearly 2am and I was exhausted!
Overall it was a great trip! Its so neat to see all my young cousins playing together, because they are all so close in age. Growing up I didn’t really have any cousins close to my age. It’d be nice if Raegan could have cousins close to her age, because right now we aren’t really planning on having more children.

All About Raegan...
Right now she's our life... she takes a lot of patience, time, and attention... but is also the cutest, most entertaining little squirt!

Recently Raegan has started talking... Her first word was "doh" she said this one day, clear as could be and I thought to myself she has never seen The Simpsons where'd she get that word? I haven't heard her say it since though...

The next word was "dada" the first time I heard her clearly use this word she pointed to the Sprite bottle?!? But now its her favorite word and she uses it often!

She also has said "again" when we do funny things that she likes to laugh at, and she says "muah" when she gives her daddy kisses :)

She also mutters something very similar to "I got it" whenever we put one of her toys in front of her and say "get it Raegan".

So far mama, mom, momma, mommy... aren't in her vocabulary, except when she is upset she will start saying "mmmuummum mmmmummmuummm" hey that's close enough for me ;)

She's not crawling yet, the doctor told her she may just walk before she ever crawls?!? She manages to scoot around pretty good and can pull her self up on a lot of things like the rails of her crib, my leg, etc...

She is also very stubborn, I mean picky... she refuses all food except breastmilk, which makes my job extra hard with taking breaks from work to pump, washing and packing bottles, washing pump parts, waking up every two hours every night to feed her for the last 7 months... the foods we've tried include: avacados, bananas, carrots, sweet peas, sweet potatoes, apple sauce, baby cereal, formula, and gerber puffs...

of those she likes the gerber puffs the best, but for every 1 she eats 10 end up on the floor...

She also has a great personality and laughs when things are funny on her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cartoon every weekday morning and also for some reason laughs when other babies cry?!?

Anyways, she's the center of our world... here are few recent pics...