Ready to find eggs!

Happy Easter everyone!  We hope your holiday was as blessed as ours was.  Mike’s sister/Reagan’s Aunt Renee came to visit for the Easter holiday and arrived Thursday night pretty late.  She watched Reagan on Friday while Mary worked and Mike was out of town.  They had a great time together and Renee was impressed with Reagan’s personality and ability to walk so well.  I came home and we picked Mike up from the airport.  After some running around (including back home to get the pack n’ play I forgot) we got to Windsor around 10:30pm.  Their cousin Sabrina came with her husband Cory and their two sweet boys, Connor and Landon.  Some of you may remember Connor as the ring bearer at our wedding 5.5 years ago.

On Saturday we did family photos and then went to V. Sattui in St. Helena for some wine tasting and gourmet picnic.  We always j that place and I even got my family to love it.  Sunday was the annual egg hunt at Mike and Carol’s where the older kids had to find 200 eggs plus the coveted gold and silver egg.  Connor found the silver and Landon found the gold eggs respectively.  Reagan got to play with her buddy that is two weeks older and they hunted for some eggs as well.  She seemed to enjoy it! Overall it was a wonderful weekend with family and we look forward to the next get-together!

Reagan started at day care last week for the first four days.  She seemed to have a hard time adjusting as she had issues sleeping all week there and at home.  We thought she was getting a tooth as well, one of her molars but we’re not sure how much that contributed.  She’ll be there this week and then we’ll decide if she’ll keep going or if she’ll be home with Dad.  Mike’s business is really starting to pick up steam, so he doesn’t have as much time to spend with her.  Besides she needs the social interaction.  Mike is in Arizona, pre-fishing at Lake Roosevelt for the FLW Stren event that starts this Thursday.

So Mike postponed his training with Direct TV for 4-6 weeks.  He went in on Monday and talked with a supervisor and they were willing to postpone.  He really needed time to get a head-start on his new business and take care of some other things.  All week he’s been working on establishing his business and generating customers and is very excited about all of it.  His website (courtesy of John) is capitolfireandbackflow.com.

For the first time ever, we are done with our taxes early!  We are getting a nice return as well that will more than off-set our debt to the IRS.  We were very pleased when our CPA emailed us with the numbers.

Reagan is as cute as always.  She still loves to laugh and play and smile.  She’s starting to show her wants and needs and demands.  It’s really quite comical.  She is a full time crawler now and is getting better at standing without holding on to anything, especially when she doesn’t realize it.  We can’t put her down and expect her to stay any more, she’ll crawl right after you!  Here comes the security gate!  She and I are heading to San Diego on the 21st to see the Creans and meet baby Aaron.  We can’t wait!

Just a quick note to explain the recent update to the site. John is converting our babyhomepages.net site to this one for a couple reasons: one is save money on the fee and the other is to allow us to blog in one place versus two websites. Over the next couple of months, John will transfer the guestbook and pictures from Reagan’s site.

Reagan is quite mobile now and getting into everything! She’s started making fishy faces/kisses. Mommy uploaded some pictures from her camera from January. Nonna and Papa came this past Sunday to visit and brought Mommy’s camera that she had left at their house last month. Everyone enjoyed their visit and Papa video taped Reagan with their new camera. Reagan is so independent with her walker and will entertain herself around the house for quite some time, talking away.

Reagan started crawling tonight!! She doesn’t use her knees fully but does a spider monkey type of crawl with one knee down and one leg straight. It’s quite cute and comical. She’s getting very good at pulling herself up and walking along the walls now. Last night she pulled herself up in Mommy and Daddy’s room and was walking along their closet mirror doors. She was kissing herself in the mirror as well!

Nana Sherrill was visiting us last week and left yesterday morning. She was amazed at how big Reagan has gotten both in size and abilities. They enjoyed going to the park in the new stroller Nana bought for her as well as swinging at the park. Nana said then they arrived and she took Reagan out of the stroller and was putting her in to the swing, Reagan started clapping. It must have been quite cute! Reagan is starting to mimic our actions, especially if you show her with her hands. She’s very mobile and zooms around in her walker. She’s still not confident enough to walk with out holding on to something or some one. She won’t get into crawling position to crawl but she’s scooting around on her belly. This morning while Mommy is at work, Daddy said she walked across the tile floor from the front door to the kitchen, pushing a card board box! She got to the box her self and pulled her self up and then started walking on her own! Mommy wishes she could have seen that.

Reagan seems to have another cold. We’ll monitor it closely to make sure it’s nothing else. Nana caught the flu bug while she was here, poor thing.

She is 27 3/4″ long and 19 lbs 10.5 oz. We think she’s lighter than expected because she was sick over the weekend. She threw up twice Saturday (all over Mommy) and once on Sunday (all over Daddy.) We limited her intake until she could keep it down and yesterday she ate her bottles and solids. She still has chest congestion and is coughing but other wise is a happy baby! The doctor said the congestion can last up to a couple more weeks and not too worry unless it worsens or she develops a fever.

Reagan jams around the house now in her walker. She has gotten pretty good at manuvering around and likes to run across the room in it. She isn’t secure enough to walk with out having a hand on some thing at all times. She’s walking along and behind the couch. She still won’t crawl but she rolls and then will stretch to get what she wants. She also sat up by herself a couple times last week. But she hasn’t done it since. She is sleeping through the night and has a favorite friend, her pink elephant that the Conti’s gave her. She always cuddles with it while sucking her thumb to go to sleep.

Reagan loves to walk along the couch now! As most of you know, she loves to stand and jump. Daddy put her up to the couch and she loves to walk along it, especially when she sees something she wants, like Daddy’s cell phone. She’s still wobbly and cautious but she can jam pretty well. She won’t crawl still but she’ll push herself backwards on her tummy on the tile. On Saturday, she got one foot up against the wall on her tummy and pushed herself up into a sitting position. And then she clapped! It was so cute!! Tonight she was on her tummy and put her feet down and straighten them while her hands were still on the ground. If she was stable enough and strong enough, she would have gone all the way to standing.

Daddy decided to share his cold with Reagan, or maybe it was the other way around. She has her first runny nose and a little cough. She’s fine other wise with no fever nor has she slowed down yet. She has three more teeth poking through, bringing the total to five! She talks a lot now and to us, it sounds like she says hi, mama, dada, and up. And she LOVES to laugh and smile. It’s so amazing!

We had some friends come last weekend to hang out and then Uncle John and Auntie Jess came this weekend. Unfortunately we didn’t get any pictures of Uncle John and Reagan, so we’ll make up for it next time! They came bearing nice gifts for everyone, including Mommy and Daddy as they celebrated their birthdays with in the last two weeks. When Mommy was uploading pictures, she found more from Christmas, hence the recent additions!

Reagan is getting stronger and more active everyday. She waves Hi and Bye when you wave at her. In the last couple weeks she’d pull her self up into a sitting position and then standing position if you hold your fingers out for her to grab on to. Last night she started to pull her self up into a standing position from a sitting position by grabbing on to a bin I had in the room. She gets so proud of herself when she does it too. She still can’t get into a sitting position from lying down though but she will soon, we’re sure of it.

She is also giving kisses! It started on Saturday night at our friend’s house when their two-year old was sitting on the floor with Reagan and she would lean in to Reagan to kiss her. Reagan started leaning in to kiss Aubree and then would do it to her stuffed animals and then today, Daddy said she’s kissing him.