Reagan-9 months old

On Sunday Reagan will be 9 months old! This month has been full of milestones and we are just enjoying her so, so much. She's eating tons of baby food and this week has started eating chunks of food. She still doesn't have any teeth yet, but she either gums the food or swallows it whole!

Reagan loves playing the piano and with all the knobs. Looks like she has the love of music too.
This video shows Reagan's rolling over skills. This month she has learned to roll around consecutively to get what she wants.

Last night I sat her in this little chair and she kept herself there really well. She has abs of steal I guess because when she'd drop the movie, she'd bend down and pick it up without ever falling off. I was impressed!

The biggest news for me is that Reagan finally sleeps better! A month ago my mom-in-law, Julie, took Reagan for the night so that we could get some good sleep (that was the greatest gift!). So that night she slept for 8 hours straight at Julie and Dave's! While she was gone, I decided I would move Reagan into Myah's room and just see how that went since both were waking up a bunch of times in the night anyway.  I figured it couldn't get much worse!
I also decided I was going to try my hardest to keep Reagan awake when I nursed her in the night and then lay her down awake so she could fall asleep on her own like she does in the day. (When I would nurse Reagan in the night, she'd fall asleep and when I'd lay her down she'd wake and I'd have to get her back to sleep and lay her down again, repeated way too many times.)
That night I implemented the plan and Reagan only woke up to nurse twice and after, went back to sleep on her own each time without my help. The next 4 nights she slept for 10 hours straight! Both her and Myah seem to sleep better in the same room. Reagan just needed a consistent place to be and Myah needed her sister!
So now Reagan either sleeps through the night or wakes up to nurse once, which is fine with me! So Myah usually goes to bed around 7 and then Reagan goes down around 8:30 'ish. They sometimes go to bed at the same time and it seems that having Reagan in there helps Myah stay in bed and go to sleep quicker because she knows if she gets up and plays that Reagan will start crying!

(The sun was too bright for Reagan!)
Reagan is such a joy in our lives and especially now that she sleeps better, she is the perfect baby! We love her so much and are so lucky to have her.

Myah's big news!

 

 The exciting news around our house is that Myah has finally gone in the potty four times in the past two days! She's never actually gone in it before though she's sat on it tons of times. Yesterday she pooped in it three times (she's quite regular)! We were all so excited! She peed in it this morning and I'm hoping she'll go some more today.

 One Sunday she wanted to wear a tie to church. She wore it all morning and then decided she wanted daddy to wear it afterall.

 Myah LOVES playing with our next door neighbors. With the nice weather we had were all went outside a lot. Spring fever!

This video shows Myah being brave with the vacuum yet still shows how terrified she is of it!





Brunch

On Saturday I went to brunch with some of my dad's side of the family! My uncle died last week so his daughter, Caitlin, flew in for a few days while we had a memorial for him. The memorial was beautiful and it was wonderful to all be together and talk of the good times in Uncle Jim's life. 

My dad's side of the family rarely gets together and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen my cousin Caitlin. So I went to brunch with her, my other cousin Jerilyn, my Aunt Sherma and Uncle Steve, and my grandparents. It was fun to be with them and for us girls to be together and talk.

Clapping

Reagan is big into trying to clap these days. It's so adorable to see her get all excited. Here's a little example:

My sicklings

Myah and Reagan have been sick for a few weeks; nasty cough, runny nose, fever. They were both still pretty happy girls, just napped a lot more. It was so sad for me to watch helplessly but they are all better now. During that time though, I put movies on for Myah because she didn't feel like doing anything else. This is a new thing! Myah never used to like to sit and watch more than 5 minutes of a movie, but now that's all she wants to do! I now have to ration the movie watching so her brain doesn't go mushy!

In movie watching position.

 Myah watched Tangled about 20 times then dabbled into The Incredibles and Toy Story 2.

 Things are good now, back to playing like normal...except that Myah asks for a movie constantly! Reagan loves playing with her toys, especially this cow. She loves chewing on his snout.

As you can see in this picture, I caught Reagan red-handed! I put Reagan on the floor to play with the diaper bag handles and came back to find a tissue torn to shreds! So Reagan must have reached into the back pocket, got into the tissue package, and pulled one out so she could make a mess. Adorable!

Miss Myah

Oh my goodness, I just love my sweet girls! They are each so loving and wonderful. Myah especially has me laughing constantly at the things she does and says. Mostly I'm just amazed at how fast she's learning and remembering new words and it shocks me to hear her say all the phrases I say! She picks up on everything. I'll say something and then days will go by and she'll say what I said all that time ago. Her memory is great. I want to start writing them down so I'll remember better because it's just so hilarious! Here are a few things I can remember:

 

Myah has a REALLY bad runny nose today and has tons of mucus and a cough. Last night at about 4 am I was nursing Reagan in the living room when I heard, "Blow a nose! Blow a nose! ... Wash hands!" I finished with Reagan and put her down and then got some tissue to help Myah. Myah was on the floor talking under the door (which is a usual thing for her). When she backed away and I was able to go in, she was covered in snot. Poor thing. In the morning, I was cleaning her up before giving her a bath, and she was telling me about the night. She told me how she had lots of boogers and said "blow a nose!" Then she said, "I sneeze on a door." And I thought, "oh, so that's what I stepped in."

 

When I ask Myah how her diaper is, she'll usually say: "It's probby (probably) good. It's just wet."

 

I can't remember what we were talking about, but I said something like "You're so great at cleaning up!" and Myah said to me, "I know it!"

Myah loves "fixing" things. She loves getting a screwdriver and trying to "fix" anything. Justin was fixing the wall the other day and Myah pulled her chair right over to help. So cute! She loves her daddy. She kept running to me in the kitchen and would say, "I fix it!" and then would run back to continue.

 

She loves to help Reagan. She'll help Reagan eat her puffs or help her roll over. Reagan will be on the floor and Myah will roll her over and say, "she did it!" She doesn't get that it's not too exciting if Reagan didn't do it on her own! Still cute though. They are both so wonderful!



Pre-Christmas activities

Cookies!

 The cookies were delicious. Reagan was tempted too as you can see by the frosting on her little hands!

Playing in the Snow

 The perfect snow angel!

Secret Santa

 A few days before Christmas there was a knock on the door and this is what I opened up to! We're pretty sure a family in our ward left it for us. It was so nice and thoughtful. They gave us a huge box of size 4 diapers for Reagan, a ham, oranges, hot chocolate, ...

 ...and this awesome thrown for Myah! It was so kind and Myah loves it and drags her thrown everywhere!

Reagan

 Reagan is doing really well. She's 7.5 months old and loves food! She dives for anything I'm eating. The past few days she's started liking puffs and a bit chunkier baby food.

 She's been sitting on her own for the past month and she's started rolling a bit more, but only a bit. She takes great naps and has started sleeping better at night. She still wakes once, sometimes twice, but that's loads better than the past! She starts in Justin and my room, and then when I nurse her Justin moves the pack n play to the living room for the rest of the night. I wish I could just move her to the crib in Myah's room but unfortunately Myah wakes and yells for us once or twice in the night too! Funny that Reagan's been sleeping better than Myah lately! Myah was our amazing sleeper for a year. What happened?! (We're working on it as much as we can with our small apartment and thin walls.)

Reagan is such a happy girl and I just love her more and more every day.