Reagan Mae Anderson

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Carving!

So, I wasn't as interested in the carving of the pumpkin as Bailey was. Part of that is because I couldn't really do much from my highchair. So, I found a way to amuse myself while everyone else was busy.

Park!

I had fun at the park too, even though I'm a bit too small to climb on stuff by myself yet. Good thing I could talk Daddy into doing it for me! I would have tried out the baby swings, but they were too wet this time around...

Kitchen Helper

Bailey's play kitchen is AWESOME. I love to pen the doors and pull out all the pots and pans. I'm so glad that I've got a big sister who is willing to let me play with all the cool toys she's got!

Harvest Fest

A few weeks ago we all went to the Harvest Fest in Hood River. I spent most of the time hanging out in my stroller. By the time we were waiting for Bailey to pick out our pumpkin, I was tuckered, so right here I'm in the process of falling to sleep.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Me and Bay

My sister is one of my favorite people. She always makes me laugh! I love to play with her, and I'm always happy when she walks into the room. This is us today, goofing with her paper crown.

10 months old!

That's right, another month, another milestone or so. This is me today everybody. I'm ten months old and cruising all over the place. I can go from crawling to sitting to pulling up to a standing position with anything nearby to cruising. Daddy thinks I could walk right now, if I just tried not hanging on to something for once. Bailey took her first steps at around ten and a half months, so, I guess I'm in the window. I'm right now in the middle of a growth-spurt, and I've been eating way more than usual. Yesterday I ate an entire jar of step-2 apples and chicken in one sitting. I've been practicing my voice, and using almost-words that are starting to sound more and more like real words. I'm on my way people! Now I'm starting to look forward to my very first birthday party in two short months!

A visit with Great-Grandma Kay

Last weekend, Mommy, Daddy, Bailey, and I went to Ellensburg for a visit. Recently, Great-Grandma Kay moved to Ellensburg, and we got a chance to go see her new home and meet some of her new friends. I had fun exploring Great-Grandma's apartment, and playing peekaboo with her!

Baby princess

Here I am wearing the little crown my Favorite Aunt Avery made for me. Seems like it fits me just fine. I am a little princess, after all.

Mohawk!

My daddy loves to mess with my hair, especially after a bath. For some reason he thinks it's funny to give me this tall, poky hairdo whenever possible.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

9 Months Old!

Yesterday was my big 9-Month milestone. I'm learning more and more everyday. I'm a speed-crawler now, and I pull myself to a standing position in the blink of an eye. I'm already starting to cruise, and my balance is pretty good. Daddy thinks I might be walking even sooner than Bailey did, at ten and half months. I'm also babbling pretty-much non-stop in my secret baby language. I can clearly say Da-da, and Ma-ma, and I might also be saying Ba-ba, which Mommy and Daddy think might be my attempt to say Bailey. I've got four teeth, two up and two down, now, and the process has been a rough ride for all of us. I like to grit my new teeth, which drives Mommy and Daddy nuts. I have a pretty good sense of humor and an infectious laugh. Go me!

Happy girl

I've been having some major teething pains, and I've been battling some digestion discomfort as I get used to more and more solid foods, but on the days when everything is a-okay, I'm a very happy and smiling and laughing baby girl, like you see in these pictures.

Food Critic

I've been sampling tons of new foods lately. I love cereal and most fruits, but as far as the meats I like turkey, but I'm iffy on beef and chicken. I really get into my foods, in case that wasn't clear in the pictures. Oh, and I'm not much of a bib fan, so I get to eat in just my diaper to save my clothes.

Uncle D

Whenever we have company, I'm usually pretty shy and stand-offish with people who are not either Mommy or Daddy. But last weekend when people were over for my baptism, I wasn't shy with Uncle D at all. He's my God-pops now, after all.

Dirty Laundry

After a while, Mommy and Daddy feel like throwing me in with the wash. Seems like it might be a time-saver.

Grandma Lynnette and Aunt Avery

After my baptism, I stripped down, and Aunt Avery gave me a present: a hand-knitted crown hat. I'm a princess now. Thanks Aunt Avery!

The Return of the Stork

5:00am on the 9th of December, Ryan and Lindsey's alarm went off, rousing them from a mostly restless period of sleep and non-sleep. It was time to get up and go to the Family Birth Center of the hospital again. This time around the stork had a scheduled landing time and place, so Ryan and Lindsey had looked forward to this particular day for many weeks and months prior. Leaving their 3-year-old daughter, Bailey, in the capable hands of her Grandpa Ed, Grandma Debbie, Grandma Lynnette, and Aunt Avery, they headed to the hospital and were checked into their room, this time #150 (just three doors down from where little Bailey was when she was first born).

Their first nurse, Lindsay, helped prepare Lindsey and Ryan with ID bracelets, and gowns and scrubs, then she put the IV in Lindsey's arm and everything went smooth as you please. The doctor came to talk to Lindsey, and then they just had to wait a few moments to make sure the OR was available. After that, they started walking there, but suddenly a nurse told them to head back to the room, because there was another mommy-to-be that might need the OR in a few minutes, just in case. Back to the room they all went where they waited about fifteen more minutes and then they began the walk again.

Lindsey was walked into the OR, and Ryan again had to wait for a bit outside. This time he was more excited than scared, and it seemed like the wait before he could go in was much, much shorter than the last time.

In he went and sat by Lindsey's left shoulder. There were sounds, there were smells, there was motion, and after what seemed like a small trickle of flitting little moments, the doctor said, "It's time to see baby come out," so Ryan peeked around the curtain.

This time, there was a very tall doctor in the way, so he didn't get to see little baby poking out or being pulled out, but a nurse brought her right around RIGHT after she came out, and she was very vocal about her displeasure.

Baby got cleaned, weighed, and measured, and Ryan asked Lindsey if the name they'd planned seemed to fit after they'd both seen her. It did, and minutes later little Reagan Mae Anderson was in her daddy's arms.

She was 7lbs 40z and 19 1/4 inches long. That's just a little bit heavier and longer than her sister was. She came out at 9:02am.

The parents and their new little daughter went to the recovery room for a bit, then went back to their new mommy suite. On the way Daddy signaled to Grandma and Grandpa Bliss that everything was A-Okay, and then the visiting began.

A few minutes later, Grandma Lynnette and Aunt Avery brought the new Big Sister Bailey in to meet her new baby sister Reagan. On the way back to the suite, Ryan told everyone her name, and Bailey said, "Oh, Daddy, it's beautiful!"

Overcome with emotion and overwhelmed by the amount of people in the room (and that Mommy was still in a gurney, not her regular bed) Bailey needed her Daddy to hold her for a bit as she first laid eyes on her little sibling. Later that day, she got to hold her for the first time.

Mommy and Reagan had to stay at the hospital for a couple days longer than they'd hoped, but finally, on Monday the 13th, everyone came home and the new foursome family life began.