Reagan Mae Anderson

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Epic Cowlick!

I had a serious case of bed-head a couple of days ago. Check out that rooster-tail!

Corner play

Check me out! With my new levels of mobility, I've been discovering cool new places to play, like this little corner by the chair. Just my size!

Thanksgiving visit.

A few days after Thanksgiving, we went to Grandma Lynnette and Papa Steve's to eat some more with Aunt Avery and Uncle Jared, and Uncle Rhett! I had lots of fun showing off my new walking skills.

For my very first Thanksgiving, Mommy, Daddy, Bailey, and I stayed in our pajamas all day long and just hung out together while our dinner was in the crockpot. It was awesome. I love pajamas. I had tons of fun playing on the couch!

Reading with Daddy

Daddy and I both like books. Here we are, hanging out in our PJs on Thanksgiving day, enjoying a little quiet reading time together on the couch.

Bean Bag Kitty

Artemis and I ar buds. She likes hanging out on the bean bag, and I like hanging out with her. Here's a short video of exactly that happening.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

11 Months

Hey everyone! I'm 11 months old now. I started walking the night before, so both my sister and I both started walking before we turned eleven months old. I still prefer to crawl, because right now it's just way faster for me to drop down on all fours and zoom. Anyway, you can probably see from my pictures above that my personality is shining through more and more these days. I'm going to be a goofy one. I can't believe I'll be a whole year old in less than a month!

Small steps...

Guess what, ladies and gentlemen...I have taken my first steps! Bailey and I were playing around in the living room last Tuesday night (the night before I turned 11 months old) and Daddy grabbed his iPad to video it. As soon as he put it down, I walked from his knees to Bailey in the beanbag! Daddy scrambled to capture me waddling around again, but only managed to get a couple steps here and there. You can kinda see them in the last two videos. GO ME!!

Jack's party

I got to go to Jackson's fourth birthday party too. There was a few things for little people like me to do, though I was kinda small for all the equipment the bigger kids got to play on. I had fun walking around and watching, and playing the maracas! The bubbles were really fun as well.

Visiting Grandpa Tom

Last weekend, we went to go visit Grandpa Tom. I was really nervous, like I am with all people I don't see very often, but I had lots of fun exploring Grandpa Tom's house, and visiting with his cats and dog. I even let him hold me for a little bit before we had to go.

Halloween

Halloween was pretty cold this year, and I'm not much into costume-y things just yet, but I did get to wear this cool Halloween shirt and matching socks!

Laundry Helper!

I am such a big helper for Mommy whenever she brings out the laundry. For some reason, she doesn't understand that you're supposed to pull all the warm clean clothes out and snuggle with them before they are folded. Sometimes the already folded clothes need to be immediately unfolded and snuggled with as well.

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.

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.