Reagan Mae Anderson

Saturday, March 26, 2011

I've got something to say!

Listen up people! I've discovered my voice, and decided to use it whenever I can. Here is a sample of my "singing" for your enjoyment.

Look familiar?

Check this out everybody! I love to play with "Sebastian" just like Bailey did when she was my age. Here I am re-enacting a famous Bailey and Sebastian pose.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Yes, indeed. I have a mysterious power over adults. Even ones who have had three cups of coffee prior to holding me as I snooze are powerless against the soothing, lulling sleeping-baby magic I wield. Grandma Debbie was kind enough to document the event.

Visitors!

Grandma and Grandpa came on down for a visit this weekend. Bailey and I got to babysit them while Mommy and Daddy went out on a date! We all had lots and lots of fun!

Using my arms

I'm finally starting to figure out how to move those things at my sides. They're really good for grabbing toys, Mommy and Daddy's necks, and Bailey's hair. I also like to smile and babble at people in my chair, as you can see.

Playing with Bailey

Check us out! Aren't we just a couple of cute clowns? I love to sit up as much as possible now.

3 Months old already?

Here are some pictures from my 3rd mensiversary. There's Daddy snapping a shot before I was even up, and there I am playing with Bailey on the couch. Aren't we cute?

Fingers are tasty!

Now that I can control my arms and hands a bit, sometimes I just gotta pop one in my mouth.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Meeting Great-Grandma Kay

We got the chance to see how well I travel for a day trip up to Tacoma this weekend. I got to see Grandma Debbie and Grandpa Ed, Mommy's cousins Mandy and Noel, Grandma's friend Michelle, and I got to meet my Great Grandma Kay for the first time!

Snuggle buddies

Bailey and I are best buds. The older I get, the more things I can do with her. Here we are snuggling together in Bailey's purple beanbag with her big blanky. It was kinda slippery, and I kept sliding down, but it was sure fun for a few minutes.

Talking

Yes sir! I'm a talker. So is Bailey (you can hear her in the background). Daddy's a talker too. Talky-talky-talky!

Just us girls

Here we are, just the three of us, hanging out on the couch.

A visit from Grandma and Papa Steve

Just after Valentine's Day, Grandma Lynnette and Papa Steve came by to visit. They brought Bailey and me presents, and Grandma held and fed me until I fell asleep.

Bright dress and tummy time

Here I am in a cute bright dress, having some tummy time. It's like a workout for me, and though I like to look around, I still get tired pretty quick after a few minutes on my belly.

2 Months Old!

Here I am celebrating my second Mensiversary(I totally Googled that word, which means, according to Ask.com, monthly celebration, since latin for month is mensis). I'm way more active these days, and I'm starting to figure out how to use my arms. I can hold my head up very well now, and I like to be in a seated position on someone's lap versus being cradled, but I can't sit up by myself yet.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Play Time

Here I am having a grand old time just playing with Daddy. I'm also starting to try out my voice. I've got all kinds of things to say. Now I've just got to figure out how to say them.

8 weeks old!

Check me out! Eight weeks old already. I've had my two-month appointment already, and I'm an ounce short of TEN POUNDS! I really did NOT like getting shots, and I was sore all afternoon and night, but I'm a healthy little baby girl!

Play mat!

You know it! I have been active and playful lately. I've been having some fun on the play mat with my big sister. Although she's sometimes a little too rough and loud, I think she enjoys playing with me too!

Tickle Face

Ever since I started smiling, Daddy doesn't seem to be able to get enough. He will sit there and tickle my face until I cheese out for him. Okay, it is pretty fun, I admit.

Princess Reagan

One afternoon, a week or so ago, my big sister Bailey was dressing up in her princess outfit, and she decided to lend me her crown for a little bit as I sat watching in my chair. I have to say, I like the way if fits.

7 weeks old.

Here are some pictures Daddy took of me when I turned seven weeks old. I still like to be swaddled, especially when my little hands get cold from playing.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Six weeks old!

Yep, I'm six weeks old now. Just look at how much I can hold my head up these days. I'm getting stronger, and more aware all the time. I'm eating more, and sleeping a bit more. Go me!

Say CHEESE!!

At just over five weeks old, I started to smile for people! If you tickle my lips with a binky or bottle--or even just your fingers, like Daddy does in this video--I'll cheese-out for you. Check out my adorable little dimples! Lately I've been doing it when I see Mommy, Daddy, or Bailey come near me when I'm awake.

Grandma and smiles

Just after I turned five weeks old, Grandma and Grandpa Bliss came down for a visit. While Grandma was holding me, she teased me with my binky, and I started to smile!

5 Weeks Old!

Yes indeed, folks. Hard to believe, I know, but here I am at five weeks old already. I'm definitely out of my newborn diapers, and I'm beginning to grow out of my newborn clothes.

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.