Sunday, December 11, 2011

Reagan Mae: A Year In Review

Here I am, on my actual birthday, hanging out with Mommy and Daddy after my first bath.

This is me at one month old. Put up your dukes!

That's me at two months, already striking a pose.

Three months old, and already president of the Bailey Fan Club.

Four months old here. I love you THIS much!

At five months I was sleepy. Tired out from all that growing and changing, I guess!

At six months I was working hard to lift my head. Look at that determination!

And by seven months I made it look easy.

Here at eight months I was doing my commando crawl.

By nine months it was crawling for real. And real fast, baby!

I got vertical in the ten month period, and started to walk the night before I turned eleven.

Eleven months and really in to trying new foods.

And there I am on my first anniversary. Agile, mobile, dimple-smile! Amazing how much a person can change and grow in just one year, isn't it? I feel so blessed to have had such an amazing year of firsts, to have such loving parents and an AWESOME big sister, and so many other friends and family that care about me so very much! I'm looking forward to many more firsts in the years to come, and to spending more and more time with all my loved ones! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

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Goofy Girl




Here I am this morning, the day after my party, rolling around in the pillows Bailey set up as a fort in the middle of the living room. I got my sock off and giggled. Good times, man.
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My Party!






Wow! Birthday parties are cool, but there are lots of people that want to see me, and I was pretty nervous the whole time. It was great to see everyone. Daddy even let me munch on a cheesy bread slice, which I loved. Another thing I loved was my CUPCAKE! Oh, MAN! It was sticky. It was messy. It was TASTY! When Daddy tried to unhook my tray and clean me up to open presents, I reached for my tray and pulled it back because I was just not done eating my cupcake!

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Ready to party




Here I am in my strawberry dress that Great Grandma Kay made for Mommy when Mommy was about my size. It was the inspiration for my Strawberry Shortcake themed party! I got a little nervous when guests started to arrive, since I'm still a little afraid of people I don't see very often, and I clung to either Mommy or Daddy for most of the party.
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Posing with Daddy and Bay






On the afternoon of my very first birthday, Daddy, Bailey, and I tried to pose for some pictures.
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Birthday GIRL!




Here I am on my 1st Birthday, posing with my big sister! Aren't we cute? Yes, we are. Can you believe I'm 1 already?

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Epic Cowlick!






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

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Couch Fun!






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!

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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.

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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.