Happy 4 months Reagan!

Reagan's first bite of food.

Daddy with sleeping baby

Cam's favorite sister.

I get food "yay"


I cannot believe Reagan is 4 months old. Time is flying! She is doing just great. She can roll from front to back and back to front. She pushes up on her arms, she smiles and laughs, she sits with support, and babbles. She is waking up once during the night to eat, and takes one long nap and one short nap during the day. On the Chinese New Year she had her first bites of food. Rice cereal, which we deemed very appropriate for the day. She wasn't so sure about it at first, but she got the hang of it after a few tries.

Chinese New Year

This year we had a fun family Chinese New Year! We started the morning with breakfast rabbits because it is the year of the rabbit. Later in the day we gave the children envelopes to decorate in red (for luck). They then had a coin hunt to fill their envelopes. Usually in China children are given red envelopes with coins to mean good fortune. After that we had Chinese for dinner and decorated Almond cookies for dessert. We had noodles for longevity and dumplings for wealth. We capped the night of with party blowers, chocolate coins, and glow sticks. It really was fun. Unfortunately Jack was still a bit under the weather.

Fabulous February!

Us eating groundhogs by candle light.

These are our groundhog heads (donut holes) popping out of there holes (donuts)

We made groundhog masks.

Ethan had his hundredth day of School. This was breakfast, and the pretzel and cookies were snack.

So truth be told I hate the month of February. I always say it's the longest short month ever. I'm ready for spring, but clearly it's not here yet. So this February we decided to celebrate every holiday. This week started off with Ethan's 100 days at school. Then came Ground hog's day. On Ground hog's day we woke up to no electricity. Brr it was cold! So we started the day with our special donuts by candle light. Cam came down and exclaimed "This is the perfect day!" We made shadows since we had no lights. All in all it was pretty fun, until Jack came down and threw up...Oh well. At least two of the kids enjoyed it.

What to do during those winter months?

Grow up before mommy's eyes. Laugh and smile lots.

Take out every car in the house and play demolition derby, or race, or obstacle course.

Love on your siblings

Make cookies with way too many sprinkles, then eat them!

Take a nap with daddy. Could they look anymore alike?

A couple of Reagan pix

She's a happy baby!

Cousin Robbie feeding her

Did I mention she loves to be naked?

Reagan is doing great. She has hit 3 months and is just a happy baby. She still wakes up once at night to eat, but she goes right back down. She loves her bottle, loves baths, and loves to watch her mobile. I must say she is soo fun to dress :) We think she is about 12 lbs now. We go to the doctor in two weeks, so we'll see.

New Years

Ethan and Angie playing at my parent's house during our annual party!

New Years at Grandma and Papa's. Cam with Gia his favorite cousin!

Every January I start to get excited to start another year. A new beginning, a chance to clean out the old. A new start and when needed a goodbye to anything tough from the year before. That also means cleaning out the house. A process I quite enjoy. Well, that's been kind of hard with so many helping hands. I guess it will be a prolonged process!



This January I decided to take sometime to count my blessings instead. What a good year we've had. Though 2010 was an economically challenging year for all of us. We've been blessed with a home and food. We've been blessed with health and happiness. We have been blessed with good family and friends. As a mom I feel especially blessed. I look at my kids and am amazed with each of them. Ethan has grown into such a nice kid. I'm so impressed with what Kindergarten has done for him. He is so kind and sweet and I'm so proud of him. Cam has learned to wait his turn and share. He is so loving towards his sister. Jack is talking up a storm and really doesn't need speech anymore. He has come so far he is such a gift to us all. Not to mention we added Reagan to our crazy bunch. Through a tough pregnancy and a scary beginning she has done just great. We are so blessed and I can only hope next year blesses our family too. I will remember 2010 in fondness and look forward to all 2011 brings.

Christmas

This Year Christmas was awesome! All 3 of the boys were really into it! Cam was so excited I thought his head might explode. Jack loved his Mickey stuffed animal and light up shoes. Ethan got a cool circuit set, some Star Wars toys, and a kid lap top computer that he loves! Christmas was awesome for mommy and daddy too. I think Reagan slept through most of it, making it even better :)