Five Months Old!

I can't even believe how big she is getting!! (I also can't believe Thanksgiving is this week and therefore Christmas is right around the corner, but that is another story!)  At Reagan's last doctors appointment (about 2 weeks ago), she was measuring 15 pounds (70th percentile) and 25.75 inches long (90th percentile)!  She did so good during her shots and only cried a little bit.  Mommy surprisingly made it through the shots with no tears this time. :)

As usual, we have had a fun filled month.  After Halloween, we had "friendsgiving" with a bunch of our friends.  Reagan did so good the whole night and it was so much fun to get together with everyone.  All the food was so yummy and we had quite the spread!  One of our friends even flew in from Florida for the occasion so she got to meet Reagan for the first time!!

Reagan is teething and while we probably won't see those little teeth pop through anytime in the immediate future, she is chewing on anything she can get her hands on these days!!  Some of her favorites include her 'patula....

....and her toes!!!  She doesn't care if I put socks on her either, she will try to rip those suckers off or just go ahead and put them in her mouth anyways!

Another thing we did this month was drive down to Arkansas to visit my sister.  My mom jumped in the car with Reagan and I since Chris had to work and we made the quick drive down to Bella Vista.  Reagan loved getting to see her Auntie C...

...her Uncle B...

...and of course her cousin Jackson!!

I always love it when I can see my sister and her family, but it is just so much more fun now that we can watch our two little ones grow up together!!  I have said it before, but I absolutely love that Reagan will grow up with a cousin who is only 9 weeks older than her.  And I think it has brought mine and my sister's relationship to a whole different level since we can swap "mom stories" with each other and lean on each other for advice.  She is a great sister and a wonderful mom and I just love all three of the Garcias!

While we were there, Carrie took us to Crystal Bridges which was built a year ago by one of the Wal-Mart heiresses.  We mainly stopped so Carrie and I could nurse the babies, but the grounds were so beautiful that we had to walk around a little bit.  We will definitely have to take another trip there the next time we are down that way!!

This trip was so much more fun to watch the babies together because they were so much more aware of each other.  It was so exciting to see them look at each other and kind of stop as if to say "Hey, there is another person my size over there!"  They even did a pretty good job of sharing their toys!

Even Jackson didn't want to see us go and was trying to break Reagan free from her carseat  as we were trying to leave! ;)

Some other notable achievements this month....little Miss Princess still isn't rolling over consistently by herself, but if I help her tuck that arm underneath her then she can roll no problem!  So silly!!  She is trying SO hard to pull herself up into a sitting position by lifting her head up off the ground.  We have started working on her sitting up by herself and while we still have to be right there and help her balance occasionally, she is getting so close to being able to do it by herself!

I feel so blessed to have such a happy little girl!  She smiles all the time and every time she breaks into one of those huge toothless grins it just melts my heart!  She is also laughing a ton these days - my favorite sound in the world!!

Reagan still does great with daddy and her grandmas while I am at work.  I definitely miss her while I'm gone, but it makes the time I do have with her so much more special!  And it helps to know that while I am away she is having fun with people who love her.  Daddy even takes her on fun outings and she got to sit in a big-girl high chair when he met one of his friends for lunch!

Wow - does she ever have a personality!!!  She is my "sassy girl" for sure!  Chris snapped this picture one morning as he loaded her up with toys while she was in her exersaucer - her face says it all!!

Reagan says "Bye" for now!!  With the holidays right around the corner, I am sure we will have lots to update you all on these next couple of months.

-Ellie

Sweet Baby Reagan

Reagan absolutely loves her "Johnny Jump Up" and we get lots of good smiles and laughs from her while she is in there.  This particular morning I was helping to bounce her up and down and she thought it was so fun! (Please ignore the shaky video - it was hard to hold the camera still while i was bouncing her.)

If you can't get it to play by clicking above, here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33ZYnKX6jeA

Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!  I hope everyone had as fun of a Halloween as we did this year.  I think it makes the holiday so much more fun when you have a little person to dress up! :)  Reagan had lots of festive Halloween outfits so we tried to wear them as much as possible (and get pictures in them all!) before October 31st.  Here she is giving her "mummy" a big grin! 

I was a pumpkin for my first Halloween and I really wanted to get a picture of Reagan in the same costume.  Of course my mom still had it saved in the attic so we got it out and had a mini photo shoot with Reagan!

I always used to think Reagan looked a lot like Chris, but after comparing the two pictures below I think she looks an awful lot like me too.  That is a picture of me at my first Halloween on the left, and Reagan is on the right (in the same costume!)....I think we look a lot alike!  (And Reagan was born about 2 and a half weeks before my birthday so we are pretty much the same age in the pictures.)  My mom has commented before that she thinks Reagan has a lot of my mannerisms and expressions and I think you can see that in the pictures ... we are both chewing on our hands (and the pumpkin) and have our left foot bent up.  I can see myself a lot in the different expressions that Reagan makes which is just amazing and so much fun to see!

Here we are taking some more pictures in another one of our Halloween outfits with the pumpkins we picked out from the pumpkin patch.  (Guess which one is Reagan's!)  We never got around to carving them so I guess we can just display them on our porch for that much longer!

She just loves being outside and was so distracted by her surroundings so we unfortunately didn't get any pictures of her actually looking at the camera.  I still think she looks cute though! :)

Reagan came to visit me at work one day so she could "trick or treat" in the office.  Since she couldn't get any candy, she decided to help me get some work done instead.... ;)

And here is our little zebra at Halloween.  She didn't seem to mind her costume at all and was the cutest little zebra that I had ever seen!

 What a personality!

Here she is doing "tummy time" as a zebra.  The hood kept coming down over her eyes so she didn't love it, but was still a good sport and let me get a couple of pictures of her!

Of course I had to take a million pictures of her in her first Halloween costume, so here 'ya go...

Happy Halloween from the Heaths!

-Ellie