Christmas Part One

We spent Christmas this year at our home in VA Beach with Mimi, Pa, and Uncle Ben. We had a great time together and the girls were spoiled rotten as usual:) Unlce Ben took some pics on Christmas Eve and here are a few to remember it by.....

Mimi started the tradition of giving the girls Christmas jammies to unwrap and wear on Christmas Eve. Reagan's say "Baby's 1st Christmas" they were so cute on her.

 

I have been meaning to do a post on this but Aubrey is obsessed with playing instruments. She found Nate's old trumpet and was able to blow on it and make music right away. I still can't get the thing to toot but Aubrey sure can. She gave us a Christmas Eve show!

Aubrey's show put Reagan and Mimi in the Christmas Spirit!

                        

Daddy reading Twas the Night Before Christmas...

 Aubrey baked Christmas cookies with Mimi and left a few for Santa along with a special note she colored and put stickers on.

We wish you a......

8 months

Reaggy Roo turned 8 months a few days ago!

  Her favorite thing to do is pull herself up and stand. She will find a way to stand up where ever she goes!

                               
                                                              She loves to be on those tip toes!

She still has no teeth and wants to put everything in her mouth, especially paper and anything that she is not suppose to have!

                    She loves to blow bubbles (pictured below:), clap her hands, give wet kisses, bounce in her crib with Aubrey, crawl thru her princess tent tunnel, and babble about all kinds of things...

               For every five pictures I take of her, four of them she is putting something in her mouth:)

Oh yeah and we caught her climbing stairs a week ago. Mommy almost had a heart attack...

This weekend we went to three Christmas parties (including our squadrons Children's Christmas Party where Santa flew in on one of Daddy's jets) and one Birthday Party and I took ZERO pics. I need to do better at documenting events for my girls!! 

Updates in Pics

Wow its been a busy few weeks. I wanted to update the blog with a few pics of what has been going on in the Michael household.....

We left off at Nate's 30th birthday, here is the birthday boy with his cake and girls (minus mommy:)!

The next day Mimi and Pa got here  to spend Thanksgiving week with us! We took Aubrey and Reagan to fly their first kite while they were here and it was a big hit. 

(I didn't take any pics so Mimi sent me a few from their visit)..... 

 As always Mimi and Pa came bearing gifts! We went out one night for dinner and Aubrey just had to wear her new cowgirl boots they bought. This girl loves to dance and they had live music so she showed off some of her moves...

 Then we got up on Thanksgiving day and ran the Turkey Trot. We hope to start this tradition with our girls.

 Mommy and Daddy running...

 Pa and Aubrey cheering, it was a bit chilly that morning!

 Then we ate our yummy Thanksgiving dinner. Here is Aubrey with the delicious turkey that Nate and Pa brined!

After Mimi and Pa left Nana and Pap came to visit for a few days. Our first stop was a visit with Santa. Aubrey was NOT a Santa fan last year but she has been asking to go see him every day since she saw a big fake Santa at Michael's craft store. She was really excited to sit on his lap and wasn't scared a bit. I am not sure if Reags knew what was going on, she just followed what her big sister did:)

 The picture cracks me up because they don't look excited at all and all three of them have the same leery look on their faces. Aubrey asked Santa for a crayon, she is easy to please!

The next stop was the Virginia Aquarium. The girls had a blast and Nana bought us a membership so Mommy doesn't go stir crazy this winter!

In the meantime Reagan turned 7 months and is crawling and pulling up on everything. She is way ahead of where Aubrey was at this age but I think its because Reagan has her to watch and keep up with. Here are two pics I took yesterday of the girls, growing up way to fast!

Balloons...

Happy 30th Birthday Daddy!! We can't wait to celebrate with you tonight!

Children's Museum of Virginia

Nate and I took the girls to the Children's Museum of Virginia  a few weekends back and it was so much fun. Several of my "mommy" friends told me the museum was recently remodeled and was incredible... wow were they right! When Aubrey is a little older we have to get a membership, there is so much for the kids to explore and do, it's like an interactive science playground. Perfect for those bad weather days!! I was busy having fun and didn't take that many pics but here are a few.....

Aubrey loves bubbles so she was super excited about the Bubble Room!! Here we put ourselves in a giant bubble... what more could a two year old ask for? :)

Steering the Fire Truck.

Mommy and Reagan got shrunk!

Beach ball balancing on air.

Trick or Treat

We had a blast this year trick or treating! We went with our neighbors who have boys about the same age as both of our girls. What I want to remember about this year is how motivated Aubrey was to get a piece of candy at every single house, no matter how scary the house was decorated! We have many houses in our neighborhood that go all out with the scary decor and she was not scared one bit. She would point to things and say "that is spooky" and keep on knocking on doors. I don't know how many times we heard "I want to go to the next house!". The girl ran from house to house for almost two hours before she crashed.

Aubrey is obsessed with the show Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the Disney Chanel and wanted to be Minnie Mouse. She loved her costume and asked every day to put it on! Here are a few pics to remember Halloween 2011 by!
The red mark on Aubrey's face is from the Eagles VS Cowboys game..... We had our neighbors over to watch the game and her boyfriend Gabie got a little too excited about their domination over us and Aubrey suffered a minor injury:)

Happy Halloween

 From our littlest pumpkin! 

6 months

Yep that's right another month has gone by and Reagan is now half way to being a year old. How is this possible? I really don't know! Here are her 6 month stats....
Weight: 15.5 lbs
Length: 26.25 inches
Head: 17 inches
She didn't gain as much weight as I expected but I think its because she is SO active. She is not sitting up but is scooting all around the place (has been for over a month), it amazes me how well she can move and last week she started getting up on her knees. She has no interest in sitting up, when I make her she looks at me like "why would I sit here when I can move across the room and get that toy or follow Aubrey around?" Then she immediately falls back, rolls over, and starts moving. Here are a few pics of her at 6 months. I tried to get some action shots to show her on the move!!

Reagan is such a happy baby, she melts my heart with her smile and giggles. She wakes up each morning like this, Nate and I fight over who gets to go get her:)

 Getting up on those knees!

 Pushing off for her next move

 Along with sucking her pointer and middle finger on her right hand Reagan also sucks her lower lip. We see this face a lot.

 I started her on rice cereal this week. She isn't sure about it yet. I added some squash one night and she gave the funniest face I have ever seen! From that point she locked her lips tight, I will keep on trying. Here are a few pics from one of her first feedings.

Mimi brought back this bib from Rome especially for Reags!

Happy 6 months Sissy! You are such a blessing to us!!