Ice Cream!!

Somehow... none of the pictures of Raegan & Hannah on Mother's Day turned out that good. (I think it was too windy today for outside pictures). We'll have to try for better pictures tomorrow. By-the-way... today is also the day Raegan turned 13 months. We're not sure we'll continue the Rae Bunny pictures so we don't have that to post either. Maybe we'll do that tomorrow if we decide to continue. Or if we decide to do something different.

We went out to get Gelato (which is Hannah's favorite) and we got Raegan her first ice cream cone. She ate it like a big girl! The whole thing and didn't even get messy! I guess she's like both her parents... loves ice cream!

Standing Ovation

Raegan has been toying with free-standing lately. She gets so proud of herself! For Mother's Day... she told me to get the camera ready because she wanted to give her Mommy a standing ovation - for being the best Mom in the world! (yes... that's still the beads from Brewton she is wearing. She loves putting those around her neck!)



She can also do tricks now - like hold her sippy-cup in her mouth while standing. But she's still not taking that first step. She wants to exhaust all tricks in this realm first.

Raegan's new dress

My Mom made a nice dress for Raegan. Raegan didn't really cooperate with modeling it. But between the 3 pictures below, you can see some of the nice details like her monogram on the front and on the bloomers.

Trip to Nana & Papa's house

Last weekend, we took Raegan down to my parents house where they kept Raegan for a day and a half so Hannah and I could go to Destin and celebrate our 6 year anniversary. So Raegan got to spend a lot of quality time with Nana and Papa.

You can see she was happy to be there.


One thing that Nana taught her was how to accessorize. For some reason my Mom has a lot of MardiGras beaded necklaces. Raegan loved them. It only took Nana showing her once how to put on a necklace and Raegan would find all of them and put them over her head and around her neck.









Raegan had so much fun playing with Nana and Papa that I don't think she even missed her parents!





I think she did grow a little while we were gone. This picture is of her pretending she is an adult with deep thoughts. At least that's what the picture looks like to me.

Happy 1st Birthday, Raegan!!

Raegan turned 1 year old on Friday, April 11th and we had a party for her on Saturday. We invited our entire immediate family (17 people including us), and most of them were able to come (we missed you Jennifer, Heather, and Michael)! Here are a few pictures of us getting ready for the party. I really wanted Raegan to wear this birthday dress, but since she's not walking yet, it slowed her down a bit. Needless to say, we had several wardrobe changes that day anyway.








And then came the cake...She wasn't sure what to do at first with such a big audience...

Then cousin Ava showed Raegan how to dig into the cake, and the fun began...

Finally, Grammy (my mom) decided to play "peek-a-boo" with Raegan while she was covered in cake! You really need to click on these pictures to get the full effect.

12 month pics with the bunny

She is so over this picture-with-the-bunny thing.

Gone to the Lake

We went to see Nana and Papa at the Lake this weekend. Raegan has figured out that she can really get their attention if she acts like a nut. She really seems to play to Nana's camera!

We all went out on the boat. It was a lot of fun. We love riding around in the boat looking at the beautiful houses on the Lake. Raegan was a little skeptical at first.

Once we got going and she felt the gentle breeze, she decided this might be pretty fun!

She liked looking at how the wake came out behind the boat...

Papa decided to show Raegan how to fly a kite off the back of the boat... and Raegan had a few pointers for him too! Luci also tried to get in on the action!

...by the time we were on out "at sea", she decided she had mastered the boat and that we could call her "Captain". (you have to click on the picture to see it bigger to really appreciate the expression on her face)

...and then she turned over watch duty to Bristo and she let the sway of the boat and the arms of Nana relax her to sleep.

Once we got back to shore, she sat looming across the water at the seas she had sailed that day. (OK... that was a little dramatized...)

These last 2 pictures are two that Nana had on her camera. The first is one of the few pictures we have of Thomas, Ava and Raegan all together. (they are my brother's kids and of course our daughter). We just can't seem to get a picture where they are all cooperating. This is as close as we have ever gotten. The last picture is just one that I like of Raegan.

Raegan at school

Raegan really enjoys her time at JCCC, the childcare at my work. She goes there 3 days a week. They really do a great job of teaching her things as well as care for her.

Lately she has become much more social with her classmates. It's really neat to watch as your child becomes more aware and interested in other children. So far, she seems to really get along well with her classmates. Here are some pictures of her interacting with them (mostly pics from my camera phone).






The only concern that we have is that she seems to fall asleep at odd times. Either the food is so incredible that this is what happens... or we need to get Raegan to take longer naps!



(remember these two shots from earlier posts?)


This is Raegan's class picture. All but one child is in the picture. Her teachers are Ms. Gloria, Ms. Beverly and Ms. Phyllis. (Ms. Phyllis didn't make the picture)

Isn't it amazing how none of the kids are crying and they're all looking at the camera!