5 Month Birthday!

Happy 5 Month Birthday, Angel Baby! Mommy and Daddy can not believe 5 months ago yesterday we were meeting you for the first time. Time is flying by us.  You can now roll around on the floor without any encouragement at all. In fact, you seem to prefer moving on your own. You are very good at rolling around on the floor by yourself. You have begun to scoot (backwards) a few times this past month. You can sit up all on your own and without holding yourself up the whole time. You love for Mommy and Daddy to put your toys and books in front of you to play with. You push the buttons and then wave your arms around out of excitement. Your BeatBo seems to make you especially excited! You celebrated your first Christmas with Mommy and Daddy a few weeks ago. You also attended your first New Years Day dinner at Juju and Pop's house. You even took a nap in the baby bed they have set up for you while we were there. In fact, you were sleeping for so long while we were there, Juju had to sneak into the room to steal some sugars from you for a while. You were more than happy to help her out, especially because she shows you all of the fun toys they have. You are doing so good with your big boy foods. You have oatmeal every morning and at night you can sometimes eat dinner AND a little dessert. You have started to eat squash, zucchini, green beans, and sweet peas. You were not too crazy about the green beans that first night. Once Mommy and Daddy figured out you liked your food hotter though, you have been eating up all of your food with no problems.  You are doing so good reaching for all of your toys now. You know exactly what you want and work very hard to get it. You also love to talk. You work very hard to make different sounds every day. You can even say "Mama" and "Dada", though not exactly to us. When we ask you to say it, you just smile and laugh.  You love to wake us up with smiles and lots of talking. You do not like being put to bed alone. We tried the other night and that did not work out too well. Afterwards, we gave you lots of kisses, and you talked to us for quite some time. Eventually, you put one hand on Daddy's back and one hand on Mommy to fall asleep. It was one of the sweetest things you have done yet. You seemed to want us both right beside you. You are such an angel, Reagan. Everyone thinks you are beautiful, and thankfully you offer up smiles to our family. You are very alert and love to go out. You do not smile at strangers, but prefer to study them instead. You love looking around and have even begun to stay awake during car rides to play with your toys and talk to Mommy while I drive.  Mommy and Daddy love you, sweet boy. We can not wait to see what you have in store for us this month. We love you!

Our Year in Pictures- 2015!

I don't know about you, but I have a hard time saying goodbye to a year full of good memories. No matter how difficult some moments may be, there are always good ones to override them. In honor of a year full of wonderful (and truly once in a lifetime experiences), here is our year in review.

So, yep, this was our year in pictures. I blew up like a balloon and I began to shrink back down. We heard the heartbeat of someone so small that we could not even tell the difference between his top or his bottom yet. We decorated our first nursery (and within the last month that baby bed has finally been used for naps). Reagan learned how to breathe air, he learned how to nurse, he learned how to sleep beside Mommy (and not just inside of me). He has taken his first bath and eaten his first bites of real food. Justin and I have become parents. The three of us have become a family. We have taken our first roadtrip and celebrated our first Thanksgiving and our first Christmas together. We are now celebrating our first new year! Phew, I think we need a vacation. Just kidding! :)

From our family to yours- we hope you have a very wonderful and very blessed new year!