Monday, February 22, 2010

So proud of my husband!!!!

Congratulations to my wonderful husband on his promotion and raise last week!!!! He has been working so hard and I am so thankful for everything he does for our family!!!! Ryan is now Sales Manager for Officescape as well as General Manager of Telework Advocacy. He has started working on the 2010 T.A. show that will be out in California in November.

Ryan has also started traveling quite a bit again for work. He went to Sea World in January and then was suppose to go to Washington DC but because of all the snow his flights kept getting cancelled so they just cancelled the trip. Later this week he will be in Philly, next week Atlanta and then in March he will be in Utah.

Keep up the great work babe! Raegan and I are so proud of you and we are so lucky that you provide such a wonderful life for us!

Food update!

The little princess is growing up fast! Now that she is 6 1/2 months old we are starting to branch out and give her more foods! She is now on stage 2 purees. I try and give her as much organic as possible. She has finally started to like green beans and peaches. She loves bananas and pears as well as sweet potato's and carrots. She has had strawberry's and other berries and I was terrified of her having an allergic reaction but she did great and loved them. She even had a fruit smoothie that was called Hawaiian delight (bananas, peaches, pineapple!) Just call her Popeye the Sailor woman, she even ate spinach! All I know is I miss her innocent breastfed only poops! These diapers are starting to get NASTY!!!

For breakfast Raegan eats organic oatmeal and a fruit. Today she had pears and pineapple. For lunch she gets usually a veggie and dinner is rice cereal with a veggie. We are getting ready to start her on meats as well as more solid foods. When we start her on meats she will eat fruit for breakfast, veggie for lunch and meat for dinner. Friday for lunch we shared a plate of spaghetti. I cut up elbow noodles teeny tiny for her and she loved it! I am looking forward to getting her some puffs and mum-mums and see how she does with those as well as other table foods. My plan is to have her on all table food/ finger foods by the time she is ready for stage 3 purees. Since we are getting ready to start giving her more table food I had Ryan and I brush up on our infant CPR. The television show The Doctors had a segment on it the other day so I DVR'ed it so we could watch it together that evening and be prepared in case anything were to ever happen to her.

She is also drinking water out of a sippy cup with all of her meals. It is so cute she will take a bite of food and then grab her cup and take a sip, put the cup down, eat a bite, pick the cup up take a sip and does this throughout the whole meal! It amazes me how smart she is and how quick she learns things.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Will You Be My Valentine?!


We spent Valentine's weekend in Fort Wayne so that Ryan and I could have a date night while Grandma Hahaj babysat for Bug! Ryan and I went and saw Valentine's Day the movie and went to dinner at Casa's! The movie was really good, we definitely recommend it. They even have some Hoosier jokes in it that had the whole theater laughing! Ryan surprised me with a dozen long stem roses after we arrived at his parents house, and he also got me a beautiful pair of earrings!

Raegan had fun playing with her cousin Ava all weekend. They are at such a fun age right now. Ava just turned 9 months today and Raegan is 6.5 months.

Playing with Ava
Will you be my Valentine Daddy?
I have the worlds best valentine!
Cousins!
Best Friends too!
Hi Ava!
Going after the Sunday newspaper!
They are so cute together!
Ava teaching Raegan new tricks!
My beautiful roses from my wonderful husband!

Friday, February 19, 2010

R.I.P. Black Betty




RIP Black Betty.

Born in Mazda land circa 1999. Zoom Zoom

Died: February 10, 2010

On Wednesday Raegan and I were at The Cooks babysitting Addison and Channing. We recieved our check that day so when we were done at 5pm we went down the street to Chase Bank to deposit our check. We had only been in the car for 5 minutes and thats when it happened. We were sitting at a red light and as soon as we hit the gas to go, Betty decided to take her life. I was in the middle of an intersection at rush hour with a crying baby in the back seat. Luckily a guy stopped and pushed me to the side of the road and we waited for Ryan to get up to us in Noblesville, as he had just left work. Raegan was warm and toasty in her carseat finally sleeping as I froze sitting there waiting for my husband to save the day. He finally got there and I thought that the engine had just died so we tried to jump Betty but she still wouldn't start. We had her towed to Car-X. A mechanic took a look at her the next day and said she blew her head gasket causing anti-freeze to go all over the engine, killing her. He said best case it would be about $1400 to fix her. But more likely we would need to rebuild the engine which would be more in the $4000 range. As much as I love Betty and as good as she was to me over the last 7 years, she just wasn't worth that. We posted her on Craigslist on February 17 for $2000 and we sold her to a mechanic named Jeff 2 days later on the 19th for $1400. We didn't think we would get more than $1000 for her so we were pleased with Jeff's offer. It is now time to start looking for my mommy SUV!

Time to start thinking about baby proofing



Ready to start cruising!
Stop Mom... I don't need your help! I can walk by myself!
Come on baby doll, lets go for a walk!
I think I can! I think I can! I think I can!

Raegan is trying her hardest to start crawling. She is getting on all 4's, moving her arms but her poor little legs haven't learned to start following yet. She is now pushing up into a downward dog position so it should be any day now. She can also stand on her own and loves to walk when you hold her hands. When walking she does high knees... shes a born athlete!





She has mastered the army crawl... backwards! The other day she scooted herself off the rug and on to the hardwood floors and then she was all over the place! Until she got stuck in between the bookshelf and entertainment center. Now I just need to put a swiffer duster under her and she can clean my floors for me while scooting around!

Sorry for the quality of the pictures I took them with my Blackberry!


Scooting off the rug... backwards!
Cleaning the floor!
Ut-oh! Almost to the TV. How do I go forward?
This is not looking good for me!
HELP MOM! I'm stuck!

6 months old!!!!!

Happy half Birthday Raegan! At her 6 month wellness checkup she was 17.1 pounds (70th percentile) and 26.75 inches long (80th percentile) She had 3 shots and one oral vaccine and did great! She didn’t cry at all!!! Dr. Freeman said she is perfect and is already reaching 7-9 month milestones! So proud of my baby girl!!


And let me pat myself on the back for a moment too! I made it to my 6 month goal of exclusively breastfeeding! So now I have 5-6 more months to go! Counting down the days!




starting to crawl
so pretty
6 month rolls and bald spot with seedlings!
Happy Half Birthday Bug!!!


Almost 6 months

I wrote this back in January but never published it... why I don't know?!


Raegan is growing up so fast! She is rolling over but doesn’t really like it. As soon as she rolls from her back to her belly she starts crying. She hates being on her tummy, even though I have caught her sleeping on her tummy a few times. When she is on her tummy she will push all the way up with her arms and tries to get her butt in the air but hasn’t quite made it yet. She loves to sit up all by herself and play with her toys. She especially loves ones that make noise and that she can bang and throw around. She is trying to feed herself when we have solids for breakfast and dinner. It’s cute and messy but at the same time a disaster because sometimes she will scream when I take the spoon away from her to put more food on it! For breakfast she eats oatmeal or rice cereal with applesauce. We haven’t introduced any other fruits yet but we will soon and then she will have other fruits for breakfast besides cereal. At dinner she gets a vegetable. So far carrots and sweet potatoes seem to be her favorite with sweet peas close behind. She hates green beans, which surprises me because green beans is one of the few veggies I will eat. All of her cereal, fruits and veggies are all organic.

We are going to be baby proofing soon because someone is about to start crawling!!! Ryan is so excited for this stage!! If it were up to him she would be running already. When Raegan is sitting up she leans over onto her hand and then kneels and starts to rock until her pathetic little arms give out on her!!!

Raegan is also talking up a storm!!! She loves saying dadadadada!!! Even more so she loves yelling it at me, like “I am saying his name mom, now where is he!!!” When she cries she says mama, only because she pouts when she cries so her lips are together and out comes mama. I like to think she is saying it on purpose but unfortunately she’s not L Every once in a while when you say hi to her she will say hi back! We are working on waving hi and bye!