The Saddest Princess

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Cutie in a Hat

Reagan received this cute outfit from one of the ladies Beth works with. As it is still sunny and in the 80's here Reagan can still wear it for another month or so.

Great New Show

Ultimate Factories is an awesome new show on the HD National Geographic Channel (or Nat Geo as we in the biznizz call it). So far they have done episodes about building a Peterbilt Semi-Truck and building an Apache Attack Helicopter.

An interesting fact about the helicopter is that it contains almost 8 miles worth of wiring for all the computer systems and over 1500 splice junctions.

Another Desticle

We almost had another "desticle" on Sunday night. It was about 8 p.m., the weather was beautiful, no rain or even a breeze in the air, when all of a sudden we heard a huge crash from the backyard. We both ran outside to see what had happened and found this limb (the limb was longer, about 9 feet more of it broke into smaller pieces and had already been carried out to the curb when this picture was taken) had fallen, taking down the overhead cable/internet line (Thank God the cable and internet didn't go out).

So on Monday (against my mother-in-laws advice) we called a few different tree services to come out and give us estimates on getting all the dead branches and limbs removed. We decided on Robinson's Tree Service and they will be coming out in the next few days to trim the oak up. It is about 70 feet tall and over 75 years old the guy estimated. Since there is no way to get a cherry-picker in the back yard they will be doing all the work up in the tree, should be fun to watch. I can't believe how many dead limbs there were that he pointed out to me. Now every time the wind blows or it rains I worry what else is going to fall out of the tree.

First Food

Reagan got her first taste of "people food" last week (as long as you consider rice cereal mixed with breast milk food). She wanted n0thing to do with it and cried after the first 2 bites.
She sure does look like a big girl sitting in the high-chair.

I think I love you

After our old brown striped couch got repeatedly puked on by Libby during her sickness and both sides of the cushions were so worn though they had holes in them we decided to buy a new couch. We picked it out a few weeks ago and they delivered it last Wednesday. The couch is called "Wild Thing" and it is unlike anything we have bought before. It goes with no other furniture in the house and is really quite ugly, but when we move it will go in the basement for me to use with my home theater. As ugly as it is, it is the most comfortable couch I have ever sat on. Both sides of it recline and is all big and puffy. It is about 13 inches longer then our old love seat so now all four of us plus the 2 dogs can comfortably sit on it. And we were able to get rid of the foot stool providing much more room for Libby to play.


As you can imagine it is quite hard to get me to move from in front the television now.

Redecorating

Beth has been wanting to redecorate the den for a long time now. I have always been against doing it since it would involve scraping the walls since the people who we bought the house from didn't prime the walls before painting over wood paneling. While I was up in Michigan Beth started scraping the walls, and by "started" I mean she did about 3 boards knowing full well that when I got home and saw how bad it looked I would finish the job. As of today I have about 80% of the scraping done. Hopefully I will have the rest of it done tonight and primed tomorrow, so that when Beth gets home from Denver she can pick out a paint color.

Four Month and 2 Year Appointments

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Reagan and Libby had their 4 month and 2 year well-check appointments today.
Libby is growing like a little weed. She is 28 lbs 1 oz (50th percentile) and 35 inches tall (90th percentile). Dr. Geiger was wowed by Libby's ability to count to 10, point out all the different colors and pick out 5 different shapes (circle, star, square, triangle and rectangle).
Reagan is a different story, she is a little peanut. We had always thought she was getting so big, but she is actually on the small side. She weighed 12 lbs 11 oz (25th percentile) and is only 23 3/4 inches tall (20th percentile). Reagan got 4 shots, 2 in each leg and also one vaccine she took orally. Reagan is doing really well with sleeping through the night. She goes to bed around 8 o'clock and gets up at around 2 a.m. to take a few ounces of milk and then goes back to sleep until 7:30 ish.
Libby and I also each got the flu shot.

Triple Threat

Yesterday the girls and I headed over to D-dale to see the in-laws. Paul, Laura and girls were there already and Jamie and her daughter Kendra stopped by also. My mother-in-law and father-in-law had 3 little girls within 3 months.

It is going to be so much fun watching the three of them change together and grow together.

Made it

Libby, Reagan and I made it to Michigan in record time. We left Memphis at 4:15 a.m. and pulled into Dewitt at 5:31 p.m. Libby and Reagan were angels the entire trip. Libby watched 21 episodes of Jack's Big Music Show, the Laurie Berkner Band DVD 3 times and 1/2 of Finding Nemo. Reagan slept for about 11 1/2 hours waking up about twice. She only ate twice, once at 7:30 a.m. and then again a little before 5:00 p.m.
For those of you wondering how I traveled 12 hours and 16 minutes with two little girls and didn't use a restroom once, the answer has something to do with a red solo cup.