Aug. 23, 2015: Reagan's morning smile!

Aug. 23, 2015: Reagan's bed head

Aug. 23, 2015: Reagan "talks" (ah bah)

Aug. 22, 2015: Both hands on bottle! Yay Reagan!

House update (Aug. 22)

Grapes at the Kroger grocery store

I learned today that I will end my grocery shopping in the produce section when I go to the store next time with Reagan.

We went to Kroger this morning because we were low on food (besides bagels and cereal) at our apartment.  I was also feeling very nauseous and Reagan had a lot of energy, so I thought that a Kroger trip would give me some fresh air and let Reagan expend some of her extra energy so she could take a nice, long afternoon nap!

The fruits and veggies are in the first part of the store when you enter, and I forgot that Reagan gets super excited when she sees her favorite fruits, grapes and blueberries.  When I put both fruits in the cart behind her seat, she would not stop looking behind her and reaching for the grapes.

While I wouldn't feel bad if it were a drink or a doughnut (my brother and I would sometimes eat our doughnuts before we made it to the check-out line on church Sundays...), because I could tell the cashier what she ate and the missing food/drink item that I needed to pay for, with grapes, the more she ate, the less the bag weighed and we would be technically "stealing" because we wouldn't end up paying for all the grapes that were originally in the bag.  If it were a few grapes, no big deal... BUT, Reagan kept on reaching back and yelling when I hid the grapes from her.  I even tried playing YouTube videos on my phone while throwing items in my cart and driving down each aisle, but Reagan did not forget about the grapes!  So, she ended up eating quite a bit.

Well, I guess I don't feel so bad because I bought a jug of orange juice from this same Kroger store last week, and the expiration date was from last June, and there was mold on the side of the top of the bottle, so we paid for it and couldn't drink it.

 And we were overall successful!  We have fruit in our apartment, Reagan took a nap and I feel less nauseous because I can rest, too!  :)

Aug. 14, 2015: Reagan eats ice cream and loves it!

12 month milestones and pictures

Reagan Amy Haase

12 months

July 28, 2015

-She can crawl like a speed racer!  

-She is not yet walking nor standing on her own, but she can walk around furniture quickly when holding on and doing a side shuffle. 

-She is drinking exclusively whole milk now and working on drinking from a sippy cup and holding it herself, instead of drinking from her baby bottle. 

-She says lots of sounds with "AHHH" in it, like "Mama," "Dada," and "BOOAHHH" which she says when she points to a lamp light or street light.  

-She is also starting to say "BYE BYE" and wave her hand wildly, but she says "BYE BYE" with a southern twang already, so it's more like "BAH BAH!"

-She loves to eat "real people food" now and cringes at the mashed up food that we still had left. 

-Reagan has eight teeth total now that we can see, four on top and four on the bottom. 

-Reagan's favorite foods: blueberries (she could eat a whole box!), cereal (Fruit loops!), Goldfish crackers, pasta, string cheese, shredded cheese, ice cream, frozen yogurt, vanilla Snack Packs, sandwich meat, bagel with peanut butter (in bite size pieces), and soup!  (The only food so far that Reagan often spits out is banana.)

12 month Doctor's Appointment (late post)

Reagan's 12-month doctor's appointment check-up

July 29, 2015

Weight: 20 pounds, 6 oz. (60th percentile)

Height: 29 1/8 inches (50th percentile)

Head circumference: 17 7/8 inches 

The doctor said that Reagan was a very healthy 12-month old!  

She is now drinking exclusively whole milk and eating "real people food" like macaroni, sandwich pieces, soup, fruit (blueberries are her favorite), Goldfish crackers and cereal with milk. We are encouraging her to use her sippy cup and not her baby bottles now. 

The doctor recommends that we put baby sunscreen on Reagan when we're outside, that we read to her every day, and that we start baby-proofing our apartment (and soon-to-be house).

Reagan received three shots at the end of the appointment, so we cuddled in the doctor's room for 15 minutes before we went back to the car, but she was worn out from all the crying and fell asleep in my arms as we were walking in the parking lot!

(And, she's sucking on her thumb in the first few pictures because the nurse also pricked her finger to draw some blood for some other testing, but Reagan didn't cry for that!  She was just bothered by the band-aid that wouldn't come off of her finger!)

Miller Open Family Reunion 2015

Miller Open Family Reunion 2015

Photo below of Reagan taken by her Uncle Charlie!

The five photos below of Reagan, David and me are taken by Carly (photo credit with her nice camera!)  :)

We put the ESPN oven mitt from Allison and Nick to good use when we used it for a puppet show to entertain Reagan during part of the 11-hour drive back down to Tennessee!