A Tooth!

Reagan’s first tooth showed up yesterday. We had a bit of a rough day with a few moments of screaming, which I think (and hope) were due to the tooth thing. There are no pictures yet, but we’ll work on getting one soon.

6 Month Appointment

I took Reagan to her 6 month well-baby check last week. It was another long visit – almost 2 hours. She did well, but didn’t like when the pushed on her belly (or gave her shots). The paper on the table, though, was a huge hit. She chewed on it, crumpled it, ripped it, and slobbered all over it!

She weighed in at 17.7 lb and was measured at 26.5 in long.

On the Move

So, the squealing is kind of new, and we’re not huge fans of it. We’re hoping she’ll learn something new soon.

And, Reagan is moving like crazy. Not crawling, exactly, but scooting and army crawling. She really gets around, especially to things that aren’t hers. Admittedly, the clicker was a setup, because we usually don’t let her have it, but she will scoot and get to her toys, too.

Missing: Sophie the Giraffe

Description: 7 inches tall, tan body with brown spots and brown hooves, shiny black eyes, RA written on the bottom of a foot.

Reagan and I were off to a great start today. While Tim went up to New York for the day, Reagan very kindly slept in until 8:30 this morning and woke up quite happy. Our friends were all busy today and it was beautiful out, so I decided we could run some errands at Union Station, grab some lunch, and take a walk towards the White House to get our White House Christmas ornament for this year.

We had a great start to the day, with a bath and nap for Reagan. She and I started out for Union Station to go to the post office and get a watch battery changed – the post office was fine, but the watch is actually broken.

The day changed from there. Reagan was happily sleeping in her stroller, so we walked towards Gallery Place to find some lunch for me. It was warm out, but there was a bit of wind, so we had a blanket, but it kept falling off and I think that is what contributed to losing poor Sophie. Reagan had Sophie when we were in the jewelry store, but that was the last time I saw her.

I didn’t notice Sophie was missing until we got to Gallery Place – about 10 blocks away. So, off we went, retracing our steps back to Union Station. We did not find her, so I grabbed a very disappointing lunch – as could be expected at Union Station – and I was so distraught about losing Sophie, that I hardly ate and we ended up walking partway back on our route one more time.

Luckily, I was with one oblivious girl who was just happy to be out in the beautiful weather. And, Tim got home earlier than expected, so we were able to walk back to Union Station – again – to meet him at his train tonight.

DC Fun – Part 2

When Gwen, Sharon, and the kids were in town, we had much better weather for Sunday than Saturday. It was a beautiful, crisp, fall day, so we decided it would be great to head out of the city to a farm to do some pumpkin and apple picking. The pumpkin picking was mostly successful, but the apples, not so much.

We did the obligatory wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch and Reagan really enjoyed the apple bucket. And Collin was mostly interested in the hay.

We searched and searched for the best pumpkin out there – only in the field they said we could go to, of course.

 

And eventually settled on the ones we liked.

So, we were off to pick apples. Well, we walked through the apple trees and saw lots of apples on the ground. We only found 1 apple actually hanging on a tree and Collin picked it – and that made his day.

 

What an awesome day!

A Trim

Reagan's long bangs were hanging in her eyes and it was driving me crazy,

so I, very unceremoniously, trimmed them. I admit that they are a little uneven, but they aren't hanging in her eyes anymore.

She seems to be pretty thrilled with it

Getting Stronger

Well, she's not quite moving everywhere she wants to be, but this little babe is pretty happy scooting on her stomach and hanging out on her hands and knees. We now have a gate to block the stairs, so Reagan can have a little more range to move.