Happy Half-Birthday!

Reagan, our wonderful, lovely, squealing, smiling babe-

Your first summer and fall have come and gone. You’ve traveled to and visited family and friends in New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland. You’ve ridden in the car, on the Metro, on escalators, in elevators, in your stroller, in various carriers, on a plane, and on a tractor/hay ride and you love almost all of them, except the stroller sometimes.

We’ve celebrated Father’s Day, the 4th of July, Halloween, and Thanksgiving, and we’re getting ready for Christmas!

 

You’ve been to the doctor, mostly for check-ups and you’re usually okay with being there – even when it takes forever and mom and dad are really impatient about it. The only part you don’t like are the shots, but we don’t like those, either.

   

You really hated your first bath, but then you loved your SpaBaby. Now, you sometimes take a shower with dad and sometimes get a bath in the sink.

As we hoped and expected, you love to eat and had no problem adjusting to bottles and working on solid food. You love apples, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, acorn squash, rice cereal, oatmeal, and peas. You have even starting to pick up small food pieces with your fingers and feed yourself. And, your first tooth started coming in just this week.

One of your favorite thing these days, though, is crawling. You love exploring the floor and can get to many of the places you want – even if we think you shouldn’t be there. You love play with and chew on your board books, legos (especially the little man), plastic shapes, and Freddy the Firefly. You really like playing in your exersaucer, though you’re almost too tall for it already, and you really love climbing underneath it.

This first six months have been fabulous and we can’t wait to see what the next months and beyond bring for all of us. Happy Half-birthday!

Love ~ Mom and Dad