The Girls First Birthday Celebration

Andy's Dad owns his own barber shop and is also a preacher.  This means that he works every weekend both days.  Since Gamma and Papa cannot come up for the girls birthday parties they decided to come early and have their own celebration with them.  The two girls shared the cake.  Reagan was so excited about receiving a dancing Dora doll!  She has been very in to Dora for a long time.  Dora teaches pre-schoolers spanish, numbers, alphabets, and colors.  She goes on adventures and uses a magical backpack to help her on her way.  It is very cute.

Madison dove right in to her slice of cake with no problems.  Unlike Reagan, she has already had sweet things such as ice cream.  It's the second child thing.  Reagan did not have anything sweet until her first birthday and then she was so overwhelmed that she was not interested in her cake very much.  Not Madison, she loved it!

This was such a nice day with Gamma and Papa.  The girls love their visits so much.

The end of our morning routine.

This past Wednesday was the student's first day of class.  I have to be at work at 6:55am so this leaves Andy to dress and take the girls to school.  During the summer months, I had a routine of getting them up and playing for a little while before going to school.  I would then come back water my plants and enjoy a cup of coffee while watching the Today show.  It was great!  However, these days are gone until next summer.

My last day to take the kids happened to be raining.  I planned to put Reagan in a nice outfit with nice shoes since I knew they wouldn't be going outside.  However, she realized the rain outside and insisted on wearing all her gear.  When I was trying to put on her best sandals her response was, "No mom, it's raining outside and I need my boots!"  Well, my darling you can now tell Daddy every morning what you are going to wear.

The Girls After School

Can you guess who's who?

On multiple occasions friends, family, and even ourselves are amazed at how much our two girls look alike.  Madison and Reagan's birthdays are six days a part making it possible for Madison to wear all of Reagan's clothes.  The fun part is putting Madison in the same outfit and posing her in the same spot we took pictures with Reagan.  This is how we can really see how similar they are.  See how well you do.  The answers are at the bottom.

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Play Room Fun

The girls and I love our play room.  I love that there is a place for all there toys and it is a safe environment for both of my girls.  I also enjoy that most of our toys are learning toys and that they are constantly learning while at play.  Today we brought out the nesting blocks.  Madison who is near one year old is just entering into the phase where she likes to knock things down and put things inside each other like bowls and blocks.  Today we were building a tower of ABC blocks and taking turns knocking it down.  We laughed and laughed many times over.  Luckily, Daddy was here to capture this great moment.

Music on the Lawn

I've been meaning to find a lazy Friday night to take the girls out to have a picnic and hear the live music at  American Tobacco.  Andy definitely did not want to go.  In his mind he thought we were going to be in a field with no shade, 95 degree weather, and two whining babies.  Since he was so hesitant that meant I was left to packing our dinner, drinks, diaper bag, chairs, strollers, etc.  Of course, as any parent knows if you have to pack more than a diaper bag then you will probably forget something!  We picked up the girls from school at 5:00pm so that we could get downtown early.  The girls go to bed at 7pm so we have to do things early if we want them to enjoy it.

It ended up being an incredibly fun night.  We were there early enough to set up under a tree in the back where we were in the shade and could leave early.  It didn't take long until I got an apology from my husband.  There was a light breeze and it was awesome having such an easy outing for no charge.  Reagan and I ran around the fountains while waiting for our fabulous Mellow Mushroom pizza which is my favorite.  The girls were having so much fun eating outside and people watching.  The music was just okay but the atmosphere made up for that.  I know the next time we go my husband will help out a lot more since he saw how fun and cheap the evening was.

Reagan's 2 year old Smiles

These are all the smiles of Reagan at age 2.  I love them all baby girl.