Once again, I am shamelessly coming back to our family blog - after weeks (months even) away. On the bright side, my failure to "blog" suggests that we have been very busy with much to do. In honesty, yes we have been busy but nothing so demanding that would or should keep me from recording family memories from the past 8 weeks or so. Shameful. Other than waiting patiently to H1N1 to enter our home, we have been up to the same old, same old. What has happened since our last post of Reagan's first day of school?
For starters, Reagan has turned 3! She has become a
strong-willed 3 year old and we have been struggling with that ever since. Teasing. While she has provided us with some challenges as of late, we believe it is directly due to her new age and desire for independence AND due to the fact that Evelyn is becoming much more active and interactive. Perhaps the girls are now vying for attention - and so it begins! We also celebrated time with my parents, and my GRANDPARENTS!! That is right, Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Johnson
traveled out with Grandma
Sone and Papa Boo for Reagan's 3rd birthday/Great-Grandma's birthday. It was an awesome time. We were also with Gene and Eileen, went to the Diana exhibit, the orchard and played, played, played. Grandma
Wessman was unsuccessful at getting Ev to crawl, but in her own time, she has done it on her own. More on that later.
Halloween has come and gone. Personally, I am hugely opposed to Halloween. It is the most annoying "holiday" on the calendar. It grosses me out on so many levels. However, it is fun for the kids (or is it? Have you ever watched their faces during the "costume parades"? The vast majority have this blank stare - void of any emotion with the exception of clearly portraying this thought "Why in the WORLD are my parents taking my picture along with all my friends dressed up like weirdo's while we should be learning our alphabet?" Watch closely next year. They don't get it (I don't get it either, clearly) and aside from all from all of the candy - they don't love it as much as we have convinced ourselves that they do) Anyway - our girls looked adorable. Reagan's costume was quite confusing for her. She wanted to be an Azure Butterfly (from Fancy Nancy). I couldn't find one that was suitable so we settled on a purple butterfly. When it arrived, Reagan modeled it for Daddy. Daddy's reaction, "Isn't that a fairy costume?" Now why does Daddy know more about fairy's and
butterflies than Mommy? So, in the end, we agreed that Reagan was a Purple Butterfly Fairy Princess. On Halloween, everyone kept calling her
Tinkerbell. She was truly perplexed and I am convinced that it hampered her enjoyment of trick-or-treating. Evelyn was the ever
adorable flamingo. She wasn't a fan of the get-up but wore it for trick-or-treating, through the
down pouring rain, watching her sister get all this great candy. Where is the justice in that for the poor little one's? She'll never forgive me. :-)
We now prepare for Thanksgiving. I am hoping we will have friends over, most likely those who have family far away as well. The neat thing about our move out here for Ben's job is that we have lots of friends who are "transplanted" as well. We'll see how the holiday shapes up. Also, Gram Pam is coming in ONE WEEK!!! Whew! We have sure missed her. It is also going to be her birthday while she is here so we are going to do it up BIG!
As I have been spitting out this post in the past 5 minutes, Evie has been moving all over the place! She has learned the army crawl and she is a great
squirm. If she wants something bad enough, she'll move for it. She was also just working on pulling herself up on the kiddie table. Watch out world - Ev is on the move! Our carpeted upstairs is her favorite place to navigate. Now that her sister is currently sleeping (Reagan just put herself to bed in the late morning - she hasn't taken a morning nap since she was 9 months old - which tells me she is most certainly getting sick) Ev has full run of the place.
Off to tend to the Great Mover. Daddy is doing well, by the way. He just won a huge award at a conference in Vienna, Austria. We sure are proud of that fella!!!
