Growing Up

My sweet little angel is growing up way too fast. I honestly can't believe how BIG she is getting. She will be 17 months next week, which is just crazy to me. Since I am such a horrible mother and never write anything down and forget everything. I figured I would update on here so I can remember what she is up to right now.

Reagan is such a girly girl. She loves her "pretties" which are her hair stuff or bracelets. She is always trying to put them in her hair, and she is really good about leaving them in when I do her hair. Anytime she sees one of her skirts or dresses she wants to wear it. She is also obsessed with shoes. It doesn't matter who's shoes they are if she sees shoes laying around she will try putting them on. She will often bring me shoes, even if she is wearing her pajamas and insist I help her put them on.

She also loves to color. She knows where I keep her crayons/paper and she will go to the cupboard and want me to get them out for her. She is so far loving Nursery. Brandon and I are teachers and so she has been going in with us for the past few months. She loves to be around the other kids. Since we have 3 nurseries in our ward I'm debating on whether to send her to one of the other ones when she turns 18 months. I think it will be good for her to be away from mom and dad for a bit, but I have heard that a lot of the other kids get bullied in the other ones. We actually have a lot of the little kids in ours now, (due to them being bullied) so it makes me a little nervous to send her to one of the other ones. Poor little Reagan was sick with a nasty cold about 2 weeks ago. It was so sad. You can tell she didn't feel well, but she was still smiley. She really is such a good girl. She hardly ever cries or whines. And always has a smile on her face.

She is surely my daughter and loves the hot sauce!! Ok not really I don't let her eat the hot sauce but she does insist on having her own packet and pretends to put it on everything. If she sees me eating something with hot sauce on it (which is pretty much everything) she has to too. Its pretty funny.

She LOVES playing outside. Even though its been cold she ALWAYS wants to be outside. She will go get me her jacket and shoes and pound on the back door until I take her out. She loves to swing and climb on her playset. She can actually climb up the wooden ladder herself and go down the slide. Whenever I take her back in she throws a fit and cries. Its pretty funny! I cant wait till Spring and Summer when we can spend all day in the sun and at the pool.

She is starting to potty train herself, well at least with #2. A few weeks ago she was in the tub and I noticed her get her "poop face" so I picked her up and put her on the toilet. Since then she will sign "poop" and run to the potty and most of the time she will now poop in the potty which is nice.

She is quite the little talker now and copies and says a lot of words now.

Some of her favorites are: Dadda, Mamma, Pappa, Ball, Go, bye-bye, pretty, bear, baby, Uh-Oh, what's that, and where is it.

She knows sign language for: Milk, food, cheese, more, please, thank-you, dog, cat and poop.

I have loved that she knows a little bit of sign language. I actually wish I would have taught her more earlier. Its been so nice for her to be able to communicate and tell us wants she wants before she was really talking.

Ok so that's probably enough for now. Please forgive any spelling or grammatical errors. I am updating at work again on no sleep.