A Few Videos...

We've been trying to take more and more video of Reegan these days because she is SO active now! She will definitely wear you out! But we're still having lots of fun playing and keeping up with her. :) Hope you enjoy these videos and we promise to post more and more of them as Reegan starts to do and try new things. Oh, and PS - I was adjusting the HTML code to get the whole video to fit - I think I got it to work...hopefully. ;)

Here is Dalton (Jessica's cousin) playing peek-a-boo with her...this is the most she's ever giggled!



She is loving her cereal! We can't feed her fast enough it seems.



Play time is so much fun now. She loves all of her toys, especially her links!



And this one was just funny. I don't know who had more fun here - Reegan or Jeff (filming)? :)

Chicago

We got a chance to take a quick vacation up to Chicago for a few days. It was SO fun, but the trip went by way too quickly. We drove up on Wednesday night/Thursday morning (yes, we did drive - it wasn't too terrible) and hit the ground runnin' as soon as we checked into our hotel.

Thanks to one of my friends from college (Bret) we found a place to park our car for FREE - fyi there is nowhere in downtown chicago to park a car for less than $25 a day - and we headed up to Wrigley to try to see a Cubs game. We didn't have tickets yet, but figured we could probably find some on the streets outside the stadium. We got to hang out for a couple hours at the Cubby Bear Lounge right across from the main entrance and then about 5 minutes before the first pitch we headed out to find tickets. We got a decent deal for some upper level seats and the game was a great time! The Cubs won 12-6 and hit a bunch of homeruns. It is so different to go to a game that is packed on a weeknight since we're so used to the Royals. :)

On Friday, we started the day by heading down to Millenium Park. Several people recommended that we check it out...and it didn't disappoint. It was beautiful! There was a bunch of neat areas like the Pavilion and a big fountain that had hundreds of kids splashing in it.

The above picture is of a cool area called Wrigley Courtyard (I think that's the name anyway - I should've written it down). Below is a rather recognizable piece of art called the Cloud Gate. I'm sure on the name of this one - it has become a symbol of Chicago in recent years even though it's only been there since 2005. It's called the Cloud Gate partly because when you look at it you can see the clouds in the reflection. We had some fun taking pictures of our reflection as well. :)

In the afternoon we went over to Navy Pier. It's the number one tourist attraction in Chicago. Although it was neat, I think we will get more out of it once our baby is big enough to try some of the rides they have and experience the children's museum as well.

One of the cool things that was happening while we were in Chicago was the filming of an upcoming movie - Transformers 3!! The movie production had a section of Michigan Ave. closed down to traffic for the entire time we were there. You could still get to all of the shops and restaurants, but you couldn't get across the bridge over the river. We were able to get a few shots of some of the setup for the shoot, although there wasn't a ton you could actually see. The place was setup like some sort of destruction area though and we periodically would see smoke and there were cars turned over. Pretty cool!

It's kinda tough to see in this picture, but if you look closely you'll see a parachuter. We were on our boat tour (more about that in a sec) and a helicopter flew over downtown and out jumped five or six skydivers! They swooped around the huge Trump building and then parachuted their way down onto the movie set. It was really neat to see. (PS - this pic was taken from about 1/2 mile away, so I was lucky to even get the guy in here!)

Now to that boat tour...we had been told we should check out one of the architecture tours in Chicago, and specifically one that was by boat. We found one the had half-price tickets on Saturday morning and it was great! Although the river was closed due to the filming of the movie, we still got to go upand down the shore line on Lake Michigan and were able to get some great photos of the Chicago skyline.

The other tourist activity we took in was going up in the Hancock Building to the observation deck. All the way up to the 94th floor - it was pretty cool to see the city from up above.

We returned after 4 days to see our little girl with 2 teeth (don't have a good pic of this yet) who can sit up on her own...kinda. She still fairly wobbly. I can't believe it, only 4 days away and she changed so much! It's good to be back home with her!!

5 Months Old!!!

Reegan turned 5 months old on Sunday and I can't believe how fast time has flown by. She has changed so much and has really blessed our lives!

The past few nights, Reegan has not been sleeping well and waking up a lot at night. I think/hope this is just because she is teething and will only last a short time. Sunday morning, she woke up at 6:15 and refused to go back to sleep (this is a record for her, because usually she doesn't like to get up for the day until at least 9:00). After some play time, Reegan must have realized how tired she really was because she fell asleep on her stomach in the middle of floor (also something new for her, because she NEVER sleeps on her stomach, in fact if its the middle of the night and she accidently rolls onto her stomach she wakes us up to roll her back).



This time around it was much more difficult to get a good shot of her, because she kept moving around so much. I even tried a couple of locations and it didn't seem to make much of a difference.


I was able to get a couple of pictures of her at least looking near/at the camera. We don't have the smile on demand thing down yet :)




Here is my favorite!

On Saturday, we went to the mall for a couple of things and stopped by The Children's Place. They are having a BIG sale right now and a lot of things were $4-$5. I found these sunglasses for $1.50 and had to get them. I know baby sunglasses are not the most practical, but she was so cute...

4th Anniversary

Yesterday (July 8) was our 4 year wedding anniversary and to celebrate we are going to Chicago next week for a long weekend. We scheduled this back in March and have been looking forward to it all this time. Since I am starting the full-time one year nursing program in Aug, we decided this would be the perfect time for some sightseeing and rest. The downside is little Reegan is staying here with our parents. I know I am very anxious and sad to leave her, but I'm pretty sure our Parents can't wait for us to leave so they can have her all to themselves :)

When packing for Tennessee, I realized how much more time consuming it is getting a baby packed up. Even though she is staying in town, there is so much to get together. She is currently taking a nice, long nap so I used this time to start organizing. My first priority was digging through the freezer to get her milk all together. I was really nervous that I wouldn't have enough stored up, but after getting it all together I don' think I need to worry. I knew getting up in the middle of the night while my baby slept was going to pay off...

I know formula isn't bad, but I am taking breastfeeding very seriously and do NOT want to have to give her formula yet. Maybe in a few months, but not yet. I also thought that while we were in Chicago, I would have to dump everything that I pump, but I called the hotel yesterday and they said they would put a mini-fridge in our room for me to store it. They also said that I could use a freezer as well! Now I am feeling much more positive about it all...however carting around a pump for 4 days is less enticing.

Alright, thats enough from me! I have posted more cute pics of Reegan, because who are we kidding, we all know thats the reason you check this blog out :)

Getting ready to go for a swim with Daddy...
I found my toes... now thats all I play with when laying on my back!

I'm just going to close my eyes for a little while...

I'm getting my first tooth!

I know it's really hard/impossible to see, but the corner is poking through!

4th of July Weekend!

Here are a couple of videos to enjoy! Reegan had her first outdoor pool experience with Jason and really enjoyed it. At Jason's request, he would like for you to ignore his pasty whiteness :)

After the swimming experience, Reegan wanted to tell us all about it! I love her sweet, little voice.