Back to School

Hannah started back at preschool last week. She is now going to St. Peter and St. Paul's Episcopal Church Preschool three mornings a week. Mommy is excited for a much needed break after the long summer and ready for Hannah to make some new friends and learn even more! She was excited to go back and was not scared at all about being in a new place. In fact, when I had to leave her there on "Meet & Greet" day, when all the other kids were crying, Hannah hardly even knew I had left her! When it was time for her first day she was very excited to carry her school bag all by herself. She is such a big girl!

Hannah even used the potty on her first day of school. She is going to show all the other kids how it is done!

Painting, Play-Doh, reading, playing outside.....you would think it would really wear a girl out! But no nap for Hannah, she was so excited to go meet her newest cousin she could not even sleep! We picked her up from school and immediately left for Lakeland to meet little Presley!

Sam and I became an aunt and an uncle this week! Sweet baby Presley Elizabeth was born on August 2, 2010. We are so excited for Hannah and Reagan to meet their first little cousin. We are hoping they will all be great friends and looking forward to them growing up together! Jackie and Andrew are going to be great parents and we can't wait to see them in a couple weeks!

All babies are different and anyone who has spent a great deal of time with Reagan has seen that she can be pretty cranky. She is not nearly as laid back and independent as Hannah was from such an early age, and needs our love and attention so much more. They are only little for such a short time and we love Reagan just the same and cherish the times we see her smile and be a happy baby! Here are a couple pics of her from today!

So they must make those straps in the bouncy seat so your baby can't do this....

Time to Eat!

Reagan has been watching us eat with eager eyes for weeks now and we decided it was time she got to try a little something other than milk. She started with some rice cereal last week and is starting to get the hang of it.

Every time I bring the spoon near her mouth she grabs my hand and shoves the spoon in. I have to pry her little fingers off to get my spoon back!

Tonight we tried some avocado.

Hannah decided she wanted to try feeding her sister. Reagan was happy to eat it, but Hannah's aim was little off and it ended up everywhere!

mmmm....thanks sister!

Reagan has recently discovered her toes and they are her new favorite thing to play with. They can often be found in her mouth but have not been able to catch that on camera yet.

Bath time is so much more fun with two in the tub and also much easier for mommy and daddy!

We finally moved out of our old house and into a new one this past weekend. We were glad to be moving to a better neighborhood and bigger house, but it was a little sad leaving our first home that we owned and the home that our babies were born in. The move went fairly smoothly. Sam and one of our neighbors did all the heavy lifting and I watched the girls. It is so much harder moving with kids and trying to entertain them while still packing things up and putting them away.

We are loving our new house! There is so much more room for us to spread out and Reagan finally has her own room! Sam stayed up until 1 a.m. for two nights in a row to paint it and put the furniture together so she can finally have her own space.

We took a long walk yesterday morning to explore Chimney Springs a little bit. We found a little mini park and then walked down to the lake to try and find some ducks. We did not find the ducks yesterday, but today we ventured out again and went to the big playground. Reagan used the baby swing for the first time and seemed to like it.

We found some Canadian geese down by the water and Hannah was instantly drawn to them. She ran right up to them and within a few minutes there were about 50 ducks headed right for us looking for food. Hannah was laughing and loved it!

We are hoping to get up to the pool in the next couple days and try that out. Hopefully we will meet some nice families with kids to play with! More pictures of the inside of the house to come once we get a little more settled!

We have been so busy the past few weeks! We are finally moving next week into a new house with more space and in a great neighborhood. We ended up renting our home out starting August 1st since we were not able to sell it. I think we found pretty good people so hopefully it will all work out okay. We are renting a home for ourselves too for a little while until we can buy. The house we are moving into is super cute and we are so excited! I found a new preschool for Hannah over by the new house. She will be going Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings starting the middle of August. I will also be switching to work night shift at work, so that I can spend more time at home on the weekends. It has been really hard not having any days where we are all home together as a family. I will be working Friday and Sunday nights and although I will be tired, this hopefully will allow me to spend time with the family on Saturday and Sunday. So our days have been filled with packing, patching up holes in the walls, painting, signing leases, getting rid of stuff we don't need anymore, buying new furniture for the new place while also trying to take the little ones out to do fun summer stuff. It has been very stressful to try to get everything done but will all be worth it in the end when the big move is all over. Wish us luck next week....we are going to need it!

Reagan is still not sure about tummy time, but enjoys it so much more when she can do it next to her big sis!

Reagan loves this little ducky just as much as Hannah did when she was little!

Once again Hannah has no clothes on, but she sure is happy! I would say 80% of the time she just wants to run around in her diaper!

Such a girl....playing outside in her heels!