Raegan turned 21 on sunday! 21 months that is of course. I can't believe in less than 3 months our little baby ( i mean big girl) will be 2! Raegan is certainly growing fast. She is as tall as most of her older friends and this girl has some big feet too! Raegan's newest interest is in accessorizing ( hmmm, i wonder where she is learning this). Raegan loves to put "pretties" on ( she calls jewlerly and hair clips " pretties"). She started this while watching me get ready. She likes to go into my drawers in the bathroom and pull out all of my hairbands ( which i no longer use since i have short hair) and she puts them on her wrists like bracelets. She is into the 80's look of multiple bracelets on her wrists. I now find "pretties" all over the house. She also likes to put "pretties" on all of her animals and dolls. She also likes bags ( we call them satchels in our house). She'll take a bag or basket and put it around her arm and say " bye bye". Sometimes she takes her cell phone too. The other day she was on her riding car with a satchel on her shoulder and a cell phone in her hand. I don't know where she is learning this stuff because I very rarely use my cellphone when I am driving! Raegan also loves shoes! She will go in my closet and try on any shoes that she can find. Raegan's hair is growing very fast and it's about halfway down her back when it's wet but it is still curly, curly! Everywhere we go people comment on her hair. I think her hair is beautiful but I have a feeling Raegan is not going to like it when she gets older. It is already becoming a battle to comb it in the morning. Raegan finally has a name that she calls me, "mom". Raegan has not called me anything until about a week ago. She would say "da da" all of the time but when I asked her to say mommy she would just point at me. I know she could say because she would say " mah mah" for food and bottles. And then she started saying "money" which I thought was her trying to say mommy but nope she says "money" when she sees my wallet. But out of the blue last week she started saying " mom" to me very clearly. It sounds pretty funny to hear a toddler saying "mom". It sounds more like a teenage child kind of thing to say. But I love to hear her say my name. And it melts my heart when I come home from being out and I hear her excitedly yelling " mom! mom!". So yes I am glad to finally have a name.
In other news our family is preparing to go to Tennessee for our 3rd and final embryo adoption. We are very excited to see what the outcome is. We are hoping and praying that the transfer goes well and that we are able to grow our family this way. But at the same time although it will be very difficult for it not to work again, at least we will have a resolution and and we can begin the next steps in this journey and begin to pursue another traditional adoption. Raegan loves babies now and we know she will be a great big sister! Tonight we asked her if she wants us to have a baby and she said "uh huh". And we asked her how many babies she wanted us to have and she said "three". We had to laugh but somehow I don't think she would like the reality of having three babies in the house. We are in the process of shots and appointments for me. And I am going to begin to "quarentine" Raegan for the week and a half leading up to the transfer. We just don't want her getting sick or either of us getting sick especially with the flu going around. So Raegan and I will have some good bonding time in the next couple of weeks!
Today we took advantage of the beautiful weather and decided to take Raegan outside for some pictures after her nap. We put a beautiful dress on Raegan that my neighbor Desi made and took her out in to the leaves for some pictures. It's so hard to tell what the weather is going to be like from day to day but we were glad to have the beautiful weather this weekend! Hope you the enjoy the pictures of our beautiful girl!
