Reagan is Two!!!

Hard to believe that Reagan is two years old! She turned two on October 15. The time has flown. We brought her home on Nov 25 after 41 days in the nicu. She is no longer on the preemie charts and is actually on the regular growth chart. We have never had a child that was actually on the chart before! She is learning new things every day. She likes to watch You Tube videos with the baby shark song and she likes singing Rock A Bye Baby to her baby dolls. It is so cute. She is definitely in the terrible twos now because one minute she will be having fun and the next minute she will be having a meltdown. 

We got Avery's school pictures back. I am sad to say that it isn’t another classic like the one where she looks like a serial killer but it did turn out very cute. For the class picture she refused to look up so the teachers decided to bribe her for her individual picture. They offered her candy, she said no. They offered her a toy and she said no. They then offered her a $1 and she said yes. She smiled for the picture and after the picture, she put out her hand to get the dollar. LOL

Playing in the pool and eating apples. Yum!

We are fighting over the stroller even though we are both too big to be riding in it


Reagan was in the ER in September for breathing issues and she was given a little comfort kit. She looked so cute carrying it out of the hospital.


I put these puzzles together all by myself!


The Svitaks (and the Healeys)


Leaving Giant Eagle and holding hands


Buddy loves to cuddle and is good with Reagan and I


I had my legs laying on top of Buddy and he didn't care


Here is the pic where I look like a serial killer


Here is my school pic from this year ....I was bribed!


Here was how I looked for our class pic. LOL (Look how little I am compared to the other kids)


Mommy thinks this dog on a tag for a dog toy looks like Buddy(except Buddy has a white stripe down the middle of his face)




We were chickens for Halloween...or as Reagan likes to say GoGos.










A birthday party for Reagan and I




Fun at the library




RayRay loves Daddy...I do too



Daddy made us a cool house out of cardboard


Come inside, I have snacks!




We went to Chuck E Cheese last week. Thanks Aunt Lauren and Uncle Greg for the giftcard!! (Its amazing we are all looking at the camera!)









Mommy had a coin purse made with Chewie's picture. He is so cute :)


Reagan was sick last week with a bad cough. Surprisingly, I didn't get sick


Matching outfits!!




Mommy's friend made a bracelet with our names on it!


Medes was hanging out with Reagan when Reagan didn't feel well. She hangs out in Reagan's crib a lot.


Cheese!

More fun at the library!






Reagan's curls are crazy!


The day Reagan came home from the nicu.. Nov 25, 2016.

We have a Kindergartener....and adopted a new puppy!

I am WAYYY behind in posting.

A few weeks after we said goodbye to Chewie, we ended up adopting another dog from the shelter. We are crazy, I know. Joe was really depressed his best friend was gone and he is still really young (a year and a half old) so we ended up adopting a 9 month old puppy. His name is Buddy and we were told he is a shepherd/beagle mix. He is definitely nuts and makes Joe look like an angel because he tires him out since Joe was used to running around with a 9 year old dog, not a 9 month old puppy. He had a few accidents the first week or two with us but has been great since (besides chewing stuff).

We have a Kindergartener! I cannot believe it. Avery now goes to Kindergarten full-time, Monday-Friday from 9:00-3:30. She will be in a general education class  for social things like music, art, parties and talking about day of the week/weather. She will then be pulled out into small groups (2-3 kids) for subjects such as math, reading, etc. We had met with the school in the months prior and we all agreed this would be a great option for Avery. She needs the social interaction with other kids but requires greater assistance with other things.  Kindergarten has been an adjustment because she has been exhausted. She was used to only going to preschool for 2 ½ hours and getting a nap at daycare. I asked her if she likes school though and she always says yes. Also anytime we see a bus she says “yellow school bus” and points. She rides the bus to and from school.

This past month we ordered 24 new baby chicks. They were a day old when we received them.

The types of chickens we ordered were:

Buff Brahma – brown eggs

Columbian Wyandotte-brown eggs

Delaware-brown eggs

Dominique-brown eggs

Black Jersey Giant- brown eggs

 Partridge Cochin- light brown eggs

Silver Laced Wyandotte-brown eggs

White Cochin- light brown eggs

Avery turned 6 on August 30! I cannot believe we have a 6 year old. She is so sweet, funny and makes us laugh everyday. She is awesome and we love her so much!

Here is our new puppy, Buddy.

the day we brought him home

Look how excited I was!!

Reagan was excited too!

So was Momma

Hanging out with Ray and Momma

We had a surprise retirement party for Grandma! She was so surprised.

The family...of course I am hiding my face.

Daddy made Grandma a nurse hat out of paper.

Matching jammies

Reagan is playing with Medes

Fun at the Cuyahoga County Fair!

Fun with our chicken, Daisy. She is the last one left of the 3 original chickens we had. 

Fun at the North Royalton home days.

Riding in a cart at Target

Reagan is almost bigger than me!

I had so much fun at Kiddie Park when Grandma came with us!

First day of school

Riding the bus

 

My birthday!! I am 6!

Baby chicks

Buddy and I sleeping...he had his legs on me and then I had my legs on him :) (also, if you see in the second pic, I am sleeping in the middle and mommy is squished on the one end because Joe and Buddy are taking up the bed...Daddy was in the other room snoring)