I'm not much of a blogger (obviously, since it's been almost 4 years since I posted last) but someone recently suggested that I start it up again to keep people up to date with the family. So here I go!
I have been super blessed with Rylie (10/8/08), Reagan (2/27/10), and our newest addition, Rochelle (5/8/12). Craig finished up his last full semester at UTSA in May for his bachelors in Electrical Engineering. He has one class to finish up in the fall and he'll have that diploma!!! He's already got a full-time job at a place called FBD (Frozen beverage dispensers) where he helps to design/test the electrical boards in the machines that provide us with those yummy slushies! Anyway, he loves it and is super excited about all of the new things he's learning and getting to be involved with there.
I am getting to stay at home with my babies and not miss one precious moment of their little lives! :) I knew that raising kids and staying home with them would be difficult, but I really had no idea what I was getting myself into. However, I love my girls so very much, and I wouldn't trade my position for any amount of money or anything else in this world. I definitely question myself as a mother on a minute to minute basis, but ultimately all I can do is trust that God knew what he was doing when he gave me my girls and pray that he will guide me.
Rylie currently has a cold so she's pretty lethargic right now, but she's regularly very energetic and so funny. This summer we started dance classes at the library and she has really eaten it up! Reagan dresses up each week with her. At home, she tries to do these very "emotional" dances and she'll throw herself around and act very serious while twirling and doing weird acrobatics on the floor. So incredibly cute!
Reagan is Miss Independent. I always assumed that my second would be attached at the hip with my first, but my goodness, she has her own little personality and she loves to play by herself. Don't get me wrong though, she loves other people too, babies in particular. Any time we're at a play place, she will find the baby in the room. She also loves Rochelle to death (literally, she'd smother her with hugs if I wasn't there to stop her!). Rylie has taken more of the helper role when it comes to Rochelle, she'll sing to her occasionally but mainly she just wants to help meet Rochelle's needs and keep her happy. Reagan on the other hand wants to play and cuddle and hold and be all up in Rochelle's personal space at all times. When Rochelle was tiny, like a week or two old, she'd be crying and I'd put her in Reagan's lap and no joke, she would stop crying. If she started back up, Reagan would make up songs and sing them like lullabies, often going a lot like, "don't cry baby Chelle, don't cry!". Along with babies, she also loves Dora very much and bananas lately. She eats them so incredibly fast that I've decided she must be hiding them away somewhere. I'm going to discover a big pile of rotten old bananas one I these days. ;)
Both Rylie and Reagan are obsessed with getting their nails done all the time now. It started at Mama and Papa's house where Aunt Chelsea and Aunt Alyssa would do them, but now it's pretty much every other day at least. Painting nails is always a good way to cheer them up if they're upset.
Reagan is independent BUT Rylie and Reagan are great friends. They get into a lot of trouble together...most recently they got into lipstick and got it all over the bathroom floor as they were dumping out all the soap trying to clean it off of them before I found it. When I asked Reagan to go get the lipstick for me Rylie goes, "no Reagan! Don't tell her where it is!!!" She's not even 4 yet; what am I going to do!?! In all seriousness though, they are pretty well-behaved girlies.
Then there's Rochelle...she is definitely my hardest baby so far, but still easy in comparison to the "nightmare babies". She's just a little higher maintenance, and I think it's just because her tummy is more sensitive. She has started to interact with us a lot lately and her smile is just beautiful. She looks more and more like Rylie as a baby and apparently (according to my previous posts about Rylie) they act a lot a like too. She has started to get excited and coos a lot when we talk to her or play with her hands. She hasn't laughed yet, but I don't think it'll be too much longer. I got her ears pierced when she was just over 2 months old in hopes that it would encourage Rylie and Reagan to get theirs done (didn't work...), but they look so cute and girlie! She likes to be cuddled in a blanket when she sleeps, and when we hold her, she needs to be facing out. She is in the 10-25% in length and the 50-75% in weight according to her 2 month check up so basically, she's short and chunky, but very healthy!
Overall, I guess you could say we are pretty lucky in life right now! :) Hopefully I can start keeping everybody up to date a little better than once every 4 years!
