The World According to...

The World According to Callie
When she grows up she is going to be a goof ball princess.  She will live at Disneyland and sleep in Cinderella's castle in her big bed (she wants a bigger bed currently).  Her stepsisters will be nice and depending on the day, the may or may not live with her.  Her stepmother will have a baby Arianna.  When Arianna grows up, she will be Snow White.  We can all come visit her. She will stay at Disneyland for 5 days.  She came up with this all on her own, and repeatedly sticks to this version of the future. 
We often have "visitors" at the house.  Callie's princess friends, home Sesame Street friends, and her Disney friends often come.  They usually eagerly eat her dinner and play in the backyard. 
She wants to know why to everything.  After about the 5th "Why?" Mom just laughs, smiles, and tells me it is my payback.  We are also constantly defining words, reading, telling her what letters spell, and she is counting everything. 

The World According to Reagan (at least as far as we can tell)
Reagan loves the outdoors and people.  She is happiest when out and about and will smile and just about everyone.  She seeks people out to talk to her and smile at her.  And she's pretty good at finding people.  We can set her down in the grass and she is happy there for an hour...we just have to make sure she isn't eating anything she shouldn't. 
She has started solids, and beyond bananas and the little cereal things, she's not to interested.  If it is on a spoon, she most likely won't open her mouth.  More food will end up on the floor and in her high chair than in her mouth. 
The cats make Reagan very happy.  If we are not careful, she ends up with handfuls of fur in her hands...and somehow the cats put up with this.  Most mornings she sits looking out the door onto the back porch watching the cats.  This will entertain her for quite a while.  unfortunately, she still thinks 6:30 is a great time to wake up.  Although it is better than 5:30, it's still a little early for me.  I'm hoping that with summer break we can transition her to a little later.
Sitting is old news, and she no longer falls down.  Rolling is her preferred mode of transportation.  She can get anywhere by turning herself and rolling around.  Until she finds a corner, the couch, or gets lost under her crib. 
At 7 months, she is about 17 pounds.

Bedtime Stories and Tulips

Tonight Callie helped read her bedtime story.  Complete with many intense facial expressions.  You can see it here.

Yesterday we went and saw the tulips in Mt. Vernon.  It was a bit cooler than we expected, so the pretty spring outfits I had picked out for pictures were not the best.  And then Callie slipped and fell in the "sticky mud" and needed to change clothes.  But they still were beautiful and we had a good time.

 Reagan loved checking out all the flowers.

 A little posing.

Come on Mom, it's a little cold out here! 

The parking lot was the only spot we could find to sit down...a nice dry beam instead of a wet, muddy field.

And in case you were curious, here is the link to the first time Callie visited the Tulips when she was about 2 months old.

Easter

It started last night when I realized we had left Callie's Easter bucket in her bedroom (full of all the plastic eggs).  I went in to get it and she was wide awake.  So I told her that we forgot to put her bucket out for the Easter Bunny.  She quickly told me to put it on the floor by the wall so the Easter Bunny would know it was hers.  After a little more inquiry as to which wall, it was clear she wanted it at the foot of her bed.  

She was excited this morning to wake up and see what the Easter Bunny had brought her.  She found lots of "people" for her doll house and some silly straws.  Callie was into the egg hunt too.  I think she had more fun finding the eggs than opening them to see what was inside.  Someone told her the chicken had just laid another egg, so she then quickly asked how the chicken was able to get up in the hanging flower basket to lay an egg. 

EVERY egg received this level of excitement. 

 Posing in the grass for a picture.

 Borrowing our neighbors flowers because we have none of our own for an Easter picture.

 Getting stronger and loving her first time feeling the grass.

The World According to Callie

Over breakfast we were discussing many important things. Such as Callie's eyes help her see in the dark.  But Dad's eyes need his glasses to see.  This led into a conversation about her favorite things to do with people.  

Dad: Go to the Museum of Flight

Mom: Go to the play area

Papa: Go to the golf store

Grandma Susy: Eat breakfast bars

Lindsay and Brian: Go on the roller coaster

Drenda: Read books

Grandma Mary: Eat yogurt

Some rather astute observations about the people in her life that made us smile.

Cuteness

Lots of cuteness happening around here!

Reagan has discovered her toys in the last week or so.  And her socks.  She loves to take them off and put them in her mouth or just throw them to the floor.  As if baby socks weren't hard enough to keep track of...
And she discovered herself in the mirror.  She thinks she is pretty darn cool!


Admiring herself in the mirror.

Alicia gave Callie a "real, big girl tea set" and she had her first tea party tonight.  According to her "It is my first day having a tea party!"

 Totally fascinated by the process of making tea.

 Having her first sip.

 She decided Grandma needed some tea too, so she had to make it.

Callie the Ballerina

Callie started ballet class just after her third birthday.  She is in love.  Saturday night her dance studio had a "sneak peak" show to preview parts of the recital.  Callie was super excited and I think a little nervous to dance in front of people.  Here are a few pictures of her. 

At home posing before we left.


Watching Miss Jennifer to know what to do.


Dancing with her partner/

Reagan's Bed Time Stories

Reagan loves to hear her bed time stories.  And you can view the proof.

Here she is picking out a book.  And yes, she always picks whichever book is on the right.

Here she is alternating between looking at the pages and smiling at me.