Reese is such a good child. He still gets hyper, especially around Raygan-Elise, but in most of the time he is so helpful. His teachers say he's great. He's only pulled 2-3 cards this year. Once last week for playing at lunchtime. He enjoys Spotlight Gifted class so much! They had a scrabble tournament last week. It was a partner team tournament. He and his partner got 5th place. He had the biggest grin after school! I didn't know how many teams played so didn't know if 5th was good or if there were only 5 teams. : ). But I found out from his teacher that there were over 50 teams! So wow!! He still enjoys playing on the computer! And he is excited about Spring soccer! He still is close friends with Titus in his class and Caleb (a 3rd grader in Spotlight too) comes to play with him each day at the prek building. He recently also went to his friends Lake's bday party where he drove a go cart for the first time and he loved it! It has snowed up a storm and he's been sledding in our backyard!! He still cracks me up with the things he says: Mom, on your q we will start. Can you do it because I'm having to attend to Raygan-Elise? and so many more! He also made his Dad proud by watching the whole super bowl with brian (reese wanted saints to win! Yay, they did!) And even coming up with scenarios towards the end of game (such as saints need to make a td but miss extra point and the other team needs a safety!) bc he wanted us to win the super bowl squares!
Raygan-Elise is almost 21 months old! Her personality is definitely shining through more each day! The ear tube surgery has not stopped her infections. She has had 5 ear infections since the surgery which makes 11 since the last week of September. But on a very positive note, the tubes help her infections so much- she can hear even with the drainage and she doesn't run fever or feel bad! She just gets irritated and pulls on her ears but I would too if fluid was draining from them! She loves baby dolls and baby is one of her words she can say! After calling everyone mama and working with the speech teacher for a while, she now says dada!!! She said it for first time about 3 weeks ago! She now has about 10 words (some we understand only- like gu for duck and some clear like baby and bye!) She still loves being grumpy and throwing some major fits in public or private! Like her recent falling on the ground and screaming at target because I wouldn't keep the puppy pads! Seriously, we don't need puppy pads! Or at the house because she is mad at her jacket or because the dogs won't do what she wants them to do.
She had a check-up mid jan and weighed right over 23 lbs! And after a dentist trip that showed deterioration of teeth and a talk with dentist we cut out her bottle before bed immediately which slowly turned into a bottle-less day! She loves her soothie (pacifier), minnie mouse, saying mine, and shaking her head yes (mostly shakes yes no matter what you ask her- such as do you want daddy to change your diaper or do you want to kiss a monkey or jump off a table) and no. She still loves for Hammie to sing Itsy bitsy spider! And she loves peek-a-boo, this little piggie(but you can't use one foot, I have to do one piggy on one foot then next piggy on other foot and so on), and starting this past week- Baby Beluga, as I hold her like an infant or as she dances around the room! She is such a girly-girl. She loves wearing shoes and would wear the in bed if I would let her. She loves bracelets, and even took an onion out of my salad at Brian's bday dinner & put it on her wrist! She hates to have her hands dirty and wipes her feet if they get dirty and hates hates a wet or dirty diaper. So, we bought her a potty about 2 weeks ago and she's been just sitting on it. Often she will go to it after she pottys in her diaper. This morning she was grunting and pointing to tummy so I took her to potty. She sat on it but stood up immediately. Then she sat back down but got up, walked to get diaper, brought me diaper, then pp'd all over floor as she stood beside potty holding her diaper!
I'm hoping the video works. This is Reese and Raygan-Elise's new game. They love it! I'm calling it our winter olympics!
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