How are the kids?

Reese is growing up and starting to use a larger vocabulary each day! I keep thinking I need to write a list of the words he uses during regular conversation. I am going to do that this next month! It is hilarious! He is playing soccer games now and has started baseball practice. He made 2 goals at a soccer game (the only game ever that Brian and I both weren't in attendance! UGH)! He is on the Cardinals through Snowden for Baseball this year. He is very excited. He has a great stance when at bat and when he makes contact he hit great. But sometimes get too nervous I think. I so remember that feeling of everyone watching you! And I pulled his other front tooth so he got $2 from the tooth fairy. He has told many people that his mom likes to pull teeth!! I do, I do!! He really is enjoying reading the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. I haven't read them and think maybe I should! But he's very excited that the movie is coming out this weekend. I would say his good friend at school is Titus, and he got to go to his house over spring break which thrilled him. He said they ate, watched TV, and played games! Poppa and him caught a turtle a few weeks ago and he saved it for many days. Then was so sad to let it go. He wanted to make a "home" for it outside so he could go back and visit. A friend wasn't very nice and tossed it too deep into the water while they were outside playing! It broke his heart (and mine and Brian's seeing him so upset). He has a sweet heart! He is very scattered like me sometimes and can walk right by something but then ask where it is!! He is still making all A's in school and soon I will be having to choose his 3rd grade teacher! YIKES! 3rd Grade!!!

Raygan-Elise is starting to talk more and more each day! She has learned so many new words! She is still getting speech once a week but I think soon we will probably go onto just maintenance and/or where they check in on her from time to time. I feel they will wait until she turns 2 to decide to see if she is "where she should be". She has had 2 more ear infections in the last post (one with yeast in culture). The practitioner put her back on daily zyrtec and singular but she still had another infection and nose running the week after that (we are still taking it though). We saw the real ENT (not just nurse practitioner) and he was leaning toward more surgery but wanted to see if it possibly was dairy allergy. She has had what I think is eczema for a while. So we are on dairy and egg free diet till March 30th! and it may be coincidence but her nose has quit running and in general her irritability is better!!! She still has such a strong personality with what we call- a little bit of evil. Last night she decided it would be fun to tease dogs with food from the highchair and then eat it! How does a 22 month old come up with this? I must say I didn't stop her immediately b/c I recorded some of it on my phone. She likes to be so independent! She loves spoons, balls, her soothie (pacifier), Mimmie(minnie) and of course bows and shoes! She loves water (even showers!) and will take a large cup and dump it all over her face in the bathtub! She still eats more than I've ever seen a little person eat! She also likes to sit on her potty even though she doesn't like potty-ing on it. When she feels she must go, she either stands and goes on floor (even #2'd on floor once) or goes and gets a diaper! She isn't afraid of anything and is rough and tough! We got the bounce house out this week and she loved it! She would throw herself all over it! She loves her Reese and has started copying everything we do! If he does it, she tries to do it! And it happened- she wrote all over the wall and the door this week with a green coloring pencil! Newest words- eeth (teeth), loves saying uh uh (no), eese (Reese)