Regan's First Thanksgiving

"How can you not cook dinner? This is Emma's first Thanksgiving! It's not? When was she born?" (That is for James)

We had a fabulous Thanksgiving in Tulsa with the Rath clan. It started out with a trip to the doctor for Regan, Eric and I. We all had the snots, so Richard called a doctor in their church who "worked us in". We mostly had viruses, but he gave Eric some cough medicine and me an antibiotic for my ear. We're feeling mostly better, but still have the sniffles.

Karen and the girls came over Wednesday morning before Eric got up (and before we went to the doctor). Karen was telling them that they were going to go home for a nap and they would be back for supper. Both girls asked if Uncle Eric would be awake by supper time. It was pretty cute! We saw them again at Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. It's always great to see them, even though it just reminds us how much of the twins growing up we're missing!

My camera batteries died Thanksgiving day and no one was in the mood to go to the store for more, so I don't have a lot of pictures, but here are a few. This is Regan in her "baby's first thanksgiving" onesie. She's pretty cute, even if she was drugged up!
Here are the three girls. Have you ever tried to get a 6 month old and twin 2-year olds to all look at the camera and smile at the same time!? Regan kept trying to roll over on the twins, so even though she looks like Elvis, this is as good as it gets! Lindsey is on the left and Leah is on the right.
And Regan and Daddy playing with the toys at Grammy's house. Most of the toys Nancy has are from Eric and Bill's childhood. It's pretty neat to watch our daughter play with toys that her dad used to play with!
Here she is taking a bath in Grammy's sink because she kept sliding all around in the big girl bathtub. She did pretty good, even though she kept trying to gnaw on counter!
And the biggest news currently is that on the very long trip home (have you ever driven 375 miles with a sick 6 month old!?) Eric and I decided that Regan is ready to start eating cereal. If you know anything about how paranoid of a mother I am, you know this is a major step for me to take! She did pretty good, although she mostly spits it back out, as is evidenced by her face! We're hoping all those old wives tales (wise tales, Marcia and Beth?) are true and that she'll sleep through the night now that her belly is full.

And just FYI, I found out today that Emmitt Smith has a daughter named Regan!! This child was meant to love the Cowboys!

Hudson comes and Emmitt wins!!

Sorry it's been so long since I last updated. Last week Regan and I went to visit my family in Kansas while Eric was gone at a convention and state marching contest. He had the camera, so there weren't any pictures to post. But now we're back and with lots of news!!

First off, the absolute most exciting part of our week was watching the Dancing with the Stars finale when Emmitt won!! This was Regan's reaction to my jumping around and screaming. She's makes the funniest faces.
The night before we came home (which would've been last Saturday) Regan started getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth. She's been working on perfecting that art this week and is getting to where she stays on her hands and knees quite awhile before she finally falls down. It's pretty comical to watch her try to figure out how to get to her toys.
The other exciting part of this week has been that Hudson has started coming over for 3 hours every day now that Aunt Kristen is back at work. We've been having a lot of fun with him, even though our week hasn't been completely accident free.

This picture was taken about 20 seconds before Regan whacked Hudson in the face with her toy. The next day, I was checking to see if Hudson's diaper was wet. I checked by doing the very same thing I do with Regan... I squeezed the diaper. Hudson, in no uncertain terms, let me know that checking a boy's diaper should be done differently than when checking a girl's diaper. Other than those two incidents, we've had a great first week!
Hudson likes to lay and look at things, so one day I put him under Regan's play gym so he could look at the toys. I sat Regan at the other end so she could play with the ball, and they played (or in Hudson's case, looked) like that for about 15 minutes. It was so cute!
One of the biggest adjustments to having Hudson has been that he is not a pacifier baby like Regan. He likes to suck on one, but he can't quite figure out the system, so in order to make him happy, you have to hold the pacifier in his mouth the whole time. (Luckily after a few minutes, he usually gives up!) Anyway, this picture is mostly for James and Kristen because I actually got Hudson to suck on his pacifier all by himself for about 5 minutes! I was so proud of myself. :)

Chief Regan

Here are the Halloween pictures... finally! Blogger was messing up and wouldn't let me post anything, so I hope this works. Regan was a little Indian for Halloween. She looked so cute! We went to our church's festival and stayed for about 15 minutes and then went over to see GiGi and Papa Sammie.
I thought this was a pretty good one of her and me. She's so good at smiling for the camera, but because it flashes so many times to get the red eye out, she's usually annoyed by the time the picture actually takes, so anything we get that resembles a smile we're pretty excited about!
The day before Halloweeen, Kristen and I took the babies to a pumpkin patch and took their pictures. It was a lot of fun and we got some pretty good ones too! Regan was only interested in eating the hay, so we had to take her pictures really fast.

Hudson was a little bear. Here's Chief Regan looking out over her tribe.
This is my favorite one, mostly because it shows her little rolls on her legs!! How stinking adorable is she!?!