That's gotta hurt

Regan took a digger again at daycare this morning. Apparently she tripped over her own feet and fell hard into the bathroom door. She wound up with a large goose-egg on her forehead and it's now turned pink and blue....a little late for Easter. Good thing kids are so resilient because she doesn't even remember it's there. In fact, after she fell, Alyson gave her some ice and Regan exclaimed "all better!".

One more thing, tonight she was playing with Playdough and dropped a piece. She looked down from her chair in disgust and said "oh, man!". It was hilarious!!

Bring on the rain!

For Easter, Grandma Sheri bought Regan a rain jacket complete with a hat and adorable boots; now she's all set for the rain! If only it would warm up a bit so we could get rid of the rest of this snow. For now, she's completely content wearing her new outfit around the house.

Happy Easter today!

We celebrated Easter this morning by waking up at 6:30am, that's just Regan's daily routine :) She stopped dead in her tracks when she came upon her chair in the living room stacked full of an Easter basket and presents! It was so cute. She excitedly opened her presents and we headed to church with the grandparents. She was so cute in church, singing songs and repeating what the priest had to say (including Amen, Jesus and Halleluia!); the best part was she said them when the rest of church was silent so everyone got to hear her cute voice ringing out! We came home and the Easter bunny had left eggs for her to find and she went on a hunt through the house picking up all of her eggs. In between all the gifts from the grandparents and Godparents, we had dinner and played with all of her new toys! She's now asking daddy to go to drum lessons. We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

Coloring Easter eggs

Mommy and Regan spent this morning coloring Easter eggs. Regan was pretty excited when mommy gave her the go ahead to actually put an egg in a bucket of colored water! She kept looking up with a "are you sure I'm not going to get in trouble?" look on her face! When we were all finished, we took the colored water and threw it out into the snow; colored snow!! Oh yea, and she only dropped one egg onto the floor and completely cracked it open. Not bad!

Happy Easter!!!

Here's wishing everyone a very Happy Easter! Drive safely to your destinations this weekend, it's a snowy wet mess out there.

New hat

Regan continues to have an infatuation with hats. Tonight she asked mom to empty out her purse and use it as a hat. We couldn't resist...check out this picture!

Visitors

We had a chance to spend some time with daddy's college friend, Paul (who now lives in Germany) and his wife and son. It was the first time we were able to meet each other's children so we had a lot of catching up to do! Regan seemed to enjoy giving toys to Niklas to play with, but she continues to struggle with names-every baby is still "Baby Natalie" (her friend from the Duluth area)!

Como Conservatory

Today we visited the Como Conservatory to take some spring photos! Regan got to wear a pretty dress from Shane/Amy and she was so cute smelling all of the flowers. She's been a bit of a stinker lately, we're full force into the "two's"! For example, now that she's potty trained, it means going with mommy into the women's public bathroom. As all of us know, public bathrooms are full of germs, so we have rules (#1: don't touch ANY garbarge can). Today she insisted on touching the small garbage hanging on the stall wall while she sat on the potty----gross!!! I'm thinking it was more sanitary when she wore diapers!

A day with nana

Regan got to spend today with Nana at home playing with all of her toys. From the looks of these pictures, they had quite the large picnic and Regan went off somewhere in her "truck". She tends to tell us she's going to school these days....that'll be a day of a lot of tears for mom! When Nana left tonight, she asked if Nana was going to come and play today? Apparently she had fun!

New shirt

Regan showed off her new shirt during her birthday party two weeks ago. For those of you having a hard time reading it, it says "big sister"! Come September, she will be a proud big sister! All is going well so far and she enjoys "wistening to the baby" using the heartbeat monitor we rented. She has no concept that there's a baby in there, but she'll figure it out once we bring him/her home from the hospital and she realizes he/she isn't going anywhere!

On the mend

We've had a busy last two weeks and just when we thought things were settling down, Regan threw us for a loop! Mom got a call from daycare on Tuesday afternoon saying before nap, they were "jumping into pillows" and Regan hurt her leg or ankle and was now unable to stand or walk on it. Unlike most first time parents, we opted to keep her at home for the evening and not rush into the ER. The next morning she still couldn't walk on it so we called the doctor and were told to bring her in for xrays as it could most certainly be a toddler break. Apparently that's how children break their very limber bones, not a clean break like adults. Thankfully the xrays came back negative and it's most likely a sprain or a pulled muscle somewhere, unfortunately we aren't sure where! She's able to limp around and tonight even ran for the first time so she's obviously on the mend! She was such a trooper at the doctor and sat so nicely while they took pictures of her leg (aka: xrays); maybe it helped that mom told her to "say cheese"! I'm sure it won't be our last visit to the doctor for xrays, she's a little gymnast these days.