Saturday, October 27, 2012

Slow down button

Dear Raegan grace,

In less than 24 hours you will be 13 months old!

Where oh where does the time go??? I really wish there was a slow down button so that I could just keep you little forever!

But I know if I keep you little forever I won't get to see you do so many wonderful things (just like in the book Aunt Katie gave you for your birthday)! I know you will do wonderful things. It's really just bittersweet. I am so proud of all that you are doing but I still miss how little you use to be!

Time just flies by us. It really does... I thought I just woke up and now it's past my bedtime!!! Crazy I tell you crazy how when we are little time is not on our side, then just when we think it is, we have a child and bam time hates us again and we wish for it to just slow down.

Raegan Grace, mommy loves you. I am trying to so hard to slow down! I don't want to blink and miss a single thing with you. God, is it easy to do! But I am trying to relish in you as much a so can!

You were so sweet today. We went and saw Aunt Katie and Uncle Brendon and watched the football game with them. You were such a sweet girl and smitten with Uncle brendon! :)

When we left to go home you were so tired and refused to go to sleep in the car. You finally fell asleep 5 mins before we got home and when I took you out your carseat to put you down for your nap you refused so out of your crib you came and you played hard!

Your such an independent child. You took your high chair seat and spent 5 mins figuring out a way to get it off the couch. Then the tray fell off and you spent another 20+ mins trying to figure out how to put it back on! So persistent you were! It was so cute watching you sit in your chair, get up, and keep trying over and over to get that tray back on. You had daddy and I laughing and admiring!

You also kept sitting on your pony and it played "I'm a little pony" song over and over while you nodded your head up and down with the sweetest most prideful look across your face! I really love that look! You were so proud of yourself! Ohhh how I adore you!

Your such an amazing baby! You fill my life with so much pleasure and love! My oh so happy sweet baby! I love you Raegan Grace Smallwood all the way to the moon and back forever and always!

Love Mommy!

Friday, October 19, 2012

Perfect night!

Dear Raegan Grace,

It's sooo good to have my sweet baby girl back to your normal happy self after battling an ear infection for the last two weeks!

You still have a good bit of a cough, and a really runny nose, but your spirits are much happier which means mommy is much happier!

I hated to see you so miserable these last few weeks!

Tonight, when we got home you just roamed the house! Digging in boxes, pulling out toys. You were running around in the kitchen just circling the table and laughing. It was so cute. While, I was cooking dinner I just listened to you play with a huge smile on my face. You were babbling about this and that. Every time you do that it makes my mind wonder about what you really are saying! Lol!

I then sat myself in the middle of the kitchen floor so I could watch you play on your level and you continued babbling and circling me. You would take little breaks and come sit on my lap and lay your sweet head against me (only a few seconds, but enough to let me know you loved me and missed me). Basically, melting my heart and warming it with sooo much sweetness!

At one point when you took a break sitting in my lap, Jackson came over and started licking your face as you tilted your head back and your hair flopped back and forth as I held you in my arms. You just laughed and laughed as Jackson gave you doggy smooches!

As I watched You play in the kitchen my heart overfilled with joy. I took in every second of watching you take joy in the simple things in life.

We also opened a present from granny, two adorable hats: one cute sock monkey hat and one owl hat! The first picture you let me take was beyond precious as you smiled with all your cheeks! You walked around the house for a good 5-10 mins until I put the owl hat on you then you just sat there taking the hat on and off! Lol!

While skyping with Granny you would blow rasberries every time Granny did it and it was sooo funny! You even climbed up on the car Pops got you and pushed your little feet against the floor to make it go. You literally did not stop smiling the whole time you sat on your car. You even sat on your pony too and bobbed your head up and down to the tune of my little pony! You really were sooo cute! God is sooo good to me to bless me with such a beautiful sweet blessing! I am still in awe at just how blessed I am!

Tonight, was a perfect night for you Raegan. A night that was so simple yet such a beautiful memory in my mind and heart! You are absolutely perfect and I love you with all my heart!

Thank you my sweet blessing for filling my heart with so much love!

I love you to the moon and back forever and always!

Love, mommy!