A rolling boy!

I'm proud to announce that Breckin rolled over all on his own today!
I left him on the floor on his blanket, and decided he needed some tummy time. As soon as I laid him down, I noticed that he was holding his shoulders up higher than I'd seen him hold them before. I thought to myself, "I wonder when Breckin will roll over...could be any time now, I suppose!" Knowing I'd be right back, I ran out to get some groceries from the car. When I came in, I peeked at Breckin upon my return, and he was on his back! I said, "Hey, that's now how I left you little guy!" And then I realized that I had missed his first roll over. No problem though; I put him back on his tummy and he was happy to repeat his performance for Reagan and I. I made several (8) attempts to get him on tape, but the only one I got of him actually rolling over is about 5 minutes long. I'll try to get a shorter one so that I can post it here for you to see! He even looks like he's starting to try to get his knees up under himself...oh boy, I think this one is going to be a mover!

Ice Storm? In Colorado?

We've had some interesting weather here lately. We were iced in about a week ago, and it was the closest thing I've ever seen to an ice storm. I'm sure they're far less exciting in places like Texas, where they are much more common, but it was pretty awe inspiring here. It lasted for about 2 days! I was worried about our trees, some of which still had all their leaves. But, while some of our neighbors weren't so lucky, all of our trees survived. I got out and got some pictures of the freeze. Reagan was still in her PJs, so I let her stand in the door to monitor my progress.

Breckin is becoming a little less easy-going these days. For whatever reason, he has decided that he no longer wants to participate in naps during the day. I'm not complaining...he sleeps for 11 hours at night, but my house and my OTHER child could seriously use some attention. He wants to be held all the time. I don't mind so much, but you can only go so long without doing the dishes or laundry, and unfortunately both are tasks which require two hands. With all his being awake, I realized that almost all the pictures of the little guy I've taken are of him being, well, awake. So, two days ago I snuggled him up and got him to close his eyes in front of the camera for a few minutes...and the result, in my opinion, is pretty precious.

But when I say I got him to sleep for a minute, I think it was literally that...a minute. Next thing I knew he was wide awake again. So, I figured I'd make the most of it and take my chance to show off his chub.

And, of course, since I had the camera out anyway, I had to get a couple of the cutest 2 (and a half) year old girl ever.

Jim and I took the kiddos up to Fort Collins to visit our friends Brad and Kim. Reagan had a blast playing with their kids, and even did surprisingly well sleeping in B & K's daughter's bed. We also got to stop on the way home and see one of my best friends, Leslie.

Reagan had a special visitor all the way from California. Jim's cousin Katie sent us her Flat Stanley! I have always wanted someone to send us a Flat Stanley...and I'm so excited that I have cute kids so that other cute kids want to send us one! If you don't know about Flat Stanley, he's a VERY cool way for elementary school-aged children to learn about history, language, geography, etc. Thanks for picking us, Katie!!

After going back to work for a week, I get to have another two weeks off. It makes transitioning back into work a little tough. But, I'm SO glad I was able to go half time. It is really wonderful to be able to come home and still have the majority of my day to spend with the kids! Now if we could just get Breckin to consistently take his bottle...

I survived!

Today was my first day back at work! The time off went SO fast. Despite a few horrible dreams and several days of anxious anticipation, I went to work today and everyone lived to tell about it. It was strange to only be there for 2 class periods, but it was so great to get to come home to my kids at 11:00am. My substitute insisted that my 2nd hour class was full of horrible children. That's only partly true. It does have some kids whose bad side I want no part of, but come to find out they were a good bit of fun. Since my high school is on a rotating schedule (periods 1-4 on A days, periods 5-8 on B days), I only have one class tomorrow. And, I just have to make it to Friday and then I get another 2 weeks off! Today was a "B" day. My B day kids are full of opinions, which always makes a government class exciting. I am very excited to get to know them better!
From what I hear, Reagan was absolutely ecstatic to have Katie back to play with her. Breckin was disappointed that his favorite food dispenser, AKA: "Mom" was not available for his 8:30 feeding, but he was asleep again before he could make too terribly much fuss about it. Hopefully he'll warm up to Katie and his bottle in no time.



Speaking of Katie, that young lady went off and got married last weekend! Katie and Brian were in my government class together when they started dating 4 years ago. Granted, I had nothing to do with them getting together, but I still think of them each giggling when I asked if they were dating. Reagan was her flower girl, and with much help from my wonderful mom, I was able to pull off making her dress. I'm still working on the pictures from Katie's wedding, which I had the pleasure of taking. You should head over to the "business blog" for a sneak peak of Katie's wedding, and all the other business I've gotten lately! I'm grateful that my business was booming during my maternity leave!



Reagan ran in her second kids run yesterday. They gave out ribbons, and she was so proud and thrilled to get one!



Reagan has really warmed up to her little brother nicely in these last few weeks. When we have our "lay on the floor and play time" with him, she'll start rambling on to him about all the things she wants to teach him and do with him when he "gets bigger". While she was carrying on with this 1-way conversation the other morning I heard her add "and we'll drink coffee" to her list. Pretty adorable.