Thanksgiving Day 2008

At least 4 of our previous Thanksgivings have been spent with Brian & Carmen Lowery. We went to West Park Baptist Church with them when we lived in Knoxville. Now that they live in Greensboro, you'd think we'd get together more often, but life has a way of getting in the way...so we don't get together like we would like or hoped we would. We hadn't seen each other since Thanksgiving 2006 (2007 ~ I was just too pregnant to even think about a 2 hour drive!).

Reagan and Cooper on the ride over (he slept for about 20 minutes of the 2 hour car ride)

Reagan was a little out-numbered by boys ~ 6 to 1
Cooper had to come see what all the excitement was about

Eating dessert with Rylen

Reagan playing hoops with the boys

Reagan loved jumping on the trampoline when the boys weren't there ~ she said "they jumped me too fast!" She didn't like the leaves on the trampoline and couldn't jump for needing to be dusted off! She's all girl!

Cooper and Hudson on the couch

Cooper LOVED the toy room with all boy toys - no pink in sight!

L to R: Keenan, Malachi, Reagan, Cooper, Hudson, Jaden, Rylen

After lunch, an intense game of Scrabble began

Brian, Carmen, Tara, Greg

Reagan & Keenan getting into Malachi's way

I'm sure they would love to have a toy room like this at home

Thanks to the Lowery's for letting us spend yet another Thanksgiving Day with them. We had a great time and want to spend time together again soon!

Happy Thanksgiving

From our house to yours!

Artwork by Reagan

Gobble, gobble

Reagan's Turkey Story

My turkey is a girl. She likes to eat carrotts. She lives in a cave. Cooper and Reagan play with her sometimes, if mommy lets us. She sleeps in the cave.

Big Boy Hair

Finally! We took Cooper to get his hair cut Wednesday afternoon. Robin did a great job with a squirmy 11 month, 26 day old boy! You wouldn't believe how much hair he had cut off ~ amazing! He has an official style to his hair now!

Profile shot

So cute!
Stylin' and profilin'

Elephant Ears

Last week at school, Reagan's class learned about zoo animals. Here is a picture of her in her elephant ears

Her teacher is so creative ~ that must be where Reagan gets it from!

Sharing

There are very few days when I think Reagan understands the sharing principle. Luckily, today was one of those days.

Sharing diner with her baby ~ she said the baby had to eat 1st, then she could eat

Sharing her ice cream with Cooper ~ although she didn't share quickly enough for him!

Wanted...Haircut

If Cooper doesn't get a haircut by a professional (because it we all know what it looked like when I tried to do it myself) soon....

He may start wearing hairbows like his sister!

He thought it was funny for awhile ~ daddy, not so much!

At least it kept the food out of his hair for this meal (poor thing, he even had to borrow his sister's "girl bib", can't the boy have anything manly?)

What Happened...

...to this little boy? Seems like only yesterday we brought him home.

Today, I found out that he will be moving up to the next class at school beginning in January ~ this means sleeping on a cot, eating table food at a table and chairs (no highchair), making new friends and having to fend for himself, which I don't think will be a problem!

Where does the time go?

The Weekend

Reagan and I made purple biscuits for breakfast Saturday morning. She had a great time mixing and putting the biscuits on the baking sheet.

Hard at work mixing the purple biscuits

Wouldn't you like purple biscuits too?
Enjoying her work!

Cooper enjoyed the biscuits too, although he probably would have preferred blue biscuits ~ maybe next time

Ready for church Sunday morning ~ doesn't he look so big?

The Clean Up

Reagan was enjoying cooking soup in her kitchen, until Cooper decided he would like to join her.

She said she was cleaning up, but we all know she was keeping Cooper from playing with "her stuff". She put everything on top of the kitchen so Cooper couldn't reach it!

Let's Hope...

...this is not what his future holds!

Look Who's...

...Is having his last "first holiday"

...Is now facing forward in the car seat (yes, I know he's not exactly a year old yet, but the boy was ready to turn around a couple of months ago ~ car rides are much happier now for all of us!)
All smiles on the way to school

Don't you just love his Elmer Fudd hat?

Bath Time Fun

I've started giving them baths together again ~ it's just easier to keep them both occupied at the same time with the same activity. They seem to enjoy each other for the most part! Reagan wasn't having a good night tonight and you can definitely tell it by the way she interacts with Cooper.

This is the happiest she was all night!
Trying to fake a smile, but you can tell by her eyes, she's not happy!

A little better smile ~ Cooper was too busy exploring to pose for the camera

Look how much fun he's having!
Finally, some laughter from Reagan

Wrestle Mania

Just a normal evening in the Sandidge household with the sweetest little boy ever.

I don't know who's having more fun ~ Cooper or Greg!

I Know It's Early...

...but we made Christmas cookies. I bought Reagan some Christmas cookie cutters along with red and green sprinkles and let her have fun!

Cutting out a gingerbread girl

Next is a star
Helping mom roll out the dough

Reagan's too busy to smile for the camera

The finished product ~ didn't she do a great job?

Tuesday Fun

Just a few pictures of our evening together

Cooper dusting the floor with his belly

Running after mommy and her camera
Cooper's mad because he can't have his way

I'm pretty sure she was telling on Cooper for something

Working an Elmo puzzle

She's getting very good at working puzzles all by herself