Happy 2nd Birthday Missy Reagan!

April 18, 2009 ~ Reagan's 2nd Birthday Party ~ Reagan just sparkles with those big bright eyes and beautiful grin ~ We love you girl!!!

April 19, 2008 ~ Reagan's 1st Birthday Party ~ Reagan has always been so expressive and she had a million different faces at 1 ~ As you can see she was super excited about her birthday cake ~ What a cutie pie! :)

April 21, 2007 ~ 7 hrs old ~ What a precious baby girl!

Our little Missy Reagan turned 2 on Tuesday, April 21. We simply can not believe she can already be 2! She is so much fun and entertains us all the time. She is so expressive and can be so sweet. Today she was laying next to Kennedy and said "I love you Kennedy. I love you sooo much!" She sure knows how to melt my heart!

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Reagan is the queen of hugs!!! She is a little hugging machine! While she has a funny leaning sort of hug she also knows how to give the best bear hugs ever! She practically throws herself into your arms and wraps her arms as tightly around your neck as she can. She has recently started enjoying big family hugs as well - we especially enjoy these when Daddy comes home from work in the evening. She'll pretty much give anyone a hug anytime but you do have to know how to ask. You don't ask her if you can have a hug you have to ask her if she has a hug. What a little nut and we sure love her!!! :)

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Reagan's favorite activity is reading. Books have been her favorite thing to play with right from the beginning. Her current favorite is her new book from Uncle Andrew and Aunt Jen "There is a Monster at the End of This Book." She enjoys pretty much anything, however, and continuously amazes us with her attention span.

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Speaking of reading, Reagan can read and recognize between 2 and 3 dozen words. These include small words like cat, dog, toes, nose as well as larger words like mouth, gorilla, and elephant. She's not reading any books on her own yet (although she does have a couple nearly memorized) but I'm sure it won't be too long before she's working on that. For those of you who haven't seen it you should check out YourBabyCanRead.com. Reagan loves the books, videos and sliding cards and it has amazed us how easily she's learning to read since we started using the program the end of January.

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Reagan has also been able to recognize all her letters since she was about 18 months old and started recognizing her numbers 0-10 a couple of months after that. While she was nearly counting to 20 back at Christmas she spends more time counting backwards from 5 now. She will also count to 10 in Spanish even though she won't in English. Go figure...

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While Reagan enjoys the typical toddler toys and characters (Mickey Mouse, Thomas, Backyardigans, Little Einstiens, Crayons & Coloring books, stuffed animals etc.) the only items she consistently can't live without are her ladybug paci and her pink and purple blankets.

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Reagan is quite creative and has a wonderful imagination. We can pretend just about anything with her. She is great at producing whatever we might need out of thin air. You can ask her for something or she'll think of something she needs and reach up in front of her and pluck it out of the air. It is so cute and so much fun! I hope we can continue to encourage her creativity and zest for life! :)

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Reagan is a such an expressive (telling us things like it's a FIASCO!!! or Disaster! when something goes wrong or telling us she can run super fast!), focused (or stubborn ~ if she's interested in something there is no distracting her but if she's not interested you can forget it), passionate (she goes at life full blast ~ just look at those slide pictures I posted last week ~ there is no holding her back! lol) and loving (all those hugs for everyone) little girl. We are so blessed to have her in our lives! We love you Missy Reagan and wish you a very happy 2nd birthday and year!