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celebrating half birthday's could just be an excuse to decorate a table, or wrap up simple gifts, or buy squirt whip cream from the store ....
or a reason to taste sprinkles for the first time and take more pictures ... it's probably all those things : )
we like half birthdays & today was regan's very first one. so sailor went all out - tablecloth, different plates & napkins, she taped paper flowers to the walls, she made party favors for jack, ben & molly, she gave regan 'gifts', she dressed up & did her own hair.
and i thought all the while she was getting ready - you know i should really remember what really was going on ... the behind the picture scenes.
we were waiting for rex to get home. the boys were tortuously cleaning up the yard - ben was naked (yes.) molly was dragging her blanket everywhere crying, jack was telling me he wanted food & daddy. sailor was asking me which shoes she should wear to the party she'd set up, regan wanted to be held. and i was for just a few minutes wondering why i'd mentioned doing anything for a party : )
its in my blood maybe ... cause here i am on feb. 7, 1980 at my first half birthday. and yeah, i think my dad is wearing overalls ....
and here's sailor and her little cake on jan. 15, 2004
and looking back on pictures this is the only one of molly on july 3, 2008. - we were camping - so no cake.
so we did up regan's little party at dinner tonight.
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me - 
sailor - 
molly - all at 6 months.
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and now some of regan : )
i think this was one of the first times taking her picture where she hardly smiled. she was just absolutely absorbed watching the boys outside -
fingers & toes -
this barely shows her 2 bottom front teeth - no i am not the mother who remembers exactly when each kid got teeth ... but i think her's have come faster than any of the others ...
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so since we had some old school photos up today -
i saw molly out the other day pushing her stroller and it reminded me of sailor doing the same thing.
similar, aren't they?
next -
in mom sorting for their move she found an old nightgown my grandma had made - and after taking sailor's picture in it, i knew somewhere mom had one of me - i was 5. check out our scrowly faces in the first shots! and for more history - that old bed of mine is the same one ben sleeps on. same with the table at my 1/2 birthday, its in our dining room ... and now you know we spend next to nothing on furniture!
oh lets keep going : )
easter is coming & since i was looking through my old book -
ta-da! we were the decked out easter kids in all sorts of tacky frilly finery - notice though i still managed to sneak the plastic bracelet in. its very obvious where sailor gets her fashion from! and my hair, with the bangs that seem to start at the back of my head - well that would be all my mom.
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some regan thoughts -
i'm 6 months old today. mom remembered tonight that she wanted to go & have me weighed. 'cause although she's not exact at knowing when my brothers & sisters got teeth she seems to think i'm the smallest kid to date - even beating out benny which would be my closest competition. i don't really, ok at all, sit up by myself. mom tried the other day & i just went pretty much right over. but i roll - can you believe mom tells me things like 'i've got to go potty - don't roll off the bed, ok?' really mom! but i'm learning to obey because i just wait there for her to come back. i've started reaching out for her & then i'll open my mouth real wide and come lunging for her. my goal is to give her big slobbery kisses but she gets to me first and tickles my neck. and mom already said i have teeth - i'm ready for food. dad let me taste a brownie & whip cream tonight. mom says sweet potato's are great - but i think i remember her eating them as fries and not all smashed up ... so we'll have to see. i've got a bunch of new bibs from auntie april that mom has saved for me so i'm all set. i've been spending time outside - when mom runs, when the kids play, when daddy is outside too.
we've been out alot with mom lately doing errands and stuff - you should see us in public. we're a trip, well sailor & i, we stick with mom ... but the others!! molly has started climbing in my crib with me - something mom says is not allowed. she usually thinks i need every pacifier i own and every blanket from my bed piled up on me. benny likes to sing 'trot a trot to market' to me - i laughed once when he did it in his deep growly voice so now that's how he does it every time. jacky still likes holding me and carrying me around.
i like my toes -
sometimes i go cross-eyed when i'm looking at a toy.
here i am helping sailor with her school work -
my grandma made me new blankies - i'm sleeping with one tonight.
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one o'clock can not become my new bed time - even though the past 3 nights have been at least that! but in this whole time being up late i have not eaten a brownie. i wanted one in spite of biggest loser being on : )
goodnight.
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