Kocina Family

Friday, February 15, 2008

I put a photo album on the site, I think I'll just post monthly pictures to that kind of like I did with Piper's original site. It's on the right hand side and I'm not sure how I'll work it all out when I switch over to March but I'll keep you posted.

Reagan is really changing lately. She started with army crawling in Florida and was very slow for quite a while. Well in the past two weeks she's now very quick and getting much better at keeping herself up on her hands and knees in a typical crawling fashion. Her latest thing though is finally pulling herself up to a standing position. That is new this week. Previously I'd have to pull her up. She takes her little walker all over the living room and kitchen. She's not too great at the stearing yet but Piper helps (much to Reagan's displeasure) and I help too. She wants to walk so badly but she's not ready to try to stand on her own yet. She is definitely on her own schedule and doesn't like to be pushed. Still no teeth in site, she is in no hurry to get her teeth even though I've stopped with the baby food and she just eats anything we do, it's getting to be quite a pain to mush everything though, I'd like her to get some teeth.

Piper is such a little handful. Each day is a new adventure with her. Where to start, man, she is testing the limits, testing testing testing! She's also starting to talk a lot clearer (at least we notice it) and using more thought behing her sentences. It's pretty cool. She has quite the memory too, it's fun when we're out driving, she tells me - hey bank mamma - she points out my old school and our church and the scary thing is she sees a McDonald's and knows that too. Her favorite store was Home Depot for a while there, she recognizes that too. She's not too fond of Target which is our number 1 destination. Her most recent thing is she has become a puppy. She's always crawling around and barking and panting (which I think is creepy) but overall it's pretty cute. Jason isn't so sure about this phase but I assured him that it's very normal and actually showing her creativity and imagination.

Well we have been sick for the entire past week. Piper, Reagan and Jason have had a miserable cold, their noses are all red and a little crusty, it's been a gross week for Mommy. I have some how seemed to manage this cold, my symptoms have been less severe than everyone else's. Hopefully that will hold up, usually I wait until the girls are better before I catch it and then am miserable with two active girls. Maybe Jason took one for the team this round. What a guy!

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Getting ready to go to dinner for Bill's Birthday Piper let me dry her hair straight. It was so pretty, she kept saying "my hair feels funny, so soft". I think she really liked it but she's not used to it being so long and it kept getting in her face. I also put a little lip gloss and blush on her so she was feeling pretty.

No one believes me when I tell them it really goes to the middle of her back, the curls are so tight that it just springs right up. I would love to have her hair but if she decides she likes it straight I'm in trouble.

Bill's Birthday ice cream flare. Reagan and Piper thought it was pretty cool!

She's tasting some water, practicing her straw drinking skills

Papa Miller really wanted her to taste his root bear. She didn't get a swig of it or anything but I'm sure she got some flavor from the mouth of the bottle, she was obsessed with it.