Thought I would give an update on the girls....
Reagon is doing so well in 6th grade. She made her first B this semester and you would have thought she made a F. She was so upset. She made the B+ in Math and I have to admit, the 6th grade math is HARD! Often times, I have to go to the internet to help her with the Algebra. She is so smart and she really pushes herself. Not one time have I ever had to tell her to try harder or ask her if she has done her homework. We are very proud of her.
She is now experimenting with makeup which is something I had hoped would wait another year or so. I love makeup so I shouldn't be surprised. My mom let me start wearing it in the 7th grade and I have loved it ever since. I bought Reagon some very light pink eyeshadow with a soft shimmer, soft pink blush and some light lip gloss. So far, that is all she is allowed to wear but I have noticed her eyelashes looking much fuller and darker lately! LOL I really noticed how much she has grown up this past year when she and Kendall gave me their Christmas list. Kendall's list was typical of a 7 year old...toys, dolls, and such but Reagon's list started with clothes and boots and ended with chi irons and cell phone covers. I must say, she is a lot of fun to shop for. She is now out of the kids section in clothing and wears a size 0/2 and they make such cute clothes in that style. Her closet is what I call my dream closet because the child has countless shoes, belts, bags, jeans, jackets....the list goes on and on. I sometimes fuss at her for her overflowing closet but she is quick to remind me that she buys about 1% of the stuff and the rest is from me! LOL She is right. God knew to give me at least one girl who loves clothes and shoes.
She is doing really well in basketball this year. She played her best game ever a couple weekends ago against Benton. According to Josh, she will be playing AAU ball this summer. Lord, I don't know how we will find the time but he is insisting she play to prepare for Jr High ball. Honestly, from his reactions to her games in pee wee ball, I don't know if his heart can make it through a jr high ballgame.
Reagon is so much help to me with Jed. I honestly don't know how I made it when she was a baby. I ask her and Kendall to help me so much and they are always (ok, almost always) willing to help. They each have chores every day after school (two chores a day) and 90% of the time, they do them without being told. They can do just about anything I ask them to with Jed from making a snack to giving him a bath to changing a dirty diaper. Bless her heart, Reagon swears she will never have kids! LOL
She still has lots of migraine headaches. We went for her migraine evaluation on Friday and she will have her MRI tomorrow. Hopefully, the new medicine will help. She has had migraines since she was 5 years old and has been on this one pill since third grade so I'm hoping a change in medication will stop some of the frequent migraines. She is now up to 4-5 a week instead of 4-5 a month. Thankfully, she only has a couple really bad ones a month.
Kendall Elizabeth...
Where do I start with this child! LOL She is just so much fun and so much trouble wrapped up in one. I swear, she keeps this house laughing day in and day out. She is also doing good in school. She loves her class and her friends and made one B (also her first, in Math) on her report card. She is full of energy and once she wakes up in the morning, she is bouncing off the walls till she finally crashes at night.
Some of her favorite things are playing basketball outside with Reagon and Josh, going to see Abby and Mylee, anything to do with cheerleading or tumbling, and her horse Crickett. She loves playing with Jed but we have to keep a watch on her because she can be a little too rough with him. She is in a "monkey" phase and everything in her room from her comforter set to her posters on the wall is all about monkeys. She told me one time that she wished we lived in Chicago because they allowed pet monkeys in the house! LOL Not sure where she came up with that one. She says that she will be a Vet when she grows up. She would sure be a good one! She loves going to field trials with Josh and helping with the dogs. Reagon and I can't wait till little brother is old enough to go along with them so we can have some more shopping time. Right now, he is still too little to go (or at least I think so) so Reagon and I take him with us. We usually tire out very early since he is not fond of the stroller or riding in a grocery cart.
Kendall is a very loving little girl. She loves for me to read to her at night and I still sometimes rock her to sleep. She loves it and so do I so as long as I can, I will. She takes a bath with Jed and they will play in the tub for almost an hour if I let them. Of course, when I get them out, the bathroom looks like a pond. One thing she really likes to do is dress Jed for bedtime. Not sure why, but she always wants to be in charge of picking out his pajamas and dressing him for bed. She will lay with him in bed and snuggle with him and tell me how much she loves the smell of his baby head. It's so sweet. But, two minutes later, she will be wrestling his sweet baby head and holding him down for the count! LOL
She is very aware now that she has a different look to her eye and handles it so well. I have drilled into her head since she was a baby that God gave her a very special eye and boy, does she know it and use it! LOL I have to laugh sometimes when she is asked about it and I am able to over-hear her explains it..It's almost like she feels sorry for them because she has the special eye and they don't! LOL (For those readers wondering, Kendall was born with bilateral coloboma in both eyes but the markings only show in one eye..the marking is in the back of the other eye).
I am so thankful for my girls. I honestly prayed for both of them to be girls. When I was pregnant with Reagon I wanted a girl so bad. I dreamed of smocked dresses and big hair bows and shiny church shoes. She was just my little dream baby when she was born. Her head FULL of black hair and I don't know if a day went by that she didn't wear a bow. By the time she was three, her hair was beautiful shiny blonde and down to her little bottom. I just loved dressing her up with earrings and matching purses. She was a real life dress-up doll to me. Then when I was pregnant with Kendall, I prayed so hard for Reagon to have a little sister. Growing up with two sisters of my own, I wanted that so bad for Reagon. As soon as I found out Kendall was a girl, within a few days I had a closet full of little matching outfits for them! Kendall was the exact opposite of Reagon from day one. She was born with zero hair and then when it did start coming in a little at a time, I was so happy to see some red shining through. I always wanted a red haired freckle faced little girl and that is just what I got! LOL While Reagon was dressed in little smocked outfits with matching fingernails, Kendall wouldn't keep a headband on or bow in her hair for over 10 seconds. She hated dresses and still does. If she had her way, she would wear jeans and cowboy boots to church every Sunday. They are so different. I love that about them.
I am so thankful God blessed me with these two girls. They are such a blessing in my life.
I know every time the UPS man scanned this label he thought "how many candles can one woman order?" Actually, my candle order was very small now that my Aunt is making WONDERFUL candles....I'm serious. I am picky when it comes to candle buying and she makes some of the best I have ever smelled/burned. I ended up buying more accessories than anything else....candle dishes/toppers/baskets/etc.
