The goings on of the Scarborough household sometimes do not let me post as many pictures as I like. Heck, a lot of times I don't even get to TAKE pictures! But I thought it might be fun to just give a 'here and there' of what's been happening...
REGAN...
Well, Regan FINALLY got another tooth. This would be tooth #3. I think it broke through on Saturday, April 12
th? Some day around there. Amazing! She's just over a year and just broke through #3. I keep waiting for more teeth so that she can eat more food!
Last week Regan and I took a nice little mother-daughter trip to the emergency room. It was about 2am Tuesday, April 8
th. She had been having a runny nose all weekend and on Monday I called to make her a
dr appt. just to get it checked out. Well, that night/morning she woke up around 1:30am not breathing quite right. I was trying hard not to freak out. I called the
dr's exchange and was told to sit with her in the bathroom and run the hot shower. The steam is supposed to help. We also have a
nebulizer (breathing machine) from when she was sick with RSV (and
Taytum with
pnumonia), so the nurse told me to give her a breathing treatment as well and she would call back in 30 minutes. I had a feeling it was
croupe. Regan wasn't coughing, but each time she tried to breathe, it was sort of like a
barky gasp. Super scary. I was pretty calm until the nurse told me to keep an eye on her lips because if they turned blue she needed to go to the ER right away. TOTAL FREAK OUT then! So I gave her the treatment while Rob held her in the bathroom. I couldn't wait. I wanted to take her to the hospital. I called a friend of mine who is a pediatric nurse just to find out where to take Regan. She confirmed where I wanted to take her, and off we went. Regan and I spent about 2 hours at the ER. She is such a trooper. She had a different type of breathing treatment as well as a steroid. Then they let us be for a while so she could rest. That was nice, but Regan cannot rest while someone is holding her!!! She must have her own space. So we just sort of 'wrestled' and rested in the bed. They checked her out about an hour later and she was sent home. She has been fine ever since. She was clingy for a few days but never really acted sick. And now she's back to her happy-go-lucky self!
The walking is still not a go yet. She will take a few steps here and there, but that's about it. I think that it's not a fast enough form of transportation for her yet. She'd rather crawl and get to things faster. The heck with that walking stuff!!
Funny story about her Jerry... Jerry is a little giraffe head that is attached to a blanket. I'm sure you've seen something like it. They have a TON of them for babies. Well, this one was given to us by Rob's friend, Jerry, so that's where we got the name. Regan has slept with this for most of her short life. Well, I had bought another one
because the first one had started to stink quite a bit even after many washings. Regan does not and will not take a pacifier, so she sucks and chews on Jerry's ears and horns. Even Jerry #2 (which I would wash and swap out weekly with the Original Jerry) started to stink!! I found another Jerry at Target, but the blanket was a different color (green instead of yellow). Surely at the age of one Regan would not know the difference. She didn't. And I actually bought two so that I would have an ample supply to rotate through. Background complete... Regan and I are in Target the other day. It was about nap time so I was doing my best to get what I needed and get us home. All of a sudden Regan spits out her bottle and starts crying. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was wrong with her...hurt, sick, what??? But it was then that I saw what she saw...Jerry...just hanging there with about 10 others. I tried to distract and move on. It didn't work. Regan sobbed and sobbed like she had NEVER done before. And so I did what I thought I would never find myself doing...I CAVED...and bought another Jerry. So now we have 5.
TAYTUM...
Taytum still goes to preschool 2x a week and loves it. I know she would go every day if she could. And I know I would send her every day if I could! :o) She gets excited when I tell her she gets to go 3x a week next year and then EVERYDAY the year after that! I sometimes wonder if she likes school or just likes the break from Mom? Sigh.
This week
Taytum is going to start dance class with her friend, Abby. She is super excited. I will have to update and take pictures to post. But that might be a bit hard...Dad is going to be taking the girls because dance is on a night when I have soccer practice. What a guy! I know
Taytum will have a blast. She loves to put on her little black dress shoes (which she calls her dancing shoes) and dance around the house. She often asks Rob or me, "Would you like to ballet with me?" Too
stinkin' cute! The class should be a riot!
Taytum finished up her first round of swimming lessons and is ready to move up to the next level. She will take her swimming lessons on her own while Regan and I are in the pool for Regan's lessons. I'm crazy, I know!
Taytum's interest right now is in
Scooby Doo. She got turned onto the show when her dad let her watch it one night while I must have been out at soccer practice. I was worried that some of the ghosts and things would scare her. Nope. She loves it! She got some
Scooby Doo figures for Easter and I took her out so she could buy the Mystery Machine with her own money! She wants everything
Scooby...books and even a birthday party...but I've already got the party in the works, so that isn't happening!
Taytum still LOVES books, drawing and coloring. She has been itching to get outside with the horrible weather we've had all winter and spring. She likes to play soccer in the family room with either Rob or myself. But she loves just playing...dancing around, singing and playing make believe.
KELLY...
I am trying to get back into soccer again. I'm playing on an indoor team with some of the girls I went to high school with. It's OK. I have fun and it keeps me running and touching the ball, so I guess that's all good!
ROB...
Working and plodding along! Rob has been working with a friend of ours to get our landscaping redone out front as well as add a nice little stone patio to the back of the house. He wants a waterfall as well. It seems as if it will turn out nice. It will be cool when we have a place to hang out down there with the girls. We have our deck, but being down there with the girls able to run around the yard will be nice. Rob is also working on sorting things out in the basement because I'm sure that will be the next thing we need to get done. We're already overflowing with toys!
FAMILY...
Not much else is happening. I think with two little ones around that seems like all there is time for! We all packed up and rented a mini van for the weekend. We were headed to Tennessee for a soccer tournament. We were 1/2 way there and got a phone call that the whole darn thing was cancelled! Bummer! It would have been a fun weekend, but we spent it at home instead.
And that is our life as of late!
IT'S A LADYBUG!
But not just any ladybug! If you squish it's tummy it makes a funny honking sound!
Even Regan joined in the fun!
or so Regan says!
And this is what Regan looks like while Taytum is on the phone! Ha ha ha ha!
OK, and though it looks like Regan is covering her ears and saying, "Enough already!" she's actually signing the word 'phone' while her sister talks!
A Cinderella music box...
a new big girl bike!!!!...
a cinderella puzzle...
and a T (tennessee) chair!
"Oh my gosh! It's my birthday!"
Notice our dog, Maddy, trailing close behind in the 2nd picture. Maddy has learned that Regan will sometimes drop the bottle, which will spill a little milk. Maddy is always there to help clean up!
Taytum and Regan take turns riding in the back...
Taytum loves to push Regan. Here's Regan battling one of her bouts of sickness this winter/spring. Taytum helped out by cheering her up when she could. That thing in Regan's mouth...that's her Jerry!
Taytum is perfecting the art of moving herself around in the dump truck. She sits in the back and turns the wheels with her hands. She's quite proud of herself when she can make a full lap in the kitchen!
Sheer determination!!!
I wonder what would happen if we DID take the dump truck outside!
This teacher has gotten her to do more than any of the others. Its just too bad we can't have Miss Jenny all the time!
Taytum does have a good time, she's just aprehensive of water anywhere above her shoulders!! We will press on and hope for the best!
But nothing makes you forget you smashed your head like a good ride in the laundry basket!
(again, T and her mis-matched pjs! crazy kid!)
Do you think she knows?
Now it sits right outside our kitchen door so we can enjoy the birds while we eat. Taytum has gotten to know many of the different types of birds that come to feed.
One day while on the phone with my mom, Taytum starts to name off the different types of birds we see...cardinal, goldfinch, cow birds, grackels, chicadees... so my mom asks how she knows the names of all these birds. Taytum says, "I'm a bird scientist!" 
Here is a picture of Regan that I couldn't resist!!! Sometimes those lone diaper pics are the best!
...and what else but Scooby Doo figures for T!!!!
Later that day everyone came over for some fun with the family!
Though you can't see it in these two pictures, the cousins were all playing volleyball with a balloon. The pink thing in the middle of the floor is the barrier for each team. Notice Taytum playing with her bunny ears on and in action!
A fun day was had by all! Happy Easter everyone!
