ENT Follow-up

While I was in Oakland for a conference, my Mom and Mike went with Reagan for her ENT follow-up.  The scope revealed no changes in the state of her laryngomalacia, meaning that it's not worse but it's not improving, either.  The bumps of extra tissue along her esophagus were visible.  The doctor mentioned that these could be shaved off, but that he didn't know if the surgery would actually help her or not, so it isn't worth doing.  He did request that we schedule another sleep study, which will occur on December 19.  We're all very much hoping that this will show a reduction in the number of disruptive events she has per hour (our previous number was 37 per hour, which is severe).

Growing Girl!

I am so pleased to say that Reagan has had a wonderful couple of weeks.  She is growing nicely, and her cheeks are really starting to chub out!  I'm loving the baby squish that is slowly developing on her body.  She's still a skinny baby, but definitely getting bigger.

No question that she's Daddy's girl!

We've had an incredibly busy week.  Ryan had a blast on Halloween as Jupiter!  Reagan was going to be a leopard but the costume was thick fleece with extra padding and much too warm for the mild weather that night.  She hung out at home and helped Grandma hand out candy to the Trick-or-Treaters while we took Ryan to "Trunk or Treat" at his school.

       Ryan and his teacher, Ms. Beth                                           Ryan loved the giant slide!

Ryan is developing a great interest in cooking and baking lately, so we came back and he made "brutter cookies."  I had pre-cut the butter into tablespoons so that he could count them out himself.  The recipe called for six tbsp of butter for the dough and eight tbsp for the icing.  After we mixed up the dough, we went to make the icing and I realized I was two tbsp short... only to find out that Ryan had added them to the dough because he "loooooooves brutter!"  I actually think the cookies tasted better this way....

Making a turkey during Kid's Club at Michael's

Now that Reagan is getting bigger and healthier, it leaves more time for fun things, like dressing her up in cute outfits!  One of my favorites so far is her skinny jeans and button down cardigan.

This coming weekend, I will be in Oakland, CA for a multicultural education conference, in which I will be presenting a roundtable discussion-- my first!  While I am excited and a little nervous, I'm feeling some anxiety at being so far away from Ryan and Reagan.  It's only two nights and three days, and it will give me the opportunity to visit with my grandmother's cousins from Fresno, so I'm focusing on that.  And, as Mike has reminded me... two nights of uninterrupted sleep!  Somehow though, I think I'll still wake up anyway because I'm used to it.  I'm comforted by the fact that my Mom will be down, and I know Ryan will have a blast with Yia Yia, G-ma, and Daddy and probably won't even remember that I'm gone!

Ryan has gone with Pop Pop and I to the airport when Pop Pop has conferences, and he is very interested in planes and airline travel.  Since he will be going with me to the airport on Friday morning, I decided to take him there after school on Tuesday so that he could see what it's all about.  We went up to the observation area at BWI, watched several planes taxi and take off, played in the children's area, and relaxed with some juice!  He got a mini Southwest plane replica at the "Plane Store" to round out the trip.  He found the moving sidewalk especially amusing.  Good times for all!