Complete Mommy Brain...

I seriously shouldn't ever put this in writing, but I kid you not, this has got to take the mommy brain of the year award...

I laid Reagan in the Pack N Play, which is in our bedroom), so I could take a shower at about 10:30 this morning. When I was done, she had gotten pretty fussy, so I picked her up and she spit her paci out (she loves to projectile spit the paci when she's po'd). Not wanting to lose it (those things are like little nuggets of gold), and because she's in a major bobble head phase that requires two hands, I put it down my shirt just to keep track of it until we got downstairs. Most of you know that nursing a baby has many great perks...one being some pretty dang nice cleavage, so it rested nicely right in an easy-access place. Fast forward, oh about 7 hours to 5pm (as in like 15 min ago) and I see some strange lump in my shirt as I look in the bathroom mirror. Yep, you got it, I walked around ALL day with that thing stuck between my two friends. I'm sure Britton's teachers, the hair stylist at Sharky's, and no less than 10 Publix employees probably wondered why I had a mysterious lump in my shirt. This sums up my life just about right...oh the joys of mommy brain never cease to fail me.


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Baby Einstein = Baby Crack

Thought I'd post a video of Reagan lovin her play mat (courtesy Aunt Ashley) with the baby Einstein star from Britt's play mat. I actually was looking back on the blog and have a video of Britt on his at about 3 months old. They really do look so much alike as infants! This mat gives us some peace and quiet a few times a day.

BTW, sorry about the Real Housewives in the background...

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Lovin the Ceiling Fan

Reagan loves watching the ceiling fan (like most babies). Why can't the small things in life always make us happy, even when we're all grown up?

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Big Fish, Little Fish

Britt currently loves two things:

1. Swimming
2. Watching videos of himself swimming

Here are more from last night, so that he can watch the blog over and over.

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Smile!

Finally caught a few good smiles on video tonight! And yes, I have succumbed to hair bows :-)

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I've Officially Gone Girly

Today marks the first official day I have put a bow in Reagan's "hair" (term used loosely at this point). I swore I would never succumb to full-blown dress up with a daughter, but I found some cute (cheap) smaller ones at Target that her daddy won't think are totally obnoxious. Check out her sweet outfit too, courtesy of ZZ. Minus the major baby acne going on (why don't they make baby Pro Active?), she's such a little diva today!

Fun with Friends

Megan and Ian Milligan came to visit this morning while the dads were out playing golf. They brought us Chick Fil A breakfast, which always makes me happy! Of course we forgot to take pictures while they were here, but Ian gave Britt his first official play doh set. I had almost as much fun playing with it as Britt did. That smell brings back some memories, huh? Best of all, Britt didn't eat any :-)

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Need a little help here...

One of Britt's new favorite pastimes....the baby swing. Note it's 8:15 on Saturday morning and we are almost through our first viewing of Cars (as playing in back ground) for the day.

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Poop Camp Success

This accomplishment deserves a second post. 3 days, 2 gallons of tea, 1 Lightning McQueen toilet, 2 packs of "big boy" underwear, 2 packs of stickers, 1 pack of gummy worms, 3 accidents, and no less than 1000 "are you dry, tell mama/dada when you need to go" pop quizzes, and we have successfully finished potty training. Here is Britt's Sticker chart at the end. We even made it out of the house today for 3 hours and he used the big potty.




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Poop Camp

So here we go....it's potty training time in the House of Marshall.

We're actually on the last day of 3daypottytraining.com (by Lora Jensen), and it's actually working. Britt is such a trooper to be cooped up in the house, and it's hard for me to take a break from almost everything else, but it's paying off. He even stayed dry last night!! Sure, he's had an accident or two, but he's caught himself every time and initiated going to his potty each time. It's really taught him quickly to learn his body signals on his own.

We're going to venture out tomorrow, Lightning McQueen potty in tow, wish us luck!

PS - I've never loved my iPhone or the apps on it more than the last three days (while sitting and watching 100 of Britt's favorite shows....Thomas the Train tops the list of bad British entertainment).












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Hose Man

Britton being silly outside.

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Curious Reagan

She's sick, but still so alert!

Reagan's Birth Announcement

Baby Chic Pink Birth Announcement

Shutterfly has cute birth announcements and Valentine's cards.

View the entire collection of cards.

Reagan Stats (Ongoing Post)

Ok I'm going to do my best to publish Reagan's stats...

May 10, 2011 - 5 Days Old
7 lbs 4 oz
20 inches (she shrunk!!)



May 19, 2011 - 2 Weeks Old
8 lbs 5 oz
20 1/2 inches


June 7, 2011 - 1 Mth Check Up
9 lbs 11 oz
21 inches
Fever of 99.5 and cold symptoms (doc only slightly concerned, must monitor fever)

A Beautiful New Addition

Miss Reagan Hannah Marshall arrived (via scheduled c-section) at 7:37 am on May 5, 2011. She weighed 7lbs 14 oz (I knew she was going to be bigger than her brother!) and measured 20 3/4 inches. I think she looks very similar to Britton as a newborn, more like her daddy than me!

She's such a sweet baby (so far!), and is eating well and sleeping pretty well. She's a snuggle bug, she loves to curl herself up on my chest, which is so sweet.

Britton is an amazing big brother...he loves to give her a paci and kiss her feet. We'll see soon if he wants to send her back or keep her!

Here are a few of my favorite pics from the first few days.

The Nursery Gets a Makeover (oh, and we have a name)!

Baby Reagan Hannah Marshall will be here on May 5 (cinco de mayo party!), so we have been hard at work giving the nursery a makeover. I've attached the pics I've taken so far below, but they were taken with my phone, so some might be hard to see the details. Below is the link to a better picture online from JC Penny.

http://www3.jcpenney.com/jcp/X6.aspx?GrpTyp=PRD&ItemID=148f506&submit%20search.y=0&Ntt=paisley+splash&SearchString=paisley+splash&Ne=840+4+877+878+5+961+6+29+3+598+11+15+12+506+10+23+585+596+963+579+1031+8+1022+1014+18+904+903+969+833+949&hdnOnGo=true&NOffset=0&submit%20search.x=0&Nao=0&N=4294959029&SO=0&PSO=0&CmCatId=searchresults

I decided to go a bit of an non-traditional route for baby Reagan with blue and green paisley (and to be honest, we didn't want to paint again!), but I think we found a great girl pattern that we really love. Actually I bought this pattern over 2 years ago for Britt but thought it was too girly, so I was very excited to re-purchase it!

The letters on the wall are a story in themselves, needless to say I have spent almost every free minute at night working on them over the past week!

We hope you like!

New Train

Check out this video of Britt's new train set. I found it at a church consignment sale for $10, woop woop! He's officially in love...

Water Table Fun

Britt has been wanting to spend more and more time outside, but it's hard to contain him in our little yard. Since it's warm now (actually verging on hot already!), we brought out the water table he got for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa Marshall. He played for over an hour without stopping, which allowed Justin and I to get some serious yard work done. Hope the fun doesn't ever stop with this thing!

Big Boy Room

Today is Day 1 of sleeping in the new Big Boy Room. We've spent a lot of time in it reading, playing, and "practicing" in bed. Here are some pictures of the finished product and of him today before naptime.

Northern Visitors

Ma and Uncle John came down last week for a visit to Justin's parents' house, so we spent last Sunday visiting with them. Britt was super-well behaved, especially since we made the drive up and back that day and went out to a nice lunch. Here are a few pictures with Ma.