Reagan @15 months and Rilee @ 3.5 years old

It has been a while since I wrote a blog. I noticed that when I saw the pictures of reagan @ 9 months old lol. Since those pictures were posted these kiddos have taken off in personality and in independance.

We have lived in our apartment for 6 months and just absolutely LOVE IT. Since the last blog, Reagan has turned 1 and started walking "slowly" I might add but she will get it any day now.

At least I hope, because she is getting heavy to carry lol. She has started climbing on things, walking 15 steps at a time and the falling and saying "OH" like she did it on accident haha. She also has started talking with such words like: "Hi", "OH", "BABA", "Dada", "bob bob" (Spongbob!)and really started playing with Rilee which is really cute to see :-).

The summer has gone so quickly which I am not happy about, because I LOVE THE HEAT! Rilee hit her 1 year anniversary on getting the cochlear implant and it is just amazing how much she has just blown up in the last year.

This is when she got her cochlear activated in September of 2010

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This is just a month ago with her saying words!! In a year she has went from saying NOTHING to almost 100+ words.









My girls have been the biggest blessing I could ask for and I am glad I am their baba.

Our Family in 2011

Hello everyone, I have a lot to update since I last wrote the last blog. Reagan is now 9 months old, Rilee has had the cochlear for 6 months, Larry and I have been married for 4 years, and we moved into our own apartment.

Reagan started standing up on her own when she was 8 1/2 months old and now loves to torment her sister when she's trying to sleep. Reagan now crawls from one end of the apartment to the other, loves to play in her room with her sister and absolutely loves to eat!! She now eats real food such as spaghetti, eggs, toast, bananas and today I introduced her to peanut butter and jelly and she LOVED IT. Reagan is now in 9 month clothes and some 12 month clothes and has hair that won't quit!! Reagan sure is so different than Rilee was and we can see what a difference a hearing child is supposed to do and that is amazing in itself. Reagan tries to say "mama" "dada" and "papa" she has been cutting teeth she has a total of 4 two on top and two on bottom. She loves to scream to get Rilee's attention and loves it when her sister plays with her. Whenever Reagan see's Rilee it is the cutest thing she smiles real big and laughs until Rilee comes up to the crib to give her a big kiss on the hand. Here are some pics of Reagan at 9 months old.







Rilee has also made some major improvements in the last 6 months of having the cochlear. We recently went to OHSU (Oregon Health and Science University) last Tuesday to meet with some Child Development people we met with one that specializes in Non Verbal Skills and one with Verbal Skills. Rilee exceeds both. Usually they don't see children that have only had the cochlear for 6 months make such an improvement especially with speaking. Rilee is speaking close to 25-30 words and they said she was doing Amazing!! Here are some pictures of Rilee at 3 years old.








Larry, Rilee, Reagan and I moved into our own place on February 25,2011 and it's absolutely the best place. It's a two bedroom, two bathroom, with a kitchen, dinning room, living room, porch and patio. We couldn't have found a better place to live, it's ten minutes away from Larry's work, it's close to WIC, and other places that would have taken us 45 mintues to get to. Here are some pictures of our new place.












Hope you all have a fantastic weekend and may God Bless you and your family!!

The Allen's