Babies
Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 9:59AM I really need to redo the photos on here. That header? Those kids don’t even exist any more. Reagan has been through three hair colors since then, pierced her nose and added three tattoos (that I know of). Hayden looks like a baby up there. He’s probably six inches taller and has a beard for heaven’s sake. Faith has probably grown that much too - her height I mean. She doesn’t have a beard.
But a new header featuring my kids means all three in the same place at the same time in an agreeable mood with a photographer present.
So the header stays.
But here are updates on their lives:
That’s my favorite recent photo from Reagan’s Facebook page. I haven’t seen her in person since August. The cat is Persephone and is technically her roommate’s but they co-parent the cats. Caspian is still alive and kicking … literally
Reagan is a junior+. If she sticks the “get me the heck out of college ASAP” schedule she’s set for herself, she will graduate next December. I kind of wonder what the hurry is. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that her boyfriend lives in L.A., but she says she’s just ready to get on with life and quit paying money to take dumb classes that she isn’t interested in but that a Liberal Arts degree requires.
A valid point.
In addition to the 15 credit hours she’s taking, she has a waitressing job and coaches a high school Slam Poetry team. She’s also still heavily involved in Slam herself. In August she went to Nationals in Oakland and competed for the Nebraska team. The aforementioned boyfriend helps run a YouTube channel so she also gets roped into helping film events which she likes to do as it involves travel, Slam and the boyfriend.
She’s kind of busy. I marvel at all she juggles and miss her terribly.
This is a picture I took of Hayden when we dropped him off in August. He does not participate in social media so I don’t have anything more recent.
Nor do I have any more than mere scraps of info about his life in college. Here is what I do know:
- He has a roommate. I guess they get along ok because I haven’t heard otherwise.
- The food in the residence hall is good.
- He’s going to class, not chronically oversleeping as I feared. This fact has been confirmed by other sources as well.
- He doesn’t like his Soils class. I can’t imagine liking an entire class about dirt either.
- He says his grades are good.
That’s it. That’s all I’ve got. I need to see the boy soon as he’s much more forthcoming in person.
Faith is stuck up here in Minnesota with us. That means she’s doing a LOT of adapting. Adapting to a new town, new school, new dance studio, new church, new friends, new home, new dog …
It’s a lot of adapting.
Most days she does pretty well, but I strongly suspect that if we were to pack up and move back to Lincoln tomorrow she would be thrilled.
Since that is not a choice, we keep pressing on. That picture is from Homecoming. She had vehemently decided to not go. The thought of walking into the dance where she still didn’t know very many people (it was the second week of school) was overwhelming. At diner the night of the dance she was scowling into her plate at dinner time, hating life. However, the young ladies who have befriended her kept bugging her until, an hour before the dance started, she decided to go.
Of course, shopping for a new dress was an impossibility so she pulled out one we bought a couple of months ago, brushed her hair, threw on some make up and was ready to go. (The friends in the athletic gear were dressed for the black lights.)
Oh to be 14 and lovely enough to pull off a trick like that.
Faith turns 15 on Saturday, which means that this post should definitely NOT be titled “Babies” but …
that is what they will always be to me.
Reader Comments (9)
......and to me.
I have to say I have loved watching your children grow up on your blog :)
By the way I was playing a fun little game I call "have the Canadian fill in the states on the map" the other day. The only state I couldn't remember, Nebraska. I had put Iowa in it's place. I was very ashamed.
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