As I was saying earlier, I can’t get enough of these piptures from our sunday visit. Pip was just the happiest, cutiest pipsqueak that I ever knew.
I’ll call these photos “how much is that pippy in the window?”. Before I start getting comments with bids for her, let’s make sure you all know that she isn’t for sale at all. Go find your own. 
Isn’t her hair so funny? We don’t call her Pippy for nuthin’!
Hello!
I was just introduced to your family via CJane, and wow! How beautiful and joyful, and what a pleasure and honor to read.
Pip walking is AMAZING!!! So excited for her and for you and Jake. The time outside looked grand. Pippy in the window is the best. Yay Pip. And now you are on CJane – fancy and fantastic.
I just saw you on CJane and had to come look at your blog. Your family is amazing and your little girl is the cutest little thing ever! You are an inspiration to all of us moms that think our lives are hard for the most inconsequential things. Can’t wait to read more about cutey little Pippy!
Love watching Piper Jane walk! So happy for your beautiful family! You guys are truly inspiring.
I saw Ellen’s (EP) post about your article on C Jane and inspiring doesn’t even come close to it. It was a timely reminder to me about perspective, thank you. And one more thing, there are as many types of mothering as children in the world, and you two (plus Dad) are a perfect fit.
reagan,
i jumped over here from cjane and have just spent the past hour reading back through your blog. i especially loved this part from the father’s day post:
“i felt sad for myself that i was alone. i felt sad that no one knew i was a mom. but then i felt the saddest when i saw jake rounding the last stretch of the race without his little girl clapping so excitedly to see him finish.”
you have such an inspiring little family. growing up, and still, i look forward most of all to becoming a mom. i love that you say that you’re family’s just a little “different,” but that you still spend time as a family.
just inspiring.
can i just say your little piper is the most darling little girl i’ve ever seen?!! (or one of them, and i’ve seen alot!) instant love for you and your family!
Piper is adorable!
My heart goes out to you,
you are very brave & strong
to have to be living away from
your darling girl. YOu are a wonderful
mama!
tara
I to jumped over from cjane.
Your Piper girl is beyond adorable. I want to hug her and tell her how brave I think she is.
After reading your post I hugged my 2 little ones and didn’t let go for a very long time. I couldn’t help it.
Your amazing.
I wish you and your family all the best.
Reag, your famous! Well you already were…Your celebrity clients are getting their hair done from a celeb too:) I can’t believe all the progress piper keeps making…She just amazes me!
And would you stop being so gorgeous? Cjane is right – you have such great style but that is not something new to me, so I am jeal. haha.
miss you. Will you guys be coming out to the reunion this year? you betta.
She is just too cute! I love everything you share about your darling little Pip!
I just found your link through C Jane, and I could not help but stop and just tell you something! I am not even sure what to say! I have been reading through past posts for about an hour crying, laughing, wanting to clap my hands for joy, grabbing my chest with pain, the works. Your little Pip may be the sweetest little thing I have ever seen! You and your husband must be the most incredible people ever! I am forever a different person for having had the opportunity to peak at your life through your blob.
All the best to you and your beautiful family!
Leah
I came over from cjane’s also just to say Piper is adorable. God Bless you and your sweet Pippy.
I too found your journal from CJane. I LOVE your style of writing and your ‘made up’ words
Piper is just too cute for words !
I read the last year of entries and need to keep reading. It’s amazing the progress she has made and I can’t wait to read on her further progress !!!
I too jumped over from cjane. I’ve spent the last 40 minutes being inspired by your blob. I read a post titled intraosseous-puncture-can-suck-it and yes, I cried. You make a comment about not having chose this and how you don’t feel worthy of the praise people give you.
I have a powerful belief that we knew what we would get here on earth and we told God we would be willing to take on the challanges we’ve been given. It says a lot about you and your husband that you could take care of a beautiful soul like Piper’s. She needs amazing and stong people to be her parents. You obviously fit the bill.
I can’t imagine how much strength it takes to have your child’s home be someplace other than your own. Or to watch the trials she goes through daily.
Piper as well as you and Jake have inspired me to be better.
Piper really is the best ever. I just spent two weeks in another country on a mission trip and I called home every other day mostly to see if you’d updated. Piper going outside was amazing news! We go ape wild over here for her and are cheering your family on for Cincinnati every ‘step’ of the way. You rock as a mom, Reag — keep it up!
I too have popped over from cJane and I’m so glad I did. Your photos and your stories have touched me deeply. Pip is easily addictive! Such a special family. Thank you for sharing your life with us.
Kim
I found your blog linked on Kendra Smoot’s family blog. I spent the last hour reading and couldn’t stop. I find your little family inspiring. Really truly.
Hey Reagan – I also found you on CJane’s blog and I thought it was such a beautiful, well written, loving post. I’m also from the NYC area and I love all the references to this great city in your blog. And I love reading about lil Piper and all her adorable pipisms (you can use “pip” in so many forms! so cute!) All the best to you and your family.
Hi Reagan,
I too found you via Cjane’s blog and just spent the last few hours reading many of your old posts.
I just want to say that you are an AWESOME mommy to your adorable little “Pip” and it is VERY clear how bonded she is to you and that she KNOWS you are her mommy!
I can’t imagine the day to day stressors you, Jake and Piper must deal with and I know there must be some very rough days but you guys are such an inspiration! Piper is an angel–she doesn’t complain–to her, her life is “normal.” (And if you ask me, normal is highly overrated anyway lol!) I pray that there will soon be a NEW normal for all of you and that is to have Piper home with her family.
I read in one of your posts that you are afraid to have another child… (I have not yet read about your pregnancy and delivery with Miss Piper) I think that it is normal to be afraid but I also think, if and when you and Jake are ready, you will be able to “face your fear and do it anyway.” You two are wonderful parents (Piper, honey, the Lord and you did a good job picking out your mommy and daddy!) and there just may be another infant soul waiting to land in your arms to bless you and big sister Piper Jane!
Hugs and prayers, Lori
I have followed your story about Piper from Kelly (online friend of mine) and just love seeing the pics of you guys outside and love the pic of you laughing/smiling at her through the window.
Just found you via c jane
Thought I’d click over, say hello…and then found myself still reading 30 mins later! Ack the Pip Pics melt your heart!! (P.S. I want like 90% of your wardrobe, but only 90% because I’m realistic about my hip size.) My cousin (http://caymancindy.blogspot.com/) also has a special needs child…so I know a little bit about how much joy it brings when the achieve yet another milestone! Congrats Pip!
Also, mini tennis balls to help her walker slide right along hehe
http://www.dogtoys.com/minitennisball.html
Your story, life and perspective are inspiring…As are Miss Piper Janes. May we all be able to find more JOY in the simple things. Things that make this life.
- Sadie
Hi! I read your journal through a link from CJane. Pip and you are so precious and made me find a few moments this day to hold my own little babies just a tad bit tighter. Thank you for sharing your life.
Loves,
Suzie
You inspire. All 3 of you.
Found you through Cjane. I think I read your whole blog yesterday during naps and after bedtime
God has really blessed all of you and that Piper is surely a sweet little thing!
The way you handle life, with grace, honesty, and love is inspiring. You wise beyond your years!
My friend just had her 3rd child, a little girl as well. Her daughter was born with with a syndrome and faces many years of surgeries and hospitalization. My friend is VERY private about their situation, which I respect but it also leaves me wondering how she is feeling and what the situation is really like. I know that your story is different from theirs, but there are a lot of similarities. Thank you for sharing, your story has given me some insight into the journey that my dear friend is traveling.
Blessings to your family!!
Another one from Cjane … God bless!! Piper is so cute and you guys are a beautiful family.
Yay for CJane…she gets us all in the loop!
Pippy is adorbs (hehe) and I am so inspired by you…
Your gorgeous and your hubby is a ‘fox’…
And, you are from So. Utah…so cool…I am too from the beaUTAHful land of so. utah…
Love reading your ENTIRE blog and love getting the updates…
I’m a new fan and follower from cJane. As I was devouring this blob, I thought, “Wow! Reagan looks so familiar. Like the girl from ‘Hairdresser on Fire.’” And, lo and behold, it is you! I’ve been loving your hair blog for a few weeks.
I am inspired by you and Piper Jane, I admire your style, and I am anxiously awaiting your hair tutorials (no pressure!).
Kath
Another one from cJane. Just enjoyed several hours of pouring over your blob and your hubby’s blob. Oh. My. Word. I want to kiss that precious Pip until she cries for mercy and hug you and your hubs to bits! How lucky you all 3 are to be sharing this life together.
stopped by from CJane and OMG, Pip is a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e and I’m diggin’ your coolest of cool hair.
also found you through cjane. stinkin adorable is what she is! piper. you and jake, too. i love the way you love your girl. i have a son with a “syndrome.” he is five and our lives are different than i imagined. and i love it. even when it’s hard. look forward to following along. and kudo’s to piper on walking! my bean was 3 when he started walking and you never heard such a celebration!!
You guys are totally nailing it. Thanks for sharing your story and being so real. You’re awesome. The lot of you!
I have a gazillion things to say. I won’t say most of them. But you guys rock. And I love you. And also, I have been reading your blob for the last hour and a half whilst my children (2&4) dump cereal on my kitchen floor. I literally laughed out loud when you said “I wish I could rapunzel someone” on your Rio post. laughed.out.loud. Keep up the awesome work. You’re in my prayers
You are beautiful parents to a beautiful daughter. Lots of laughs are coming your way!!!
great post on cjane. great posts always. Thanks.
Ok, I’m yet another who blog hopped over from cjane…and spent a good, long chunk of my day reading your blob. I LOVE your style, LOVE your love for you beautiful little lady, and think it’s amazing to share your journey with so many. And so many of us will be cheering you on! (I wasn’t going to comment, but when I learned you do hair, and are a fan of the soup and Joel McHale, well, I feel we are soul sisters.) All the best.
Like some of the others, I found out about your blog (or blob!) from CJane. And can I just tell you how uplifting you are? Loved your guest post over there. You are so positive and upbeat. I love your attitude. And your little Pip is just the sweetest. Thanks for being YOU. I’ll be visiting you often!
OK, so I’m about the 10,000th person who has found your site through CJ, and I’m hooked! Piper Jane is the most precious little girl ever! I’ve spent an hour going through your pictures — they are beautiful! I love Piper’s expressions….she has such a contagious smile, and her eyes are vibrant! I love how you dress her up and fix her hair…..she is a lucky little girl to be surrounded by so much love. God bless you….
Hi there! I just wanted to chime in and say that I am totally hooked on your blog (homework? what homework?!) Your family is beautiful and your endurance is truly inspiring. I hope you can feel all the love and energy of having gained about 10,000 cheerleaders today!
Reagan, what a precious mom you are! I came over from CJane like so many others. Piper is darling – I love her little braids! She is so lucky to have you and your husband as parents. Thank you for sharing her story with us.
Kelly
reagan, you’re unbelievable and gorgeous. just like your baby girl. thanks for sharing your moments and minutes. ups and downs. your honesty is refreshing your bravery enviable. my hat is off to you. my heart is full of love for your pip. sandy
Loving your little fam of three (I have one too and I like to think that three rules!). Your daughter is so stinkin’ cute, I could eat her up. And those Pippy braids…ah!dorable!
Your writing is clever and witty and radiates pure, unending love for your daughter. And it doesn’t hurt that you are loaded with optimism and sass- two of my most favorite characteristics!
I’m hooked…now off I go to devour more Pip!
she looks just like Fifi Brindacier with her braids and tiny but strong arms and legs… and hey, I just googled to see what she’s called in English and that’s Pippi Longstocking, what a cool coincidence!
aww! she’s so cute! congrats on the walking, by the way! way to go, piper!!
I also stopped over from CJane, and so glad that I did. After spending all morning reading your blob, I am truly happy in my heart. What a gorgeous family you have and you are a fantastic mama! You are blessed, and I feel blessed for reading your blob today. Thank you so much!
I also found your blog through cjane’s blog. I think your little Pippy is beautiful. Your story amazes me. Pippy has a wonderful family. You are an amazing Mom.
Found you from C Jane…let’s just say I spent all night reading about you and your gorgeous family! What a beautiful person you are inside and out! Thanks for the inspiration! Hugs to you from our family in Oklahoma!
This is the first time seeing your wonderful bird. She is just adorable and will now forever be my favorite bird. i live in alabama and just know that prayers will be going up daily for you and your family to have have long and full life.
i had seen you and your baby bird over on cjane. i was thinking they have those look-a-like dolls at american girl and if i ever saw a doll who looked anything like your Piper, i would buy no less than seventeen of them. or eight hundred. she’s a plum. a peach. her face. slays me. everynight, i promise you, she will be a prayer to st. jude that she is home with you some day; i love your posts when you say you love her with all her attachments and i do too and dream of her free of them in your bed at home. she’s perfect either way. i originally emailed asking if i could send her a toy or a something. i’m stumped now that i’ve looked at all your pippy posts at all her sweet things. would you ever say if a gift sent to where she spends her days is too overwhelming for you? i love her beautiful eyes. and her shoe-sies. you’re so lucky to have that little face look at you.