End of winter (hopefully)

So, it's been a month since my last update, and I honestly can say I don't know where it went! We went to Galena for a night with some friends, had the snowcalypse around here and have basically just been enjoying our sweet little girl.

She officially has changed her favorite word from "no" to "okay" - now if she just meant it! :) Her vocabulary is really expanding and has started putting two words together - for example "hi mommy," "bye-bye bear," "(where) Daddy go?", "oh uh, I okay" (after a few tumbles - it's so fun to see it all coming together.

One happy girl...

Playing in the snow with Daddy!

A few weeks late on these - but here are a few photos from Lucy's first "real" play in the snow! She loved eating the snow - of course! :)

Photos taken Dec 27th, 2010

Officially out of the crib

As most of you know, Lucy is a climber. She can pretty much scale anything she wants. Which is why keeping her in her crib was becoming quite the task. She goes to sleep GREAT - but when she wakes up early (usually earlier than her parents would like - and earlier than she should) she wants out - RIGHT THEN! So we would have to jump up the moment she woke up and run into her room - before she would fall out. We usually caught her half way out - riding the side rail like a horse. What a stinker!

So, last week Saturday (January 8th) we decided to try out the toddler bed. I have to admit it was a little sad, as it made me realize how big she is - I mean the potty and a big girl bed in the same month!

She of course LOVED getting in and out of her bed during the day, so we were quite nervous about how this was going to work out. Thankfully, it has gone pretty well. She goes to sleep with no complaining, and stays in it through the night. However, the first few days she woke up a little earlier than usual (and when this girl wants to wake up she wants out of her room RIGHT THEN!). She is slowly getting used to it - and now sleeps till almost 7 (which is as good as it gets!).

The last few days she has woken up a little early (6:30ish), gotten out of her bed and then laid next to the door. Sometimes she goes to sleep for a little longer and sometimes she just cuddles with all her bears and dolls. We made the mistake of going and getting her the first day, but she actually wasn't really ready to get up so we decided that if she isn't crying she's okay. Marcus thinks we should get a little padded dog bed to put in the corner so she isn't on the floor but obviously she doesn't mind. I'm guessing all her stuffed animals must be pretty comfy!

Our first "potta" experience...

was a success! It may have been a fluke, but I'll take it!

I've had this potty for a while now and Lucy has attempted to play with it a few times so it went back into the closet. So the other day we started reading "Elmo goes to the potty" and I figured I'd bring it out. She sat on it "with clothes on" a few times and this morning - once we woke up (thank goodness we are back to almost 7am now!) I put her on it, and and started reading a book - and BAM she did it! She also continued to say "potta, potta, potta about a million times." Haha.

We'll see how this continues, but regardless, it reminds me that someday there will be a day with no diapers :) I'm sure she'll kill me for these pictures someday...but I think they are so cute! The last one just cracks me up - lil Miss Modest! :)






The Christmas countdown is on! I think we just may make it! Although if we have to go see Santa again - we might not! :)

A little under the weather...

So I thought being sick over Thanksgiving weekend would mean we had a few weeks off...but nevertheless I was wrong! Lucy got sick at the beginning of the week and I followed a day later - and Marcus is currently upstairs saying he doesn't feel good, but it could be he just wants to watch his shows upstairs in bed. :) Regardless, it was only a 12 hour thing but it was not fun! Here's to hoping we are done with illness for a while - at the very least - let's get through Christmas!

We are getting in Christmas mode! The Christmas tree is up and has only been pulled down by Lucy once (only one ornament broke thankfully), I'm hoping lights are going up this weekend (but if Marcus is sick this may mean I have to do it), and Lucy is loving playing with her little people nativity that her Nana gave her. Didn't ya know camels go on TOP of the stable and Jesus rode in on a train! :)



Here's a few other recent pics...

Good Intentions

I have really good intentions of updating this more, but it is that time of year and it has gotten SO busy recently!

Not a whole lot to report on Miss Lucy. She's as fun as ever. Er, well, except for this week when she got sick on Thanksgiving night. She's been running a fever and had some "stomach issues." It really snuck up on her fast as she was acting fine all Thanksgiving day and then all the sudden we were about to go home and she had those "issues" and a fever. (Sorry again, cousin Eric and Aunt Shannon - who got the brunt of the "issues.") Minus that we had a great Thanksgiving. We have so much to be Thankful for!

We made room for our Christmas Tree tonight and plan on putting it up tomorrow. We are already laughing at what it is going to look like - with all the ornaments hanging from the middle to top of the tree! :) Let's just say everything is a little higher than they were last year. We are also putting it in the corner of the front room instead of in front of the bay window because we didn't think Lucy could handle it. She LOVES to look out the window, and I'm nervous thinking about what she would have done to the tree to get it out of her way! :)

It is funny to think last year she was sitting up by herself reaching for the one soccer ball ornament that was in her reach. Actually, last year when we were putting up the tree, she started pushing herself up in a push-up position for the first time and then on Christmas Eve she crawled for the first time - oh what a difference a year makes!

I'm also anxious to see how she reacts to Santa this year - she really likes them in the stores, but I'm thinking she isn't going to like him in person!

Over the past week there have been two of my friends who have had darling babies! Last week, Baby Harper entered the world and today Baby Brady! Congrats to Becky and Marisa! I can't wait to meet them both!

Random story - so back in February I was emailing with Becky about a few different things and she mentioned that she and her hubby were thinking about starting their family. I mentioned to her how I had just had a random dream where she was taking pregnant belly pictures on a rooftop with her husband (and me, weird I know) and she was holding a pink ruffled pillow. I also told her that in my dream her mom said she was so excited to have two grandsons and two granddaughters, so I told her that she and her sister will be pregnant soon and that they will both have girls (her mom already has two grandsons). WELL - fast forward - and BAM - I was RIGHT! :) Call me physic or just really lucky, but I was right, but either way it makes for a fun story! :) Now we are just waiting on Rachael (Becky's sister) to have her little girl next week!




xoxo
Meghan