Nice Weather!

The weather is finally nice! It was about 80 yesterday and it is supposed to be just as nice today!!!! Yesterday we went to the park with the Mom's Club. Lucy had lots of fun, she made a new friend named Evie (that name seems to be getting very popular), and Freddy slept in the stroller the whole time. It was nice.





Lucy loved the swing but she wouldn't let me push her. She was happy just sitting in it. Dave's project for next weekend is going to have to be getting our swing hung back up.








Here's Freddy enjoying the park.











The other day we played Play-doh while Freddy was napping. This is a video of Lucy describing what she made. She is getting very good at pretending and is starting to really use her imagination. I am so impressed with the things she remembers and the things she thinks up.This morning I gave her a spoonful of honey because she was coughing a lot (it worked!), and so I asked her if she remembered who made honey. At first she said Pooh Bear, so I said "Pooh likes to eat honey but who makes it?" She thought for a minute and said "bees" then she started talking about honey trees and about how Pooh went in a hole and got stuck. i asked her if she remembered why he got stuck and she said it was because he was too big. Then she started talking about how he had a scarf on his head. If you don't recognize this story, it is from Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, and the part about him getting stuck is from the story about Pooh going to rabbit's and eating so much honey that he was too fat to get out of rabbit's hole. We haven't read that story (or watched the movie of it, it's one of the few kids movies we have because it is one of the few that I like) in quite a while, but she remembered it! Anyway, back from my tangent, here is the movie:



Tonight Dave and I are going out on first date since Freddy was born. Kim is coming to babysit while we go to the Fireman's annual banquet. Freddy will take a bottle, unlike his sister would, so we have a bit more freedom than we had with her. I pumped some milk already this morning for tonight, but we will still probably only stay 2 or 3 hours. Especially since I doubt Kim will put Lucy to bed. The two of them have so much fun together that they usually forgot about behaving. :) We are very lucky Kim lives just down the road and likes to hang out with us!

Tomorrow we are leaving on a trip. I told Lucy we were going to go on a trip and ever since she keeps asking if we are going on the trip yet. Dave needs to go to a conference for some work thing and it is in Montreal. He asked if we wanted to go and I immediately said yes! Get me out of here for a while! :) I haven't left town since Christmas time, I could use a trip! It's been a while since we went to hotel, I am trying to think up lots of things to take that will keep Lucy occupied.

Freddy is starting to fuss, but here is a video of him from a few minutes ago when we was still happy in his bouncy seat.



While the video was loading I nursed Freddy and thought of three more things to write about. First, Freddy has started sleeping for a 5 hour stretch at night!!!! He sleeps from 9 or 10 until 2 or 3 then he wakes up again to eat at 4 or 5. It is great! Second, this morning Dave was tickling Lucy's feet and she told him to stop and that it was rude to tickle feet!!! She is too funny! Third, Lucy just got herself dressed! She needs someone to tell her which is the front on her pants and then she needs help pulling them up in back over her diaper, but mostly she does it herself. She also has three different pairs of shoes that she can do herself too! She won't always do it but she is capable.

It is already 72 degrees out so I am off to enjoy a beautiful day!

My new Haircut

I did it, I cut off my hair. I like but I am still getting used to it.




Not a very good picture that I took of myself but you get the idea.
















An off-center side view. It is really curly in the back! It is really easy to style. My head feels very weird still.








On Saturday my Aunt Karen came to visit. She wanted to see us and meet Freddy. She brought him an awesome present!












This elephant that she crocheted. It is so cute! I love it, and I am sure Freddy will too. :)











On Saturday, Uncle Freddy and Aunt Gina came over too. Unfortunately in this picture, Lucy is blocking the view of Gina's belly. She is 20 weeks and showing it! :)













Sunday was my birthday. Grandma (and BobBob who were here all weekend) helped Lucy make me a present. In this picture she is handing me two butterflies they made out of colored coffee filters and pipe cleaners. On my lap is a "pretend birthday cake" (that's what Lucy said it was) made out of a paper plate with macaroni glued to it. It was the best present I got!







And to end this post, here is a super cute picture of my super cute kids. Lucy's nose is all red because she had cold all weekend, she is feeling much better but she is still a bit snotty. The good news is that she learned to blow her nose!

I am sorry for the weird way in which I have written. The kids have taken turns crying all evening, Freddy won't let me put him down and I am tired so my ability to think clearly is highly diminished. I think I will spell check this post and go to bed.

Easter Recap

We had a very busy and very fun Easter weekend.

It started Wednesday when we went to the library for story hour. The Easter Bunny was there handing out treats. Lucy was a bit skittish of the bunny. She stuck to me like glue at first, so we stood back and watched some other kids go see the bunny and get their treat. After a little bit I asked her if she wanted to go up and see the bunny and she said "yeah, bunny don't touch me though." !! She is the greatest!!!! (I think the treats are what convinced her it would be okay to go up.)
After the library trip (and treat) she was really into the whole Easter thing.



On Thursday Lucy painted the paper mache egg we had made. She loves to paint and was very serious about this project, until she started sniffing the paint. I am not sure what was up with that but it was pretty funny. She painted very seriously, very quietly and fairly neatly for at least a half hour while I did some other things. We will be painting often I think. :)



On Thursday evening we dyed Easter eggs. It was Lucy's first time and it went surprisingly well. Hardly any dye got spilled and Lucy only got a little on her self. At the last minute before we started I decided to take her clothes off of her, which turned out to be a good idea. For a few days she had small speckles across her chest.







On Friday we went to the bounce house place with Aunt Joyce. It was so much fun!! Aunt Joyce bounced with Lucy while I held Freddy and took pictures. We switched for a little bit, and while Joyce had Freddy a woman told her her baby was beautiful. Everyone had a great day!






Jim, Julie and Molly got to town late Thursday night. Unfortunately they didn't get much sleep that night and Jim was sick. Molly was starting to get sniffly too so they didn't get to go with us to bounce but we had lots of fun with them later in the weekend.

I love this picture because it really captures the craziness of Lucy at the bounce houses. It took her a little bit to assess the place and warm up to it, but once she got going there was no stopping her.


Saturday was spent cleaning the house and chilling at home.

Easter Sunday:

This was Lucy's first egg hunt. Last year the Bunny brought her a basket but it wasn't hidden and there weren't any eggs. She really liked it and has requested to have Easter eggs a few times since. She got a plastic egg that you can turn on and it calls out and whistles and stuff to help you find out when it is hidden, we have played with that lots. She is getting really good at stopping to listen for it and then heading in the direction it is calling from. It is a really fun toy.






The kids both got lots of fun stuff and candy in their baskets. Lucy went straight for her chocolate, a girl after my own heart. :)








The Easter Bunny must not have realized how little Freddy is because there were Peeps and chocolate bunnies in his basket too. Mommy and Daddy took care of that for him. ;)
(I need to figure out how to photoshop my arm out of this picture!)






Best video of all:

In case you can't understand her she says "bite that?" and then she says "I like that treat!" Ah Peeps, the best treat of Easter! :)


Molly had a great time playing with Lucy's toys. The tool belt is a good look for her.

Oma, Grandpa, Jim, Julie, Molly, Granny and Kim came over for breakfast around 9:00. The girls got lots of time to play together.

After a couple of hours we put our kids in the car and Jim and Julie put Molly in their car so that the girls would get a little bit of a nap before the big egg hunt at Oma and Grandpa's house. We didn't have to drive far to get Lucy to go to sleep.




Some pictures from the Big Egg Hunt:





Lucy and Jay













Daddy and Freddy

It was very sunny but cold out, so there aren't any pictures that you can see Freddy in during the egg hunt. You'll just have to trust me that that blanket Dave is carrying around contains Freddy. :)






Molly and Grandpa










There are more pictures and more videos, check out the links to see them. Freddy has been asleep for a couple of hours and I have missed out on that sleeping time to blog for you. So now I say "goodnight!"

What I am Doing

Right now Freddy is asleep on me, I am about to start researching potty training methods, and Lucy is watching a "movie". What she is actually doing is playing with a clock radio. I was doing laundry when I heard voices and went to investigate. I found Lucy in the back bedroom holding the clock radio. I tried to take it to put back on the shelf and shut it off, but Lucy said "No! watch movie!" I was like "what?" then I realized what she meant. She climbed onto the futon with the clock in her hands, the radio on, and was watching the clock face!! I was on the floor laughing!!!! So right now she is sitting on the futon listening to Diane Reems (the really old shaky voiced lady on NPR) and talking to herself. She just said "watch different movie" and started turning the dial!!! She cracks me up!!!!!!!

Last night I updated pictures and videos so check them out. :)

About Freddy

It occurs to me that I haven't written much about what Freddy is like. He is perfect of course! ;)

Freddy is pretty easy going. As long as he gets to nurse frequently he is happy. He loves to have his back patted. His favorite place is laying on some one's chest, with his ear over their heart. He also likes it when Daddy puts his lips on his (Freddy's) head and talks, it must be the deep voice.

Freddy almost always stops crying if Lucy sings to him. Now that he can see a little farther, and is spending more time awake, he likes to watch Lucy. He spends a lot more time awake and alert now. It has taken me by surprise that he wants to be able to look around and be entertained already. Lucy thinks its fun to shake a rattle for him.

Freddy has started smiling and cooing, which has made me, if possible, even more in love with him. He loves to be rocked, and is not a huge fan of taking a bath. He is doing really well at night. He usually falls asleep by 10:00pm, and sleeps until about 12:30. I nurse him and he goes right back to sleep until somewhere between 3:30 and 4:30. Then I change his diaper and nurse him. He isn't as easy during this stretch of early morning. Freddy is a grumbler, he makes lots of grunts and groans and just grumbles a lot especially while sleeping. After I have changed and nursed him he tends to grumble a lot until about 6:00. Then he nurses again and usually falls back asleep. Of course Lucy wakes up around 6:00-6:30 so I don't get to go back to sleep. I get WAY more sleep with him than I was getting with Lucy at this stage though so I am not complaining. :)

What else can I say about Freddy? He has ticklish feet; he has outgrown most of his 0-3month size clothes (I am going to check if some of the 3-6month stuff fits yet); as of this morning he weighs a little over 13 pounds (Dave brought this scale home from work that he keeps weighing Freddy on); a lot of his hair has fallen out, he looks like a little old man because he just hair on the sides and back right now, it is starting to grow back in where it fell out though.

That is about all I can think of for now. As soon as Lucy gets up from nap I am going to try to do a paper mache project with her. I think I have completely lost my mind. :)

Comparisson

Here are couple of pics I have been meaning to post. My Mom sent them to me. I'll let you decide who you think Freddy looks like.





3/8/2007











2/27/09