Home again

We are home again thank goodness! Dave, Lucy, Kim and I went to Lake Placid for the weekend and had a, mostly, lovely time. My good friend from college, Laura, got married on Saturday. Kim came with as nanny because Lucy wasn't invited to the wedding and I am not ready to leave her overnight yet. Since Kim had only been to Lake Placid once before she volunteered to go with us. It was fun to be there with someone who hasn't really been there before. We drove up Whiteface and walked around Main Street checking out the shops. We had fun, the wedding was beautiful, the hotel was really nice, everything was great except that Kim wasn't feeling great and Lucy decided that sleeping wasn't fun. So once again, we spent our trip with a rotten little girl who didn't want to go to bed. Okay, that is a little mean, she was only rotten at bedtime. She would lay perfectly still for 10 or even 15 minutes and you would think she was asleep then she would sit up and look at you or get up and start crawling around again. On Friday night she screamed for about two hours, Saturday wasn't as bad but Dave and I agreed, we are not taking her on any more trips for a while.
Anyway, the next three pictures are from the top of Whiteface Mountain. It was beautiful up there but cold, I think they said it was 38 degrees at the top. Saturday was opening day of the highway up the mountain, there was still some snow in spots.




This next one is my friend Roy. I only get to see her once a year if I am lucky so it was tons of fun to hang out with her at the wedding.


Here is me with the bride. She looked so beautiful and happy! Congrats Laura and Pat!


Also, Lucy is walking a lot now! She is getting brave and walking about a third of the time, but if she wants to get somewhere fast or wants to go somewhere I don't want her to go she chooses to crawl. :)

Lucy Walking

Finally here is a video! Kim took it at the office just now.

So Smart!

After dinner tonight Dave said he would take us out for an ice cream cone, but just as we were about to leave he got called to fix a little thing at work. (It really was a little thing, don't worry Grandpa K.!) So Lucy and I were waiting in the car and she started to get bored so I started playing with the camera to entertain her and I got this super cute video!



My favorite part is when she shoves her finger way up her nose and says "no" (meaning nose). She likes to put her finger up other people's noses too. She also enjoys trying to poke your eye out while saying "eye". This morning she tried pulling on my eyelashes to see what would happen. :)
I still haven't been able to catch her walking on video. Maybe this weekend I will get it.

Gardening

Hey Aunt Julie, we gardened today!

After reading Julie's Yard Dirt column, I got inspired to get my butt out of the house and actually do some of the things I have been thinking about! My Mother's Day present is that we are finally going to fix up our yard. It is a pretty depressing place right now and since Lucy and I have started hanging out there so much I thought it would be nice to weed a bit (a.k.a. a lot) and plant some flowers. I got started on it today because it was so nice out.

As you can see from the above picture, we took take of the tulips today. The tulips were about to be swallowed up by dandelions so I weeded and then mulched them. I think I heard them sigh with relief when I was done. After dinner Dave helped me take care of the hill, which we have never gotten around to doing up the way we had planned. We have black plastic down now to kill off everything except the two ornamental grasses. Anybody know how long we should leave the plastic down for?


I thought I would post some other cute pictures that I have acquired over the last week.

A picture of Mommy and Lucy for a change. I tend to be the family photographer so we don't have a lot of pictures of me.


Lucy trying on the wooden shoes Granny brought her. She palyed with them for quite awhile that day.


On Saturday we discovered that Aunt Gina is the baby whisperer. Lucy climbed up on the couch with her and within five minutes Gina had her asleep! In case you don't realize how amazing that is, that is only the second time ever that Lucy has gone to sleep willing while other stuff was going on. (The other time was with Uncle Brian when she was about 4 or 5 months old.)


I think this picture is so cute! I can't remember what she was hollering about, she probably wanted the camera. This is Lucy's super cute cranky pants face. :)

Bragging

I titled this post "bragging" so that I can do so without feeling bad, you've been warned. ;) Lucy has spent the weekend waking little bits here and there. Just now she took about five steps from the couch to Daddy. My big brag for today is about this afternoon though.

Lucy and I were hanging out in the living room. She was playing by the gate and I was reading. I heard her talking to herself so I started paying attention to what she was doing. She was touching the edge of the fireplace screen and saying "no no no no..." She was touching it lightly and pulling her hand back so I said "good girl, you know you're not supposed to touch the fireplace." She thought about what I said for a minute and then she pointed at the fireplace and said "hot?" Isn't she the smartest baby ever!!!!!! She is really talking, in actual words, quite a bit. Of course, I am still the only one who can understand a lot of her words, but she is getting there.

Very soon Lucy will probably be running around everywhere and I will be fondly looking back on this past Friday, when she couldn't walk yet! :)

Walking!!!

It is about to start thundering and lighting so I only have a sec but I had to post. Lucy walked! She has taken a step or two between people before but today she took a few steps!!!! She walked between Dave and I, to Granny from me, and from her toys to Dave. Yeah Lucy!!! I'll try to get a video ASAP!

This has been a difficult week. Lucy is cutting a tooth and she has been very mooddy and she has hardly slept at all. I don't sleep that well anyway so being up with her at all hours all week is really starting to take it is toll on me. Fortunately tonight is pottery! My one night away each week is very important to me! :)

Tonight we are going to try some more sleep training. Lucy was sleeping until 4 or 5am and then we would go in and lay down with her. She would usually go back to sleep for a few hours but lately it hasn't been working. Saturday she woke up at 4:30 and although she laid pretty quietly for a little while she never went back to sleep. I don't think our laying down with her is helping her sleep anymore, I think it might actually be making it harder for her to sleep. So tonight I won't be going in to lay down with her. It will probably be a rough night, but if it goes anything like past sleep training trails, it should only take a couple of nights, each night being less bad than the night before. My fingers are crossed and I am not looking forward to it but after being awake pretty much since 2am this morning (I dozed on and off until 6) I am willing to try anything.