I haven't written in awhile so I am taking this nap time quiet to update the blog.
Dave and I have been keeping a secret but we finally told last Thursday. In February Lucy is going to be a big sister! I am due February 22nd, two weeks before Lucy's 2nd birthday. :) I have been very nervous and I have a backache, but other than that everything is going great.
Lucy has become such a person over the summer. She knows what she wants and she tells us! Lately she has taken to telling everyone where to sit, and she likes to tell people to "sit, play." Fortunately that is the height of her bossiness, so far. :) i am going to try to finish updating my videos now so you can click over to youtube and see her in action.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
It's been a while
We went on a vacation!!!!!! We left Wednesday after Dave got out of work and went to Cleveland, OH. It turned out to be only three and a half hours away and was one of our best trips ever! We just went there to chill so it was great. We visited a place called the Farm Park which is a huge farm that is open like a museum/petting zoo. Lucy (and Mommy and Daddy) got to pet sheep, goats, horses, and cows. We also saw chickens, ducks, pigs, llamas, and alpacas.
This was the dairy barn. You could watch them milk the cows and even try it yourself. Or you could just pet the cows and moo at them which is what we did. :)
Petting a sheep, we can't wait to get some of our own!
Baby goats sleeping in the food bucket.
Daddy made Lucy practice sitting on the saddle so that she can take riding lessons with him as soon as possible. (His riding teacher claims three is old enough but I don't know about that!)
We went to the zoo also but that was a bit of a let down. It was huge so we had a walk a ton between exhibits and the exhibits just weren't that nice. I think we were disappointed because the brochure made it seem a lot nicer than it was. Oh well, I didn't even take any pictures there.
The day we went to the Farm park we also ended up at a nearby beach. We had asked at the hotel front desk if there was a beach or park nearby, and the girl gave us directions for a beach that was about 15minutes away. It turned out to be the highlight of our trip! The beach was about a half mile long and 200 feet wide of nice clean sand and you could swim anywhere you wanted. It wasn't really crowded and the weather was beautiful. We ended up spending the whole afternoon there on Saturday. Lucy played in the sand, I read a book and Dave just chilled. Best vacation ever! The lake was really rough because a lot of thunderstorms had been passing through the area at night (the power went out on two different days at the hotel), but we played in the waves a bit. Lucy liked it until a wave went in her face. Here are some pictures of her in the sand:
Isn't she the prettiest beach babe you ever saw?!
Lucy digging a hole (we helped her with it).
Lucy sitting next to the hole. It was a fun hole, kept her occupied for at least an hour!
Dave chillin'.
This was the dairy barn. You could watch them milk the cows and even try it yourself. Or you could just pet the cows and moo at them which is what we did. :)
Petting a sheep, we can't wait to get some of our own!
Baby goats sleeping in the food bucket.
Daddy made Lucy practice sitting on the saddle so that she can take riding lessons with him as soon as possible. (His riding teacher claims three is old enough but I don't know about that!)
We went to the zoo also but that was a bit of a let down. It was huge so we had a walk a ton between exhibits and the exhibits just weren't that nice. I think we were disappointed because the brochure made it seem a lot nicer than it was. Oh well, I didn't even take any pictures there.
The day we went to the Farm park we also ended up at a nearby beach. We had asked at the hotel front desk if there was a beach or park nearby, and the girl gave us directions for a beach that was about 15minutes away. It turned out to be the highlight of our trip! The beach was about a half mile long and 200 feet wide of nice clean sand and you could swim anywhere you wanted. It wasn't really crowded and the weather was beautiful. We ended up spending the whole afternoon there on Saturday. Lucy played in the sand, I read a book and Dave just chilled. Best vacation ever! The lake was really rough because a lot of thunderstorms had been passing through the area at night (the power went out on two different days at the hotel), but we played in the waves a bit. Lucy liked it until a wave went in her face. Here are some pictures of her in the sand:
Isn't she the prettiest beach babe you ever saw?!
Lucy digging a hole (we helped her with it).
Lucy sitting next to the hole. It was a fun hole, kept her occupied for at least an hour!
Dave chillin'.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Very Tricky
Lucy played a trick on me today! We were playing this afternoon and I asked her "what is your name? Is your name Lucy?" She said "no" so i asked what her name was. She looked me in the eye and said "Molly"!!! Then she gave me this sly smile and laughed a little! Can you believe her?! I was very impressed and very amused!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
What a Day/Poor Me
Today was one of those days. I haven't been inspired to write much lately but today, well, I thought I would write today.
Lucy was being a bit more of a hand full than she normally is. All day long she talked and talked and talked, mostly she was saying "Dada dada dada" which used to be cute but is pretty old now. She has to look for him everywhere, if we go upstairs she goes in my bedroom to check that he isn't in bed, if we go in the backyard she goes to the fence and yells for him, in the living room she climbs up to each window to look for him. Anyway, what else happened? The dog threw up on the deck and I only found out about it when I decided to take a closer look at what Lucy was playing with, yeah gross.
Lucy likes to take all of her clothes out of her dresser drawers, I don't mind too much because it keeps her occupied while I take a shower. (I think that is when the whole day started to go downhill, I didn't get a shower this morning.) Anyway, I spent a long time this morning reorganizing her drawers and putting all of her clean clothes away. This afternoon I was very tired, so when Lucy started to take all of the clothes out of the drawer, it crushed me, I actually cried a little. (This is the pity party blog post.)
Our next disagreement is kind of funny. While I tried to make dinner Lucy kept taking her diaper off and running around the house giggling about it. The first two times were funny but the by the fifth time I had had enough. (I know she was doing it for attention, but I had to make dinner because I also knew that in fifteen minutes she would be starving and crying to eat dinner.) I even tried to reason with her about it, I told her she didn't have to wear a diaper if she stayed int he kitchen (so accidents would be easy to clean). Reasoning with a toddler got me nowhere of course! :) I had to strap her into her highchair, where she sat and pouted. I kid you not, she sat and pouted! She slid down in her seat, put her feet up on the crosspiece, and frowned at me while I finished making dinner. It was very cute! During this last fight of the afternoon I called Dave to make sure he knew he better than to be late getting home from work today and he promised he wouldn't be more than 5 minutes after 5:00. So at 5:20 when he hadn't shown up yet and the fire whistle went off you can imagine I was a little perturbed with him. He finally showed up about 6:15 and promised to take care of Lucy for the rest of the night (yup, the whole 45 minutes left before bed time). After 10 minutes of her following him around and talking nonstop he said I can see how this might be annoying!!!!!
All right I am done venting and I feel much better. I am gong to go take a bath, then guilt Dave into giving me a back rub!
Lucy was being a bit more of a hand full than she normally is. All day long she talked and talked and talked, mostly she was saying "Dada dada dada" which used to be cute but is pretty old now. She has to look for him everywhere, if we go upstairs she goes in my bedroom to check that he isn't in bed, if we go in the backyard she goes to the fence and yells for him, in the living room she climbs up to each window to look for him. Anyway, what else happened? The dog threw up on the deck and I only found out about it when I decided to take a closer look at what Lucy was playing with, yeah gross.
Lucy likes to take all of her clothes out of her dresser drawers, I don't mind too much because it keeps her occupied while I take a shower. (I think that is when the whole day started to go downhill, I didn't get a shower this morning.) Anyway, I spent a long time this morning reorganizing her drawers and putting all of her clean clothes away. This afternoon I was very tired, so when Lucy started to take all of the clothes out of the drawer, it crushed me, I actually cried a little. (This is the pity party blog post.)
Our next disagreement is kind of funny. While I tried to make dinner Lucy kept taking her diaper off and running around the house giggling about it. The first two times were funny but the by the fifth time I had had enough. (I know she was doing it for attention, but I had to make dinner because I also knew that in fifteen minutes she would be starving and crying to eat dinner.) I even tried to reason with her about it, I told her she didn't have to wear a diaper if she stayed int he kitchen (so accidents would be easy to clean). Reasoning with a toddler got me nowhere of course! :) I had to strap her into her highchair, where she sat and pouted. I kid you not, she sat and pouted! She slid down in her seat, put her feet up on the crosspiece, and frowned at me while I finished making dinner. It was very cute! During this last fight of the afternoon I called Dave to make sure he knew he better than to be late getting home from work today and he promised he wouldn't be more than 5 minutes after 5:00. So at 5:20 when he hadn't shown up yet and the fire whistle went off you can imagine I was a little perturbed with him. He finally showed up about 6:15 and promised to take care of Lucy for the rest of the night (yup, the whole 45 minutes left before bed time). After 10 minutes of her following him around and talking nonstop he said I can see how this might be annoying!!!!!
All right I am done venting and I feel much better. I am gong to go take a bath, then guilt Dave into giving me a back rub!
Friday, July 25, 2008
Goodbye
We said goodbye to Uncle Bob yesterday. Here is one of my favorite pictures of him.
I miss him very much!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
The Circus!
The most exciting thing ever happened yesterday! The circus came to town! The exciting part though is that they ordered diesel from us and when they went to deliver it, the truck got stuck, so an elephant helped pull it out!!!
Isn't that cool! Later that afternoon we went to the circus and Lucy loved it! I thought she would be bored easily by it, but she watched almost all of it. Kim and Oma went with us and we met Ben, Melissa and Haley there. At one point Lucy poked Ben in the arm until he moved over and sat in the aisle so Lucy could sit in his spot next to Haley.
Haley would take Lucy's hands and clap them for her. They are so cute together because Lucy actually plays with Haley now.
It was very hot out so Lucy and I shared a snow cone, her first one. She really enjoyed it and turned her mouth blue.
Kim might run away and joined the circus so I am keeping an eye on her. :)
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