Saturday, October 31, 2009

Kimmie's Birthday

This week was Kimmie's (Lucy's sitter) birthday. It's very Kimmie to make signs for special occasions, so Lucy had a sign to celebrate.

We were only half kidding.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Mommy's Little Helper

Lucy has discovered the dishwasher, and in just a short time has become adept at opening and unloading it. Unfortunately for us, she can't yet reach most of the cupboards to put away the dishes she pulls out.


Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Lucy Reads

Lucy reads, reads and then reads some more. Afternoons are filled with her bringing books to us, asking us to read them to her. She can spend an hour pulling books out of her bookshelf and flipping through them by herself. She reads to herself (and laughs) in the car. It's no secret that Eric and I are both readers ourselves, but this here is more than I would ever have thought possible. Let's hope she keeps it up.

Her bookshelf in the beginnings of a reading marathon. She ends up sitting on a pretty big pile of books by the end.

Lucy and Daddy sharing a book before bedtime.

Lucy reading in her swing. Yes, this is the baby swing she would NOT use as an infant (though I tried regularly). Now that she's well past the weight limit but able to climb in and out herself, she loves it.

Lucy sharing a book with Aunt Grace. Everyone's a sucker when you're a cute one-year-old!

Some of her other reading pleasures are the newspaper ...

... and sudoku. As long as it has pages, she's in.

Oh yeah, can I mention she just learned to work the remote too? Note, however, while she watches TV she's still got a book to read during the commercials. That's my girl!

Friday, October 9, 2009

Happy Birthday to Me

31 this year, which seems awful hard to believe. And I think I look a little too happy to be quite so old ... but then, I've got a lot to smile about.

Eric and Lucy spent quite a while playing with my balloons, which have come home with us and still sit in our living room where Lucy plays with them just about every day. It's amazing what a toy like a balloon will do to keep a one-year-old busy.

Grace's birthday falls just four days after mine, so since she and Ryan have been together we've been lucky enough to share our birthdays.

Mmmmm, cake.

And I wasn't the only one who was looking forward to cake. Lucy sat like this with her hands folded on her tray for 10 minutes while we sang and cut and served cake. So patient!

Still patient, through a little teasing by Grandpa.

Still patient while Grandma cuts the cake for us.


Still patient, still waiting. This might be the longest Lucy has ever sat in one place without screaming and fighting to escape. Amazing.

Judging by the cake aftermath, I'd say it was worth the wait. Actually, Lucy ate ice cream and cake at lunch, and ice cream again at dinner. She was nuts about going to bed, didn't even show signs of being tired until about 10, when I finally put her upstairs and let her cry before sleeping. Yikes! All the excitement of a birthday plus all the sugar of the cake made it a hard evening, but well worth it to spend the time with family celebrating a couple of birthdays, especially since Ryan and Grace moving to Minnesota this week.

We finished off the festivities with a girls night on the town. It's been a while since that's happened. We danced the night away, old lady or no!