8 months old!

Well, it's happened again. Another month has gone by, and Baby Girl continues to grow and get cuter and cuter. She seems to have grown up a lot this past month, and she is at such a fun age.

Lucy started clapping on her own this month. I remember trying to teach Josh how to clap when he was a baby. For some reason, I thought he should be clapping (I probably read it in a book somewhere) and for a month, I would clap his hands together before he would do it himself. So I was a bit surprised when Lucy started clapping all by herself. She loves clapping. She'll be sitting in her high chair while I get her food ready and start clapping, and we all cheer along with her. She thinks she's pretty hot stuff.

The army crawl is now her preferred method of travel. She's getting pretty quick, too. Sometimes she'll get up on her hands and knees and move her hands and knees forward a couple times, but then she falls back down to her stomach and goes back to the army crawl. She'll be crawling up on her hands and knees soon enough, I think.


Lucy is perfectly content to crawl and roll around the house, playing with whatever she happens to come across in her travels. Sometimes while she's crawling about, she'll roll over onto her side and slap her leg like she just heard a funny joke. It's very cute.


She also like to follow Josh around and try to play with him and his toys.

























And sometimes she plays so hard she tuckers herself right out.


Lucy loves her Daddy. She gets so excited when he gets home from work, and if it's a night he has to go to his second job delivery pizzas, she cries when he has to leave again. She's getting to the age where she understands when Mommy and Daddy aren't around, and that is not OK with her. I left Josh and Lucy with a friend the other night so I could go to a church meeting, and Lucy was not happy that I was leaving. She did not approve of that course of action. It's nice to be missed, but it's not fun leaving behind a crying baby.

Baby Girl is getting her two front top teeth in. I think Josh had twice as many teeth at this age, so it's been different having to wait for Lucy's teeth to come in.





























































We are very blessed to have such a good Baby Girl. She eats well, entertains herself well, likes to play with her brother, sleeps well, hardly ever cries, laughs and smiles often, and is just so much fun to have in our family! How did we get so lucky?

I Have No Idea What Happened

Really.

I was blending up some baby food, everything was blended up nicely, I was moving to put the spatula down and get some containers, and out of the blue, food was being thrown everywhere.


I just stood there for a full minute, staring, dumbfounded, at the scene now before me. My thoughts started racing, including but not limited to: are you serious?...all that food wasted...what the aitch just happened?...are you kidding me??...how am I going to clean all this up?...argh...blergh...but...but...WHAT???


It was on the ceiling.


It was on the floor. Note the spatula that flew across the room and landed on the floor.


It was on the counters and cupboards.


It was on me.

I managed to pull myself out of my disbelief and get to work cleaning it up. Well, most of it. There's still some food stuck on the ceiling. I'll tackle that tomorrow. There was also some food left in the blender, so I was able to salvage a little bit of the baby food. Peas, carrots and spinach. Mmmmm. Lucy had it tonight for dinner and she loved it. So all in all, a successful afternoon :)

At least that's what I keep telling myself. Maybe I'll believe it tomorrow.

Baby Girl on the Move

Here is a video I took yesterday of Lucy using her new army crawl talents. I am just starting to fully understand just how much havoc is about to be wreaked. She loves to crawl over to where ever Josh is and try to play with whatever he is playing with, which is annoying to Josh sometimes. Such a good little sister :) I see lessons about sharing in our near future...

Bother!

Adam here. For quite a while now, Josh has been completely enamored with Thomas the Tank Engine. Thanks to Netflix Watch Instantly, he can see dozens of different Thomas and Friends DVDs whenever he wants. Which is pretty much all the time. Often, he will grab the remote, place it in Lisa's or my hand, and whisper "choo, choo."

For anyone who has not watched an unhealthy amount of Thomas, the show itself is pretty boring. I can't really figure out why little kids love it so much. Maybe it is just the fact that they are all model trains and just about every little boy in the world loves model trains and cars and such.

Anyway, Thomas gets annoyed and frustrated very easily on the show, at which point he makes a face and then says, "Bother!"

Josh recently started repeating the "Bother!" whenever it happens on screen, so I hit upon an idea. Whenever Josh starts to get mad about something or if he bonks his head on the table or whatever, I just say to him, "Bother!" and he repeats it. This often heads off his complaints or crying at the pass, and then he goes on with whatever he was doing.

I think it is cute and useful, but I wonder just how long it will work. Hopefully until he is 13 or 14.

7 months old!

I'm a little late in getting this post out, but Lucy turned 7 months old about a week and a half ago. Her little personality continues to grow and develop and she is so much fun to have in our family. She is pretty adept at getting anywhere she wants to go. Her new trick now is to push herself onto her hands and knees and rock back and forth. If she tries to move one of her legs forward, she throws herself off balance and collapses to the ground, and then she goes for the army crawl, pushing with her feet and dragging herself forward a little bit. She doesn't army crawl very far, though. If she really wants to travel some distance, she resorts to the tried and true method of rolling there.

Another one of her new favorite things is shaking her head. I don't know where she picked that up from, but she decided it's a pretty fun thing to do. Sometimes I'll nod my head at her, and she'll stare and me for a second and then shake her head back at me. This could go on for minutes at a time, and it's hilarious to Adam and myself. She is just so darn cute when she's being contrary.

This past month we've started her on some fruits and veggies. This time around I'm making the baby food by steaming and pureeing the veggies in the food processor and pureeing canned fruits in the blender. So far we've tried green beans, pears, carrots, applesauce, peas and peaches. And we've ventured into oatmeal, too, to complement the rice cereal she's been eating for a few months now. She seems to like everything she's tried so far, so that's a plus. She can also hold her bottle all by herself, which is really cool.

Little Lucy still babbles up a storm and loves to say, "dadadadadadadada." She also must have aspirations to be the Olympic champion of chewing on things because she practices ALL THE TIME. She LOVES to use her two little chompers. We keep waiting for more to show up, but nothing yet. She is the master of finding shoes to chew on.






We love her!