I planned to be strong (like I was at 6 months - I only got the $10 deal + 1 print - of her in the giraffe suit, of course - and got out of there with an envelope stuffed full of prints for only around $20 and NOT like I was at 3 months when I practically spent the equivalent of a car payment). And while I may have spent a bit more than $20 this month, I am still very pleased with myself and even more pleased with the experience and the photos.
Despite buying up so many prints at 3 months, the experience was not a good one...the photographer was super annoying and pushy and seemed to take it personally when I eliminated images from my shopping cart. She didn't listen to me and we were there for-ev- er!
This time, I told the photographer that I only planned to buy one print of her in the giraffe suit (success!) and that she didn't need to take a million pics...and she listened! Yay! She only took photos for about 3 minutes of her in that suit and announced that she thought she had some really good choices for me (she did! In fact, I almost bought more than one print of her in the suit!) and told me to change her clothes so we could move on. She totally worked with Lucy...I know she was dying to get a pic of Lucy with her back to us, turning to look over her shoulder (like a pic we got at 6 months) but when I put L down, she crawled away...she went with it instead of forcing me to "re-pose" her and my favorite photo ended up being of the little escape artist crawling away!With some perfect timing, GranJan and Grandpa showed up to hang with Lucy (and her bowl of Cheerios!) while I chose pictures and checked out. Grandpa had a good laugh at Lucy when he told her to, "Just take one," of the Cheerios...I'm told she obeyed - the first time...then she grabbed fistfuls (that's my girl!)...once we had our photos and Grandpa had gone home, GranJan took us to dinner...yay for Frisch's! Lucy got her favorite - spaghetti - and showed GranJan how good she is at shredding napkins.
Saturday morning = first swimming lesson! I had gotten her a swimsuit for a couple of bucks on clearance at Old Navy at the end of last summer and it fit perfectly! We packed our beach bag and headed out soon after waking up and eating breakfast. Here they are entering the pool...already loving it! Sadly, daddy won't be able to come every week because he'll have track meets so he got in the pool with her this first week. Silly daddy thought she'd freak out and cry "mamamamama" the whole time but I knew she'd love it...I wore my suit just in case but she was totally fine with me playing poolside photographer!
When we first signed up and saw that class is only 30 minutes per session, I was surprised, thinking that wasn't very long...turns out, it's plenty long enough! She really did like it, but by the end, my girl was sleeeeeeepy...
During class, they sang songs and floated on their backs...
They also floated around on their tummies and did some real swimming! Lucy loves to kick in the tub (and anywhere, really...especially the grocery cart, but anytime I say "kick-kick-kick" she starts flailing those legs like a crazy person) but daddy said she wouldn't kick in the pool...must have been a bit overwhelmed!
At one point, they passed out ping pong balls...they were supposed to blow on the ball to make it move...to get them used to blowing water out instead of sucking it in. This was waaaaay beyond Lucy girl (and most of her classmates) and instead, she wanted to put the ball in her mouth...but at the end of that lesson, the teacher collected the balls and I was so proud of my girl - she put the ball right back in the box when the teacher walked around!
They had to hold onto the side of the pool and the idea was to get the babies used to holding on all by themselves...daddy had a bit too much faith in Lala and let her go...she did not have a good grip...she did go under water (and come up coughing and crying a bit - but she quickly recovered and got over it). Soon enough she was practicing Humpty Dumpty and "falling" back into the pool with the rest of the class.
Lucy loves swimming with her daddy!
The rest of the weekend was nice, too...I had a birthday date with Ashley (she's 15!!) so Lucy soaked up some Saturday time with dad.
Yesterday us girls went to a bridal shower for my cousin Mikey's wife, Holly...little Rachel is set to be born the day after Lucy's 1st birthday! She napped on the way to and from but the party was in the heart of nap time so she wasn't feeling too outgoing but she still enjoyed herself - lots to look at!
11 month stats post is next!
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