Another haircut

Last weekend Lucy and I went to GranJan's for haircuts...I needed a major trim and she needed the hair around her ears cleaned up...she was in front of the tv and had some lunch while she got the cut so she basically didn't even know she was getting her hair cut...

Lookin' good, Lucy girl!

Lucy proudly presents...

...the newest members of her giraffe family!

Thanks to Santa and some of his helper elves, we have 6 new giraffes...and we love them all!
The most amazing thing is - none of them are repeats of giraffes we already had!

What can Lucy do now?

Lucy can sit on her little giraffe from cousin Amy and go on rides while mom or dad push...she loves it when we say "wheeeee!" as we roll from the living room ("toy town") to the dining room ("diaper town" since that's where the changing table is). She also loves riding her alphabet train from Grandma and Grandpa Meyers between towns.
The train has an attached caboose and she can stick alphabet blocks in the train and shoot them over to the caboose - she's become a pro at this and Dave and I are convinced she's the smartest baby in the universe!
She's got a musical stage from Grandma Terry and we swear she starts to dance when the music comes on! She'll be standing up at it and presses a button to get the music going and her little knees will bend over and over!
Occasionally if we say "yay Lucy!!" she'll clap her hands!!
She definitely knows her name but is also incredibly gifted at ignoring you when you call it. I always say, "She changed her name and she won't look at us until we correctly guess what the new name is..."
She got her first two teeth (bottom front) right around Halloween and no more have popped up yet but she's been expanding her menu lately. She's had lunch meat (turkey and ham) and pieces of cheese, peas and carrots and peaches and bananas - all in their true form rather than puréed. She loves sucking salt off of pretzel rods...and lately she's really in to feeding herself...if I try to spoon feed her applesauce, she turns her head from me and grabs the spoon away to do it herself! Such a big girl!
She can pull herself from sitting to standing onto just about anything she wants to...if she wants to stand, she can make it happen...she cruises the length of the couch, all over her bedroom and the takes mom and dad on walks (and probably the babysitters, too!) all day long! She holds our hands and has lately been letting go of one hand and trying to walk without as much help. My granny got her a push-walk toy and she walks with that sometimes...she's very proud of herself when she does this!
She can easily get from sitting to being on her belly and each time she does this, we're convinced she's about to start crawling - it really looks like it! She has no interest in crawling and is oblivious to how close she is to doing so...maybe she can't be bothered with crawling and only wants to walk?

And Christmas 2011 comes to a close...

We had our final Christmas celebration at GranJan's on Thursday...we were so happy everyone could be there that it was worth the wait (for Uncle Jeff to be in town and Auntie Em to be off work)!

Uncle Jason prepared a delicious feast which we all enjoyed...but soon it was present time!

Lucy got a wagon, which she loved so much she opened most of her gifts from inside it!

She especially loved the telephone from Uncle Jeff & Auntie Em! She spent a lot of time making calls before opening any more gifts...


Opening gifts is very tiring! Lucy is still a nap time snob...preferring to do most of her napping in her swing...we tried a snooze earlier in the day in the pack-n-play upstairs but she slept for less than a half hour...but later, while playing in her wagon, she really started to lean - couldn't keep that little head up much longer! We made a little bed out of it for her and she was a goner...she slept in that thing for a couple of hours!

Who ever heard of a Lucy-in-a-box?!

Just when she was getting good at gift wrapping...Christmas is over?!?

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!
We all stayed home for New Year's Eve...Lucy stayed on schedule and went to bed at her regular time and Dave and I played games (my new game - Logos) and watched New Year's Rockin' Eve...we missed everyone at bowling this year (which is what we've done for the past several years) but it was a really nice time at home, too! We went up to Lucy's room at midnight (just to look at her, whisper to her that we loved her and I touched her hand...we did NOT wake her up!) and it was perfect!

Dave and I were both off for about a week and a half and we all got really used to it! It was quite painful waking up to an alarm this morning (an actual alarm, not just the Lucy sounds coming from the monitor) and getting ready for work...we let Lucy sleep until the last minute and basically transferred her from bed to the carseat...but she still passed out dirty looks! She's not a fan of waking (or being awakened) before the sun!

The shirt says it all...

4 Christmases

I can only upload five pics at a time and then they get all out of order...so these are not in order of event but I *think* I have the pictures grouped together by event...
On Friday we went to Grandma and Grandpa Meyers' house...fun times! Lucy got plenty of gifts and got to share with cousin Alli and play, play, play!
On Saturday - Christmas Eve - Lucy went with mom and dad to Bob Evans! It's their tradition and now Lucy gets to be a part of it, too! She had fun looking at the menu and even though she packed her own food, she had fun trying eggs and gravy from daddy's plate!
I make baby food for her and one of the latest food I've made are potatoes...I've been surprised that she seems to really enjoy them because they're so bland! On Saturday Lucy tried them with daddy's sausage gravy and now that she knows what she's been missing, she may never want to eat plain potatoes again!
Christmas Day was busy but wonderful! Lucy woke up...and Santa had come! We got to open gifts, play with new toys and take a snooze but then it was time to go to church with Great Grandma Herman. After that, we went to visit Great Grandma Meyers...it was the first time being at her condo and we had a lot of exploring to do! Next we went to Grandma Terry's house and spent the rest of the day there! She spoils Lucy! It was great to see her Godmother, Aunt Amy, too! And Lucy was definitely happy to see her friends Tracey, Eric, Sarah and Jackson! She's missed them!


Here we are at Great Granny's house! Lucy's looking oh-so-cute in her candy cane jumper and snowman tights from GranJan!


Little bit of love for the Godfather, Uncle Jason!

She can't believe a baby would actually play *inside* an exersaucer! All Lucy wants to do these days is walk around the *outside* of them! But she had fun playing with Alex and Tyler and all of mommy's other cousin's kids at Uncle Steve & Aunt Debbie's house.

Here we are at Grandma Terry's house opening gifts...she's become an old pro! She was more interested in eating the paper after making a couple of tiny tears off the first gift she opened but she got the hang of it!

Lucy is a carnivore! I've given her meat a couple of times now and she really likes it! I just tear up pieces of lunch meat and she shovels it in quite nicely! Here she is at Grandma's getting ready to eat some turkey!

These are just a couple of cute pics I took at home over the past week...Santa's little helper just cannot seem to keep that tongue in her mouth! Santa's Little Helper outfit came from St. Nick at Grandma Terry's house and the gingerbread shirt came from GranJan, mid shopping trip because Lucy "needed" a new shirt. The three of us were at the mall and GranJan let her chew on her sock...soon it was far too wet to put back on her foot so we went to buy socks...we found some cute gingerbread man socks and since there was a shirt to match...she NEEDED IT!

Before we went to Grandma and Grandpa Meyers' house, Lucy posed for some pics with daddy to try to get a good shot of the whole outfit...pretty little dress from Old Navy with snowflake tights and a a little ivory flower in her hair...gorgeous!

Lucy loves playing with her Little People nativity scene Grandpa and GranJan gave her! She even knows the angel goes on top!

Lucy got an alphabet choo-choo train that she and Alli had a lot of fun with! Now that we have it home, it's become a favorite toy and we like to ride the train wherever we need to go!

We have one last Christmas tomorrow at Grandpa and GranJan's house! Stay tuned for photos and details!

We hope everyone had as magical a Christmas as we did!

Santa came!

When we got home from Granny's on Christmas Eve, we put Lucy to bed...then it was time for mom and dad to play Santa! Dave teared up once all was in place and said, "This is such a good feeling! I can totally understand why mom's and dad's make up Santa!"
From the looks of it, Lucy was a very good girl this year!

Mommy and Lucy both got iPhones from daddy! Lucy got the 4S and I got the Fisher Price...but I asked if she wanted to trade and she said yes!

Lucy got a couple of ball poppers...we know they will be lots of fun for her but for now, they just make her eyes get real big!

She got a baby doll, a new bag that says "Lucy's stuff" filled with books, and her very own CD player!