Lucy being Lucy

Lucy is now in love with Clifford the Big Red Dog and Maisy Mouse. She can't get enough of their shows. It's nice that their episodes or 5-15 minutes long so I can put a few on and not feel like she is watching tv all day. She really likes to read. Her favorite books are again Clifford and Maisy, but she also loves the Little Critter books by Mercer Mayer. She can't get enough of them. She always says books, books, and read, read while holding a stack of them.

Here are some recent videos and a picture of Lucy. I don't seem to use the camera very often. We are going on a trip soon and will hopefully use it more than!

Grant Update

Grant is growing in leaps and bounds. Literally! He is growing 2 inches a month. He jumped from the 20% to the 60% in length. Because he s growing so much he is eating so much. We have started him on solids to help with that. He doesn't seem to fully love the rice cereal but he does seem to tolerate it. Hopefully he will start to enjoy it and eat more than a tablespoon at a time. He is still our happy baby. He seems to giggle over everything. Just changing his clothes and he laughs. (The babysitter has witnessed this so I am not making it up!) He has started to sleep through the night which is fantastic but he doesn't seem to want to nap well. During the day he seems to yo-yo back and forth awake an hour asleep an hour. It sure makes getting things done rather difficult! But that is the life to 2 kids right?

Tornado!

This was the view from my house.

Talk about ominous!


This was the view from Dave's work.


He was considerably closer to the action. Luckily there was no damage by our house and in the path of the tornado there wasn't too much damage. As far as I have heard there were barely, if any, injuries.

Lucy is TWO!!

Lucy turned two on Saturday. We tried to make it a day for her. We went to the mall and let her play on the slides there as long as she wanted. We took her home for a much needed nap and then started celebrating. Lucy got lots of wonderful presents and ate some yummy cake. (Which I made from scratch including the fondant!) We then went back to the mall to let her ride the carousel for the first time. She loved to watch it, but as soon as Dave got on with her she freaked out. It was not a good experience. Oh well, maybe next year! Her good buddy, Zack came over later that night and she had a ball playing with him.

Lucy is now 34 inches tall (55%), weighs 26 lbs (33%), and still wearing a 18 months clothes. She has moved into some 24 month clothes, but that little waist and big thighs sure make it tough to find pants that fit properly. I have a feeling it will be something to deal with all her life, oh well!

Thanks everyone for the cards and gifts. Lucy loves it all and plays with all of her new toys like they are the only ones we own! She had a great day!

Here are pictures and videos from her birthday.