Videos from Florida

Here are the videos I promised to post.


This was a place we stopped to eat in New Orleans. It was yummy! Lucy couldn't et enough and would let go of the hat! New Orleans was a cool place, but we didn't have to to really explore. We will have to do another trip just to there.


This is when Grant got in a fight with a plant. We just got into the condo and put him down to be able to make dinner and get things settled in. Boy did he have fun! I think the plant won though.


Here are 30 seconds of complete bliss. This what the entire week looked like.

Lucy and Dave played a little one on one. She loved being out there and just playing around with her dad.

Lucy wanted to beat on the table. It took several attempts but we finally got some of her drumming skills on video.

Destin, Florida

Two weeks ago Dave and I packed up the kids and headed to Destin, Florida. It is a really cool place. We rented a condo an entire week spent all day on the beach or by the pool. We tried to be good about sunscreen and it paid off. No one got sunburned! Lucy developed some great tan lines and all of my freckles came out. It looks like my shoulders are rusting. Lucy loved playing in the sand and building castles. Both kids were terrified of the water. I was okay with that, that meant Dave and I didn't have to run in after them! Here are some pictures from the trip. I will post again with some videos a little later.

This is where we stayed

Grant discovered how much he loves napkins

Lucy couldn't get enough of the sugar packets

Grant chillin' on the beach

Dianna and Lucy building sand castles

Dave and Lucy building sand castles

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.