The Fifteenth Month

I'm going to continue Lucy's "monthly posts" at less frequent intervals. Also she starts swimming lessons in a couple weeks, check back for pictures :)

Beego, as we often call her, is fifteen months old now. 

Lucy looking sweet as ever in the adorable outfit that her grandma handmade for her!

 

She is so different than she was three months ago. Her imagination has really bloomed. She loves cars and things with wheels. She'll lay on the floor and roll a car around while saying "Vvvroom vroom". She drinks pretend tea and eats pretend food.

She loves hats and shoes. Today she placed a recieving blanket on her head and declared "Hat!" then continued to play with her toys with that blanket on her head. Shoes are probably one of her favorite things . She gets excited to put her shoes on and is fascinated by everyone elses shoes as well. She nearly stole another little girl's shoes at the park today. Mable's broken-in pink and white velcro sneakers. She really thought she needed them guys.

Yesterday she walked back and forth in the living room with a pair of my heels on. I helped her put them on, but I had no idea that she would actually be able walk in them. She was beaming. "SHHHoes!"

Watching the ducks in the pond.

She enjoys words that contain an SH right now. SHoes, fiSH, BruSH, waSH, SHut. You get the idea.

"Sit" is her all time favorite word right now though. It applies to so many things in her life. She sits on a lot of things. The highchair, the potty, the carseat, swings, slides, the couch, her bike, the stroller, the shopping cart. All those things have been renamed "sit" for us. Seriously folks, all day I hear "SIT SIT SIT!" and sometimes it sounds like a certain bad word. :)

If you walk past us in the grocery store Lucille is probaby going to say hi to you. If you ignore her, she'll shout "HI!" even louder, in case you couldn't hear it before. Then she acts super shy when people actually respond.

She grabs her purse or throws on the strap of Michaels messenger bag on and walks to the front door. "Bye!" she says. She can also reach the handle to our front door and unlock it. Which is scary. I've been keeping it the chain latched.

Dogs are her number one favorite thing right now. Real dogs, dogs in books, stuffed animal dogs, puzzle piece dogs. She LOVES them. She has two favorite stuffed animal dogs that get taken almost everywhere these days.



Waving at a dog nearby....

She knows what the bear says: Grrrrr. She knows what the dog says: Arf arf arf.  She knows what the cat says: Mew mew mew. If you ask her what the fish says she makes little quite popping noises with her lips.

She makes the funniest noise with her tongue for water. Try saying ladle repeatedly with your tongue out of your mouth. Kind of like that.

She is an amazing, beautiful, and smart little thing that makes our days brighter! I can't get over how much I love that baby girl.  I have so much fun with her.

What does fifteen month old Lucille enjoy?

Being outside 

Watching other kids at the park

Grooving to music

Eating bananas, peanutbutter sandwiches, smoothies, and cheese

Giving kisses and squeezes (hugs)

Playing with ice cubes

Sliding down slides

Climbing EVERYTHING

Singing Itsy Bitsy Spider

 Digging through the kitchen drawers and cabinets
Playing in sand

Cannon Beach Fun!

Our family was able to spend the first half of this week at Cannon beach and it was lovely. It was Lucille first real trip to the beach and she had a great time!

Family pictures at the caves!

When is was too chilly or windy (or when the little lady was too sleepy), she happily hung out in the ergo zipped up underneath daddy's jacket. She even napped like that a couple times!

Celebrating 52 years of marriage!

When we were there my grandparents celebrated their 52nd Anniversary! They are the best great grandparents to Lucille, we're so blessed to have them in our lives!

Maria and Alyssa!

Aunt Maria and Cousin Alyssa were up visiting from Arizona, so we were lucky to spend some beach time with them too!

Lucy playing in the sand with some of her favorite people!

Lucille LOVED the sand. She dug in it with her shovel and then would try to put it in her bucket.... or she would just toss it. We all got a little sandy. :)

Jumping some waves with daddy!

She might have loved the water more than the sand.... maybe. :) She would have walked right into the ocean if we would have let her! She didn't want to stop even though she was getting really chilly.

Warming up a bit!

 Lucille wanted to joins us for game time every night and was very reluctant to go to sleep. Bless her sweet heart. I think her favorite game was charades... we got a few giggles while she watched us be silly! My favorite game was Bananagrams -- where has this game been all my life???? Fun! Michael says his favorite was golf because everyone played. :)

Lucille collecting shells and being the center of attention. She is already good at multitasking.

Michael and I can't wait to go back to the beach next year!

The Twelfth Month

Did you know that my baby is one now? She is!  Since Lucy has turned one she has been to the zoo, gone hiking with her godmother, been camping, splashed her feet in an icy cold river, and tried out her Hello Kitty pool.

I waited to post until we visited Dr. K for her check-up so I could share her stats. Here they are:

 

Weight: 16 lbs 10 oz

Height: 28.75 inches







We kicked off her second year of life with a big birthday party. Grandma made the decorations, a good friend made her the most amazing cakes, and Lucy had a great day with friends and family.

Our little baby is growing up fast! She is learning words fast, but for the past few weeks her favorite thing to say is "All done!"

She can practically run now, but she has tiny feet! The doctor said she has the smallest walking feet she has ever seen. She is also quite the climber. :)

She eats everything these days, some of her newest foods are grilled shrimp, tomato soup, french toast, dried apricots, and steak.

Grandma really knows how to make her laugh! Grandma can nearly make her fall over laughing.

What does twelve month old Lucille enjoy?

Playing in the dirt!

Smelling flowers

Playing in the ball pit

Peek-a-boo in her tunnel

Taking naps in the Ergo

Playing with Annabelle

Being cheesy for cameras

Dancing with mommy and daddy

 

The Nursery

I discovered today that Lucille can climb down the stairs without help. I guess that is a good thing because we're about to be spending a lot of time at her grandparents' house and they have more stairs than we do. Also, she been giving me kisses all day. She is sweeter than sugar.

Summer vacation is nearly here and we are really excited to have a few months packed full of family time, beach time, and camping time! I'm sure at some point, hopefully closer to the beginning of fall term, that I'm going to miss our home here. My favorite room in the house is definitely Lucille's nursery.



Heart garland and Mobile- Handmade by Grandma
Dresser - Uptown Market Antiques
Bookshelves - "spice racks" from Ikea
Framed Paintings - Frames from Target, Paintings were a gift

I usually spend mornings in here with Lucy. Rocking in the rocking chair. Reading books to her. Dancing to silly songs that her toys play.

Shelf - Hung in my room when I was a baby :)
Dress - Etsy
 

It  is a good place to just let her play if I need to just, you know, avoid doing the dishes for a while. :)

I never really set up her nursery in North Carolina. We were set to move only two months after her arrival, so I never put much thought into it. It was exciting to finally set it up here.

One of my favorite additions to her room is the little shadowbox containing little mementos of her birthday. We found it at an antique store in Oregon before she was born and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. The hospital hat just barely fit in one of those squares though!

The Eleventh Month

Making a mess with her toys!

Lucille is eleven months old now! Do you want to know what Lucille learned to do since I posted last?

She learned how to WALK!

Dragging her blankie around.

 

My sweet girl can walk. She has been taking unassisted steps since she was about nine months old and we've been waiting for the walking to start since then. I guess she needed some time to build up her courage. :)
 

Before Monday she hadn't taken more than five steps in a row and then she just took off! She still crawls, but walking is starting to take over as her main mode of movement!
 

Her new crazy smile!

 

She is really such a joy to spend everyday with. She is becoming quite the little helper. She helps clean up after meals by placing her leftover food on a plate. If she finds something she shouldn't have and I ask her if I can have it, she'll bring it to me!

 

She loves to help mommy do laundry. I'll hand her something from the washing machine and she'll put it in the dryer for me. She'll even unload the dryer into the laundry basket. Well, she can't exactly reach all the way to the back of the dryer yet, but she gets what she can reach! :)

 

 She has been trying out new foods lately. Salmon, spinach and chicken enchiladas, spaghetti, chili, coconut rice. She likes celery, artichokes, and lettuce. She loves strawberries, oranges, and raisins. Evidently if you make "cookies" with mashed bananas and rolled oats, it is the best thing ever. I mean, you should try it. Michael and I ate them too.

Playing with her books :)

What does eleven month old Lucille enjoy?

Dancing to music

Going outside

Laughing at daddy

Being cheesy for cameras

Helping mommy clean the house

Taking naps

WALKING!!!!

Reading her books

Climbing into her wagon with all her toys

Looking out the window

 

Our Easter Sunday

Our Easter Sunday was fun and calm and simple. We had family time. We ate good food.

We walked to the park that has Lucy's favorite swings. It is a mile away, but she loves to swing. We go almost everyday now that it isn't snowing anymore. She slouches way down in the swing when it is time to leave, to make it hard to pick her up. Adorable. 

Now that I think about it, I spent a good amount of the day cooking, but it was broken up through the day. I made pot roast. I never ever cook beef, so I pretty much had no idea what I was doing. Michael was happy about it, which is all I really cared about. In the morning I pan seared it - - the organic, local, grass fed roast. Then I threw into the crock pot, using this recipe. Easy. Michael made breakfast for us while I did that. Dutch babies with strawberries...

During nap time I made the deviled eggs, an essential Easter dish... I mean, we had to do something with the eggs we dyed. We used "natural" dyes this year, which gave us good earthy looking eggs. It was a nice change and we had fun because we weren't sure if it was going to work or not! Feast your eyes on our masterpieces (and what they were dyed with)....

The beet stained eggs were completely purple, right down to the edge of the yolk.

Here's our sweet girl up from her nap...

Ready to head to the park in her Easter dress. :)

The park was packed by the way. Apparently when the weather starts to get decent again, the barely dressed college students flock to parks. Luckily, they find it difficult to use the baby swings.

The Tenth Month

My blog has pretty much turned into the Lucy blog. I'm okay with that. I hope you are too. One day I'll be glad that I've taken the time to write down a little bit about her each month while she is growing so quickly. And holy moly is she growing!

My baby is ten months old now. Only two months away from a whole year! I really need to get to party planning. :)

We had a fun day for her ten month birthday. We went to the Co-op in Moscow for brunch and grocery shopping. We also picked out her Easter basket while we were there.

After that, we headed to the park, one of her favorite places!

She enjoys the swing a lot more than she used to! We tried out one of the little baby slides this time. She was all smiles the whole time. It was a bit chilly with the wind so Michael put her in his jacket when we were walking around. Lucky girl.

We were able to spend all last week in our home town for Michael's spring break and while we were there Lucille had a check-up. She now weighs 15 pounds and 15 ounces. According to the doctor she is healthy and reaching milestones early!

Her favorite foods are oranges, raisins, cucumbers, and kamut puffs (which are basically sugar smacks with nothing on them). She is getting pretty good at drinking water out of open cups and with straws.

She now can take two steps in a row! Yay! And she can stand up in the middle of the floor without using anything to pull herself up with.  She is starting to repeat more words, but we aren't sure if she really understands what they mean. Common words for her right now are mama, dada, up, and hello.

What does ten month old Lucille enjoy?

Cuddling with mommy in the morning (She started being extra cuddly this past month. I love it.)

Playing outside

Meal Times

Swimming in the tub

Toys that roll

Blanket forts and boxes (I think she would totally love one of those kid tunnels!)

Throwing toys out of her wagon

Stealing socks from the dryer and putting them in her wagon

Playing peek-a-boo (She likes to initiate it, she'll hold a blanket in front of her face and move it away really fast. Then you have to say 'boo' because that is how it works)

Brushing her teeth

 

 

The Ninth Month

My little Lucy baby is nine months old now. She is such a sweetheart. She is our little sidekick and we love her so much.

She isn't walking yet, she'll take a single step to get to something close, but still prefers crawling. She is really fast now!

We still go for walks a few times a weeks on campus, even though it rarely gets out of the 30s. Lucille usually is all bundled up and in the Ergo underneath Michael's coat. We had a nicer day earlier this month and Lucille got to test out the grass for the first time! She had fun exploring. :)

She also got a little grass time during this walk. We're still trying to teach her that leaves aren't food. Needless to say, she isn't a picky eater.

One of her top teeth just poked through her gums last week and I think another one isn't too far behind. She's a tough little cookie when is comes to teething, she mostly just wants to be held a bit more. I'm not going to complain about that, she is so busy these days that I never get as many cuddles as I want from her. :)

I can't believe she used to be so tiny! We're always saying, "Look how big she is getting!"

Her new thing is pointing at everything. She always seems to have her index finger pointing at something these days.

 

What does nine month old Lucille enjoy?

Checking out what is in the refrigerator

Climbing (scary)

Reading books (The same ones over and over. We know them by heart.)

"Swimming" in the bathtub

Eating! (We had this for dinner a few nights ago and she loved it.)

Turning the air purifier on and off

Stealing our cell phones

Hanging out in the Ergo (She gets so excited when we put it on!)