Happy Birthday Chad

Chad had his 31st birthday. He got new skis and a new job! The job that hes been wanting for, for a very long time. Had a nice quiet dinner at home, and chocolate chip cookie dough cup cakes.

Lucy Days

Lucy is always playing in my baking cupboard. Whenever I am in the kitchen for longer periods of time she can be found there taking things out and putting them back, or taking everything out so she can climb in. She also just discovered that she can open drawers and has taken over the bottom junk drawer as her own, she likes to climb into it and throw everything out of it. So these two areas of my kitchen are Lucy proof.
I was making dinner and ran to the bathroom for a minuet. When I came back I found Lucy stuffing her face with hand fulls of white chocolate chips! She was pretty proud of herself, appearently I need to do a better job "Lucy proofing" my kitchen. Love her so much!

September

Totally forgot to post this sooner! Crystal and Roo came to stay while passing through on their road trip the weekend of the 8th and Lucy crawled over to Roo and said "hello"! She has also started climbing...one everything, and is quite the problem solver when she wants to get to something. The other day I watched her crawl up on the fireplace, onto the hope chest and over to the chair.Though she seems to prefer the wooden one that Great Grandpa Emery made her. She will stay entertained for hours, standing up on it and looking around, sitting on it side ways sitting on it with her legs off the front like a big kid, eating her snacks on it climbing on to the table from it, or even better into her toy basket from in. Its a good thing Grandpa Emery made it so solid.

I was watering the trees and bushes outside, and Lucy watched the water and the hose and would crawl on her hands and feet to wherever I was watering. It was pretty funny. After awhile she put her hand out and would try the grab at the water, so I took the pressure spout off and handed her the hose. She was so cute she would hold the hose and watch he water at first and then she let the water run on her feet and slowly she started to get wild with it. She would whip it up and splash her face and look at me in surprise, and the do it again. Then when the water had kinda pooled around her she kicked and kicked and moved her legs around and would try and splash. Its so fun to watch her figure things out and play. It reminds me to appreciate the simple things in my life.

Other news, kind of sad news. We found Shammy a new home. She just couldn't help herself when it came to biting Lucy. We thought that after awhile she would get better but she just wouldn't stop. She went to live with a friend of mine, where she will be and only child/dog and she will be loved. She was a sweet little dog and I really am sorry to see her go. And as a side note I still cant keep Lucy out of the dog kennel! (also the last picture, she totally got in there by herself and closed the door!)

11 Months Oh' My!

11 months old today, Lucy is growing so fast. She is still walking along the couch and coffee table. she can also walk behind her car toy. She can't quite steer it, so she walks and gets stuck in corners and then yells for help. She loves books, she will sit and stay occupied by turning the pages. She still continues to explore the house. She is finally using sippy cups, hard and soft tops, it took her a little while to figure out that you have to tip them up. She is such a good girl. She will play and play and she is also willing to sit and shop or just sit in a lap and look at books or toys. I love it. I have to keep the dogs kennel locked if the are in or out because she loves to go get in it, its funny and kinda gross. It makes me wash their bedding a lot more.
She also just figured out that the lid on the toilet goes up and down, bummer!She is getting her first top molars, so she is a bit of a drooler right now. Poor kid. She is sleeping a full 9-12 hours at a time. Kinda depends on how she naps during the day. I guess I better start planning a birthday party for next month! Wow still can't believe its been 11 months.

The call

Lucy made her first call today. She is always trying to play with out phones, if the are on or off she is grabbing at them. Tonight she got a hold of mine, while I was getting out of the shower talking to Chad, when his phone rang... it was my phone number! Lucy had somehow worked my phone and called him! Little smarty pants!

Redfish and up-dates

Oops! It's been awhile. Well this last weekend Lucy and I had another adventure together with the rest of the... Mosoff mash up. We went to Red fish and camped! We had a lot of fun. Some how there were wild fires 16 miles outside of Stanley and Red fish was nice and clear for the first couple of days. We got up there nice and early Thursday morning. We played in the water all day and set up camp. Friday, Nicole and Frank lent us their baby backpack and we all went on a hike... we went almost 4 miles in about 5 hours! But all the kids were troopers. Tasha, Michelle, Nicole, Mandi and I all went for a quick swim before we finished our hike. That night we went up to the lodge to have some ice cream and listen to some live music. Saturday we all got up played some games and then went down to the lake to jet ski and play in the water. I think good times were had by all. Little miss is quite the fish. She gets super wild and tries to kick and jump when she gets in the water.She was so good. She got passed around and loved by everyone. She handled it well.
Lucy started to wave! Tasha was the first person she waved to. Sometimes it sounds like she is saying hi when she waves.

Lucy is also walking around the coffee table and couches and sometimes down the hall using the wall for support. She is also a very fast little crawler. Sometimes she gets over excited and face plants. She has figured out that the dogs are always after her food. I bought some different puffs for a change, and she apparently doesn't like them because she will pick them out of her snack cup and feed them to Frank! She likes to drop food off her high chair and watch the dogs scramble after it. Shes a little smarty pants.
I love when she smiles cause she does this super cheesy grin and scrunches her nose up and closes her eyes, its so funny.She also love to sit in her room and look at books.

10 Months

Our baby is 10 months old! It's weird to think 10 months, at the same time it seems like, yeah she keeps growing and changing so 10 months is about right. She continues to explore the house. She has just started to put things in her mouth and pack them around, I wonder if she learned that from Frank. We just started to put her in the real bath tub for baths. She started to stand up in the sink, and wouldn't sit so I figured it was about time anyways. She likes to shout at strangers in the grocery store but, if they talk to her first she gets shy and tries to duck down in the basket and hide. She recently has been into books.She likes to sit and turn the pages. She has also started to try and feed us her mum mum crackers. She takes a bit and then puts it up to our mouth. Its pretty cute. She pulls herself up on anything and everything. She has figured out that she can take one step from the coffee table to the couch. I am SO not ready for her to walk and have her arm range expand by that much but we shall see. :)