Girls Weekend

Lucy and I went to Utah last weekend for the Salt Lake Marathon that Tasha ran, Go Tash! Also Katie came to visit us from Texas, Us...wait who am I kidding she came to see Lucy, lol. She was suppose to fly into Boise but she got to Salt Lake and her flight was canceled so Tasha and I met up with her, Missy and Nicole the next day for lunch. We got to stay at The Kimball right in down town, thanks to Michelle and her awesome time share. The next day we met up with the rest of the "gang" for pizza after the race. We shopped and ate good food until we were tired.
Lucy was a real trooper the whole weekend. And even got her own private suit...the walk in closet.She started yelling "bye" and waving whenever someone was leaving the room. She seemed to warm up to everyone rather well. There was one evening when we all met up for pizza that she was a bit over whelmed but considering there were 23 of us in a smallish room talking and eating, she had her reasons.
We drove home with Katie, grabbed a bite to eat, watched some tv, surfed facebook and went to bed. It was a nice low key weekend to catch up with each other. Thanks for coming out Katie it is always good to see you, love you.

 

 

18 months and growing!

18 months... I know I say it all the time but where has the time gone? And where did my baby go?
Lucy is full of it! She is so happy. She will spin around and get dizzy and fall over, and then just lay on the floor in he same spot and laugh and kick or twitch. She dances, she will blink really hard and slow and if you do it back she laughs and laughs. We go on walks and she will run and stop, turn around sway and stomp her feet. She laughs at everything, everything is a phone and she says "hello?" She loves Frank, she will put blankets on him when he is laying on his bed or she will sit next to him and she will put her necklaces on and off of him. she hugs and kisses him. If she is crying and he walks into the room she instantly stops and points and says "dog". She still loves apples, and cheese and popcorn. She loves to play in the dirt, I bought her a little gardening set with a hand shovel and rake and bucket and a little watering can. She will fill the bucket with dirt, throw dirt at Frank and entertain herself for hours. She also loves water. I put a dish of water with some spoons and cups and she played and played. Scooping the water out with the spoon and walking over to the dirt to dump it, and then she must have gotten thirsty so she drank and drank the water out of a cup. She loves showers. Anytime I shower she has to as well. And then she will play in there for as long as I will let her after wards. and is not always a happy camper when I pull her out before she thinks she is ready. We had to find a new baby sitter this month. We have a trail run on Monday. I hope she likes her. Finding child care is so scary. Lucy seems to be doing well with the transition. She is always happy to see Chad when its his time and she is always happy to see me when I get off of work. Makes it easier to leave knowing that she is happy and well taken care of.
I also took her crib apart and made it into a toddler bed. She sleeps really well in it. I put her to bed around 8 and she wakes up between 7:30 and 8.  She pops open her door, says mom? and then brings me Lenny her Lamb and her purple blanket, every morning.
Lucy loves to go on walks and play at the park. I'm always scared someone will call me in when we leave, she screams like someone is kid napping her!
Poor little thing has been sick for the last few days. Lots of crying, her and me!

Easter!

Easter Sunday. Went down to Kimberly to celebrate, with almost everyone. Most of the Counter clan, the Melville family and Kim came up from Utah. Nicole and Frank and Luke were all over at Solomon's house. We had a nice dinner and a huge egg hunt that everyone kicked in...except for me, I didn't contribute this year. Next year for sure, Thank you everyone for making the holiday a great one.
 Since Lucy already loves Easter eggs, egg hunting was pretty natural for her. She picked up a few and put them in the basket and then she realized there was candy in them, and it was over, she opened one, ate some of the candy, dropped it and looked for another. She was rather happy about the whole process.
We had a couple of Easter dresses, so we had a morning church dress and an afternoon egg hunting dress. :)

-love this first picture! Thank you Mandi

Lucy 17 months

So I know I missed our month marker by a few days I guess part of me is in denial. I just don't know where the time went. She is growing so fast. I love to take her to the park and watch her run and walk. She dances and stomps her feet and giggles. I bought her a little bubble machine and she loves it. She chases the them and pops all of them. She seems to get ridiculously silly when she's tired. she presses her face into my shirt and sniffs like she's a dog and then laughs and laughs. She is still in love with the tv, she gets up there and channel surfs. Its pretty cute. Lucy's favorite thing seems to be chasing or beating up Frank. She will also be sweet to him, she will hug and kiss him. Tuck a blanket around him and put her beads around his head. I think he is still getting use the idea, but its very sweet.
I have to admit I am ready for her to go into nursery next month, I guess its kind of a bitter sweet thing. But I'm sure she will like it, its a bit distracting to get through Sunday school and then she gets too wild to stay for relief society. But I figure two hours is better than nothing.
We had Alicia and the girls over for a pinterest day, and Avery and Lucy had a good time playing on the bean bag and outside. Seems like they have reached a good playing age.
I looked at her this morning before church and realized that she is getting so big. She isn't a baby anymore, she really is a little toddler.

Lucy Gone Wild

Don't even know where to begin with that girl! She runs circles around Frank. Loves to pull out the kitchen chairs, climb up, get on the table and turn on the t.v.  She seems to love music, dances and stomps her feet to a beat. She "talks" on her phones and thinks her monitor is a phone as well. She has started saying cheese. She loves Easter eggs. She will sit with a basket and open and close them for hours. She hates her car seat, even short rides I have to provide a book or some sort of entertainment. She walks up to the counter and blindly reaches for anything she can touch on the top. She had also started to have an interest in coloring. She loves cheese, peaches, apples and chex. I've been letting her feed herself with a spoon and she's not too bad about half way through she starts to use her hands which is interesting when its oatmeal, but she manages.
The other day she got into my pantry, unwrapped and started eating a corner of a brick of almond bark. We already have a little chocoholic on our hands. She loves to walk and run. I took her to the park the other day, we walked the loop 3 times and I was cold so I figured she had to be. We started to head toward the car where she screamed and tried to run in the other direction. When I picked her up to put her in the car she threw the biggest fit. I thought someone would come over to see what I was doing to her. Thank goodness she looks like me, so people would know I wasn't kid napping the little stinker. She has also recently started to spin in circles, till she falls over and then will lay on the floor and giggle and giggle. Sometimes she chases Frank and gets laughing so hard that she falls over.
It seems like every day she grows by leaps and bounds. Always discovering and trying new things. (I'll post pictures as soon as I can figure out how again, I hate windows 8!)

 

Family Post

I have tried to always keep this blog about Lucy. But I feel like I need to say something about the past month or so, and how it will effect our family.
Chad and I are divorcing. It looks rough in print but, I know we both still love Lucy and our family. I hope that you guys can continue to love us both in our separate lives. I know that relationships change, and divorce is not a win/win situation. It feels like a lose/lose. Both parties lose no matter how you look at it. But I feel like Lucy doesn't have to. She can have a great family, that includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, great grandparents etc.... She is a special little girl and Chad and I can agree than even though our lives will be separate we will always want what's best for her.

16 months with Lucy

Where does the time go? Lucy is turning into a little toddler right before my eyes.
She has started to blow kisses, not just kiss her hand and make the mmm sound but actually pull her hand away and wave. She has started to say "there you go" when handing you something and when taking something. It's pretty cute, we were at a friends house when I noticed my friends husband with a pile of things in his lap. He said she keeps handing him things saying "there you go"! Apparently he didn't know he was suppose to had it back and say the same thing.
She is defenantly a climber. I was putting my make up on when I heard her screaming and squealing, when I went out to inspect, she was standing on top of the table dancing and pointing at the Grover on the tv. I was very impressed, since I was unaware that she could even get up on a chair.
She now is running, she loves to chase Frank. He is unsure of the whole game so he runs around, ears back, all eyes and very nervous. She also loves to be chased.
She has suddenly decided she's a picky eater, I'm not sure how long I'm going to let that last. She loves canned peaches and grandma Joan has given us a good supply which is good since its hard to get her to eat anything else right now.
It's crazy how she knows what candy is. She had a candy necklece from her cousin Luke's birthday party. She has never had one before or even seen one as far as I know. Anyway she found it and brought it to me and made the eating sign.  Later that day she pulled a package of rolos out of the freezer and did the same thing!
Lucy is already addicted to electronic devices. When she sees you it seems like she does a body scan to see where your phone is. She is also a magnet to my iPad. She takes her finger and slids it along the arrow and then presses the numbers. She has been able to lock Chad out of his phone and freeze up my iPad, it lasts about 20-30 mins. We no longer have to wonder what happens of you forget your pass code.
She is still a great sleeper. She goes to bed around 8 and sleeps till 8-8;30 the next morning on  good mornings she will wake up and look at books and play with her aquarium for 30mins or so before standing at the edge of her crib calling "mom!?"
She is such a happy little girl. She is still a bit shy when it comes to strangers, it normally takes her 5-10mins before she decides she really likes someone. Every once in a while she will see someone and smile and giggle like she knows them, either way is fine with me, funny little thing. We have been letting her walk around in stores/public and she thinks she is pretty cool. She'll find a shelf her level, sit and kick her legs.
She is not longer a baby, makes me kinda sad to see her long legs and she's been thinning out since she is running everywhere, sigh....sometimes it seems like you can see her grow in her sleep.