A & B are now A & N :)

I remember when I was pregnant with Lucy people would often ask "have you picked out a name?" When I'd tell them we did, and that we were going with Lucy, I would usually get positive feedback. 

I remember someone telling me (with a disappointing look) "Oh, that's my dogs name. You should go with Lily instead." I felt like responding with "I'm sorry that you named your dog a human name, and not a dog's name like Spot or Fido." But instead I just smiled and said "I'll think about it." 

Let's be honest, I wasn't going to "think about it". It had taken Kyle and I months to agree on Lucy! So here we've been, tossing names back and forth for a few months. Nothing too matchy or twiny. Had to sound nice with the name Lucy. Nothing spelled incorrectly (Kyle's pet peeve). Plus this time we had to come up with two names. After much thought and debate we decided to go with our favorites from our first pregnancy (aside from Lucy)...

Drumroll please... Little Right and Baby Left will officially be Audrey and Nolan! And if you don't like those names and would like to suggest something else, "I'll think about it." :)

Bitty Bites!

Last weekend we went apple picking at Anderson Orchards. It was a lot of fun and Lucy LOVED it. Her newest word is now "app-ah" which sounds very similar to her word "up-pah". So we've learned to just hand her an apple and lift her up :)
























I never realized how little a one year old's bite marks would be... Especially a one year old with only two bottom teeth. I tried to take a picture of the apple, but Lucy would get pretty upset when I tried to touch her apple... If you look at the bottom edge of the apple skin, you can see how little her bites are. It took her quite a few bites to get this far!!





Overall a great experience and the start of my favorite family annual tradition :)

Momma or Dadda??

New parents sometimes wonder "will it be mom or dad first?". The first word for any child is very special. It's written in the baby books, and will be a topic of discussion when your little one ends up having their first little one. *For the record, my mom doesn't remember my first word, and that page on my baby book is blank (cue second child syndrome complaint here).

Lucy's first word was dog. And her second word was ball. From there she went on to say Nana and Nuna. Then she started whispering papa and saying words like nose and balloon. Next she learned all of the sounds the animals make, like the cat, the lion, the horse, and sheep. She even started giving us commands like "no" and "more".

As of recently, Lucy has finally started saying mama and daddy. And it melts our heart each time. Even though neither was her first, second, or even tenth word, we love how much she smiles each time she calls us by name :)

Yep, even bubble made the vocab list before mama :)

Wordless Wednesday