Friday, October 4, 2013

Savannah Through the Years...



Savannah and Kyle at the lake (one of her favorite places)

Savannah and her favorite toy.. before Reggie eventually tore it up :(
Head of security at our White River house!


The day my mom got her Honda Fit
 

Even Kyle looks a lot younger in this one!


Savannah and her "brother"
Savannah with her ears flopping in the wind
Chewing on a tennis ball... She used to hoard all the tennis balls from Reggie!
Just chilling on our bed
Oct 2011
 
 
Spooning with Reggie
She always had a thing for ducks!
 
Testing out the new Xterra
The day Lucy was born
Thanksgiving 2012
Taking a nap with me
 
Lucy's cuddle buddy
 
Finishing up her cheeseburger!
 
Today at the park


 

 

 

Friday, September 20, 2013

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." :)

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

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 :)

Sunday, September 8, 2013

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 :)

Friday, August 30, 2013

Old Fling

Met up with an old fling this morning...


Pumpkin spiced latte - decaf (for Left and Right)

- Posted from my iPhone

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

22 Weeks Pregnant

Well I'm just about 22 weeks pregnant. And I feel huge! We had a 20 week appointment with Maternal Fetal Medicine back on the 8/19. Kyle's mom went with, and we watched the ultrasound tech check for every little body part... twice.

Baby Right had an estimated weight of 12 oz. That would put her in the 40th percentile.

Baby Left had an estimated weight of 15 oz. Putting him in the 93rd percentile!

It was very reassuring that they were both growing on track! I was a bit nervous for a minute. The tech kept looking at baby Right's heart. Then she'd go measure something else, and then go back to look at the heart. I was worried something was wrong. After putting myself through the most terrible mind game of "Let's think of all of the worst case scenarios", I finally asked her if there was an issue. She immediately said "Oh no, just not getting a good angle" and that baby Left kept trying to photobomb the picture :). Phew! 

Here are the photos from left and right's twenty week photo shoot:
"Little" Left. I think his profile looks a lot like Lucy!
 
Baby Right trying to pose for the camera! The tech had troubles getting her pictures and measurements!
 
Who doesn't like to see itty bitty baby hands?!?
Lucy is growing faster than we can keep up. She's learning all of the different parts of the body, and can mimic the noise of quite a few animals (she's ventured past just the dog). Everyday it's like she's learned three new things!

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Article

I really liked this article... I find I get this feeling too often :(

http://www.scarymommy.com/i-wasnt-a-good-mom/