Uh-oh...

Lucy is now walking... fast.

She likes to climb.

She calls any furry animal a "Dog"

She says words like "nana" and "dada" and "nuna".

She's starting to get her top two teeth (she's a late "teeth" bloomer)

She's moving from bottles to sippy cups and from formula to whole milk.

She also picks things up, throws them on the ground and says "uh-oh". I even caught her say "uh-oh" before she threw her toy on the floor today.

My little baby girl is growing up fast.

In other news. The squatters are doing well. My 7-week appointment went well. They were measuring right on track. I'll be 8w5d tomorrow, and we go in for another check up. Hopefully they're both still doing well, and growing big and strong!

Still no morning sickness or cravings. I keep telling Kyle that since I have no symptoms (like last time) that I think it's two more girls! I guess we'll have to wait 12 more weeks to know for sure :)

Wordless wednesday

Squatters

Less than 20 months ago, I was posting this: Speck or Fleck? We had seen Lucy (or "Spleckle", as I had nicknamed her), and her itty bitty heart beat for the first time.

Well today I got to see our little squatters, who are hopefully getting nice and cozy inside my uterus. Two strong heartbeats, both measuring right on track at 6 weeks and 2 days.

6 weeks is very early to get excited. There's still a significantly large chance that one or both of my squatters could pack up and leave (trust me, I've googled "chance of miscarriage with twins at 6 weeks" and every version of that statement at least 100 times today). But for now, I'm pregnant with twins, and I'm going to just enjoy this. Hopefully it'll last for a long long time (but just not for more than 34 more weeks, please!)

My Squatters

*Dr. B thought that they look like two little Owl's eyes :) But calling them "left eye" and "right eye" sounded a little too TLC-ish.

Wordless Monday :)

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Bringing back wordless Wednesday

I'm thinking about bringing back wordless Wednesdays. All in favor say "I"



- Posted from my iPhone

Happy Birthday Nana!

We love you!!

Dear Lucy - 11 Months

Dear Lucy,

I can't believe you're already 11 months old! For the first time in my life, I've started to wonder, "where has time gone". I guess that you've made me realize that life goes by pretty fast when you're having fun!

This last month, you've grown up so much. Yesterday you took 2-3 steps! You're growing more everyday. One of our favorite rituals is to brush our teeth (both of yours) together.

It seems like everyday you learn something new. You learned to crawl fast, clap your hands, blow kisses, wave hello and good bye, and your cousin yoshi even taught you to pick your nose.

Your face lights up when Reggie comes near. Sometimes you'll just sit on my lap and Reggie will put his head on my lap next to you. You will take your cheeks and rubs them against Reggie's soft ears and look up at me and giggle. I think he's your best friend. You like to try to sneak him some of your food when I'm not looking.

You are as cute as a button, and any button will encapsulate all of your attention. That goes for zippers, ribbons, or tags too.

You can find the smallest freckle. You like to try to wipe them away with one finger.

Luckily you still love to be held at night. One night, you were asleep, so dadda put you in your crib for the night. A little while later he saw me holding you; he asked ", did she wake up?" I said ", no, but I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to just hold her while she sleeps." and so there I sat just holding and staring at my perfect little baby girl.

Please don't grow up too fast. I love you just the way you are.

I'll always love you anyway,

Your momma

Swimming

This morning was the first of our Parent-Toddler swim class.  Lucy absolutely loved it!  She had so much fun splashing (see photo below!) and playing in the water.  She wasn't afraid at all.  We think this will be good training for Hilton Head!

Happy Birthday Nuna!

Happy birthday to my amazing mother.

 

I hope to someday become as good as a friend to Lucy as you have become to me.

We love you so much!

 

 

Lucy's bad hair day

Lucy woke up Friday morning with a bad hair day. I thought I'd share some photos of our little "shaggy dog"



She paired the hair style with a smile :)

Dear Lucy - 10 months

Dear Lucy,

Today you are 10 months old!  You are an incredible little girl who amazes us everyday with your growth as a person.  You are such a sweetheart who likes giving hugs and kisses.

You have definitely been active lately.  You can easily pull yourself up alongside furniture, toys, and people's legs!  You can now walk along the ottoman in the living room too.  I think it is safe to say that you have mastered crawling and are ready for the next step(s).  You love to crawl around and explore.  You often go to the lower shelf by the kitchen (the brightly-colored Pepsi cans catch your eye) and the dog food bowls.  Most of all, you love making a dash for your Mama's or my feet whenever we enter the room.  You have even started following us when we leave the room.

You've had a fun last month.  A few weeks ago, you met your cousins, Jacob and Benjamin, for the first time.  You were very interested in them!  Before we know it, the three of you will be running around playing. Last week, your Mama had most of the week off of work.  You were able to spend a lot of time with her, and I know she cherished getting to see you even more!  I heard you were a good helper.  Plus you went to Nana and Papa's for a day last week, and of course, had fun playing over there.

We talk about how you come up with new faces or sounds that always make us smile.  (We usually like to blame Papa Ring for teaching them to you!)  Well, recently you have a new one.  While you look mad when you make this face, it usually is immediately followed by your great smile.  Sometimes we see this face after we ask you to please stop feeding all your food to the dogs!

Your Mom and I love you so, so much.  We are incredibly blessed to have you in our lives.  I absolutely love seeing your face light up when I come home from work.  You are so special to me.

Love always,

Dad

My Favorite Photo...

A few birthday's back we scanned all of Susan's old photos and organized them for her. When going through them, I found this gem:

That's Kyle, in the tube socks, neon graffiti shorts, with the bowl-cut hairstyle. He's lifting up his sister Kelly, so she can see. My guess is that she still couldn't see anything, but the photo really highlights the love between siblings. Looks like something my brother would've done for my sister or I... OK, maybe more like something he would've done for my sister :)

When you can only pick one...

Kyle, Lucy and I went to get Lucy's photos taken. One of the things I really want to do as a mother, is a get few professional photos from a child's first few years. Remember these? (and yes, that's the same white chair; CRAZY how fast the chairs shrink!)

We're on a super strict budget, so we could only pick one picture this time.

Luckily (or unluckily for the photographer), Lucy is going through a "stranger danger" phase, so it's not like there were hundreds of good ones to choose from this time. The photographer, Kyle, and I all picked a different "favorite" shot. I'm curious, which picture would you have chosen?

Photo #1

Photo #2



Photo #3


 

Photo #4

Photo #5

 

Photo #6

Meet Benjamin and Jacob!

I have the world’s cutest niece and nephews. This weekend Lucy and I met Benjamin and Jacob. They are the happiest little babies. They’re both pretty chill guys!

 

Here’s Lucy meeting them for the first time:

 

And here is Jacob: This guy is absolutely precious. Jacob and I enjoy our staring contests and he likes to hold my finger with his super long fingers!

 

And here is Benjamin: He’s a scrappy little guy. He melts your heart with his beautiful blue eyes. But be careful, because this guy likes to squirm! He definitely wanted me walking when being held too. I think he was interested in seeing everything going on!

 

Nana and Papa with their grandchildren:

 

It was so great to meet you Benjamin and Jacob! Your Auntie Chel loves you both so much!

Dear Lucy - 9 Months

Dear Lucy,

 

Tomorrow you turn nine months old! Another month older and again you have found a way to amaze me even more. You have started not only crawling, but climbing as well. You’ve managed to pull yourself up to standing. We’re pretty sure that your first word is “mama”, though you haven’t learned to associate the word with me. (But I’m counting it anyways).

 

Daddy and Nuna took you to your 9 month check up today. You weigh exactly 20 pounds and are 27” tall. You are in the 25^th percentile for height, 75^th percentile for weight and 96^th percentile for head size. We like to joke that we have a “short, fat baby with a big head”. Anyway they quantify it, you are 100% perfect to me.

 

You have managed to stay healthy and save the doctor appointments for regular checkups only (thank you for that). Anytime you’re under the weather and mama and daddy have to work, we drop you off at Nana’s and Papa’s. You still love to be cuddled and held.

I can’t believe how much you’ve grown in just 9 months. I love you so much!

I’ll always love you anyway,

Your mama

Sharing

Lucy has a lot of very fun toys.  They are colorful, interactive, educational, light up, play music, talk, make cool noises, etc.  She loves her toys and is getting so good at figuring them out.

Reggie also has a lot of toys.  Two baskets full of them.  Most have Santa hats (Christmas dog toys are very cheap the week after Christmas!) and some are missing limbs, but he loves all of his toys.  If he brings you a toy to play with and you don't want to play at that moment, then he'll simply drop that toy and go look through his basket for a toy he thinks you will want to play with.

Last night Lucy and Reggie shared a "toy".  As we are learning, many times it is more fun to play with things that aren't actually toys.  (This concept also applies to eating... see Michelle's previous post on the joys of eating paper.)  The two of them went back and forth stealing this precious empty water bottle from each other.  After laughing at this exchange for a while, I decided to take many pictures.  In hindsight, one simple video would have told the story.  Oh well.