Lucy is all grown up!

Lucy is just the cutest thing ever. She is such a joy. And she's growing like a weed. She is still in the 90th percentile for height her age and is in the 75th percentile for weight. She babbles all the time. Her favorite thing to say right now is ba-ba but she can also say da-da, na-na, ffffffp, and shhhhhh and she can do some crazy loud rasberries. Can you believe it? She started sitting up about a month before the books said she would and now she's a pro. She tries to take off crawling but just ends up on her face. She rolls herself around the room and scoots on her back. She can even pull herself up on furniture! And our newest milestone was hit on December 10th. HER FIRST TOOTH! She had been fussy at night, and wouldn't eat her dinner and now I know why. I love that girl to death.

Birthday Celebrations!

My birthday was last month and it was so fun. It was a celebration that lasted a few weeks. It started out with a little party at my parents' house during Thanksgiving. Ben took me to Red Robin (they send out free meal coupons for your birthday so go sign up). That night Ben and I set up our Christmas tree and decorated it while listening to Christmas music. Perfect. I love my christmas tree.

Later that week Ben set up a nice surprise. I got to ride a horse! We went to a neighbor's house and rode their horses in the snow! I loved it. Now I want a horse! That night we had a babysitter for the first time. We went to see the Disney movie Tangled (We had free tickets from our winnings at the County Fair this summber). I loved it also.

The day of my birthday I baked a layered cake. It was a disaster. It tasted great but I had to glue it back together with frosting. I took a picture of it because I thought it looked hilarious. I am terrible at baking. Repeat, TERRIBLE.

It was a great birthday. Oh we also got a dining room table during Black Friday! Beautiful I tell ya, absolutely beautiful. And it's great for puzzles.

Lucy's quiet book

I got the idea to make a quiet book from one of my good friends Tiff who made her beautiful baby girl Lyla one. We don't have the internet so I had to remember what I saw on her blog and use my creativity and make up a lot of the pages. I made it as one of Lucy's Christmas presents (shhh, don't tell her). She's going to love it in a couple years. In the mean time she'll chew on it while I tell her "No." haha. Here it is.

Here's the cover
This page you can turn the hands on the clock.

The flowers are buttons that you can remove. The dial on the phone spins and the handle is velcroed to the page so your kids can pick it up and 'talk' on the phone. Preferably they are calling mommy. ;)

The balloons teach colors and they snap on and off. The beads teach counting up to 10.

The shoe can be laced and tied (wish I did the shoe in felt...it looks sloppy in calico). The sports balls are removable and can be matched to their appropriate sport.

This alphabet took me about a week to cut and hand stitch on. Grrr.

Tic-Tac-Toe and the Touch and Feel page. This page is my least favorite. The squares aren't aligned and the pink square is a mess. But I guess it makes it unique, right?

On this page you can match the shapes and they are attachable by velcro. If I were to do it again I would add a crescent. That was the most often mistaken shape when I taught preschool. So moms out there make sure your kids know the crescent shape (and that it's not called moon, although that is a good example of one). The teepee zips open and closed.

My favorite pages! The doll can be dressed in all sorts of clothes. And the barnyard has a dog, cow, chicken, and cat inside that you can play with. I couldn't get the clearest pictures but you get the point.

And a stoplight page. I don't really know the point of this page but it works. I guess they can learn the meanings of the red, green, and yellow lights.