Funny little Lu

A few funny things Lucy is doing these days:

• Lucy is the queen of throwing all out fits. I am afraid the terrible 2's have already begun.
• If I tell her to go to time out, she will walk herself to the time out area and sit down.
• She doesn't like to sit in the high chair anymore. She sits on our bar stools (don't worry they have high backs), one wedged on either side of her so she doesn't fall off (she is very closely supervised). She eats much better that way.
• She has an unnatural love for Dora the Explorer.
• She thinks she needs every single blanket she has in her bed when she naps (i have to hide blankets so she doesn't realize we have so many).
• She loves to put "toys" on the Christmas Tree (aka ornaments).
• She loves to color, and sings "color color color" the entire time she does.
• Lucy has watched me multi-task too much. Instead of holding the phone to her ear and saying "hello", she wedges it between her ear and shoulder like I do. Except she can't put her arm down. She when she talks on the phone she walks around with one arm sticking straight up. :)
• It depends on the day, but usually when we ask Lucy if she wants a new baby at her house, she sweetly says "noooo".
• I taught Lucy that whenever something awesome happens, she should go "ka-ching!" and raise her arm up. She now does it whenever she's excited about something.
• Lucy is really good at her animal sounds. I'll have to post a video for this one. But I've taught her some good ones. :)
• Lucy is afraid of scarecrows and Santa. She wont go into Grandma Johnson's house until all the decorations from the doorway to the kitchen have been moved.
• Lucy starts to fake cry whenever I tell her her cousin Capri moved far away.
• The other day I was driving home from school and on the phone with Kyle. I was telling him how concerned I was that if the new baby is anything like Lucy I didn't think I would be able to handle it. "She's a nut case!" I said. Then Kyle started laughing. Right when I said that, as if on cue, Lucy (who was in her bedroom with the door shut, supposed to be sleeping) started loudly "whoooooo"ing like an owl. Gah!
• She loves to call Gran (my mom). As soon as my mom answers, Lucy says "Hello. Don Don?" She loves her uncle John.
• Lucy gets really mad when we put her in her car seat, because she wants to be squished into the rear-facer again.
• She's gotten into the naked stage. Anytime she is getting changed and especially before she gets into the tub, she tries to run for the hills. I love seeing that little naked bum running around. I think it's really funny.
• Lucy loves nursery now. She has to take her baby and her bink, but she's always so proud of herself when we pick her up at the end.

Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures. They're from my iphone.

It's been forever...

I haven't blogged in about a month, and I have a good reason for it. It's because Lucy turned 18 months a while back and I've been wanting to get some cute pictures of her to put up with her doctor's appointment info.

So I've been waiting for these cute new clothes that I ordered online to arrive for the pictures.

And the company for some reason sent them to our OLD apartment in Provo.

And the people sent them back to the company after they had had the package for a month (because I was happily waiting for it to come here!!).

So now we're waiting for them to send it back to us. And I'm mad about it. But be excited for that post if the day ever comes.

On a different note:

We loved having season tickets to the BYU football games this year. Kyle gets so into the games, so that's what he got for his birthday in June. We got seats with Kyle's parents, so we had friends to watch with. Lucy totally got into the spirit. She loves to pump her fist and yell "GO! GO! GO!". She also likes to clap with the fight song, and then roll her hands and yell "Cougars!". It's really cute.

Watching the game with Aunt Kali (she's clapping while everyone sings the fight song).

View from our seats.

Lucy is getting so smart, I can't believe it! She can sing (and people can recognize the tune) "Once there was a snow man", "ABCs", "I love mommy, she loves me", "The Hello Song", "Ring around the rosies", "The Clean up Song", "I'm so glad when daddy comes home", and several others. It's adorable!

She also loves the temple, which she calls the "bun-kle". The problem is, that she when she wants to jump on the tramp at grandma's she says she wants to "bunk-a-bunk". So, there has been some great confusion when we drive by the temple and she tells me she wants to "bunk-a-bunk at a bun-kle". I don't know what she think goes on in the temple, but it sounds pretty exciting.

She talks so much now. She picks up a bunch of new words every day, it's amazing to me. Seriously, how cool would it be if we could learn a language as quickly as young children can? I would totally be bi-lingual.

New Car, round 2.

Yesterday was a good day. We went to the BYU game (which was awesome!! BYU 55 - UNLV 7). Then we went and got me a NEW CAR!!! My other one died about a month and a half ago (the engine went out and would cost more than the value of the car to replace), and we have been having to deal with only one car ever since. But we found this great deal on KSL.com, and we ended up getting it. It's a 2003 Honda Accord. We feel so fancy in it!

The inside looks like this, except with leather seats:

I love it!

After we got the new car, we went and finished a project we were doing at my mom's, redecorating my sister's room (we started it on Friday)! It looks amazing! I'll post pictures later. I didn't take any last night.

I have a lot more things to blog about, but don't have pictures for yet. But be excited for more posts coming soon!

We're having a...

GIRL!!

We were so surprised when we went to our 20 week ultra sound. I was positive it was a boy! In fact, I was a little embarrassed, because the technician said "we've got a trend going on today! You're having a little girl!", and I said "wait....what?!". :) Totally was not expecting that. I tried to act more excited after that.

See? Proof.

Anyway, the baby is measuring about 2 weeks small, but they didn't change the due date (Lucy measured small the whole time too).

The baby was being a stinker. Super wiggly, with her face turned into my back the whole time. We were in there a long time and didn't get many good pictures.

We are going back for another ultra sound in 4 weeks (this will be the third one). They want to be able to see her face to check for a cleft palate and they couldn't really see a few other things this time either. I also have placenta previa, which means that the placenta is way down low, blocking the opening where the baby will have to come out. They're not really concerned about it right now, but the midwife wants an ultra sound every 4 weeks until the placenta moves out of the way (which it usually does). If it doesn't, that means c-section. But we still have plenty of time!

Here is a picture of her little foot and her legs.

We're so excited to have another little girl! Lucy will (hopefully!) love having a little sister.

What the wedding crasher?!

Okay, so we had an insane week this week:

Monday-Bridal Shoot

Tuesday-Engagement Shoot

Wednesday-Wedding (Reception) Shoot

Thursday-Wedding Day Shoot

Friday-Hosted a Halloween Party with sister-in-law (full post to come later)

Saturday-All day Wedding Shoot

I'm all pictured out. For like a week. :)

Anyway, we had pretty much the most awesome experience ever yesterday. We were at the buffet dinner for the wedding yesterday. Kyle and I sat way in the back so we'd be out of the way. Well, at one point I noticed this man come in.

*A little background, this wedding was for a cute hispanic couple. Pretty much all their guests were hispanic. This man that came in, he was this 60-something white man with a grey beard. And by himself.

So, when he first came in, I pointed him out to Kyle. He stood out so much, and I thought he looked like some crazy college professor. So he came in and put a card on the gift table, then went and got himself some food. He then went and got an alcoholic beverage from the open bar. And then, he came and sat at our table. Which was weird, because there were tons of seats.

Well don't worry. After he ate his food, he stood up, went back and got his card, and left. And he never came back! You can imagine my excitement! We were probably the only ones who noticed the real life wedding crasher!! Isn't that cool?! Oh, and he stole the cup his drink was in.

Yeah, it totally made my day.

Dear Blog...

Dear Blog,

Today Lucy was a very bad baby. She woke up on the wrong side of the bed. She fell off of our bed. She made as much mess as possible before nap time. After her nap, she re-messed all the placed I had cleaned. She figured out how to open lids that twist. We very nearly avoided catastrophe when I found her painting her face with nail polish (which took 20 minutes of screaming and scrubbing to get off, but luckily none on the floor). She found and emptied all of my face make-up onto her own face. She dumped an entire package of chips on the floor, then stepped in them to make them tiny crumbs. She found a chocolate Easter bunny and happily ate half before I found her (umm, where has that been hiding the last 6 or 8 months. Gross!). Then, just before dad came home, Lucy was trying to retrieve an empty bottle of hair spray out of the garbage can, tripped, and blackened her right eye. After dinner, we had to take pictures at a wedding reception. Lucy was whiney for mom the whole time. On the way home, I looked back to discover the grand finale to the day. Lucy had kindly taken the poop from her diaper and rubbed it all over her face and arms. Can I say SICK?!?

Dad is currently bathing Lucy himself, so that I don't barf. I have a nice husband.

Oh, the glamourous life of a mom.

Sincerely,

Rachel

The Zoo

It was Fall Break for my siblings last week, so on Friday we went to the Zoo. My grandma was babysitting a couple of my cousins, so they came to. It was a lot of fun! Lucy loved the giraffes and the elephants. The dumb thing? The Zoo didn't have hippos, zebras, lions, bears, or penguins. Rip off. It was still fun though.

This picture just makes me laugh.