Smiles

I guess I was putting off a blog post in the hopes that the baby would already be here. She's not. So here's (hopefully) the last blog post before I'm out of my mind exhausted with a newborn. 

As I was loading pictures I realized I didn't get any of Aunt Becky's visit. Becky came for the weekend and we loved having her here. Lucy loves her and is still calling for, "Becka!". Becky was a great help with Lucy and around the house. 

This was Lucy and I waiting for our rental car. Our car was in the shop getting repairs from a fender bender. 

Lucy and I went to Waffle House for breakfast. We got to give away a "Golden Ticket" to our waitress for offering us the right beverage.  I was a little embarrassed at first, but the waitress was really grateful and we made her co-workers cry with joy. I'm being serious. They were really happy. 

Lucy and her friend Evangeline eating mini ice cream cones. 

This is what a baby looks like that doesn't get enough sleep during the night. She has regularly been waking up around 4 a.m. Sometimes we have good nights, but most often she has problems sleeping. We love you anyway Lucy. 

 Lucy does really well while I grocery shop. She pulls food out of the cart and piles it around her (as you can see).

Lucy has realized the last few days that she likes the primary song, "Smiles". I didn't get the camera out in time to catch her funny frowny face, but her smiley face was cute enough to post. 

2 Weeks

I missed a week and I've already forgotten what we've done over the last two weeks.  I'm sure there was laundry, secret shopping, and sleepless nights. That's pretty much how things go around here.  I'm less than two weeks due to have this baby and I'm ready. We're looking forward to meeting her. 

We walked to our polling place and voted on election day. When I left the guy with the "I voted" stickers tried to give me a "future voter" sticker for my belly. I declined. Lucy was bored by the end of it and fell asleep before we got home. 

Lucy has been climbing on to the changing table every chance she gets. The good thing is that she's much better while she gets her diaper changed because she likes to get up there. It's also kind of nice because she doesn't know how to get down. So once she climbs up I know I have some time to get some things done. She'll sit there and say, "Mama! Dada!" when she wants down. 

This was last Sunday before church. 

 This was last Sunday after nursery. She wasn't bad at all a few weeks ago in nursery and then last Sunday she was traumatized. The entire rest of the day she was crying and clinging to us like we were going to abandon her forever. It was Stake Conference today and when we walked into the chapel and she saw her nursery leader she started crying  and saying, "no...no...no...no" and clung to me for 20 minutes. 

We toured some apartment complexes last week and Lucy got to ride in the golf cart. She had a blast. 

Grandma and Grandpa Horne and Grandma Jones came for the day on Thursday. We were so happy they came to visit.

Lucy was Grandma's buddy the whole day. 

Lucy and I went shopping yesterday and she jumped out of her stroller to pet the puppy. She also sat on him. 

Happy Halloween

It was another busy week for us. To sum it up, we had Halloween and everybody got sick.  The sick bug started with me, went to Lucy, and now Bryan has it today. Thankfully it seems to run its course pretty quickly.  We also went to Stafford and King George where we helped my mom move into her new house. It's nice that she's so close now. I'm assuming she knows she's on call for Lucy duty whenever baby #2 decides to come. 

Lucy got to hang out with her friend Lucy Sherman the day I was really sick. She had a great time and cried when Bryan brought her home. 

This was at the trunk or treat. It was really cold. Good thing Lucy had a hood to keep her warm. 

This was on Halloween on our way to trick or treating on "The Lawn". It's a big thing they do every year at UVa campus. 

 There are dorms that line the lawn where you can trick or treat. The lines were really long though so we only went to a couple of doors. 

Lucy feeding dad the sucker she found on the ground. 

 Lauren and Lucy eating lunch at Grandma JoAnn's. We were there all day, but this was the only picture I took. It was too crazy to take pictures. 

 I was getting ready for the day and I kept hearing her make the same sound. I finally looked at her and noticed she was holding the children's songbook and singing. Too cute Lucy.