Autumn girls

Thanksgiving, Christmas pregame - Clarksville TN

Happy Thanksgiving

Mr. Cricket

La Luz also wants to note that she got a visit from Mr. Cricket (also known as grasshopper) last week. He had a meal with her and gave her a present - a cool book called ABC NYC. Ever since she has been talking about moving to New York...

Princess day at GA Aquarium

Granny babysat la Luz this weekend. We went to the Aquarium on Saturday for princess day (all girls dressed as princesses get in free) and cousins Mark, Carmen, Summer (also a princess) and Ivy joined us. It was crowded but the princesses had a good time. In these pictures la Luz is giving lectures as usual.

From the Jackolantern

Forgot to post.

Hits & Misses @ Zoo

Feeding the birds

Build-A-Bunny

Today Lucy and I attended the birthday party of one of her daycare buddies. The party was at Build-A-Bear at the Mall of Georgia (read: you're not getting out of here without spending at least $20). The Mall of Georgia is not close to our house, but in the name of making sure Lucy's social life gets off on the right foot, we made the trek. Lucy has recently stopped sleeping- no naps and she's not falling asleep at night until 10:30-11p so she was in a super mood when we left the house. I was anticipating a disaster of magnificent proportions, but I was pleasantly surprised. She picked out a bunny to build. None of the other kids picked the bunny- I thought this was significant because had it been me I would have gotten whatever all the other kids were picking, but not Lucy she wanted the bunny and did not care that just about everybody else got a turkey. She didn't like the machine that stuffed the animals because it was too loud, but she liked picking out clothes for it. I tried to sway her in the direction of a ballerina costume or a princess dress, but Lucy selected a pink sequined top and jeans and some ugg boots (I also pushed for converse footwear, but she wasn't having it). And the icing on the cake- she named her Penelope. I gave her several name options and Penelope was her choice. She actually says "Eh low pee."

All this to say- she is my child, but she is not me. She is becoming her own person more and more everyday. I am equally delighted and confused by our many differences. As we approach her second birthday I love seeing her personality blossom and grow.

Quote it

"I can't believe this."

- Lucy upon being ordered to go upstairs tonight.

Morning Person

Wes and I are not morning people. We are very extremely a lot NOT morning people. We are two un-morning people living in a morning person's world. Lucy is currently very much a morning person. I feel certain that at some point her night owl gene will kick in and she will happily sleep until 10-11am, but until that day comes Wes gets to hear this on the baby monitor shortly after I leave for work (as sent to me via email this morning):

7a mommmy mooooooomy mooooooomy. come in my room. im not sleepy any moooore. mooomy. listen to me. papa? paaaaaaaapa. im not sleepy anymore. im not sleepy anymooore.

Halloween 2009

Lucy had her first real trick or treating experience last weekend. She caught on really fast. She would say "trick or treat! give us something good to eat!" and hold her little bag open. She's not a huge fan of chocolate, but she can put away some dum dums. She and Haden were the cutest gnomes I've ever seen. I mean check out sweet girls little legs! It's enough to give me a tooth ache.