happy holidays!!!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
the latest adventures of luciana
Lucy has had a very busy fall. She spent a week in NY visiting Grandma & Poppy while her parents enjoyed a fabulous trip to Switzerland - click here to see pictures
Luciana on the phone with her parents telling us how much fun she was having in NY - we think the separation was harder on her parents than on her
Playing with her Princess table - one of her favorite things to do is to put stuff (sunglasses, brushes, keys, blocks, etc.) into one drawer and then move it all to another drawer and then back again and repeat - she can easily entertain herself moving things back & forth for hours
Grandma & Poppy took Lucy to the Children's Museum on Long Island. Here she is brushing her teeth, which has now become a critical part of her bedtime routine - she loves it.
Playing the organ with Poppy
After NY, Lucy took a trip to Cleveland where she visited with the Kohl family. Here she is playing with Ashley, who is just a couple of months older than her. The two girls were super cute together and now Lucy can say 'Ash-ley'.
On the way from Cleveland back to NC, we stopped in Cairo, West Virginia to spend some time with Kai's Aunt Dinah and to visit Aunt Dinah's awesome shop. We took a walk in the woods to stretch our legs before getting back in the car.
For Thanksgiving, we had a fantastic meal at Auntie Heather & Uncle Jeff's house. Here are Lucy and her cousin Emersyn sitting at the 'kid's table' getting ready to eat - the table & chairs are from Mamaw's house. We took almost 20 pictures - one of the girls was always doing something silly or looking away in 19 of them - this was the best we could get.
and here are some recent photos of Lucy around the house:
helping with the yard work
'cooking' in her kitchen
playing the keyboard & relaxing in her bunny slippers
digging for fossils in Durham's Museum of Life & Science - we recently became members of the museum, since it's such an excellent place for Lucy to play
taking her baby doll for a walk outside
Lucy is almost 17 months old - she loves to play outside and run all over the place. For the most part, she's very good-natured and happy. When she gives one of her parents a kiss, she has to go find the other one to give them a kiss too. and lately she then has to find Baby Doll, Curious George and her dog to give them all kisses as well. She can now say about 40 words, including 'goose', which makes her parents very proud. She started a new daycare after we got back from our trip and had adjusted very well - her nickname there is 'Dancing Queen'. She spends Tuesdays and Thursdays with her beloved Taty and cousin Emersyn. She is a very lucky little girl & we are so thankful to have so many people in our lives who love her as much as we do.
Here's a video of Lucy running around Dinah's shop playing with doggie sweaters
Luciana on the phone with her parents telling us how much fun she was having in NY - we think the separation was harder on her parents than on her
Playing with her Princess table - one of her favorite things to do is to put stuff (sunglasses, brushes, keys, blocks, etc.) into one drawer and then move it all to another drawer and then back again and repeat - she can easily entertain herself moving things back & forth for hours
Grandma & Poppy took Lucy to the Children's Museum on Long Island. Here she is brushing her teeth, which has now become a critical part of her bedtime routine - she loves it.
Playing the organ with Poppy
After NY, Lucy took a trip to Cleveland where she visited with the Kohl family. Here she is playing with Ashley, who is just a couple of months older than her. The two girls were super cute together and now Lucy can say 'Ash-ley'.
On the way from Cleveland back to NC, we stopped in Cairo, West Virginia to spend some time with Kai's Aunt Dinah and to visit Aunt Dinah's awesome shop. We took a walk in the woods to stretch our legs before getting back in the car.
For Thanksgiving, we had a fantastic meal at Auntie Heather & Uncle Jeff's house. Here are Lucy and her cousin Emersyn sitting at the 'kid's table' getting ready to eat - the table & chairs are from Mamaw's house. We took almost 20 pictures - one of the girls was always doing something silly or looking away in 19 of them - this was the best we could get.
and here are some recent photos of Lucy around the house:
helping with the yard work
'cooking' in her kitchen
playing the keyboard & relaxing in her bunny slippers
digging for fossils in Durham's Museum of Life & Science - we recently became members of the museum, since it's such an excellent place for Lucy to play
taking her baby doll for a walk outside
Lucy is almost 17 months old - she loves to play outside and run all over the place. For the most part, she's very good-natured and happy. When she gives one of her parents a kiss, she has to go find the other one to give them a kiss too. and lately she then has to find Baby Doll, Curious George and her dog to give them all kisses as well. She can now say about 40 words, including 'goose', which makes her parents very proud. She started a new daycare after we got back from our trip and had adjusted very well - her nickname there is 'Dancing Queen'. She spends Tuesdays and Thursdays with her beloved Taty and cousin Emersyn. She is a very lucky little girl & we are so thankful to have so many people in our lives who love her as much as we do.
Here's a video of Lucy running around Dinah's shop playing with doggie sweaters
Friday, September 18, 2009
Buh-Bye Summer
There has been a serious lack of posting - mostly due to the fact that we went almost the entire summer without a camera. Even though there are no photos capturing it, we really enjoyed this summer - with many trips to the pool and down the water slide, hours spent playing in the splash water table, bike rides and grilling out. We had a blast in Virginia Beach, where Lucy ran in and out of the surf with her bucket and shovel in tow for hours on end. She really loved the water & playing in the sand.
Lucy has grown a lot this summer - mostly in terms of her belly ;) and not so much in inches - a growth spurt should be around the bend. Her vocabulary has also expanded (in addition to her belly) - her most frequently said words are shoe, sock, buh-bye (said just like it's said in the Saturday Night Live skit with stewardesses), more and book. She went from taking her 1st shaky steps in June to running around with confidence by August. She continues to do well at daycare where they've coined her the 'Gross Motor Wonder'. and her favorite food is blueberries, just like her daddy.
Here are some photos that we got towards the tail end of summer when both grandmothers, kai and i took Lucy to the NC museum of life & science, which she loved, and from our trip Labor Day weekend to Captain & Taty's river house.
The Chase
Lucy enjoyed her 1st kayak ride
Lucy and her cousin Eme 'hugging it out'
Just Jonas and his two nieces
Captain Luciana
Taty and her granddaughters
Lucy going down the slide in the awesome children's section of the museum
Digging for fossils at the new dinosaur trail
She bangs on the drum
Luciana, her mommy & 2 grandma's
and here are a couple of recent videos:
Mad Artist
The Dancing Queen
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
It's Video Time!
Luciana's 1st trip to an aquarium - June 2009
Baby's 1st steps - June 2009
Lucy takes on yogurt. Yogurt wins. July 2009
Balloons & Boots - July 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Super Baby!
these pictures are just too cool not to post - when Gampaw Joseph was in town (thanks for all the free babysitting!), we spent a morning out at Kerr Lake, a truly beautiful place. these shots are courtesy of Auntie Heather's awesome photography skills.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
you ought to be in pictures
today, we took Luciana to get her picture taken at Portrait Innovations - we got lots of great shots making it difficult to narrow down which ones to get printed. here are a few of our favorites.
Monday, July 6, 2009
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