Fashion Smarts

So tonight I told Lucy that we were going to go to the store to find Daddy some new tennis shoes. So she looked at me and said, "does him want green shoes." I said I didn't know and that she would have to ask him. So in the car on the way to the store she asked him if he wanted green shoes. He laughed and said that he probably wouldn't get green shoes. She told him that he should get green shoes to match his green shirt. That's my girl, always thinking about fashion.

Too sweet

Last night I was rocking Lucy and the baby started moving a lot. So I asked Lucy if she wanted to feel the baby. So she put her hand on my tummy and I moved it down to where I was feeling the baby move. Lucy sat there for 5 minutes feeling the baby move with her hand on my tummy and as still as can be. I would say, did you feel that, and she would nod her head yes. I think the baby knew that it was Lucy because the baby just kept squirming around inside like crazy. I was telling Lucy how much the baby liked her already. All of a sudden Lucy said, I wanna go nigh, nigh. It was a pretty sweet moment to share with my babies!!

Land that I Love

We spent 11 days up in Wisconsin with my family and we had such a great time. Lucy was a great traveler for 13 hour car ride and was so excited to go to Grandpa and Grandma's house. I made the mistake of telling her we were going, so for about 5 days before we left whenever I would get her in the morning or after a nap she would say "we leaving for Papa and Grandma's house now." We went up there for my Dad's 70th birthday party. My parents went all out with a pig roast in their backyard and there were about 55 people there. My Dad and Mom have the most beautiful yard because my Dad loves gardening. We took all the pictures of the party on my parents camera because it's nicer, so I don't have any party pictures yet. So the first few days up there we were getting ready for the party. Michael was the official pig roaster and had a fun time doing it. If I hadn't been so busy getting things ready I would have gotten a picture of him with his pig. I thought of it the day after the party... just a little late. We saw family and friends that we hadn't seen since our wedding 5 years ago, so it was a fun time. The only bummer was that is rained for about a 1/2 an hour. Thankfully, the guys had set up tents all over the yard, so everyone stayed dry. Lucy and her cousins were playing with the kids that Heather and I used to babysit, so every now and then I would look around to make sure I could see Lucy. Well, all of a sudden all the kids were gone and Lucy was still under a tent, sitting under a table. She was sitting there for a really long time so quietly, so I finally got up and walked closer and there she sat under the table with a bowl full of mints chowing down on them saying "mmm, mints."

One of our most favorite things all week was going up to our cottage in northern Wisconsin. We spent a lot of our summer's up there growing up, so it was fun to take our kids up there and let them experience all the fun too. Our cottage is on a peninsula, so most of the pictures I have of Lucy she is wearing her life jacket. I come by it honestly though, my Mom did the same thing with us when we were little. So we had fun going for walks in the woods, swimming, fishing, and going for rides in the boat. We asked Lucy if she wanted to go fishing and she said "yes, I'm gonna catch a purple fish." Her Dora fishing pole has a purple fish at the end, so that's the fish she always catches, but this time she actually did catch a real fish. She was pretty excited.

One of the funniest moments was when I caught a frog and gave it to Lucy. My Dad said why don't you kiss it and see if it turns into a prince, so she kept kissing the frog. She even gave the frog a little hug before throwing him back into the water. It was so funny because none of the other kids would touch the frog, but here Lucy is kissing and hugging it.

Michael thinks I am a little crazy, but I love to go strawberry picking. So since it is strawberry season up there, on the 4th I took Lucy strawberry picking. I caught Lucy eating the strawberries that my Mom was picking... she would take a bite and then throw it back in the bucket and take another one. She also was picking green strawberries and trying to eat them and then she would tell me that it was yucky and then take another bite. So we got our fill of strawberries, well not really I can never have enough, and I made 27 jars of strawberry jam. That night we walked to the fairgrounds and watched the fireworks. Michael was catching lightening bugs on the way and giving them to Lucy. She was holding them and squishing them. There was a glowing mess on the ground behind us as we walked. When the fireworks started Lucy covered her ears, but then she enjoyed watching them. She told us she liked the pink ones, surprise, surprise!!

On our last day, my Mom and I took Lucy and my niece to a water park. The girls had so much fun on the water slides and I did too. Lucy was so brave, she didn't even want to go down with anyone, she would say "I do it myself." So down she would go and my Mom would catch her at the bottom.

The only bummer from the whole trip is that the time up there went too fast and I came back with a cold. It's just so much fun having a cold while you are pregnant!! What does Tylenol cold do for you anyhow, I haven't noticed a thing???