Pictures as promised

Here's Brandt raising the roof at 7 weeks old. He is showing you his moves that Daddy taught him.

2 months old

Mary and Jofus

I've been waiting to get the pictures off my camera so I could post about this because it shows Lucy's creativity. So, at Christmas time we talked a lot about the birth of baby Jesus and the kids acted out the christmas story. So since then, Lucy loves to play Mary, Jofus and baby Jesus. She brought a blanket to Michael one morning and said, Daddy can I be Mary. So he put the blanket on her and she asked him if he would be Jofus (we absolutely love to hear her say Joseph... makes us smile every time). Anyhow, she said, now we have to find a manger for baby Jesus. So she gets her baby Sophie doll and sticks it in the back of her sham on her pillow. Then she gets other stuffed animals to be the wise men, shephards and animals. They call me in Lucy's room then and this is what I find....

Love you

I talked to my Mom and Dad yesterday morning and they said to tell Lucy that we love her very much. So of course I did and she smiled. So at lunch time she wanted to pray, here was her prayer.... Dear Jesus, thank you for this day. Thank you for mommy, daddy and baby brandt. Thank you for daddy's job and he can go to work, and thank you that Grandma and Grandpa called to say they love me. Amen. Isn't that sweet! When she goes to sleep she has to say nigh, nigh, love you and she will cry until you come back upstairs to say it to you if she thinks you didn't hear it. So go and tell your children you love them right now... it means the world to them.

So last night I had to take some toys away from Lucy. We had started where if she wets her pants we take away a toy and then she gets it back when she goes 3 times in the potty. It had been working great because she doesn't like having her toys taken away. Well, yesterday we were out, so she had a pull-up on. I asked her several times if she had to go to the bathroom and it was always no. Anyhow, when we got home she was very wet and she didn't want her underwear back on and never went in the potty until before bed. So, I took 2 very precious toys away... her coffee pot and tea set. I thought she would cry and be upset, but she looked at me and said "I'm not sad, Mommy. It's okay." Great... not that I want her to cry, but come on it's the tea set, be a little sad so I think we are headed in the right direction with potty-training. I told her today that if she wets her pants, there will be no Dora... so far so good :)

The cute things she says

Just some sweet things Lucy has said that I don't want to forget...

The other day Michael came home from work and Lucy ran up to him and said "I'm lucky you are home."

We were talking about beautiful things that God made and she looked at me and said "God made you beautiful, Mommy." Oh and does Mommy ever love to hear that!!!

Lucy loves to sing songs. So we will sing actual songs for a while and then she will say, "Mommy, do you know this song," in which, she will proceed to make a song up and then look at me with big eyes and say "Mommy sing with me."

I love the way Lucy talks in a high pitch voice to Brandt. She will ask him questions and then tell me that "Brandt says...." It's hilarious. He probably will be 3 before he talks because she will do all the talking for him.

She thinks that we can get everything at Sams Club. Lucy and Daddy came in from the backyard wondering where the bubbles were. I told them that they were all gone, so Lucy said, "Well, we need to go buy some more at Sams Club." If you ask her what her favorite stores are, she says Hobby Lobby and Sams Club.

I know that this list will only grow. Speaking of growing... Brandt just keeps growing and getting more stinkin cute each day! I really need to learn how to take pictures off my new camera so I can post some of my sweet boy.