Day at the Lake

On Saturday, my sister's family, my cousin's family and us went to this fun little lake that had a sandy beach and all sorts of water things, like a tunnel slide, a diving board, a high dive, a raft, a rattle snake for climbing on and a huge floaty thing that you can jump on. So we packed a lunch and enjoyed the day at the lake. My nephews, who are 7 and 4 were jumping from the high dive, and it was really high so we were watching them and Lucy takes off swimming towards it and says "I wanna jump." She wasn't very happy with me that I didn't let her. The scary thing is that she would have done it because she doesn't have fear, so unlike me. She also wanted to go down the water slide and it was one of those fast tunnels that has a huge drop so I didn't want her to go down that either, but Michael said he would take her. They came flying through the air at the end and she drank about half the lake. She didn't ask to go on that again. She spent most of her time jumping from the raft and swimming around. She also didn't fail to poop in her swim diaper. All you need to do is put the girl in a swim diaper, let her swim around and a little while later if you ask her if she pooped she will say "I pooped in Elmo", even though we had discussed that Elmo doesn't like to be pooped on. Regardless, it was a fun day. So if I had a brain at all I would have remembered my camera, but since it was a fleeting thought I had that morning I don't have any pictures to post.

A little bit of everything

So I have been a horrible blogger and I know it. I am feeling better for the most part. I still have some nausea at times, but nothing like it was. I remember with Lucy the nausea just stopped, but this time it is just dwindling on and on. Lucy's new saying is "I tired".... hmm, where does she hear that from?

So what am I listening to right now? Lucy plucking the piano keys and singing Jesus Loves Me. While we were in Kansas, some good friends of the family came over to visit and of course we made Brenda play the piano for Lucy because she is amazing and we want Lucy to see that you can make beautiful music on a piano, not just chopsticks (my song) and pink panther (Michael's song). So Brenda took Lucy's little finger and played Jesus Loves Me over and over again. She also saw her cousin's piano recitals while we were there. We were in Kansas for 10 days at Michael's sister's farm and his parent's farm. Lucy got to ride horses, see pigs, chickens and tiny baby kitten's. I wasn't too pleased that she was talking so much about kittens, but I agreed that kitten's are cute and cats are still yucky. I didn't get any pictures of Lucy riding the horse because I was in the house sick, but my sister-in-law took a bunch that I haven't gotten yet. We also went to the dairy that isn't far from the farm and Lucy got to pet calves and see the cows get milked. We didn't last there too long because it got a little too stinky for nauseous Erin. Lucy also loved to go for 4-wheeler rides with Michael and she really liked going fast. She does not get that from me. Last summer when we were there, she would sign "more" to go faster, this year she just told Michael to go faster.

So I need to write down some other things that Miss Lucy has been up to. Lucy has a new way to sing her alphabet. She did it once and got a lot of laughs, so now she continues to do it. Here's how it goes... abcdefghijk mmmmp qrstuvwxyz. She says the m's super fast and it is just very cute! We also went to the library the other day and she picked out some Dora books. So that night her and Michael were reading it and Michael decided to count with her in Spanish. So he said, uno and she said dos.... he looked up at me like, Erin, she's a genius. It was a priceless expression. He kept going and she said several more all the way to 10. He was in complete amazement. I was too actually, but earlier that day I had heard my niece, Samantha, teaching her to count to 10 in Spanish. I wish my mind was a sponge too, but it seems to just be mush. Speaking of Dora.... Lucy puts things on her back and says "it's my packback." So funny!! Lucy entertaining herself while I was sick one day

Lucy and her cousin, Gracie

The Cup

Yesterday I went to the doctor, and you know how every appointment you have to pee in a cup. Well, Lucy finds this quite interesting, so she grabs a cup and says "Mommy, I wanna poopie in cup." I just started laughing so hard and she persisted to ask. She got so upset that I wouldn't let her go poopie in the cup. She is however showing a lot of interest in the toilet and even went for Michael last night before her bath. I just need to start feeling better so I can actually feel motivated to start the process...maybe in a few weeks.

Due Date

We went to see the doctor today and found out that I am almost 11 weeks along. My due date is November 22. I am happy that I am further along than I thought because the end of these yucky days are in sight, but I am also bummed that my baby will have an ugly birthstone. For that reason alone I hope that it is a boy. A boy won't care. So we will have a thanksgiving time baby. The baby had a strong fast heartbeat and looked perfect. Lucy did great at the doctors office. I made her popcorn before we left to eat while I was being examined. She sat in the chair like such a big girl eating her popcorn and turning her head away anytime the doctor would ask her a question or even look at her... she's a little shy. He thought it was pretty funny. You would never know she was shy by her actions in Aldi. She was talking so loud asking what everything was. I would say, that's creamer and she would reply "I love creamer" or that's frozen food and she would say "I love frozen food." Where did she get that from.

Catching up

I haven't posted about our trip to Florida or Lucy's birthday, so I am going to do it all in one today. We went to Florida the first week of April to visit my Grandma. Lucy LOVED being at Great-Grandma's house, #1 because she had a pool, #2 because it is a retirement center so Lucy was quite the entertainment, and #3 because she had a lot of goodies from Grandma!! We spent the week there and enjoyed swimming everyday. Lucy was a fish, which doesn't surprise me because I was too. The first day in the pool she had her water wings on and couldn't quite get balanced so she kept tipping over, but by the second day she was swimming all over. At the end of the week she was jumping into the pool without me catching her. We went to the beach one day, but Lucy liked the pool better. The ocean was cold, the sand was blew in her face, and the seagulls attacked us to get our crackers. I'm not kidding. We opened the bag of crackers up and there were about 25 seagulls right above our head.... freaked me out, which freaked Lucy out, and what does Michael do, he feeds them! So Lucy got to eat one cracker and we saved the rest for the car where we were safe.

Lucy turned 2 last Saturday. If you would ask her what today is, she would yell "it's my
birfday" and give you a big cheesy grin. She loves singing happy birthday to anyone and for us to be singing it to her just thrilled her!! We had a double birthday party with my cousin's little boy, Grayson, because they were born on the same day only hours apart. So we had our families over, we made a lot of food, I made a clock cake for them and we opened presents. It was a fun day, a little chaotic at times, but I think Lucy felt like the little princess that she is.

Lucy turned 2 and....

Lucy Lipstick

What a nickname, hey. Where did she get it from, you ask? Well, let me tell you. My sister and I embarked on the LONG trip with our kids for spring break last week up to Wisconsin. We had a great time up there except for Thursday afternoon. I put Lucy down for a nap and after I thought she was asleep, we went downstairs in the basement to watch Biggest Loser that we tivo'd. About an hour later, my Mom yelled down to me that she didn't think Lucy was asleep yet because she just heard her yell, "get out." Well, if you remember from a previous post, that means she got out of bed. So I go upstairs and open the door (she can't open the doors in my parents house otherwise she would have come out) and oh my word, what a mess!! She had gotten in my purse and used a whole tube of lipstick on her, the carpeting, the walls, and the bed. She then went in her diaper bag and found suckers I had stuck in there for entertainment in stores and ate them. So she was covered from head to toe in lipstick and sticky sucker juice. I wish now that I had a picture to share, but at the time I was in panic mode, shocked and too upset to take a picture. After scrubbing the carpeting and shampooing it, we did get it cleaned up, but her shirt was ruined from the lipstick. Oh it was such a mess. So yesterday, when we went to my cousins house for Easter dinner, they were all calling her Lucy Lipstick.

Friday was a very exciting day, it snowed!! It didn't just snow a little, it was 15 inches of white sparkles from heaven. It was so beautiful and the kids had a blast in it. Here they are with Grandpa in the snow. This was before the heaviest part of the storm even started and look at all that snow. It snowed from like 6am to midnight. Thank goodness my brother gave my Dad a snowblower, otherwise I would have had one sore back from shoveling since it was my prayer for snow :)