Branson

We made a short trip to Branson for a few days with my parents. They were on their way back home and have Silver Dollar City season passes, so we went along with them. We stopped at Lambert's on the way there, and thought it was overrated, except for the rolls... delicious! Besides Silver Dollar City, we went to the Sight and Sound Theatre and saw Noah, the Musical. It was a good production and Lucy liked all the animals. Silver Dollar City was so much fun. The weather was perfect and it wasn't very busy so Michael got to ride all the rides over and over again without waiting in line... he was loving that! Lucy liked the train ride and the children's area, and of course all the sugar she had!! What can I say, Grandma was along. Michael kept talking about the Giant Barn Swing, so Lucy was all about going on the swings and couldn't understand why she wasn't going. Thankfully, they have a new children's area and she was just tall enough to ride the rides and they had swings. She loved those the most... Michael and her just kept riding them over and over again. They also had a roller coaster, which Michael was going to take her on, but he didn't fit in the car and pregnant ladies aren't suppose to go on, so my Mom took her. My Mom said after the first hill she turned and said "Grandma, this is scary." My Mom completely agreed with her!! They didn't go on it again.

So you always hear that kids are like sponges, they absorb everything. Well, Lucy proved that to be so true because when we were parking once I became a little bossy and was saying, Michael go over there and directing him to a spot and than I realized that I sounded like my Grandma who would always tell whoever was driving to go park under that tree... so we started laughing about that. Anyhow, the next day Michael was parking and Lucy said, hey Daddy, go park under that tree. Oh, we laughed so hard, and she just thought she was hilarious! Such personality!!!

Here's a few pictures from our trip....

Labor Day Weekend

Last weekend, we headed down to Dallas to spend the weekend with Mike's sister and family. Lucy had fun playing with her cousins and we had fun relaxing and shopping. Have you ever been to a Harry and David's? They feed you, a lot! It's a great place for a pregnant gal to go... Elizabeth, I will never forget you.

We also thought it would be a great idea to potty train the girls (Lucy and Gracie are both 2) together in a weekend... it didn't happen. They did look super cute running around in little undies.

We have continued with the potty training since we are home and Lucy has pooped on the potty twice. She also has pooped in her underwear and on the coffee table in her play room. We asked her what happened and she said she was jumping and it fell out...don't you hate when that happens.

So here is a picture of me 29 weeks pregnant. I can't believe it is September and this little one will be coming in 11 weeks. Lucy likes to lift my shirt and kiss my belly button to kiss the baby, or she will stick her finger in my belly button and say tickle tickle. They are

already playing together.

When Jesus Comes

Last night we were singing songs... Lucy loves to sing. If you sing one song, she will keep saying, let's sing another one. So we sang This Little Light of Mine and Lucy loves that last verse that says "let it shine until Jesus comes," so we finish the song and she looks up at me and says "Mommy, will you tell me when Jesus gets here?" She just had the look in her face like, wake me up because I've been singing about Him coming for a long time now and I don't want to miss out. It was such an innocent statement and a great teaching moment.

Yesterday, Lucy went to the dentist for the first time. I wish I had brought my camera because she was so tiny on that big chair. She let the hygienist clean her teeth and floss them, but she was a little apprehensive about the dentist looking in her mouth. We found out that once her big teeth start coming in that we will probably start to have problems because her teeth are close together. It's really not a big surprise because Mike and I both had braces for a long time and I had like 7 teeth pulled before I could get braces, but for now she has a pretty cute smile!! She liked picking out a toy from the toy box and getting stickers... it was all worth it. Although, she is into wrapping presents to give to you, so she used one sticker to wrap the other sticker to give me a present and ruined them both. I guess the love language of giving of gifts is coming out. She'll take tissues and wrap up coasters or some small toy and say "open your present." Her 2 year old attitude is also coming out a lot. I hear this so often through out the day... "I don't want to." So of course I have come to sound like a true parent and say the ever popular "I don't care if you don't want to do it, do it anyway" or "change your attitude or I'll change it for you." I think I even used a phrase my Dad said to us a lot growing up... "you're going to have to do a lot of things you don't want to do in life." Like she even has a clue what I am talking about, but I said it anyway.

The day came too soon

This morning when Michael went to get Lucy from bed, he set her down and went to the bathroom, so of course she climbed up into bed and laid on his pillow. When he came back her response was "I took your spot." I sat up and said, what did you say and she said "I took Daddy's spot." I thought surely she didn't say that the correct way, so I asked her to say spider and spicy... actually I said, say pider and picy and she said spider and spicy. I almost cried because it's just another sign that my baby is growing up.

Funny Lucy

I love having a 2 year old. The things that Lucy comes up with are just hilarious and the way she says it makes it all the more funny. She thinks it is so funny to take your spot when you get up. So I was reading in bed and I got up to go to the bathroom and she comes in the room, climbs into bed, picks up my book and pretends to read it. When I come back, she peeks from behind the book and says "I took your pot." She misses the "s" on a lot of words and I love it! She will say "mommy, a pider, get it." I even encourage the mispronunciation because I like it and I know it will end too soon.

Last night we were rocking before bed and when we finished praying I told Lucy that Jesus loves her very much. She said "Jesus loves Mommy and Jesus loves Daddy" and she continued on with just about everyone in our family. Well, she has 2 Uncle Mark's so we are always trying to think of a way to distinguish them, and last night she came up with her very own way. She said "Jesus loves Uncle Mark without glasses and Uncle Mark with glasses."

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!!