Luci's Baptism Gown

Luci's grandma, Peggy Alley, made her baptism gown.  It is absolutely gorgeous.  The details are a little hard to see in the picture, but it has a lot of hand embroidery on the gown and the slip underneath.  The bodice is alternating strips of lace with puffy long sleeves tied with ribbon.  The embroidery has a bow that is done in shadow work while the rest of the stitching is done on top of the fabric.  Grandma also embroidered Luci's name and date of baptism on the slip.  Grandma experimented on the gown and also learned a new stitch for her - the scalloped edging on the slip.  She was still working on completing it on the plane out to Oregon.  Making the tiniest of button holes by hand.  Thank you Grandma!  We love it and Luci looks beautiful.

Luci's Baptism

Here's a link to Luci's Baptism  on YouTube.  Enjoy the pictures too!  Luci was such a beautiful baby in the gown that her Grandma made her. 

Halloween

On Friday, we went downtown to trick-or treat at the businesses.  Luci only made it to the restaurant we were meeting at.  She was tired!  But we still got to see a lot of friends all dressed up.  Luci and Maggie were Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Saturday was the Beaver game.  Daddy dressed up as a golfer and went to the game.  Luci and mommy went to the Lake's house for a hair cutting party and then all those at the game showed up later.

Sunday was Halloween and we had the Konings over for brunch.  Took a nice walk to the park and finally got a picture of the girls all dressed up together.  We only had 2 knocks on our door for Halloween.  Guess we'll be saving that candy one more year!

What's in your wallet?

Bumble-Beaver Ba-Bee

Beaver believers!

Rolling Over!

I rolled over during tummy time - from my belly to my back.  So what if I had a little prop under me to help me strengthen my neck...

2 months old!

 

I'm now two months old.  I got my first round of shots and found out that I weigh 12lbs. 9oz and I'm 21 3/4inches long.  I weigh a lot but I'm not very long yet!  I get plenty of food and rest.  I'm sleeping any where between 6 to 8 hours at night and then after I eat, I go right back asleep until the time my mommy actually wants to get up (usually any time between 7:30 and 8:30).  I went on a mini roadtrip to Southern Oregon to meet my great Aunt Pat.  And let me tell you - she is GREAT!  She is quite the hostess and now I know why my mommy and daddy like to visit her.  We went to a pumpkin patch with her and had some delicious meals.  

After my shots

Meeting Aunt Pat

 

Just a little video of Luci...

Happy Birthday Poppy and Unkie Lyle

Almost 7 weeks old - And I sure do smile!

I love my BabyLegs!

Having fun in the hammock!

All the guys...and mommy

Here's a few pictures of me hangin' with the boys...plus one of me and mommy.  These are all from our past week's adventures - Oktoberfest with mommy and daddy, Link Crew Tailgater at the high school, dinner with Maggie's folks, and a day in the woods looking for Chanterelles.

Mt. Angel Oktoberfest - St. Mary's Church

Lake always kissing on me.

Rob and me (in my Sunday dress).

In the woods with my daddy.

Teething Ring/Rattle

 When I was a baby, my great aunt Daisy gave this to me.  My mom never had a chance to engrave it though.  So, now it has been passed down to Luci and has been engraved with her information.  A little hard to see but wanted my mom to take a look.

Saint Lucy

Yesterday David and I attended a baptism class so that Lucy can be baptized soon.  The man leading the class (it was just the two of us in it) asked us if we knew about Saint Lucy.  We did not.  He said we needed to find out about her and how wonderful she was.  After class, I said to David - "Is there really a Saint Lucy?"  David:  "Of course.  There's a saint pretty much for everyone."  Me:  "Even a Saint Princess or Saint Gaslein?"  David:  "Who are they?  Are those real names?"  Me:  "Yes - Leah had them in kindergarten!"

Anyway, we were watching an episode of Nurse Jackie last night and Jackie's daughter Grace (who just started Catholic school) fills her folks in on Saint Lucy.  She had her eyes plucked out.  Wha what?  Okay, so now we've got to find out more about her!  That was just too freaky to be told to find out about Saint Lucy and then to have the TV show we are watching bring it up.

So...Saint Lucy is the patron saint of the blind.  Her mother had set it up for Lucy to marry a pagan but Lucy vowed her life to Christ.  The angry bridegroom turned her in as a Christian to the governor, and the guards who came to get her could not move her so they took her eyes out with a fork.  This was during the Diocletianic persecution - the last and most severe persecution of Christians.

Week 5

I am now one month old!  Every day I just keep getting bigger and happier!  My smiles are for real now and my mommy and daddy can really make me smile.  When I am on my changing mat and they sing to me or play with me - I get the biggest smiles!  Right now my favorite book is "Snuggle Puppy" and I love it when mommy sings it to me.  Yesterday we got to hear Maggie's mom's version of how she sings it.  Very different from my mommy's.  So this week I got to play with Maggie, I took a bottle from my daddy, and I went to Mama/baby yoga.  Yoga was hard.  It was right when I like to take a nap, so mommy didn't get to do much yoga.  She's says we'll try again this week and see how it goes.  I also started wearing bumGenius diapers.  They are the coolest diapers that mommy washes and puts back on me!  The diapers also help me fill out my 3 month clothes that I am wearing.  They make my booty look big!  I've got green ones on in this picture.  She still has me wear disposables sometimes, like at night or if she has to wash all the diapers.  I'm sleeping about 6-7 hours at night these days.  Mommy really likes that!

Week 4

Well, I am such a busy girl.  Life has yet to slow down!  My mommy and daddy took me to the Oregon Coast for my first overnight trip.  My grandma went with us too.  We took walks on the beach and the sounds of the ocean put me right to sleep.  Mommy and daddy said that was probably some of the best sleep I have had!  They even had time to sit and watch a movie at the beach cottage.  I can't wait to go back.  Grandma left at the end of the week to go back to Maryland, but she will be back for Thanksgiving with Granpa, Unkie Patrick, and Aunt Elise.  Yippee!  I am such a good baby (mommy says so).  I ride in my car seat without complaint and then I get to go out to dinner and sleep the whole time so mommy, daddy, and their friends can enjoy dinner.

At mommy's school with Jan

Mr. Morella made me cry - just kidding I was hungry.

Week 3

This week my grandma and granpa flew in from Maryland.  I am their first grandchild.  We had a very eventful weekend.  We toured the Bounty of Benton County.  I went to a music show at Tyee where Bon Ton Roulet played.  My friends Rebecca and Dominic are in the band!  All weekend long I was so good being in the car.  On Saturday, we went out to Alsea and got to see a very cool kiln, we went to the fish hatchery and made t-shirts, and then we went to Philomath and did some wine tasting.  On Sunday my granpa left, but we still went touring.  We headed up towards Monmouth and went to the most beautiful garden at Dancing Oaks Nursery.  My dad bought some pretty flowers for me.  After that we did more wine tasting at Airlie and Lumos.  Oh - and my umbilical cord fell off this week!

Meeting my grandparents

Granpa knew how to put me to sleep

I have no idea what you are saying, but I like it!

At Tyee with  my folks

Just enjoying the music at Tyee

Meeting the Lakes!  Thanks for dinner.

There's my belly button!

I'm a great sleeper.