FIVE Months!

Luci is now 5 months old!  We started her on some rice cereal last weekend and then moved on to sweet potatoes this week.  She is getting better each day at using the spoon and gobbles up whatever we give her.


Today we noticed the beginning of a tooth poking out.  There is a sharp little spot on her lower gum.  This might explain her rough nights the last couple of days.  Waking every couple of hours, wanting her pacifier.  Twice now we have gone in there because she was SCREAMING to find her rolled over on her belly.  She used to know how to roll back, but somehow has forgotten.  Now she just lays there on her belly with her arms and legs flailing...a little like me doing pilates! 

We think she is just going to skip crawling and be a scooter.  She wants to sit up so bad and has been working on her abs for a few weeks now.  She will sit for a bit (especially on the soft bed) but eventually tumbles one way or the other.  Today we went over to Angela's to play.  Wylie entertained her with his cool dancing moves.  She loved that!  Luci just wanted to bounce, bounce, bounce while Wylie danced all around.  She and Maggie don't always have the same nap schedule, so they only got to play for just a bit.  Maggie is moving so much and once Luci gets the hang of it, those two will be getting in to everything.

Happy New Year!

Wow!  It has been quite a month.  Luci is growing so much and learning new things every day.  This last month she learned to roll completely over!  She has discovered her toes and loves to reach for them and pull her socks off.  She continues to give us lots of sweet smiles and be the perfect little baby.  Mommy went back to work and Daddy now stays home.  Luci took the transition - no problemo!  Daddy and Luci have so much fun together every day - playing, going on walks, and visiting Mommy at lunch every day. 



We spent two weeks in Florida for Christmas.  While there, Luci took her first boat ride, met her great-grandparents, cousin Brittany, and Uncle Lyle, slept in a motorhome, learned how to take naps in bed instead of the swing, met tiny little doggies who gave her lots of attention, sat in Santa's lap, and enjoyed all of the attention her Florida family gave her.  

Another highlight of our trip - getting to see Troy, Amanda, and Henry.  They were visiting Disney World all the way from Maine, so we took a day to go up and see them.  I guess Maine is closer to Florida than Oregon!




She was very good on the plane, especially riding in the Ergo baby carrier we got for Christmas.  Jet lag was just a little problem once we returned to Oregon.  She was waking up every 2 hours once we got back, but now 6 days later she is back to sleeping 11 hours at night.  In another week, we are going to try out rice cereal.  We think she will do just fine because she loves to sit with us at dinner and watch while we eat.

For the grandmas - make sure you check out all the pictures on the Picasa website.  Link is on this page!

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