Lucy’s Blog

We had such a blast this year for Christmas.  Lucy LOVED unwrapping her presents and loved playing with them even more!

But first, I’ll get you up to speed on December!  Lucy has turned into a KID.  She’s walking, starting to talk, and there isn’t much baby left in her.  It’s sad but at the same time it is SO FUN.

She’s telling me what’s up

She’s growing too!  She no longer fits in any of her 9 month clothing and she’s upgraded to size 4 shoes.  Yes, she is a tiny little bean!  I promise you, she EATS!  I swear she eats more than me!

She’s also a BIG helper.  Here she is trying to take Mommy’s purse down to the car:

She also has quite the personality (still).  It’s definitely gotten bigger as she has gotten bigger!

And she does arts and crafts now!

Yep, that one made me cry!

She had her 15 month appointment on the 23rd.

Her stats from the appointment:

Height: 28.75 inches (15th percentile-down from the 50th!)
Weight: 19.4 pounds (8th percentile-holding steady)

He said that she’s pretty advanced with her verbal skills and with her fine motor skills.  She has around 10-20 words right now and has started putting phrases together: “I read” while flipping through a book, “I do it” when she doesn’t want help (I hear this one a lot) and she also signs together “More” and then “Please” that usually only happens for cookies though    The fact that she’s feeding herself with a spoon and spearing things with her spork (she only gets food on her spork about 20% of the time right now) is really great as well.  He also commented that she was very calm 15 month old.  He said that his 15 month old appointments are usually full of protests and wriggling.  She just sat in Mommy’s lap-I think part of it had to do with her not feeling well but she is also a very calm little one.

On the growth he said that he’s not worried about her height percentile falling off so much.  He said that once they hit a year old they really find what growth pattern they’ll hold to and that she’ll probably be a shortie like her Mommy and Daddy.

She had been coughing for a few weeks before her appointment but not that often and only when she went to sleep.  ALL the kids at daycare had been coughing so we didn’t make much of it.  The night before her appointment though, she woke up at 2 am which is NOT normal.  She was coughing more and the honey water I gave her didn’t seem to help.  It turns out she was at the beginning of pneumonia 🙁 I never would have thought!

See why I didn’t think she was too terribly sick?:

But the chest x-rays confirmed it.  She got some antibiotics and by the next day she was feeling much better.

The doctor said that as long as she was getting better and not worse, our travel plans on Christmas were a go!

But first we had to have Christmas 🙂

We set out cookies for Santa and carrots and celery for his reindeer (thanks Mimi for the awesome plate!)

What a difference a year makes:

In the morning, Santa had definitely come!

When Lucy came out she pointed right at her big present-an activity table and chair!

She LOVES it!

She’s such a big girl now *sob*!

Christmas was AWESOME!  We finished the day in Idaho where Lucy got to play with her cousin Tessa-who is 5 months younger and very enthralled with her older cousin Lucy:

Lucy didn’t know what to think-but she did have fun!

Our first morning in Idaho started off with the two cousins having breakfast together.  Lucy is 5 months older than Tessa but they are about the same size.

They were only that close for the pictures because they started stealing each other’s food.

After breakfast, we drove 2 hours to a lake town called McCall.  The drive was beautiful!  I was driving so there’s no pictures    We met most of my family at the small airport in McCall-they had flown straight there.  My two brothers, my sister-in-law, my soon to be sister-in-law (Congrats Jake and Amy!), my 3 nephews, and my Dad were all there waiting for us. 

My brother, sister-in-law, and 3 nephews hadn’t seen Lucy in a year so that was fun to catch up!

The next day everybody except my sister and me went skiing and the two girls hung out.

We also went on a hike in the snow, where we had to really bundle the girls up.

(Yes they can barely move-it was 8 degrees out!)

The next day, it was more skiing for everybody while the girls hung out again.   All the cousins played again.  Here’s 8 year old Luke with Lucy’s magna-doodle.  He drew a picture of Lucy and Luke together.

Here are all the cousins (Lucy wasn’t so into the picture):

Our last full day in McCall we went to breakfast and then all took naps.  Later in the day we went on a hike in the snow and went sledding.  It was a blast!!!

Lissa and Tessa:

Shaun and Lu:

Aunt Kelly and Uncle Roger, who came to visit for 2 days, and their dogs, Bear and Bailey:

Lu in all her gear-thanks for the awesome jacket and gloves Gram and Pop!:

And then we went sledding!

Even I did it-it was SO FUN!

Even when I crashed…

Shaun dug it too:

Ben and Sheri went together:

OVER A JUMP!

And Lu got in on the action!

She was a trooper but a little cold by the end of it.

We left the next day 🙁

Flying into the Bay Area, we got some fantastic views:

Aunt Sheri and Lu took some time for a self portrait:

Since we’ve been back, she’s been enjoying her new toys! Playing legos with Daddy!

She even helps clean them up-this kid LOVES cleaning up-seriously.  I hope it sticks!

We sang the clean-up song while she put them in the box and then on her own volition she did this.

She needed a little help to get the container up on the shelf.

Aren’t her Jammie Jays super cute?  Aunt Kara and Uncle Jerel sent them!

Did I mention that she REALLY likes her table?

She loves the music set Santa got her too! (No pictures yet).

She is seriously SO.MUCH.FUN!

Now onto resolutions.  I know how many of you love this blog and check it frequently.  I am COMMITTING to posting once a week in 2010!  I set it up with Windows Live Writer which means that blogging is MUCH easier and faster.  If a Monday comes and you haven’t seen a post in over a week-EMAIL me and make me honest!

With that-Happy Holidays!

I’m taking some time out of my busy day to post Lucy’s pictures with Santa:

She didn’t like him very much 🙁 Here she is trying to get away from the scary red man:

Poor thing 🙁

Have no fear she cheered up considerably just minutes later:

I can’t believe it’s been a whole month since I posted last!  Time is flying by!  We’ve also been pretty sick in this house this month. I *think* we’re all finally better.  I got sick first with the stomach flu, then Lucy got croup, and then I got bronchitis (which is adult croup).  Bothe Lucy and I still have a cough but we’re much better.

In the last month Lucy went from being a baby to a full fledged TODDLER.  She walking more than she’s crawling and she’s TALKING.  Her favorite words are “COOKIE”, “balloon”, “cheese”, “cracker” (do you see a trend?), “Daddy” (not Dada anymore), “Mama”, and “uh oh”.  She’s also says “Thank You” and “I get it.” Which if you know Lucy-fits perfectly.  She’s little miss INDEPENDENT.  She is just SO MUCH FUN.

She’s also learned a new sign-“Please”.  She can now sign “All Done,” “More,” “Light,” (which she says as well-normally she signs and says “Light” at the same time) and “Please”.

She’s now about 18 pounds and 29 inches tall.  She just grew out of her 6-9 month clothing and is in 12 month clothing.  Her feet are still teeny tiny at size 3.

Now the reason everyone checks in-PICTURES!

Here’s Lu in her winter coat:

Eating some of Mommy’s Pumpkin Butter:

With Mommy on my birthday:

Lu and I went to Seattle for my birthday. We met up with a friend and had a girl’s weekend. Here’s Lu at dinner the first night:

I’m part of a birth board where I talk to other Mom’s who were due in October 2008. While in Seattle we had a chance to meet some of the Mom’s and babies. Here are all the babies together.

They were all born within a month of each other-Lucy is the oldest.

Here are some other pictures from our weekend in Seattle:

And then some from Thanksgiving.

Love this one (even though it’s blurry):

After a costume change:

A family picture:

And, now, Lucy is in her Christmas jammies:

We also got a video of her on the rocking horse that Gram and Pop got her for Christmas last year. She LOVES it.

Sorry, I’m a bit late with getting these posted-I got VERY sick on Halloween and finally just recovered.

Here’s pictures from Lucy’s second Halloween =D

At her school party:

My favorite picture right now:

At Mommy’s work parade:

She totally loved getting candy and putting it in her bucket!

She’s only played with her candy and hasn’t eaten any. Actually she won’t eat any because I just donated it to get shipped to soldiers overseas. She had fun playing with the crikly wrappers!

At Daddy’s Work:

With her friend Aiden (he’s a puppy who didn’t like his ears):

She is SUCH a girl and LOVES her costume. When we get it out she gets all excited. I foresee a lot of this costume in our future 🙂

And just for fun, some other cute pictures:

Eating Mommy’s Spaghetti:

She really likes it:

Like, alot!

And now she’s “All Done” (this is the sign for All Done):

Here she is playing in the sweater I made her:

And, this is tonight-showing off her mad spoon skills:

GIVE ME MORE MOMMY!!!!

Lucy’s vocabulary has just taking off! She now can say “Ma Ma”, “Da Da”, “nigh nigh” (for night night), “ca” (for cat), “eef” (for teeth), “oot” (for foot), “cow”, “eep” (for sheep), “pig”, “doh” (for door), “all done” or “done”, “up”, “down”, and “DOE” (for her favorite food AVOCADO!). Oh and “IES!” for her real favorite food COOKIES!

She’s getting REALLY good at feeding herself with a spoon. Multiple teachers at daycare have mentioned how good she is at this. She’s also now in the Toddler Room at school. No more infant room. She naps on a cot and it’s about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. She also eats a little table with little chairs (no more high chair) and doesn’t get a bib at daycare anymore (and boy do her clothes show it).

Lucy still crawls more than walks but just this week she started actually taking steps unassisted at daycare. She’s been doing it for us for a few weeks now but not at daycare. Now she is and I bet we’ll have a full on walker VERY soon.

Lucy is such a good girl and such a joy. She just gets more and more fun. I love seeing what she’s going to do next!

Lucy has had a ton of visitors over the last month.  Mommy and Daddy are finally recovering but we all had a great time.  We LOVE visitors!

First up was her Cousin Tessa, Auntie LaLa and Uncle Willie.  They flew here the day before Lucy’s birthday party-they got here early-before Lucy could even change out of her PJ’s.  At first Lucy was like “who are these people?”  Tessa on the other hand found all of Lucy’s loudest toys and joyfully played with them:

Eventually Lucy warmed up:

Later that day Mimi and Papa got here as did Uncle Jake and Aunt Amy. We all went out to dinner and had a great time-so great apparently that we didn’t get any pictures.

The next day was Lucy’s birthday party.

We had a big BBQ at the park with all of Lucy’s favorites-Steak, Chicken, Avocado, Cheese, and Pasta Salad (with Cheese-she REALLY likes Cheese!):

Mimi was there:

Unckie Jake and Cousin Tessa:

Lucy’s friend Aiden (all the way from Marin) and her other friend Sophia (from San Jose)-if you can believe it Sophia is 6 weeks younger than Lu and 2 weeks younger than Aiden:

All the babies and Mommies:

Aunt Marci and Uncle Dick came from Bakersfield:

Lucy’s Outfit (Mommy planned this outfit for months!):

Standing Unassisted (woah):

A very serious Lucy and Daddy:

A not so serious Lucy and Daddy:

Present time! Lucy LOVED opening presents:

Then it was cake time!

Her smash cake and cupcakes:

The “cake”:

She wasn’t so sure:

But she did get dirty enough for a bath:

She finished up the day swinging with Cousin Tessa:

The next day Mommy got a matching outfit for Lucy and Cousin Tessa and then only got one (not so good) picture:

Here’s Lucy trying to escape!

Auntie Bug and Cousin Tessa (Tessa’s like “who is this Crazy Lady?”):

Lucy got a little overwhelmed with all the visitors which is very obvious in this picture with Mimi and Papa (it’s a GREAT picture of Mimi though-those are hard to get-she normally clams up in front of the camera):

Next up, Gram and Pop flew all the way from Pennsylvania to visit! The first day they were here we went to a pumpkin patch where Pop got the nice girl to let Lucy sit on a pony:

Next, Lucy visited the animals in the petting “zoo”. Pop and Gram were shocked by how much Lucy loved the animals-she wasn’t scared at all:

Then the requisite pictures with pumpkins!

They’re evidently great for standing:

Pop wanted a picture of Lu in the wheel barrel-ask and you shall receive!

Next we went to the beach, where Lucy walked like a big girl:

The next day we went to the park:

Where Lucy climbed though the tunnel (Mommy has been wanting her to do this for months!):

And we went down the slide-which Lucy LOVES:

The next day we went to Red Robin where Pop scored a balloon for Lu-she LOVED it:

Hi Mom!

Daddy-you’re silly!!

We had so much fun!!! We hope everyone comes to visit again!

So, I have tons of pictures to share with you (birthday party pictures, Gram and Pops visit) but we had quite an exciting night in the Titus household and we had to share!

First, a little backstory: Lucy has been doing the “downward dog” for at least a month.  She’ll get to all fours, with her butt in the air and then will fall down and start crawling.  Tonight, she did the downward dog and then just STOOD UP and stood there clapping.  Shaun and I watched dumbfounded!  She did it over and over again and then we decided that we should try to get this on video.  He got his iPhone out and I got the camera out.

We got her to stand up, we both had the video rolling and she decided to WALK TOWARDS ME! She only got a few steps in but still-this was a first! We both got videos of it and in them you can hear how in awe I am (I’m a tad bit embarrassed by my reaction but oh well, it’s as real as you can get).  We were not expecting this to happen AT ALL.

Mommy’s Perspective:

Daddy’s Perspective:

Oh boy-we’re in for it now!!!

Our Hotel is off in the distance:

Lucy our first day there:

The start of our 8 mile hike:

Super Dad:

Nursing Mom!:

What we hiked to see:

Family Portrait:

My hiking buddies:

An example of the craziness that we hiked up and down (Shaun really is Super Dad!):

I mean really:

Lucy and her friend Jessica:

Lucy decided to feed herself:

Poipu Beach (We forgot our camera for our favorite beach):

Mommy really wanted a picture with Lu and Lu wanted NOTHING to do with it:

Then we got a cute one but evidently Daddy only thinks Lu is worth taking pictures of (notice my face on the left side of the picture). I hope you sense my sarcasm-I think this is hilarious!:

The view at the end of another hike:

This hike was in the pouring rain-that’s not sweat-it’s rain!:

Wet Lu:

The army family:

Me, Shaun, Lucy, and our Hawaiian friends (who we LOVE) Kelli and Jessica:

My Hula Girl:

My favorite picture of all time:

Lucy Standing Unassisted in the Water:

Happy Girl!

I want to go back…

Stay tuned for pictures of Lucy’s first birthday party!

Happy Birthday baby girl!

She opened her presents:

She also took 1 (just 1) unassisted step-she did it twice though!

She had her first cake and LOVED IT!

I can’t believe it’s been a year already. It’s been the best year of my life and I’m sure it will only get better!

Lucy-Mommy and Daddy love you SOOOOOOOOO much! Happy Birthday Munchkin!

Stay tuned for MANY pictures from our trip to Hawaii last week.

We’ve been working and playing hard! Lucy has gotten to be so much FUN! It’s not that she wasn’t fun before but she’s just blossomed. Her personality is coming out, she’s mobile, she plays with you and by herself, she giggles, she makes us laugh. It’s just a really fun age. Rather than a baby we have this little person in our house now 🙂 She’s growing up and fast. Part of me is excited and another part of me is sad. There’s only a little over a month left until she turns 1 and I can’t believe how fast it’s gone. She’s even in a big girl carseat now! She’s also GROWN. We had our 6 week weight check-in this past week and she gained almost 2 pounds in 6 weeks! The doctor was very happy. She’s now right at 17 pounds and just over 28 inches-the 10th and 50th percentile respectively. She’s now has 9 teeth! She’s got her two bottom front teeth, her bottom front molars (on each side), her left eye tooth, left canine, left upper front, right upper front, and right eye tooth. For a few days there she had her left upper front, left eye tooth, and left canine tooth and NO right upper teeth-it was a funny sight. Last night the 2 left uppers came in so now she looks a little more even 🙂

In the last month Lucy has had visitors, she went camping at the beach (and successfully did a 4 hour car drive), and went to the park-many, many, MANY times!

Here’s some pictures!

At the beach:

Playing with Unckie Jake:

Discovering Sand (She wasn’t so sure at first-she wouldn’t go off her blanket, but once she did, there was no stopping her!)

At the park:

On the swings with Aunt Amy:

Looking Fierce!

In Morro Bay (fully over her aversion to sand):

Hiking with Mommy and Daddy in Morro Bay:

Demonstrating her new trick-standing in the bath! You can see her fang in this picture:

She thinks she’s hot stuff (we think she is too):

I think she got her Daddy’s complexion:

With some buddies at the park:

Eating Watermelon for the first time:

A face we see all the time now:

Sleeping with Daddy:

Just for comparison-when she was about 1/3 the size:

Being a goof ball:

We’ve got a busy few months coming up too. We’re heading to Hawaii, her first birthday, and lots and lots of visitors!

We’ve had a request for a picture of our bird, Azul. Azul has been living with us for 4 years now and can do many tricks. Here she is outside on her leash: