Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Cereal!!

First time with cereal



Daddy made her laugh



Not a big fan



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This was at dinner time, but Brooks calls it her breakfast. I guess b/c we said it's cereal.

Update

I know it's been awhile, as usual. So here's a quick recap of the last month or so. At the beginning of January we went to Lucy's 4 month check-up. I can't believe she's already almost 5 months old now! She was 14 lb. 4 oz. (50th-75th percentile) and 23 in. long (10th percentile). So she's still short like her Nana and Grandma (or Maw Maw as Brooks says!) But she's healthy and happy. She is definitely getting rounder! Her little belly and rolls on her arms and legs are so cute! She smiles ALL THE TIME now and loves to laugh. She has such a strong belly laugh. I don't remember Brooks laughing that hard at this age. One of her favorite things to do is to watch her big brother. It doesn't matter what he's doing, she fixes her eyes on him and just laughs. We've tried cereal a couple times, but she's not that into yet. We're in no rush right now. She is definitely not starving with just breastmilk! Speaking of that, I'm trying to slowly ween her right now, so soon it should be all formula. I hope she doesn't have a problem with it. She seems a little more high maintenance than her brother.

Brooks is getting bigger and bigger. And talking all the time. He's starting to crack us up with the things he says. I should start writing them down, so I'll remember them. He loves school still, although we went through a rough patch where he decided he was going to have separation anxiety. No matter where he was dropped off, nursery, school, nana's or grandma's, he would cry. Oh that was horrible for me. Especially since he had NEVER done that before. But lately it's gotten better and he's starting to get back to his normal self. He's starting to sing a little now, which is so cute. And he can count to 10 and sort of say the alphabet (he still needs some cues every few letters).



Daddy doesn't like this one... she's showing a little cleavage!





Big brother



He loves to give her sugar


Lucy getting her storytime. He's reading his Bible to her



Lucy at 4 months







Saturday, January 3, 2009

Christmas Time!!

So I know it's the new year, and I'm 1 1/2 weeks late, but whatever. Our Christmas was great this year. Brooks was really into opening presents, and he didn't need much help, either. Christmas Eve we spent with the Smarts at Jefferson's Christmas Eve service, then headed to Maw Maw and Grandpa's house to celebrate Grandpa's birthday a day late. We also opened the "family gift" from the 'rents: Wii Fit. Now, my mom doesn't have a Wii, but she still decided to buy a Wii Fit for her house. We also got Shawn White's snowboarding game. And Mike can tell you, it's not really true to life... it doesn't hurt near as much!! Then we went home and Brooks put out cookies and milk for Santa. In the morning, he slept late!!! YAY!!! I also think he was a little overwhelmed when he saw his stash that Santa had left him, but he soon warmedup and had a great time playing with the loot. Then we headed to the Wilson's for lunch and of course, more presents. Brooks had lots of fun here too. I think his favorite gift was a fishing pole with magnetic fish. It's supposed to be for the bathtub, but he didnt' seem to mind fishing all over the house. I don't have a whole lot of pictures because I was filming most of the time. I need to get some from all of the other papparazzi that were there!




Lucy and her stuff



Daddy helping open "Rocket"



Brooks writing on his MagnaDoodle