Wisconsin and Home Again

Wisconsin 2010

Playing with Super Balls

Reading CATS Book
Lulu's New Mini-Bilbo Set
Lulu's Shift Driving the RV

Wearing Dad's Hat

Lulu's First Slide

The Easy Way Up?

Climbs Stairs & Ladders

She Loves It

One More Time

It's been a week of tantrums and boundary pushing for Little Lulu, and a big week of new rules and boundary setting for Mommy.

The past week when you ask Lulu, "What does the kitty say" or if she sees a cat she says "Ow" vs 'meow'

Our trip to Wisconsin was good, but the out of sync naps and meals were pretty hard.

New Baby has a 142 heartbeat.

Another Week Passes

The Orb of Silence

She can push the button on her own, and we're all happy about that.

Lulu Loves Shoes

She pushed the box from her room to the living room. Then she digs out the pair (matching mind you) and sits down to put them on, or does the balancing on one leg to get her toes in.

Stacking Boxes

I stack boxes for her and tell her what's inside them all the time, but I had never seen her stack them on her own! Gez, she's growing by leaps and bounds. Stacking, boxes, feeding herself with utencils (right handed), and putting shapes into those shape boxes.

Daddy Watching
It doesn't matter what he's doing she gets to any window to watch him, and she chatters to him. Although she's calling him Momma too sometimes.


Bear Kisses

This is her current favorite stuffed animal, but she likes anything soft and squishy.

She's growing so fast.

Just Catching Up

Flip-Flops

All summer Lulu has been trying on our shoes, she particularly likes flip-flops. So while at a local store I picked up some kid sized flip-flops and trimmed them to fit her. She wears them for hours, just walking slowly from one room to another. When one show falls off she picks it up and brings it to me to put back on her. She has tried to put them on herself, but that generally turns into frustration and hollering.

Letting The Cat Out

Yes, Lucky me now we have to keep an eye on door locks, she lets herself out too.

A Little Cheese to Go with That Egg

The average breakfast. She's a good eater in the morning, then she goes to Day Care and eats again... well we eat at 6am here, so by 8:30am it's understandable to be hungry when your growing so fast!

She Likes Cars

In addition to stuffed animals, blankets, purses and shoes she also loves to play in the sand and play with cars. I had to make a special trip the the store to buy her a few.

4th Of July with Dad

What can I say but "Awe." She loves the water as much as her Daddy.

Her Outside Chair

No doubt that she thinks all the chairs on the beach or in the living room are hers, but she especially enjoys the ones that are her size.

Ready for Fun Island

"Everyone quit telling me no!"

Things That Don't Belong

Shoe's and balls, and who knows what are often found in my kitchen draws.

Still Loves the Piano

She plays her little piano all the time too, but nothing beats side by side with The Pianist*

Watching Dad on the Tractor

Just so darn cute! So I think she's missing her Daddy as she's blowing kisses and calling his name when I take her outside to see him and let him know lunch is ready. As he starts walking toward with his arms open and smiling she is seemingly moving toward him... but then she walks around him and heads straight for the tractor. What a hoot!

Family PicnicPB&J, sliced fruit and H2O in the front yard.

My Inside Chair

She's hamming it up for the camera. We're watching Baby Einstein she always crawls in that chair when I ask her if she wants to watch her movie. However, she's learned how to scoot the ottoman around the living room to get on anything she wants, and so any chair seems to be hers these days.

Fat Lip

My poor baby girl! This picture was from the Saturday of Midsummer Festival. We were at the Girl Scout volunteer spot (mini-golf course) and she just HAD to have 3 golf balls in her arms (more if I'd of not taken away the bag of balls). In her meandering around the area of my feet she took a spill and with 3 balls she wouldn't let go of she fell and last thing to hit was her little mouth on the asphalt. Right away we got her a popsicle because putting ice on her eye last week was a disaster, she like the popsicle and it reduced the swelling right away. Now less than a week later you can't even see where it was.

Oh but I almost forgot... I got her a magnetic alphabet book, and I caught her going through it yesterday pulling the letters and pictures out of their spots (p.s. Doug & Melissa stuff rocks) and she was singing the alphabet song... well the tune she does when the Baby Einstein alphabet wheel plays. She's so smart!

It's been a busy life for us lately, so not a lot of pictures or things besides the everyday routine. One day out of routine makes us all miserable! Yesterday I did feel a little more like myself, I picked up Lulu from day care, made us dinner and her at the same time, put her to bed, made a chicken salad and baked banana bread, worked in the garden, and painted a plate for the pie eating contest. It felt a little like the good ol' days when I seemed to be more productive.

Picking Wild Daisies

Things are finally calming down, and all I want to do is curl up and snuggle with my special little Lulu!

She's started talking quite a bit, climbing everything and eating with a spoon.

Her First Shiner

Lulu's Shiner

Well I hate to admit that I turned my head for a couple of seconds while I knew Lulu was on the deck playing with the Mickey Mouse push toy we picked up in Minneapolis. I was looking at my flowers and thinking about how much I love the Peonies and Cone Flower that are growing by the deck and how wonderful that combination might be across the entire front of the house if I tore out the juniper bushes that I am allergic to anyhow. Imagine how many fractions of a second that took for me to think that, meanwhile Lulu was going down the 3 wooden steps in front of our house. The best we can figure is that she did a summersolt down to the walkway. It must have hurt pretty good because she cried for a good 10 minutes it seemed.

By Friday morning she'd recovered and became very playful, or she really knocked her noggin'! She was crawling around on all 4's panting and going up to our dogs panting as if she's having a conversation with them then crawling away really fast as if they were chasing after her. It was too funny! She's also figured out how to open the dog food and scoop it out... so it's a new problem we haven't figured out how to fix without putting it one the counter.

Later we were playing on the floor with her Doug-n-Melissa puzzle pieces clapping when she put a piece in correctly. We also like to play with the shapes bucket that Tracey gave us last week... she can put the circle throught the circle hole, but for any shape she doesn't get on the first try gets flug across the room at warp 10. What a stinker!

Penelope unknowingly donated her "Spin-spin a letter" toy to Lulu. Who I noticed yesterday was spining it and singing to the "ABC's" So not bragging here, she wasn't singing the actual ABC's she was just singing and it was so sweet. I tried to catch it on video... will upload anything I find if I got any.

As she was playing in her favorite black chair she was messing with the attached massage remote and was leaning too far over the side and fell on her head. I was quickly moving over to try and catch her but it was too late. Good thing she only fell about 4 inches, but all the crying, kicking and head rubbing I am sure it was a good bonk. Unfortunately she didn't learn her lesson, she still climes on the black chair and looks over the side.

During both lunch and dinner she let me put food in her mouth wth a utencil in between her own bites. After dinner we were sitting outside and I was spooning some yogurt into her hust before she popped off to plat in her car. I left the yogurt and spoon on the step and sometime between her playing and resting on the step she grabbed the spoon and started to feed herself. I am pretty impressed because she use to use a spoon before when she was really young but then she lost interest in feeding herself until now. So at breakfast this morning I gave her some applesauce with her eggs & cheese... I am guessing about 1/2 made it into her mouth with a spoon, but she sure looked like she was having fun. That's the same with drinking out of a big girl cup, she loves to do it... when she took it away from me one day she ended up dumping the milk on her head, surprizing even herself.

What else is new? Hmm, kisses on demand, and a hug now and again... and my favorite is that she likes to snuggle up to me in between her play time. Oh and the way she uses everything at her height as a chair, legs & laps especially, then she leans back and melts into me... I love it.

And at the end of every evening I love to see her resting so sweetly with her Mac & BB.

Just Random Days

Side By Side

My Little Twinkle Toes

Lulu's 1st Birthday

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

A picture is worth a thousand words, these say she loves ice cream cake!

Big Gift

The Piano

At least an hour past her bedtime and Nana couldn't wait any longer to open Lulu's gift for her. So after it was open I am pretty sure she was awake 2 hours past her bedtime, hamming it up as everyone applauded her playing. She's so cute!

The Cheese
Look at her go, kicking her feet into the air and playing feverously.

The Cousins

Lulu, Penny & Bell wishing they were allowed to play the new toy, but smiling for the camera anyhow.