My Winni-the-Pooh

Kisses for Pooh

I stashed my childhood Pooh bear in her toy box, which she's been digging into for the last couple of days... and out came Winni-the-Pooh, big smiles, hugs and kisses. Awe, too cute!

Baby Ultrasound

It's a Boy!

An active little boy ! Now just on to the name picking!
Any input is welcome but no promises.

Projects... and a growing girl.

Timber

*The Lumberjack, is taking down dead trees in the back yard and making a new place for his hammock. This week the other tree just past it was felled.

More Table Time

Lulu again refusing to eat in her high chair rushed straight over to the table for her dinner.

How Lulu gets on a chair.

And then there is daily puzzle time, she brings them to the table after her meal every day (breakfast, dinner) and kicks me out of my chair so she can play there. Below is a video of her with her puzzles and a whole lot of talking going on!

Lulu is really loving to read books now, guess she realized that her dad and I read there a lot and figured she should too. Around bedtime we go play in her room where there are books, and sno-globes... she picks out about 2 books at a time and brings them too me, sits between my legs and lets me read her a little bit (1-2 words per page unless they are her favorite books). Yesterday she was bringing me books, and she said, "OH" leaped off the floor and ran to the book shelf where she'd just seen her First 100 Words book. That and the Cat and the Dog books are almost a guaranteed read through... because she has to kiss all the animals, including the fish, frog, guinea pig, and goat.

Self Diapering

This is the latest in attempts to put diapers on herself. She got into the diaper backpack and took out the diaper and tries many times to put it in the right spot... when she's not doing that she sometimes puts it down on the floor and lays on it like a pillow. Of course the cloth diapers have more cushion! She's really picked up (not from me) playing with dolls at day care, where there are baby dolls and blankets and tiny carriers. She puts the baby in the carrier and covers her with a blanket... it's super cute until we have to leave the baby at Day Care where not even her Bear-Bear makes her stop the crying (but M&M's do- bad Mommy!)


The New Baby's Chair

While passing a garage sale this weekend I saw this chair/swing for 50 cents. The mom I bought it from said corroded batteries were inside and so it doesn't consistently work. I figured I would try to fix it, no loss for that cheap. As soon as I bought it in the door though it's been Lulu's newest favorite toy. She stands and swings, she sits and swings, she puts all her animals in it, and sometimes her animals and her balls. She also puts her animals in the swing and covers them up with her blanket. It's so cute.


Nail Room

My latest investment everything in the room except the bookshelf so now that we hired a mgr, I do manicures and pedicures.

The Girl Scouts register this week, and I am suppose to be helping out... I think Friday. I did get all our Day Camp "Cup with Love Project" cups glazed and fired this weekend. I always forget how cute everything looks when it's fired and shiny.

I am so close to finishing our book club book from forever ago, then I want to read one last old book before I move onto the October PR book Remedies. The Menahga BC is going to see the Eat, Pray, Love movie and have dinner this week I think? I hope so since I didn't enjoy that read enough to get past the first 1/4 of the book. It'll be great to see everyone after the long summer break.

Lastly, I decided that when I don't have clients on Wednesday afternoons I am going back to my Knitting Support Group. And Mom, the first thing I am finishing is that Tea Cozy for your Russian Tea Pot. Then it's back to the sweater that I started before Lulu was born!

The End

A little bopping around from Lulu. She's got on a cute outfit... and her diaper hangs out the back, so many clothes don't work for cloth diapers!

A Little Lulu In Our Life

The New Swing

What Does a Kitty/Doggie Say?

Always Up For A Golf Cart Ride

Chicken Pot Pie with Utencils & A Big Girl Cup

Breakfast at the Kitchen Table

Lunch at the Kitchen Table

Snack at the Kitchen Table

The weeks pass by so quickly that some days it seems I only get to spend 3-5 hours with my little girl. She's growing so fast. Every day that passes she gets more and more independant. She doesn't want help doing anything, these days. She started eating with spoons and forks a few weeks ago, and really being able to shovel the food into her mouth. Of course she's been really picky about food too, so it's been rough. I hate that she loves mac-n-cheese so much but it's my back up food. I just found out that she likes chicken pot pie, not so much the crust but the veggies and filling so maybe I will learn to make some homemade pot pies. She started drinking out of a big girl cup last week and there's no turning back. She'll take a sippy at day care though... oh and she'll only take a bottle at night! The latest problem besides wanting to be held only while I am standing up is that she no longer lets me brush her teeth.

Well off to hang with my Lulu, I think she's running a mild temperture. This would be her first.

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.