well, it happened! lucy said her first word :) she said 'dada!' she's been saying it almost non-stop for 2 days now. no, she doesn't look at ju and say it; she doesn't quite get the meaning yet. sometimes it's just 'da' and others is 'dada.' and then 'dadada.' but, nonetheless, she said it!
i know it's been since february since i last blogged, so lots has happened since then. i'll just hit the high points...
lucy is such a big girl now! she's at such a fun age :) she loves to play w/all of her toys. and she loves to eat baby food. and she loves her walker. she is the happiest baby! she laughs all the time :) she likes to be scared (playful scared, not terrified). oh and sometimes she fake laughs or fake coughs--it's the funniest thing! also, she has 2 teeth! she's growing so fast; she's almost 18 lbs! a couple weeks ago, we went to the beach. it was me and lc, ju's mom and his sister. we had a girls' trip to santa rosa beach and had a fabulous time! lc did soooo good! she didn't like the water (ocean or pool); it was too cold for her liking but she loved sitting under the umbrella and playing w/her toys and just looking around. (she loves to people watch.. she gets it honest.) we're going back to the beach in july w/my family, and i'm hoping she likes the water more by then. i may start taking her to the country club pool so maybe she can start getting used to the water. here are just a few pics from the beach....
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| 1st day at the beach |
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| duck swimsuit :) |
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| :) (i got sunburned on the 1st day.. that was a blast.) |
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| you can kind of see her teeth! |
this past monday we went to ridgeland to have lc's pictures made. it was so much fun! they were done by lisa siddall, and i just know the results will be amazing. i cannot wait to see them!!!!
another big thing that's happened is that luce has started eating baby food! she loves it!! so far she has tried squash, carrots, sweet potatoes and peas. we were going to try green beans this week but when i made* them, they didn't puree quite like i wanted and i was afraid she would choke on them. so we just brought back squash and carrots until i run back to the store to get some fruit.
*i'm making her baby food. it is sooo easy! and cheap too :) everything i've made so far has been in batches-my mom got me these food storage trays, which essentially are ice cube trays w/lids. so all i have to do is go to the freezer, pick the food, pop it out of the tray and warm it up in the microwave. it's super easy. yesterday, i made 2 trays (24-1oz cubes) of squash, 1 of carrots and 1 of sweet potatoes... and it took maybe 30 minutes (minus baking the sweet potatoes). it's so good for babies too, since you know exactly what's going into it. no preservatives or anything like that to help maintain shelf-life. and you think of how much baby food costs..... this way is so much cheaper. the package of squash i got at our grocery store was maybe $3.50, and it had 2 large and 1 medium. it made 24-1oz cubes, which is about 12ish servings (usually she eats 2oz of each food).
well, duty calls... more next time (whenever that may be :)
