Lucy's New Words

Lucy has handled the transition to big sister amazingly! We were a little worried about her, since she is such a mama's girl, I wasn't sure how she would handle sharing me with someone else. Especially since just before Jack was born Lucy got the phrase "No it's my mommy!" down with her friends. We are happy to report however that she has really stepped up to the challenge. Some kids get really naughty when a sibling enters the family, and while it's only been a month, so we are not entirely in the clear with that, Lucy isn't one of those kids. Instead, she tries to out shine Jack. Lately she has really over compensated on her cuteness, and she lays her charm on thicker than I ever thought a little kid could. She must really be thinking hard all the time on ways to be really cute, because while her cuteness has increased, so has her vocabulary. So here are some funny phrases she has picked up lately, and some kind of sad ones too.

"Um, actually, no"
"This is AMAZING!!!" (She said this when we took her to the park when Jack was 3 weeks old.)
"It's ok baby Jack Jack." (or "It's ok baby baby boy.")
"I a big sister and I a big girl!"
"It's ok Mommy Mommy (or Daddy Daddy)" (she loves saying things in doubles)
"It was just an accident"
Mom-"Lucy, how do you like you new treat? Is it good? (pudding)" Lucy- "No, it's pretty good!"
"Jack, do you want some company?"
"Close the door Mom, I need my privacy."
"Lions live in Africa!"
"Mommy! I just jumped over the whole state!"
"I have so many sends (translated- friends)"
"I'm so so busy!"
"I need to go to my sends house, ok?"
"Daddy, please put baby Jack in there (his bouncer chair) and hold me (she was crying at the time because I had left her)."
Mom-"Lucy, go get your jammies." Lucy- "No I playing for sive more minutes!"
"Mommy, I can seel my heart!" ("s's" are her "f's")
Guy at the bank-"How old are you?" Lucy- "I two!" Shawn- "Who are you going to see today?" Lucy-" I going on a date!" (see my next post for more info)

That does it for now, she has just been so funny to watch learn some new phrases. We keep laughing at her and asking each other at what point she thinks to herself, yeah, I'm going to use that. She's a good big sister, and so far she's only kicked Jack in the head one time.

Highlights from Week 2

Jack is 2 weeks old in these pictures. Tomorrow he will actually be three weeks old, but I thought I'd post some highlights from his second week with us. It's been so fun, and exhausting. By this time with Lucy, she had her nights and days all straightened out, can't say the same for this little guy. Sure Lucy woke up several times to eat, but she'd always go right back down. This week with Jack has consisted of nights with several, several feedings, and a few nights when he decided he wanted to be wide awake until 4:30. I lasted with him until 3:30 on this particular night, then when I was having a hard time walking without falling over I decided that it was Shawn's turn. I don't think I've ever fallen asleep so fast after laying down in all my life.
We also had Jack's two week check up, where he weighed in at 8 pounds 14 ounces! He's a big boy! Look at him trying to look all innocent like he sleeps all the time.

More Lucy and Jack bonding time. Lucy wanted to "cuddle" with Jack while watching morning cartoons and drinking her chocolate milk on this particular morning.

I'm so glad that I caught this face on camera, this is the face that he pulls that totally makes him look like a little bruiser. He is so funny! Such a boy too, he makes this face and all he does is grunts and groans. I took a video clip of his sounds that is at the bottom of this post so everyone can see what I mean when I say "all boy".

Jack had his first trip outside this week since it was close to 70 degrees and Lucy needed some outside time. He slept right through it, which was nice, I was concerned about the wind, but he didn't mind at all.

And yes, Lucy is nursing her baby. Apparently she watches me a little more closely than I realized. One day she walked out with her doll and said "I seeding my baby, she so so hungry!" Seeding of course being feeding, but Lucy can't say her f's yet. The blanket to cover up is a nice touch. What is worse is that after this she realized that she couldn't actually feed the baby, and so she waited until I was nursing Jack and walked over and shoved her baby under there with him and told me to open up so that I could feed her baby too. Gotta love two year olds!




And finally, here are the sounds that my little guy makes all the time. This is actually as fussy as he gets, and it's kind of mean of me to grab the camera and film his grunts and groans instead of pick him up and take care of him, but I've been wanting to catch these sounds for a few weeks now. There are a few other groans that that he makes that are not on this video that I hope I can catch, but they are going to be hard ones. I love the newborn sounds, they are so little and cute, except this is what he sounds like all night long.

Lucy feeding Jack... again.

So I wasn't going to post this video on here because I thought it was kind of mean of us to try so hard to wake up this sleeping newborn. But when I watched it a week later, I realized that Lucy is just too stinking cute, and this video is too priceless not to post, if not for everyone else to see, for me to see. This is just classic video of Lucy's interaction with Jack everyday, just the little things she says to him and how she wants to play with him so bad, I love it!!

Lucy in waiting!

So in anticipation on Jason and Katie's wedding in May, I thought I'd experiment with some spounge curlers in Lucy's hair to see if that might be something I wanted to do for the wedding. She was pretty excited about them, but when we took them out the next morning, her hair was a total affro!! I mean full out 80's black man affro! This picture totally doesn't do it justice since we waited until later that night to take pictures and it had totally calmed down. Unfortunately we did this on a Saturday night, and with 8:30 church the next morning, Lucy had to go with her affro, there was no time to try and fix it. But it was pretty funny, and kinda cute. Poor girl is going to hate me when she looks back at this.

So I was looking through my pictures of Lucy, and I found this stinking cute video of her in her ballerina tutu that Steff made her. The funny thing about this video is that this is the night that Lucy learned if she puts on her tutu and runs around as cute as she can possibly be, she doesn't have to go to bed. Yet another strategy in her stalling talent.

Just after our Christmas trip we came home and I realized that the only thing I didn't get done before we left was vacuuming. Being as big as I was then, I hated vacuuming, so I made Shawn do it, but Lucy was, as always, more than happy to help. She is so stinking cute!