November 27, 2012 10:19 pm

2 Years

Birthday, birthday!  Who’s gotta birthday?!  THIS ONE!

This is what Two looks like, lest she forget later:

This is on her actual birthday, just one of THREE celebrations, criminy! We need to consolidate the joy!  This is at our house, with a red velvet cupcake.  I learned that night, after eating the cupcake at 9pm, that it does indeed have cocoa in it, and was up with insomnia til 2am!  Lucy didn’t care much for the cupcake so I helped her out.  Better me than her!

I like how she went cross eyed while looking at the smoke rise.

The next Saturday we went and saw Grammy and Grampy, Juju, Uncle Mike, and Amanda Panda to celebrate a late birthday for Lucy and Grammy.  More cake!  celebration #3.

Finally…DUELING PANDAS!  I have been waiting about a year to get these two together for a panda portrait.

Here is Lucy with her new little push cyclist guy that Grampy gave her.

Opening presents, she received several puzzles, a talking animal one, a floor puzzle with farm animals, and a shape sorter.  Also, grammy gave her a wooden food set and she loved it and played cook for a long time.

Then she pulled out every doll from grammy’s room, one by one she dragged them down the hallway, including the basket, the bench, and all the little ones.  Here she is relaxing after her hard work!

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October 31, 2012 10:55 pm

Halloween 2012

I can sum up our entire Halloween Holiday in one sentence:

We went up on the roof and took a couple pictures.

The End.

These photos are truly a testament to my passionate desire to go all-out for Halloween, against all obstacles.  I mean, you just SEE the desperation.  Look!  We are all dressed up!  Having a great time! Costumes, costumes! Fail.

So… in case it isn’t obv, we are the off-cast of the Wizard of Oz.  Wicked Witch of the West, Pete is the tornado, and Lucy is Dorothy’s house that fell on the Wicked Witch of the East.  It was, I thought an adorable idea, with her little feet sticking out with ruby slippers.  I made all of the costumes.  Pete and Lucy are both clearly thrilled.

Despite spending months conceiving of a do-able costume, that would not involve a hat or wig for Lucy, without a constricting outfit, and no makeup, she still hated it.  Despite acclimating her to the costume for days, weeks, letting it sit around the house so she could see it and practice wearing it.  Despite letting her wear her favorite shoes.  She hated it and refused to wear it or participate at all.  Here we are, HOLDING the actual costume in front of her as she stands in regular clothes.  A totally fake and posed Halloween situation.  She didn’t want smooches, that is for sure.

Our plans to go out and meet Colton for trick or treating, never happened.  We just got dressed, took photos, the screaming started, we took the costumes off, and went to bed!  Better luck next year.  There’s no place like home, I guess….

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September 27, 2012 10:10 pm

22 Months

Now here is a kid who is going to love to go to school someday.

All I had to do was say, “Do you want to go to Lily’s?” (her new friend at nanny share) and she dragged her footstool around the house, first fetching my car keys, then my shoes (putting them on my feet), then her own jacket, shoes, doggie lunchbox, headband, etc.  She even got up to the sink to brush her teeth, even though she can’t reach the faucet yet.  She changed outfits 3 times in 15 minutes, but you’ll see 2 things remain constant:  a tutu and ruby slippers!!

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