Rice Cereal...

You start with this...

 Get yourself situated in your Bumbo with a giant plastic bib,

And try it....

Yummy!

All done! (and sleepy!)

A shmorgusboard of things...

I think that's how you spell schmorgusboard....

Anyway, one of my favorite things about the weekend is Saturday breakfast. I usually get up, get some coffee started and then make either cinnamon rolls from a can, homemade biscuits or the Frizzell family coffeecake. I'll be honest, usually it's the cinnamon rolls from the Pillsbury can because they're super easy and I'm usually still tired.

BUT, they are so not good for you and the 3rd or 4th ingredient is partially-hydrogenated oil of some sort, along with a list of other ingredients I can't spell or know what they are.

Enter in Immaculate Baking Company. No hydrogenated oils, no high frutose corn syrup, no bad stuff inside.  These are my new favorite things to make for breakfast! The scones are really yummy and the cinnamon rolls are super-cinnamony and tasty! I've tried the chocolate chip cookies and they're pretty good. Plus, I was super-excited about seeing that they also make crescent rolls for dinner, as we have those frequently- haven't made them yet, but I'm sure they are great.

Best of all, you can find them at Target!!

 Here's Miss Lucy in her exer-saucer (thanks to the Solomons for letting us borrow theirs!). We had tried it about a month ago and she just wasn't ready for it yet. I tried it again this week and she LOVES it! It's also kind of funny to see her little skinny legs sticking out of the bottom....

She also loves watching the TV, so I have to be careful how often I have it on. Here she is trying to watch it while playing in her exer-saucer. She thinks Channel 8 news is so interesting....

Can you tell what's on the agenda for this weekend??

Pictures to follow.... (as well as a bath, I'm sure!)

Community Group Retreat

We had such a great time with our dear friends this past weekend on our community group retreat. It was supposed to be sans kiddos, but since Lucy and Case are still nursing, they both came to join in on the fun! They both did great!

On Saturday, we went out on Lake Whitney on a boat (Lucy's first boat ride!). I had to get her some sunglasses for the occasion...she actually didn't try to take them off!

Of course, the only pics I got were on the boat....

We had a great time, though!

4 months old!

 A year ago today I found out I was going to be a Mommy! I still remember that morning so very clearly- going to Walmart early that morning to get the test, coming home to take it, since Mike was working at home that day, and what a shock it was to see "pregnant" on the stick, to even begin to imagine what life was going to be like with a baby, and to wonder if I was ready for such a big change. Well, one year later to the date, our sweet Lucy is 4 months old!!

What a wonderful blessing she is and how thankful I am that she is here! Here's what we've been up to lately:

Smiling and cooing! She has the best smile and is happy most of the time. She also loves to grow and has gone through several growth spurts lately, especially when she learned new tricks, like rolling...

Learning how to sleep- let's just say we need a little more work in this department. She goes to bed between 7:30-8:30 pm, I dream feed her around 10:30pm and then she wakes up around 2:00 am to feed, then goes back to sleep until about 7:00 am. She takes 2-3, 45-minute naps a day (not a great napper). We're in a quandry regarding whether or not it's time for her to sleep train and eliminate the 2:00 am night feed. Neither Mom or Dad is super excited about sleep-training and crying-it-out, but we'll see... We have done some sleep training for the times she would wake up in the middle of the night when it wasn't time to eat- she would cry for about 5 minutes, then go back to sleep, for the most part.

We spend most weekends in the pool- here she is with Oma (she looks chunkier in this pic than I really feel like she is). Lucy does great with swimming/being in the pool for about 30-45 minutes, then she is done. :) Better than at the beginning of the summer! (And it doesn't hurt that the pool water feels like bath water because it's been so stinking hot!)

Rolling!! She learned how to roll from her back to her tummy, which she constantly does when on her blanket. It used to scare her at night when she'd roll over, and I did find her stuck in between her crib rails several times (scary for Mom!!), but she's getting used to falling back to sleep on her tummy.
She's already pushing with her feet when she's on her belly and Mike tried to teach her to crawl this past weekend. I truly believe she will be crawling by the time she is 6 months old! She is constantly moving, kicking her legs, trying to scoot, rolling....very busy girl!

 She still continues to do great at childcare twice a week while I'm at work. She is also a great little side-kick when shopping and running errands. We go on Monday to the pediatrician for our four-month visit, so we'll get her official stats (and her 4-month shots!).

How to talk to little girls

Very interesting post I found on a friend's Facebook post....

Read it.

Very challenging, as it's easy to make cute comments about how cute that little girl is, how pretty her dress is, how nice her hair looks...all true statements, no doubt.

But to ask what she is reading, how her summer vacation was, what she likes best about school, etc...to not put the focus on the external but on the internal. Reminds me of 1 Peter 3:3-5 .