Happy Halloween!

We had a happy little ladybug for Halloween this year! (Thanks, Saugiers, for the costume!)

(it even had wings!)

Happy Halloween!

Fall Fun!

We took Lucy to her first State Fair this past Thursday night with our community group and all their kiddos...what a fun night!

Here we are with Big Tex (kinda hard to see Big Tex...)

Daddy and Lucy with Big Tex

Mommy and Lucy with Big Tex

All the kiddos in our community group (minus Case!) with Big Tex- it was kind of like herding cats to get them all to stand in line and smile....

This past weekend, my cousin Jon, his wife Gretchen, their son Jack and my Aunt Melanie came in town to visit! We had a great time visiting and catching up and seeing Mr. Jack! Unfortunately, I have no pictures to show that we saw them, but on Saturday, we all went to the Arboretum to enjoy the pumpkins together. Now we finally have some good pumpkin pics of Lucy (see last post about her melting down at the last pumpkin patch!)

I like to eat pumpkins...

Out. It's not easy being photographed! I have to get my beauty sleep!

6 months old....and some fall pictures!

 My sweet Lucy is 6 months old! Half a year! She is busy, busy, busy! Currently, she is almost crawling- she does this belly-flop/inch-worm type of crawl and can get around pretty quickly (translated, this means we need to baby-proof ASAP!)- this morning, though, she started doing full-fledged crawling for a couple of attempts! She says "da-da-da-da", blows raspberries, especially when she is mad. She loves green beans, sweet potatoes, likes carrots and cereal with banana. She DOES NOT like peas. Those were promptly "raspberried" out of her mouth onto my shirt. We've started introducing a sippy cup with some water- she figured out pretty quickly where the spout was. 

As far as sleep...well, that's an on-going battle. She's taking 3-4 naps a day, at least one of those is a good hour/hour and a half, the rest are about 45 minutes long. She still consistently goes to bed around 7:00pm, gets up around 7:00 am, and gets up usually once a night to eat. Lately, though, I think she's either going through a growth spurt, or teething, or something, and she's been getting up more than once at night. 

She's also had her first cold and thought the battery-operated suction deal was confusing and weird and then after a couple of days, really didn't like it, even though Mom kept telling her it would help her breathe better. 

Lucy, for the most part, is a pretty happy girl. She has a great smile, has a deep laugh (sometimes hard to confuse with early crying), likes to talk a lot. She's still wearing size 3-6 month clothes- the 6 month pants are too big for her little waist.

We went for her 6 month appointment, and she is 14 pounds, 2 ounces (10-25th percentile) and 26.5 inches long (75th percentile). Her head is in the 5-10th percentile. 

That was a lot of info about my little one, mostly recorded so that I can remember what happened later on down the line. Sometimes I feel like life is a little blurry- probably due to the sleep deprivation. :)

As many of you know, Fall is my FAVORITE time of the year!! So, it was so exciting to take Lucy to her first pumpkin patch with her friends and their moms! 

Lucy and Jenna

This was the only group pic I got because Lucy then proceeded to have a melt-down
 and went down for a nap in the stroller right after. 

Our playgroup friends- Olivia, Luke and Jenna

Mike is turning 30 this week, and I knew that one of his favorite things is to have all of our friends over to hang out. Since there are kiddos involved now, I decided to have a lunch with all of our friends and their kids today. I had pulled pork BBQ sandwiches, spinach dip and veggies and chips, and then made Mom's Chocolate Pastry Cake- delicious!!  (sorry, no pics, it was gone really quickly!)

To keep the kiddos occupied, they got to paint pumpkins while the grownups carved their own pumpkins. 

Happy Fall!