Easter Princess Dress

Lucy has been so excited to wear her Easter dress. Every Sunday, she points to the dress and says, "That my Princess Dress!!!" So tonight, after our bath, we put her dress on and ran out and took some pictures. There were a few cute ones. . . so here they are! :)

In front of our house. . . this bush broke out in flowers this week and Lucy loves to smell them!

Prayer Garden at Church

Lucy loved these flowers because they looked like the ones on her dress!

It got a little windy, so many of our pictures didn't work because her hair was in her face. . .

The cutest kid in the world. . . and she's mine! ;)

Easter Egg Hunting

Lucy has had a week of grandparent fun. She went to stay at Gramma and Pappy's house from Friday through Sunday while Mommy and Daddy stayed at home and cleaned house! (Yes, an exciting weekend without children, I know!) Then we headed to High Point and we all spent a few days with Grammy and Poppa. We had a great time. . . here are a few pictures from Lucy finding the Easter eggs that Grammy hid for her!

The amazing Lucy ;)

Of course, every mother says their child is amazing, but my little girl constantly amazes me. She has grown so much just in the past three months. They say that the average three year old should have a vocabulary of 300 words. Have no fear. . .Lucy has greatly surpassed that mark. She uses complete sentences most of the time, as well as using correct pronouns and sentence structure. (Most of the time - she is only 2!) Her new favorite thing to do is ask, "Why?" This can be annoying, yes, but most of the time, it seems like she genuinely wants to know. She will ask questions until she is somewanted to lewhat satisfied with the explanation that you give her! :) She loves to sing and sing and sing. We cannot travel in the car without listening to her music and many times she and I will sit down at the piano and play and sing together. One of her new favorite things is all things Veggie Tales as you can see from the video above!

Her coloring skills have gotten better. She shows a lot more control and really works to stay within the lines. Her hand control when drawing has gotten better and there have even been a few times where she says, "look Mommy, I drew a . . . " and you can actually see that her drawing is in fact whatever she said it was. She loves to draw princesses. . . and spiders. . . an interesting set of favorites. . .

Lucy is doing well with her manners. Many times she uses please, thank you, and excuse me without being prompted. Of course, she has also learned to use that to her advantage to get what she wants too!

The other day, Michael was taking her to school and it was an extremely foggy morning. . . you could barely see the car from the door. They stepped outside and Lucy looked at her Daddy and said, "What is going on out here?" He had to explain to her about fog so if you want to know about when it is "froggy" outside, Lucy will be happy to explain.

There are so many more adorable things she has done over the past three months. . . but this gives you a quick glance at how she's learning and growing. She has finally gotten to the point where she talks about her "baby brother and sister" (what she calls the twins - we don't know what they are yet!) . Before, when you asked her if she wanted babies at her house, she would just say, "NOPE!" She is getting excited and she will be a great big sister!

Riding our tricycle

We have had some amazing weather over the past few weeks and so it has been time to get outside and play! Lucy has been really excited to take her tricycle down to the parking lot at church to ride around. While she hasn't mastered pedaling yet, she still knows how to get around, as you will see. :) There is a slight incline to the parking lot, which works to her advantage.

Did you think we disappeared?

Wow. . . I can't believe my last post was December 24th, 2011. This one is definitely LONG over due!! What a beginning of the year 2012 has been. After a fun, fun Christmas break, we started out January with Michael coming down with Mono. Lucy also had a couple of ear infections during this time, so she wasn't at her best either. We found out mid January that we were pregnant again (due in September), which was exciting, but then we had a houseful of sick and tired people! ;)

February came along and we had our first doctor's visit for this pregnancy. They sent us the next day to get an ultrasound to make sure they had the correct due date. Since Lucy was born at 35 weeks, they wanted me to receive weekly injections in order to prevent another early birth and they needed an exact due date to know when to begin this process. Well, on Febuary 9th (Michael's birthday), the ultrasound came up and there were two little babies and two little heart beats - yes, twins!!! So while it was a wonderful surprise, it was also quite shocking. Planning on going to a family of four and finding out that now you'll be a family of five . . well, that takes some getting used to! So we had that shocking/wonderful news which was great, but I spent most of February feeling really lousy. I had two different stomach bugs that came along as well as all day sickness/nausea in general. So between feeling bad and working all day, I was ready for bed when I got home at 5:00!

Now we've reached March and the second trimester in this pregnancy. Spring intercession break FINALLY got here and it has been a welcome rest for all. The nausea and tiredness has eased up, and we've had some time to relax and enjoy being together. But I'll save that for another post. So that gives you a quick recap of what the Flack family has been up to!