Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentines Day!! Lucy had a fun Valentine weekend with Grammy while Mommy and Daddy had an evening in Greenville. We had a nice dinner with adult conversation, went to see WICKED, had an evening of uninterrupted sleep, and then went shopping on Saturday morning. Who knows what kind of fun Lucy and Grammy had . . . . :) For Valentine's Day, we spent most of the day at church. Lucy is quickly learning as a PK (Pastor's kid) that Sundays are anything but restful! She is doing much better in the nursery though and enjoys watching the other kids and playing with Mrs. Sue.

Lucy will be eight months old on Thursday - where has time gone??? She's moved up into her 6-9 month clothes, so we have all kinds of new outfits to show off. Lucy is also supposed to be finished wearing her DOC band this coming Thursday. You can see from our pictures that we have not done the best job of making her wear it lately. She always wears it to bed but she sits up and plays all day so we don't worry too much about it. Lucy has been eating a lot more solid food now -she eats oatmeal and fruit for breakfast, a veggie or fruit at lunch, and a veggie and rice at dinner. She also will have an occasional baby yogurt or baby vanilla pudding for a snack. She will be ready for finger foods any day now. When she plays on her belly, she can get her arms and her legs moving, but hasn't quite figured out how to get the rest of her to go. She loves to sit and play and loves to stand. She even "walks" as you hold her little body up. One of her new favorite games is to walk towards Baxter. Once she gets close, he runs somewhere else and so she turns and heads toward him again. I hope Baxter is ready for once Lucy is truly mobile - she will be after him!

I guess that's about all for now. Lucy has her eight month checkup on Friday so it will be interesting to see how much she has grown in the past two months. Michael is still at home with her until the end of the month, so she is having a great time with her Daddy. Hopefully, we will have some childcare lined up soon. . . It's hard to believe that April will be here soon (even harder when it snows almost every other day!) and someone else will be spending the day with her. Uncle David is working on winning the lottery for us so that I can stay home and play with Lucy. I guess until then, we'll figure something out! ;)