Eleven Months

Time is just flying by and Lucy seems to be more of a toddler than a baby these days. The biggest change this past month has been that Lucy is now walking while holding onto our hands. It is very exciting to watch and she is getting faster every day. Lucy can pull herself up on furniture now too, and can stand for short periods of time without holding on to anything. For the record, Will was watching Lucy as she practiced standing alone - on a window sill.Lucy just finished cutting her two top front teeth this week bringing her teeth total to four. She seems very proud of her efforts because every time she smiles now, she squints her eyes to make room for the giant grin that shows off her new pearly whites.

We were having quite a time getting Lucy to stay still for diaper changes. We finally found a trick that works - she will hold still as long as she gets to read a book while we change her diaper! I too enjoy a good bathroom read - like mother, like daughter!

Her love of reading extends to a love of paper. One of her favorite activities of the day is to help me open the mail. She likes to chew on the paper and especially likes the envelopes with the business window in them because they make a crinkley sound.

We've been trying to take walks every day now that the weather has warmed up a bit. It's still pretty cold though, so Lucy bears with us as we bundle her up because she loves to go for walks.

There is something about Lucy and Will in a turtleneck that makes them look so darn cute. The plant behind Lucy makes it look like she has more hair than her daddy! There is no doubt that Lucy is a daddy's girl, and becomes more of one every day. She misses him so much when he is at work and is so happy when he comes in the door.

Lucy's favorite word right now is "Hi" and she says it for everything from dawn to dusk and even in between dusk and dawn! It's hard not to smile even at 3 in the morning when a little voice is so energetically yelling "Hi!" She also will imitate sounds that we make from a dog barking to simple words like 'boo' and 'hug'. She also will clap her hands when you tell her to and jump up and down when you say the word 'jump'.

Ah, life with an almost one year old is going by too fast. Lucy does not like to be left alone for one minute which makes getting things like breakfast, lunch and dinner difficult, not to mention trying to pack up our house to move. That's right - we are moving again! We bought our dream house and will be moving in the next week. We are so excited and can hardly wait to start the next chapter of our life as a family. Here is our new house!

The next month will be bringing a lot of changes to our family - a new house, and a new one year old! Stay tuned!