The Wild Life of Lucy Reid

Happy Father's Day!



After sprinkler time at the park



Lucy and Grandma

Lucy investigating a gorilla

The Ellsmores/Reids at the zoo


Just outside "Paris"

Slidin'

Grandpa catching Lucy from the slide

bath fun

Lucy "gardening"



Since I last blogged we have been so super busy! School ended on May 23rd for me and we didn't hesitate to get right down to the business of summer. Grandma and Grandpa Marvin came out for a nice long visit the week before Memorial Day. Grandpa painted practically our entire basement (thank you Dad!) and it looks great. Grandma enjoyed reading the same books over and over again to Lucy.

Then on June 8th Grandma and Grandpa Ellsmore came out for a visit and stayed with Lucy while we went to Las Vegas. It was a work related thing for me but Brian tagged along for a couple of days and we had a great time. Brian hadn't been to Vegas since he was 21 and there were a few things that have changed since then. Lucy did great with Grandma and Grandpa. It didn't take them long to figure out everything she was saying and I know she adored getting spoiled without Mom and Dad around. Thank you, thank you, thank you Ellsmores for making a mini-vacation possible for us!

Lucy loves going to the zoo and you can see from the video she really likes the elephants (and hippos, and giraffes, and lions, and monkeys, etc.) Her favorite word right now is "where?" which you can probably hear in the other video. She even asks where things are when she obviously knows where they are. It's cute but it was even cuter when she would answer "I don't know" for everything. We had her 18 month doctor's appointment and Lucy weighs close to 22 pounds and I think she's close to 23 inches. She finally decided she likes another fruit besides bananas and now she can't get enough strawberries!

She started her first gymnastics class and loves running around and playing on all the fun things. She doesn't, however, enjoy the parachute games. She screams her head off and runs away whenever we try and put her on the parachute for the fun games.

We are super excited for our visit to Kansas City in July and I'm sure we'll have many more fun things to post after that. Happy summer!

Happy Easter

Lucy was more interested in listening to the crackers inside the egg rattle than actually "hunting" for the eggs

Cooper didn't quite understand why the eggs weren't for him
Grandma and Grandpa Marvin came for a visit at the beginning of March
Happy Valentine's Day-Lucy celebrated with a party at Sherry's



Lucy is 17 months, 1 week and 4 days as of this posting! We have an almost 1 1/2 year old! She is talking like crazy! We counted up over 60 words she says. She's just starting to put two and three words together, some of her favorite expressions are "up please", "no Cooper", "bye-bye Dada", "No Way", "Mama feet" (she loves to point to other people's eyes, noses, ears, tummies, mouths, etc.), and her all time favorite "No Bubbles!"
At day care the kids play outside most afternoons and Lucy loves to carry around the bubbles. She doesn't actually blow them, she prefers to try and eat the bubble mix directly off the wand. She must have been told to stop eating bubbles so often she says it all the time-"no bubbles".
Sherry said the truest thing about Lucy the other day. She is always carrying around bottles, cups, and whatever other vessel she can get her hands on. When I went to get Lucy from day care she was of course carrying around some sort of cup. Sherry said "Lucy just loves to carry around things to carry around things!"
Easter was fun, we had our own Easter egg hunt in the backyard. The weather was gray and chilly but we still enjoyed it!

February 2011

Littleton Lighted Christmas parade

Lucy missed most of the action

Aunt Amber and Lucy at Christmas

Brian and Eden

Cousins in Jammies

Opening gifts at Grandma and Grandpa Marvins' house

Lucy and Aunt Kristy at Ellsmore Family Christmas

Mommy and Daddy got a babysitter for New Year's Eve


Even though it is February these photos/videos are all from Christmas. I've been a pretty neglectful blogger. We had a wonderful holiday in Iowa and Lucy had tons of fun playing with her cousins and grandparents. Unfortunately travel seems to bring about illness for her so the week after Christmas she suffered a case of RSV. She is healthy as can be now and has even started walking! Crawling is still her prefered mode of transportation but she walks more and more every day. She is adding words weekly to her vocabulary and loves to talk about babies, ducks and Cooper.

Video Vixen

Lucy at Zach's 2nd birthday pajama party

Lucy giggling at Daddy

Lucy "reading" Where's Spot with Mommy

Here's just a couple of videos of Lucy I wanted to share. Sorry about the sideways-ness of the first one, I can't figure out how to change that. And sorry about the blurriness of the second one, can't figure out how to change that one either. Looking forward to seeing everyone at Christmas!

Happy Birthday, Peanut!

Happy Birthday, Lucy! It's hard to believe we've had a full year with our little sweetie. We had a great time celebrating Lucy's first on November 13th. We had a fun, football themed party complete with Hawkeye cheerleading outfit. Lucy had fun playing with the other kids and didn't mind being passed around from person to person. I've never seen a daintier first birthday cake eater than Lucy! She ate it so matter-of-factly it was hilarious. Sort of like, "yeah, I know I'm supposed to eat this, so what?" It was too cute for words. Thank you to everyone who came and for all her great gifts.

We took her 1 year pictures the day after her birthday. She is sure a ham! She isn't walking yet but is sure a talker. Her new favorite word is 'no.' Half of the time she uses it correctly and half the time she doesn't. She loves the game where she hands you something, you say thank you and hand it back. She even says her own version of 'thank you!' but it wouldn't be recognizable to anyone except momma and dada.

We had her 1 year check up the day after Thanksgiving. Lucy weighs 18 lbs, 6 oz. She got 4 shots but of course was a trooper. Can't wait for everyone to see her soon at Christmas!

Life in the Fast Lane

At the Pumpkin Patch, although I think that's pretty obvious

Spending time with Grandma and Grandpa Marvin

On the boat tour of the Riverwalk

At Aunt Betsy and Uncle Dante's wedding

The pool at the hotel


This fall has been fantastic and crazy busy! At the end of September we flew to San Antonio for Brian's sister Betsy's wedding. It was an extremely beautiful and romantic wedding and we had such a great time seeing family. On Friday we took a boat tour of the newly developed part of the Riverwalk which Lucy throughly enjoyed, mostly because she was entertained by cousin Austin. Then we had fun playing in the pool on Saturday. The wedding was Saturday night and unfortunately Lucy and mommy had to miss most of the reception because Lucy had to go to bed but we did get to see the gorgeous mansion where the reception was held. The next day Grandma Ellsmore watched Lucy so we could go see the Riverwalk and of course, the Alamo.

Then, the first part of October we enjoyed a nice long visit from Grandma and Grandpa Marvin. The picture was from our leaf drive. Lucy got to stay home with Grandma and we are forever grateful for Grandpa Marvin's manual labor around the house-painting the living room, sanding the deck and mowing the lawn.

This past weekend we took Lucy to the pumpkin patch. She had a great time smacking the pumpkins and watching all the kids. We left with two awesome pumpkins that Lucy helped pick out.

Lucy is doing so many fun things. She can say "mama" and "dada" and "uh oh." She is crawling like a champ and can pull herself up. I don't think she'll be walking any time soon but she sure loves to get around. Her favorite toy right now is the little table she can stand up on and play music and move the parts around. She also LOVES her books right now. In the mornings when we're getting ready we leave her in her room and usually come back to find her "reading" her books to herself. Now, if only we could get her to take her milk from a sippy cup . . . .I have no idea where she gets the stubbornness from.

Hello fall!

Definitely a teacher's daughter!

Playin'

Lucy LOVES her baths!

This dress was mama's when she was a baby

This picture may drive her into therapy as an adult but oh well, she's so cute

Sorry for such a long time between blogs, this has been one hectic start to a school year (when is it ever not hectic though really?). Lucy has started full time at day care and has taken to it like a pro! She LOVES the other kids and Sherry. Every day when we go to pick her up she's doing something fun from watching the kids limbo, to playing with Legos, to hanging out outside. We really couldn't be happier. The only thing better would be to be home with her myself.

Even though I think "working mother" is an oxymoron, I still think this working parent thing is super hard! Between meetings and classes and all the "extra" stuff that comes with our jobs . . speaking of jobs, Brian is back to work and loving it. The time we do get with her in the mornings and evenings is very precious though and we are so lucky to have such an adaptable little girl. Love to all of you!