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Happy 5 months little lady!

Lucy is a lover of zurberts (giving and getting them), drool, milk, the song London Bridges, kisses, being tickled, the baby in the mirror, sitting on mom's & dad's head, pulling hair, listening to her Beatles song, Pocoyo, rolling, her pink giraffe & blue birdie, going on walks, smiles, dancing, bathtime, sucking and chewing on mom's fingers, being naked, playing peek-a-boo, giggling, talking (in her native tongue), licking(not to be confused with sucking) her thumb, standing with support, getting crazy-hyper, fake coughing, and tooting! :) Oh and she has a thing for Asian people, no joke. We have 2 Asian friends here and whenever we hang out Luce always stares them down, silly girl!

Sayonara Anatomy!

Trey's Anatomy course is over, which means I have a husband again!!! Huzzah! It's so weird having him home so much, Lucy and I LOVE IT! Fall has been treating us well. The leaves are so beautiful here. What I love most about it is that it's still really green too so the contrast makes the colors really pop. Here are some pics I took the other day when I went on a walk with my friend Andrea. It was a perfect 70 degrees so I thought I better take advantage of the awesome weather.

We finally found a crib on craigslist for Luce and it's fab! I'm a big fan of craigslist out here. Most people have like one or two kids tops and then they sell all their baby stuff (that is practically new) for cheap. Garage sales here are awesome for that same reason. I was super excited to finally use her cute bedding that I heart. Here are a few pics, you can see the sweet brick walls we have in our apartment.

Lucy was being a little goof ball, I think she was super jazzed that she actually has a bed to sleep in(we had her in her pack and play). This girl is getting to be more and more crazy fun everyday, I'm loving it!

As most of you with husbands know, we're right in the thick of football season so every Saturday Lucy dresses up in this to cheer on our Penn State Nittany Lions. I found it at a thrift store for 50 cents! Can't beat that.

We really haven't been up to much lately, Anatomy has been occupying most of Trey's time the past while. And as for me, well, being a mom is what I do. Hence why there are so many pictures of Lucy. That's what I do all day, hang out with the munchkin. I wouldn't have it any other way.

With that being said, here are some more pictures of Luce being her funny little self. I seriously can't believe how big she is getting, she'll be 5 months old tomorrow!


With all that drool she's got to be popping a tooth sometime soon...right?
Aunty Klean, T-bone, and Draper: you'll be happy to know that her pink giraffe is her favorite toy these days. She loves to give her big slobbery kisses.

Grandma Robin sent her these 2 cute shirts. I'll be posting pictures soon of Lucy in her Halloween costume & our pump-a-kins we carved last night. Also we're getting some family pictures taken by a good friend out here. Hopefully we can get them done before it snows!

P.S. Thank you friends and fam for sending us those fun Halloween packages(you know who you are)! It's nice to know people haven't forgotten us.

Playtime!

My 2 favoritest humans.

This girl loves playing with her daddy. I think we might have a daddy's girl on our hands.

P.S. Aren't baby giggles the best? They melt my heart. They are my reward for a long days work. I LOVE my job. :)

Weekend Getaway

This past weekend we had a much needed night of fun, crabs, bonfire, and games. Saturday afternoon we trekked on down to Forest Hill, Maryland with a bunch of Trey's classmates to stay at the Niehoff residence (our friend Kate's parents house). We got into a minor car wreck on the way there, luckily none of us got hurt (and thank heavens for infant car seats!). It was funny that it was Kate who actually rear ended us. Our Subaru definitely won the battle. Poor Ron Burgundy (Kate's car) will need a face lift for sure.


The Niehoff's house was amazing! When we arrived they had dinner waiting for us, which entailed Maryland Blue Crab! Yay! Trey & I had never "picked crabs" before. It was quite a fun process, totally messy, but a good time for sure. My favorite part was mashing the hard outer shell with a mallet. I'm definitely a fan. The crab was super tasty...almost sweet. And they had the most delicious food to go with the crabs: chicken, burgers, corn, beans, salad, crab balls, coleslaw, and the yummiest desserts too. We ate like queens and kings.

Here we are, picking away...

They just piled the crabs up in the middle of the table and said "go to town!"

Here's the whole group, who Trey lovingly has nicknamed "The Crew". Not everyone in "the crew" was present but this is a good chunk of them.

Oh and Kate's mom was a hoot. She just loved Lucy to pieces. Here they are hangin' out while everyone was picking crabs. It was a little chilly so we had Lucy all bundled.


After dinner they made a bonfire in their backyard and everyone roasted marshies and chit chatted. Here is the Penn State Class of 2013, woot woot!

I love the random floating marshmellow in our little family picture.

We then played games and talked til the wee hours of the night. We had such a great time! Here we are eating the smorgasbord of breakfast food, including banana, blueberry, and chocolate chip pancakes! Mmm..
All of Trey's friends in his class are not married and without child so at first it was kind of weird hanging out with them because I felt a little out of place but now I feel totally comfortable around them. They all love Lucy to death. None of them are LDS (Trey is the only LDS person in his class) so it's been fun answering questions they have about the "crazy mormons", ha ha.

1/3

Luce is officially 4 months old now! How did that happen? She is getting so big...well not so much wide as long! She had her 4 month well child check-up last week and she's now 24 inches long and 13 lbs. She's a tough little kiddo, she had 3 shots (the nurse definitely took her time giving them) and she only cried for a second after each one and then was just fine. I was so proud of her. If she could have sugar, her performance definitely would have earned her a lollipop or a Fractured Prune donut! ;)

To celebrate her being 1/3 of a year old, we decided to give her her first taste of rice cereal. Trey thought we should make her some rice cereal cupcakes, but they probably would have turned out to be a mushy mess. It didn't seem like much actually made it in her mouth, but apparently it did because after we finished feeding her she threw it all up. :) We'll try it again in a few weeks.

Here is the little munchkin chowing down.

Yummers!

It's so fun watching Luce discover the world around her. She had a fun first last week, she rolled over! YAY LUCE! She rolled from her back to her belly. She's getting pretty good at it now. Check out the vid from yesterday...just in case you didn't believe me.

Here is a little bit more about 4-month-old Lucy that you may not know:

**She can shove her whole fist in her mouth!

**She is quite the little nuzzler.

**She is growing more hair!! Yay! I can't wait until I can style it. Oh and speaking of hair, she LOVES to pull ours. She's got a strong grip so it's a bit of work trying to pry it out of her hands.

**She reaches for objects and of course they go right into her mouth. She must use her tongue to feel things and test consistency and texture because she licks EVERYTHING.

**She is in love with this funny little show we discovered on Netflix called Pocoyo. It's pretty cute, Trey & I find ourselves quoting it during the day. Whenever she watches it, it's like nothing else in the world exists. She is mesmerized!

image found via official Pocoyo website

**Her latest trick is grabbing her left big toe with her left hand, as shown below. Oh and we love these baby leg warmers! Luce was flash dancin' it up.

**Our skinny girl has a cute Buddha belly and several chins! She's finally getting a little meat on them bones! She also likes to sit up (with support).


**Her favorite spot in the house is still the bathroom. I don't know what it is about that room but she is always happy to be there. Maybe it's the lighting?

**She's such a wiggly worm, especially when I'm trying to change her diaper. Check out this awesome move, it looks like she's break dancing.

**We're figuring out how to make her laugh really hard, it's so freakin adorable. Trey snorts and gives her kisses on her neck and she loves that, we'll try to get it on video sometime. I give her Eskimo kisses and that gets some pretty good giggles too.

**She loves to make noises! It makes me laugh. She's starting to pronounce M's and she's said mama a few times but I'm pretty sure she doesn't know that's a word yet. All in due time.

**This girl has got strong legs. We wouldn't be surprised if she skipped the crawling and went straight to walking. She'll stand up with no support at all, we just have to hold on to her because she's still pretty wobbly.

**She still sleeps like a champ, about 10-11 hours a night. Yeah, all the moms around here are super jealous.

**She loves looking at and talking to herself in the mirror.

**She still hearts the Jumparoo.

We call this her bird face, she loves sucking on that lower lip.

**She is a pretty happy baby but can be so serious sometimes, mainly around big groups of people she doesn't know and when a camera is put in front of her face, as you can see by most of her photos. Ha ha, it makes me laugh.

**She loves her monkey and REALLY loves to give him hugs and bite his nose. Here she is going after his nose...

Best buddies

**She still has those pretty blues. We had a little fun with Photoshop on this one.

It's such a treat getting to know my little Lucy more and more every day. I just love this girl to pieces and enjoy being her mother so much! She melts my heart.

Happy 1/3 Birthday Lucy girl! We love you mucho!

Isn't it about...time?

Oh the old church ads. Well I was thinking it IS about time I do another post on the old blogaroo.

Grandma & Grandpa Brenchley came out for a visit a few weeks ago. It was so fun to have guests come stay with us. Lucy had a good time getting reacquainted with her grandparents. We went on some fun walks, toured the med school, visited Chocolate World, drove out to Intercourse and ate at a Smorgasbord (sooo delish!), found some steals at local garage sales, played some Phase 10, and ate plenty of Fractured Prune donuts. The weather was beautiful! I couldn't have asked for a better weekend.

Here are some pics...

Here we are on the funny little ride at Chocolate World. I think Lucy really enjoyed the singing cows this time around.

Grandma with Lucy after she got out of the tubby

Watching some football with Grandpa

This is the trail I go walking on in the mornings with some friends.

Going for a nice Sunday stroll

I love how green it is!

Gma and Luce

Reading Lucy's favorite book - Fairy Bear

And here are some more pics of Lulu just because she's so fun to look at.

Toot!

Our neighbors let us borrow their jumparoo (thanks Hulls!) and she LOVES it. She can definitely get some air.