As promised...

Presenting the glorious top toofers!

That is pure joy right there.

Laaaaaaa...

Here is my first attempt at getting Lucy to sing for the camera...

Attempt #2 = success!

I hope it doesn't hurt your ears. :) We still get a crack out of it every time. I love the look she gets on her face when she's singing.

Month of Love & Crazy Snowstorms

Happy (late) Valentimes!!

Yay for the month of l'amore. Ahhh. Lu baby has learned lots of new things this month! She is now crawling and pulling her self up on all our furniture. Yikes! She's one fast little booger. She also grew another tooth which brings the grand total up to 5 now! I think she's trying to show her parents that she's a big girl and can eat big girl food like we do. She always eyes our food and smacks her lips and gives us the puppy dog eyes in hopes that we will share our delicious food with her. Poor girl. Trey looked at her dinner tonight and said that it looked like throw up...he was right. At least it didn't taste like it because she ate it.

In other news, as I'm sure you've all heard by now, we had some big snow storms plow their way through here. We didn't get pounded quite as hard as they did in DC or Baltimore, but we still got a hefty amount. It was quite comical to me to watch how everyone was freaking out about the snow. We had a "snow day" where everything was shut down, and schools and church services were canceled. It was kinda fun. The last snow day I remember was my sophomore year at Utah State. Me and my roommates stayed in our pajamas all day and watched movies. It was good fun. My studious husband locked himself in the back room all day with his books and netbook so me and Luce just hung out and I made homemade Oreo cookies. Mmmm.

Here is a pic showing just how much snow there was, and this was taken in the morning and it snowed all day. So yeah, a decent amount I would say.

Robin came out for a visit over the V-day & President's Day weekend. Luce had lots of fun playing with Grandma. We had so much good food & fun thanks to Robin.


Hey, watch your hand Luce!

We had a bunch of friends over for dinner one night. Here are 3 of Lucy's lovely aunties. Luce loves it when the ladies come over to play.

Here are some pics of the Luce in her crib being a silly...

Peekaboo!

She loves her taggie! Yay, mom gets 5 points!

This is her favorite place to be. She stands at the coffee table almost all day long. The first thing she does in the morning once I lay her down on the floor is speed-crawl over to the coffee table and pull herself up. She's getting quite good at it. Still a little wobbly though. Poor Luce, that learning to stand & balance stuff is bumpy business. Luckily she's figuring out how to fall on her tush now so she doesn't bump her head as much.

Oh what else to say about this little monkey. There are too many funny things. She is our little vacuum cleaner. She must have eagle eyes like her dad because she will find the tiniest speck on the floor and play with it. She is a little chatterbox. She has so many funny facial expressions these days. She's quite a character. Luce loves to sing. Whenever we sing in church she'll always join in. At home, Trey or I will hold one note and she will usually join in and try to match our pitch. I was listening to an Andrea Bocelli song and Luce joined right in. I just love being little Lucy Kay's mom. You never know what cute/silly thing she's going to do next.

Speaking of love, don't you just LOVE LOVE LOVE the Olympics?! We are obsessed with them at the Banbury household. I think my favorite Olympic moment was watching Shawn White tear it up on the halfpipe. He is amazing! I could not believe how much air he was getting. It was unreal. Trey & I are also enjoying curling (yes, totally serious). It's kind of similar to shuffle board, which is super fun. I'll be so sad when the games are over.

Fortune Cookie Weirdness

Trey found this gem of a fortune in his fortune cookie last month. I had to take a picture of it before I threw it away. It's been on the magnet board for a month. Best fortune cookie "fortune" in my book.

Speaking of, have you noticed that half of the fortunes you get are not fortunes at all (like this one)?

Also I'm curious, has anyone received a weirder fortune than this one?

8 months and 4 teeth later...

Yeah, that's no type-o, four teeth! Her top two have been making their way through this past week. When they get a little more visible I will most definitely get a picture and post it. I get the giggles everytime I see them because they are very reminiscent of Spongebob teeth. Immediately the Spongebob theme song pops in my head too and I usually start singing it to Luce. I can't wait 'til those babies really come in. She's going to have an awesome smile.

Sorry to blind you all with my glorious white arms, but I had to show you Lucy's favorite place to be these days. She'll bounce up and down like she's bull riding and get the biggest, goofiest grin on her face. I usually get in front of a mirror so I can watch her.

She refused to lean back in her bouncer so she sat like this. I thought it was funny.

Yay for highchairs! Our neighbors are so awesome for letting us borrow their baby stuff. Thanks again Jen & Nate! :)

She loves her little snacks.

She's drinking out of a sippy cup...sort of. She mostly just chews on the spout and shakes it because it makes a fun noise.

Luce & Mom being sillies

This is what she's doing these days. I think she just might skip the whole crawling thing and go straight to walking. She loves standing up and walking with Mom & Dad's help.

Here she is in crawling stance. I swear she is just messing with us. She'll get up like that and rock back and forth a few times and then plop back on her belly. I'm fine with her taking her sweet old time because once she crawls I'm pretty sure I will be chasing her around for the rest of my days. That girl has A LOT of energy.

What was that? You got a problem with my crew cut?

She was just chillin like this with one leg resting on the coffee table.

We stopped swaddling her in December and she loves the freedom. She usually sleeps on her back with her arms straight out in T formation. There really is nothing more peaceful than a sleeping baby. She always has to sleep with her pink giraffe.

This is just to show you that our once teeny tiny weeblit is not so teeny tiny anymore. I love her little rolls.

Love that buddha belly too.

Cheese!

Lucy and Mom photoshoots are a regular activity at our house. They are too fun. This girl comes up with some pretty funny faces...

...like this one! Ha ha! Is that a little Trey or what?!

I just love this outfit on her. Thanks Grandma Brenchley!

I just love that little face.

Our little 8-month-old Lucy has been talking up a storm. She's says "mama" and "dada" a lot, she's also added "baba" and "tata" and "nana". She gives great big open mouth kisses. She loves to impersonate Chewy from Star Wars. She still pants like a puppy. She can combat roll & scoot backwards like it's nobody's business. She loves when we hold her upside down. She pulls the funniest faces. She loves staring down all the sweet old ladies at the store when they try to get her to smile. It's pretty funny. Also, the girl loves her food! How could she not with Trey and me as parents? I would definitely say her favorite is still bananas. The end.

Ouch!

It's true, I've officially been bitten by the crafty bug. Here is the my list of hopeful projects for the next year:

1. Taggie blanky for Lu
   
2. Changing pads (our cute owl ones got destroyed in the wash. oopsies.)
   
3. Beanies - which means I probably need to learn how to knit first :)
   
4. Crochet flowers - to put on the beanies
   
5. Baby booties
   
6. Sock monkey & other cute stuffed things
   
7. Owl hats for Etsy
   
8. Painting more things for our walls

I'm happy to announce that I just finished #1 & #2 yesterday, just in time for Lucy's 8 month birthday! Wahoo!! They turned out cuter than I thought, although don't look too close, I'm still working on the whole sewing straight concept. :)

changing pad w/clear vinyl over the material

The taggie. I love love LOVE the butterfly fabric. Thank you Alexander Henry.

Lucy is all about the tags on everything so she had a hay day when I gave this blanket to her.

I'm hoping that because I have all my projects written down on the blarg that I will be more accountable for them and actually start and FINISH them.

My sissy-in-law Lolo sent me this awesome book on all these fun ditties you can make with felt...and the best part is no sewing machine is needed! This is great because I'm currently sewing machine-less.
Ya know what's funny? I haven't been interested in sewing until now. All of a sudden I've been craving a sewing machine...maybe it's something that just happens when you reach motherhood. I just have the urge to sew...strange? I think so.

Just so you know...

My heart hurts to see you go dearest Conan. You can read about what exactly went down here. I really enjoyed his personal statement.

Tis a sad day in the history of late night television. Smooth move NBC! Hopefully his comedy will live on via another network...a much cooler, more deserving network.

The Banburys love you Coco!