Word #4

11 months

It has been a loooong and very hard week for us. Thank you family and friends for the prayers and words of encouragement, they are SO appreciated. It's gonna be a long post cuz I have so much to update on!

Our sweet Lucy Lu is 11 months old. She turns one this month. WHAT?! How did this even happen? I can't believe she has been in our lives for a whole year! She has changed so much even in the past month, so I thought I'd list some things she's doing at 11 months:

- she's crawling around like crazy. She's fearless, and VERY fast.

- she can say "ball", "dog" (but with a long o, its so sweet), "da-da", "daddy" and there is absolutely NO attempt at mama yet. She says dog when she sees Heidi, but doesn't say anything when she sees her mama. Fabulous.

- she signs "more" and "all done" at every meal and we're working on "please"

- she sings and dances to music!

- she can walk while holding on to our fingers or furniture

- she is completely on table food now, no baby food at all, and is also completely weaned from breastfeeding (but still getting formula...although that will be gone in about a month!)

- she is very much an imitator right now. Faces, noises, motions....she imitates everything.

Her 11 month picture!

The tupperware has been compromised.

My favorite :)

Okay so let me preface these next few pictures...I'm going to a women's Bible Study on Tuesday nights, and pretty much all of us have young babies. So last night while we were meeting, the dads took the babies out to dinner at Red Robin. How hilarious is that. Dad's night out! It cracks me up. I FORCED Mark to take the camera. He was very embarrassed, but I insisted that dad's night out deserved a blog post.

One end of the table...the babies are kind of hidden

Besties Lilly and Lucy at the other end of the table. Lucy signing "more"

Lilly and Lucy checking out the Red Robin

Lucy deciding she hates it

And...might as well....a garden update! The asparagus has pretty much slowed down for the season, so we are no longer eating asparagus every night for dinner! Don't worry, zucchini quickly took its place. The tomatoes are still going to be the highlight for sure.

Our first tomato of the season

Our first zucchini (this was taken about a month ago)

Finally...

Enough hair for a bath mohawk!

First Beach Trip

This past week, Lucy and I went to Gulf Shores with some of my family while Mark was in Birmingham. This was Lucy's FIRST beach experience! She loved the sand. She didn't act like it grossed her out at all, and even crawled around in it and ate it a couple times (naturally). We really missed Mark, but I couldn't pass up on the opportunity to get Lucy to my favorite place in the world. We're planning a family trip, just the three of us, in September, so Daddy will get plenty of beach time with Lucy then.

First time in the sand!

Checkin out the water

Walking with mommy on the beach

This is her new favorite face. She does it ALL the time, and we're not really sure what it's about.

mmm....just after a big bite of sand

sweetest thing I've ever seen

Again, with the sand eating

My sweet cousin Mollie

She found a seashell! And then of course, tasted it.

Sitting by the pool after a big swim

"ooooh" ing at some birds

Just FYI, there was a lazy river at the condo, (which was amazing by the way) and Mimi and Grandy (my grandparents) DID get in and really enjoyed it. However, I was threatened with my life if I ever posted pictures of them in the water on the internet. Hopefully one day those pictures will come out. For now, they will stay on my computer at home. Thank you to my wonderful family for letting us tag along, and for all your help with taking care of Lucy on the trip!

The fake mini pool

So we've been swimming a lot over at The Campbell's pool lately, (I have a fabulous video I promise to post soon of Lucy swimming) and it has definitely proven to be one of Lucy's favorite activities. Today, I thought I would attempt the mini pool. If you can even call it that. Turns out, Lucy loves water in any shape or form, even in a miniature $5 blow up pool in the back yard. Good to know.

Adorable. P.S. that's a vintage swimsuit from mommy's closet when she was a little girl. 

The ever-present scrunch face. I don't know why.

She loved this!

Bucket head. This made us laugh for some reason.

"airing out" after swimming. 

And the best part about spending the afternoon in the pool and the sun....

Growing!!

This is my garden one month exactly from planting day:

Tomatoes

The beginnings of some cherry tomatoes!

This is one of my bell pepper plants that is just beginning to flower

Zucchini

And look who else is growing! What a big girl she is with her two new teeth.

Our favorite time of year...

when Heidi blows her coat.