Our day at the pool

We had a cool but humid Saturday morning and decided to go down to the pool. Going down to the pool is quite an excursion. Cliff loads up the wagon while Lacy runs wild in the street and I try my best to chase after her. Then we lug all our junk down to the pool.

Lacy gets very excited when she's in her bathing suit and grabs her floaties and puts her mouth on them and pretends to blow them up.

Lacy has also warmed up to the pool since she has now discovered how to not swallow all the pool water that comes in her mouth and how to use the arm floaties to keep her head above water.

However, the pool steps are still her safety zone...
until Shamu, the killer whale, gets beached on the steps.
(ok, its not Shamu, its just big, fat, pregnant Leah)


Lacy lets us dunk her, throw her around and glide her along the surface of the pool. She hasn't figured out how to kick so when we tell her to swim to mama or daddy she instead kicks her legs out rigid and just floats in the one spot. Of course, like any properly raised girl she keeps her legs crossed at all times.



Today, her new achievement was floating on her back. She thought that was very cool, and just had a look of pure bliss on her face...like she was sunbathing (yes, she did have a thick layer of sunscreen on per her doctor daddy's request).

We are both excited that Lacy is lots of fun in the pool, but Cliff likes to push her to try new things. That always leads to cries of "mama!" as Cliff keeps pulling her away from her steps because he wants to play and swim with her. And mama's the lazy one that lets her just hang out on the steps. ;)


We had a very exciting morning and Lacy is taking a nice nap now before we go out apartment hunting all afternoon.

Mission Complete

We had about a 2 week period where Lacy would wake up in the middle of the night and come into bed with us. She was allowed to stay because we were too tired to put her back to bed in her room. So I (along with Cliff and other friends and family) worked really hard to wear her out during the day to get her to sleep through the night. As Cliff was leaving for work one morning, he got the camera out and took these pictures. Note the butt cheek hanging out. (Her bed is currently next to her crib, which her dad has been too lazy to break down and take to the garage. I think he has been hoping that we would move soon so he could take it straight into the moving van instead, saving a step).

Visiting Dad

There are 3 things Lacy likes to do best when we visit Cliff at work.

1 - Con stickers from all of the medical assistants. When kids go in for check ups, etc., they get a sticker. Well Lacy, she knows where the stash is and if they hand her just one she whines and points and asks for more. She has been known to empty the whole box.

2 - There's a little fountain outside the building and Lacy likes to throw pennies into it. The one time when we were sitting outside waiting for Cliff to get out of a meeting, I maxed out on pennies. She was inconsolably upset...until I told her to throw leaves in the fountain instead. I felt bad for the guy that would have to get all the leaves out of the fountain...for like 2 seconds. Really I was doing a victory dance in my head. I got Lacy to stop whining at no cost to me.

3 - Lastly, Lacy likes to press the buttons when we get into the elevator. However, the first button in her reach is the bright red alarm button. On other elevators, I let Lacy be a big girl and push the button, but I always forget about the alarm button at Cliff's building. Fortunately, the alarm button just rings a bell (that sounds like a school bell) for as long as you press down on it. We both get startled after 1 sec and that's that. Princess Lacy always has to make her grand entrance.

Growing up...

Lacy has been full of surprises the last few weeks. Her vocabulary has expanded, without a lot of coaching. Every once in a while, she'll say a new phrase or word and dumbfound us. When she watches her TV shows or a movie, I've caught her gasping and throwing her hand over her mouth for dramatic effect--in cue with the plot of whatever she's watching. Or she'll say "NO!" when something bad happens in the plot. She makes her toys kiss all the time. She puts people in her toy cars and rolls around. Her favorite is a little people bus that she likes to put the people in and out through the door as opposed to the hole on top. She helps us pack her diaper bag before we leave for an outing. She dances to music. She sings. She does the hand motion to songs when we sing, because she can't quite sing and do the hand motions at the same time (think itsy bitsy spider). She recognizes family members in pictures and yells out their names when she sees them. She notices when people are gone and asks "where'd they go?" or ex. "where's noah?"

A lot of people told me that this is the best age (around 18 months) and I just have to agree. She is SO fun and so full of surprises. She is so impressionable, loving and intelligent. I hope it doesn't go by too fast...

Today while Lacy was playing with her little people we found two of them in her shoes where she had put them and thought it was a hoot. Here's the pic

Celebrating the 4th

We spent the afternoon at my aunt's house for a family BBQ and some swimming. We got Lacy a bathing suit with the life jacket built in since she wouldn't stay in her inner-tube. She borrowed the arm floaties from my little cousin Nathan when he was done swimming. Lacy was over-inflated...she got in the water and would get stuck on her back or on her tummy swallowing water. But she loved it and refused to take either safety device off. On the other hand, it was good that she had so much cushion. At one point while she was climbing up and down the stairs up to the hot tub she lost her footing and bounced down the stairs and literally walked away unharmed. It was hilarious.

Unlike our cousin Nathan, who is 3 months older than Lacy and takes to the water like a fish, Lacy prefers to hang out on the steps where she can firmly plant her feet. If we ever took her further into the pool she would start yelling "Help me! Help me!" What a goober.

We also drove to a good secret spot to watch fire works, but Lacy didn't last long as it was past her bed time and she missed her nap. So we went home about 10 minutes into the fireworks.

Aunt LuAnn bought Lacy some cool gaucho pants the other day, so I got some cool fat pregnant lady gaucho pants to match with her. There's a picture of me and mini-me down here too.