Photos from recent visitors / festivities

The past month has been a bit crazy with lots of visitors and festivities going on. Here are just a few recent photos. If Lucia takes a long nap this afternoon, I may be able to post a video as well!

Here I am, reading with mom. I finally like books!


At Aunt Patricia and Uncle Evan's wedding, with Grammy:


Outside on the deck with dad:

New Videos

Hi all,

Sorry for the lapse since our last post! We have been busy moving into our new place, but now we're feeling mostly settled and at home. I wanted to post a couple of short videos so that you all can see all the fun things that Lucia has been learning recently.

Here we are, eating the floor and playing in a box!


And just so you can all see how close I am to moving a lot more than my parents are ready for:

The Bunny Hop

I'm fairly certain that these awesome bunny ears (thanks, Aunt Susy!) are far more hilarious to me and Kyle than to Lucia (although she does enjoy eating them), but we think our little stinker is eggs-ellent. She does love carrots... and jumping... and plastic eggs. Maybe we've solved the mystery of the Easter bunny?

Lucia the brilliant has discovered the wonderment of pulling herself up to standing in the crib, a trick which she has now demonstrated to us a minimum of 500 times in the last 4 days. The joys of repetition!

in case the public was wondering

how solid food was going... it's a go! So far green veggies are a big fat blech and everything else is absolutely delicious. Rice cereal? Check. Prunes? Check. Sweet potatoes, apricots, apples, pears, squash? Check, check, check, check and check. Sip of mom's coffee? Delicious. Maybe she is my child after all despite the lack of resemblance!

here we are up to our eyebrows in oatmeal and prunes. What a delectable combo!

While Kyle and I are packing up our things in preparation for the upcoming move, we've found a great spot for Lucia. We'll just tape her up and throw her in the moving van.

in addition to baby food, Dad's head is always a tasty afternoon treat!

irish eyes are...

a) smiling

b) staring vacantly into space

c) a little heavy on the st. paddy's day sauce! yum!

Happy St. Patrick's Day (belatedly)... love, Kyle, Melissa & Lucia (with a special shout-out to my friend Meredith for the festive headgear)

Laughter, The Best Medicine

Two posts in one day! Spring is in the air and I am on a roll. Apologies for the blurry quality of this video - we were in our living room and it was not very light, so it's hard to see, but the magical part is in the audio anyhow so turn up the volume. That laugh! Grammy (Kyle's mom, Patti) was here a few weeks ago and she is apparently the most hilarious person in the universe according to Lucia. It didn't seem to matter what Grammy said or did, it was worthy of a great big belly laugh. Here they are just hanging out on the couch and this baby laughter is pretty priceless.

sitting and swinging

Munchkin central is officially over 6 months old! She is sitting up like a champion and can mostly hold her balance... except when she sees something far away that she wants. In which cases, she reaches, reaches, reaches a bit more... and face plants. But she's enjoying toys which are a little more complicated (blocks, nesting cups, stackables, etc), and her all time fave, cereal boxes and crinkled up paper. Oh, and the shrieking, have we mentioned the shrieking? Her new favorite excited noise... and not a cute, short shriek, but more like shriek "sessions" if you will. We have some evidence on video that I'll post at some point. For now, though, enjoy the new pictures of her showing off her sitting skills. You can also see that the weather is FINALLY turning more spring-like up here so we've had a few park expeditions at which Lucy has discovered her love of swings. And sunshine. And other children. Hooray!

GUYS, I CAN SIT UP!!!!!!!

Swinging at Harrison Park... still a bit nippy, but we didn't mind!

Not only can I sit up, but I can hold things while doing it! What coordination.