Feed me Seymour!

Lucy eating shells and cheese. We have looked for tofu at our grocery, but can't find it. Help, what is it usually by?

A rare rear view

Wow...look at all that hair. Lucy is planning our winter vacation. A job she takes very seriously.

Cheese

Lucy has been a little jabberbox today. She is still bink-free and seems to be doing better than ever. I have got to say that it takes a lot to phase this kid.

Bye Bye Bink

Lucy has not used her pacifier since about 6:30pm on Friday. She is doing really well without it. She has fussed for it a couple times when she woke up, but nothing too bad.

On again...off again

Lucy likes to get on and off of the Doramobile. She also pushes it one handed.

AFLAC!!

Lucy likes to help Mommy open the mail.

Dropsies

It has rained off and on all day today and is really humid here. Lucy enjoyed a nice pre-lunch walk with Daddy while Mommy vacuumed. Lucy still cries when I vacuum in front of her so we try to spare her the torture. She also cries when I blow dry my hair, but we still do that one every day. I tried night showers so my hair would be dry for work, but I need the shower to wake me up in the morning. Daddy finished the shelf in Lucy's closet today and figured out that the light bulb wasn't burnt out, but the switch in the spare room controls Lucy's closet light as well as the spare room closet light.

Ten-Tooth-Lucy

Lucy had three more teeth cut through during the night on Thursday. She has been really cuddly the last few days, but she is very chipper right now. The Gamma Technologies company picnic was yesterday. Jon enjoyed playing softball and Lucy and I visited. Today was a rainy chilly day. I started off the day at the gym and then we stayed inside for the afternoon. We got a little stir crazy after dinner, so we went to the mall for a walk.

Working late

I had to attend a job fair for work last night and this is what I found when I came come.
Ummm...I think you need a new roof.

You're where?

Cousin Kayla, her boyfriend Brent and his brother Ben came for a visit today. They got lost on the way here, so we had diner and said our goodbyes. They were in town for a convention. Brent is an artist.


Lucy enjoyed the company. Kayla built towers for Lucy to knock over and told us stories.
Daisy did pretty well with the company, but she is not a ham for the camera like Lucy and Libby.

Daddy's little helper

Lucy is helping Daddy put together some shelves.
Lucy is helping Daddy read instructions.
Libby is jealous of the attention Lucy and Jon are getting so she sits to show us what a good girl she is.

Page turner

The family went to a BBQ at Jon's coworker's house today. Lucy and Jon went swimming and had lots of fun.

Sweet Pea

Too tired to write much. Today was a long day.

Which way to the juice bar?

Yay, tomorrow is Friday!!! It's been so long since I cared what day of the week it is, I forgot how fun it is to have a Friday.

Check out my ride.

Jon bought a new car today. A green 1996 Ford Probe.

Good first day

Lucy must have had a busy day at work because she fell asleep in the carseat on the way home. I met lots of new people and learned lots of stuff. I think I am going to love my new job. It's going to be a lot of work, but I think I'll learn lots and have fun doing it.

I love your silly side....

Lucy had a good day at KinderCare today. This picture is of her jabbering all about it. I spent the day running errands and getting ready to start work tomorrow. The main things I accomplished today were getting a haircut, joining a gym and signing up for a personal trainer to get off to a good start and reading through benefits paperwork.

Jungle Daddy

It has been really humid here today with rain this morning and it's raining again now. We all took a nice afternoon nap.

Who me?

Lucy likes to read her Pooh book.

I passed!!

Today has been an eventful crazy day. It all started out at 7am when Lucy woke up. In an effort to follow the Dr.'s orders I sliced up fresh mango to give to Lucy. Before today I had never eaten mango (except for Starbursts and I don't think that counts). Because of it's large core, I had a really hard time cutting it up. Then I thought the fruit was too hard, so I threw some in the chopper, but it didn't look like the baby food mango. Well, Lucy did not like finely chopped mango but she loved the small bites. I also enjoyed some mango bites. After breakfast and some playtime Lucy was ready for her morning nap. She went down pretty easy so I decided to use the hour for a bath. I timed it to perfection and finished up right as Lucy was waking up. Feeling pretty girly from the bath I decided I would paint my toe nails (which I haven't done since the early months of being pregnant with Lucy.) I set Lucy on the rug with a pile of toys and started the process. The left foot went great and I was congratulating myself when I managed to kick the bottle of polish off the stool I was using and onto the floor. With a huge crash nail polish went everywhere including all over my freshly pressed pants (see photo above.) Luckily I was able to wipe it up off the wood floor and none got on the walls. So all that was lost was an overly wrinkly pair of ill-fitting capri pants that I got on sale last year. I proceeded to finish the right foot and for some reason it didn't turn out as good as the other, hence it is not in the photo above. After making double sure the damage was contained to my pants, I went upstairs to change and touch up my hair. While touching up my hair I set Lucy on the floor. Being the mobile creature that is, she is did not stay where I put her. In the 30 second between when I set her down and when I realized I did not close the bedroom door she had crawled out to the steps. Luckily the chants of "feet first" and "no stairs" had paid off because she was at the top of the stairs just looking out the front windows. Thanking my lucky stars that my neglect had not caused harm to Lucy I went to change pants, closing the door this time and making a note to have Daddy install a gate. Choosing new pants was quite a dilemma because I am between sizes right now and I couldn't decide what would be appropriate for going to a new hire physical and filling out paperwork. Finally I put on a pair of jeans, but the jeans made my shirt look too casual so I put on a peach and white striped blouse. I picked Lucy up to go out the door and what did I smell? You guessed it. Poopy Pants! So I changed her diaper and her cute little skirt because it got messed on and out the door we go. When we get to KinderCare Lucy, being the brilliant child she is, immediately figured out what was going on. She clung to Mommy, gave me sad eyes, and cried. Believe me, I got the works. I got her relatively calm and headed to the Hinsdale Family Medicine Center. On the way there a Prelude tried to race me (Jon I'm sure you appreciate this). And then all of a sudden I am driving though all of these gorgeous huge old houses with wonderful gardens. I miss my turn and have to turn around to get to the hospital. I was told that I would have to cross a bridge to get to the hospital, but I did not realize it was a one lane arched bridge. It arched up so high I couldn't see the other side and I had to stop at a light to wait for my turn to cross. And then I was on the hospital campus. I looked like a college campus with lots of brick buildings, trees and sidewalks. I arrived at my appointment 30 minutes early (you never know with traffic around here.) They worked me in early so I only had to wait about 2 minutes and I passed my physical with flying colors. I then went to another building to drop of the paperwork with Karen in Employee Health. She was very friendly and congratulated me on getting the job and marrying for brains (she guessed that I moved to Bolingbrook for a man and asked what Jon did.) I then met with Carmen who is the HR associate at the Hinsdale Hospital. She gave me all of my paperwork and introduced me to the HR staff there. Everyone was really warm and friendly. They were all happy that Audra is finally going to have someone to help her. After I completed all the paperwork I was pretty hungry. In my rush to clean the polish mess I didn't eat lunch, so I stopped at the Burger King and got a whopper and berry slushy. Yum. Then I headed back to KinderCare to get the Lucy-Bear. On the way there a little boy ran in front of my car, but luckily I had enough time to stop. Lucy was happily sitting in the bouncer watching the other kids play when I got, but started crying to get out when she saw me. We cuddled and talked about how nice Ms. Marian is and then we left. After that we went to the Kohls super sale and bought Mommy some new work clothes. Then we went home to nap until Daddy got home. The rest of the day was pretty boring. I will start working on Tuesday. The girl I am going to train with on the database has Monday off.

Another tooth

Lucy's sixth tooth finally broke through. Now she has the four center teeth, the bottom right and the top left. She had been working on it for a while, and I wouldn't be surprised it at least one other breaks through in the next couple of days.

I got the job!!!!!

I just got off the phone with Audra. She offered me the position as Human Resources Associate at the new hospital and I accepted! I go in on Friday for a physical and start Aug 6th at 9am. WoooWhooo!!!!!



Lucy is in much better spirits today. She woke up with a smile on her face, and is currently playing with her toys. Lucy had cheerios and banana for breakfast. The banana is too slippery for her to catch after a while, so Mommy stabs it with a fork and she feeds it to herself. Dr. Pera suggested that we feed her as much table food as possible now while she is still flexible and willing to try new things.