Getting Back on Track

I am so behind. Lucy and I are both feeling much better. She still has some congestion, but it is manageable and not puke inducing! Still only 2 molars with the other two making ridiculous amounts of drool. She is sleeping a million times better. She was in a bit of a funk for a while there and it was stressing me out. I just wanted to make her feel better, and I was having a really hard time doing that. I plan on writing about it, but not tonight. I am too tired.

We got to go to the state fair this week. The food was once again unbelievably gross to me - fried everything, such as fried latte, fried Cosmopolitan, fried Snickers, fried cookie dough, etc. Now, the corny dogs are right up my alley, its just all of the other stuff that freaks me out. I remember blogging last year when we went to the fair that we would be taking our 14 month old to the fair next year, which is just what we did. It was fun. She just took it all in. She LOVED the petting zoo. She has a lot animals that she imitates with actions now. One of them is the giraffe - we get a lot of our imitations from the book From Head to Toe by Eric Carle. Anyway, in the book it says that the giraffe bends its neck, and she loves to do this. When we walked in the children's animal part, a baby giraffe was there and before we even saw it, she was bending her neck and I knew a giraffe must be near. So cute. She can now meow, moo, and baa. She is still trying to say so many words, again most are not recognizable to anyone other than Justin and I. Some of her newest that are recognizable are - Christy (a very close friend and neighbor) - Lucy actually says Tisty and it is so adorable and hello. I am working on getting her to say Ho Ho Ho for Santa. Due to the high importance of the Christmas season for me, we must get this down in time for Christmas.

Justin and I got to go to the Cowboys game today. It was a lot of fun and Lucy stayed with Christy, aka Tisty, and she did so well. No crying or anything. Just a lot of playing and fun. I was really proud of her, but Lucy LOVES our neighbors because she sees them so often. Lucy and I also went to Anna's birthday party this weekend, which was so fun. They had a bounce house at their house, and Lucy seemed to really enjoy it and she was so comfortable there, even with all of the strangers around, which was a very nice change given her recent behavior with people she does not know well - hence why I think she may be out of her slump.

Here are recent pictures of all of our fun. Enjoy.

Justin, Lucy and Big Tex. He is a little scary to me, being a non-Texan.

Hey bunnies, could you hop on over here so I could get a better look?

The giraffe with Justin and Lucy

Lucy and the camels.

Let's all agree together that we are thankful that we are not the pig.

Lucy practicing her farming skills. To be honest, she was not that impressed.




She was much more into doing things like yoga in her stroller!

A small example of some of the fried everything section. BARF!

Justin is indulging in a fried Snickers. He couldn't believe that I didn't love it. It is perfectly fine the way it was originally made - free of batter and free flowing grease.

Here is Justin attempting to win Lucy a prize at the skee ball game. Earlier in the week, he won her a Dora doll and thought he could do it again. Not this time buddy! He kept willingly handing over money only to continue to lose at the game in attempts to get something that I really don't want in our house.

Lucy and I just sat back and watched.



Is it just me, or does Lucy look like a 12 year old in this picture. Even though she didn't go to the game, she still wore her cheerleader outfit and was looking good. Thanks Nana!!