Baby in There Momma?

I bet I got a bunch of people's excitement up with the title of this post. Ha. Tricked you. Our neighbor and very close friend, Christy, is pregnant. She has a month to go and her belly is big at this point. We see Christy and her husband Steve a lot, so Lucy talks about the baby in her belly with Christy every time. She will tell us that Ava is in her belly and that she is a baby. As an aside, I know Lucy must be so confused because one of her besties is named Ava and I know she wants to know why we keep telling her that Ava is in Christy's stomach. Must be really confusing, but she goes with it. The other day, Lucy and I were in Target, and she patted my belly and said, "Baby Momma Tummy." Wow. I was floored that she would even put such a sentence together but really, I was just shocked. She is tooooooo little to be thinking things like this. She kept patting my stomach and saying baby over and over the entire time we were in the store. I just kept telling her that there was no baby in momma's stomach, only in Christy's. I thought we were done with it, but it has happened several times since. Yikes. Maybe she is trying to tell me to lay off the ice cream and cookies because it LOOKS like there is a baby in there. Ha. I just can't believe that she comprehends enough to now already realize that babies grow in bellies. Is this normal? It makes me laugh now, but some day it is going to be a very very complex conversation about the belly that Lucy grew in and that that belly was not mine. Yikes. I knew it would come up, but so early?!?!?

I know you are tired of seeing pictures of Lucy in front of our house every day with chalk. I am too. But the thing is, after dinner around 7 pm, there is the most amazing lighting out there and it is the only time of the day that we can be out without having a heat stroke. It is still high 90s or even 100 degrees, but the sun is not so intense. So, out we go every night. The chalk keeps her really busy.

I love some of the pictures that I got with the new lens today. The first ones are from a lunch date Lucy and I had with our friends Katy and Ava a this old fashioned pharmacy with a soda fountain. The girls can pull high chairs right up to the bar and they were so pleased with their milkshakes and grilled cheese. I wish I could have gotten a lot more pictures, but the placed was packed and I could not move around at all. We are going to go back at a down time of their day and get some fun ones. The outside pictures were when Christy was out with us, hence all of the big smiles. Lucy loves her some "Tisty" and "Teev". Enjoy. I am getting more comfortable with the lens. Still need lots and lots of work, but made some improvements today. My favorite thing about the lens is the intense catchlights it picks up in Lucy's very dark eyes, which is not an easy task to accomplish. When I get it focused correctly, the sharpness is amazing. Still working on this though.