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Sunday, 28 September 2008

Lucy Loves her Cereal...(sort of)

Well, we've been giving Lucy cereal and applesauce for about a week now. Tonight, she LOVED it, finally. It has been pretty hit and miss with her on the food front, where sometimes she seems to like it and other times she has acted like we are torturing her by giving her something to eat (other than momma's milk). Here are a couple of pictures that we took the other day after one of her first meals.

Brother and sister after breakfast.

Happy baby girl and her lurker friend!

Monday, 22 September 2008

Grocery Shopping Glory

Many of you may know that one of my biggest hurdles has a parent has been grocery shopping. By this I mean that I am extremely overwhelmed by trying to do my grocery shopping with my kids. These feelings of grocery anxiety have come at different times in my parenting adventure. After Christopher was born I think I only look him with me to the grocery store once in the first six months of his life. The same has pretty much repeated itself with the arrival of Lucy. Not to mention, with two kids it is that much more overwhelming to think about trying to handle both of them and concentrate on getting all of my groceries. My friend Jonna has three kids and seems to have this task down, but for me it is one of those things that I just haven't gotten a handle on.

Until now.

Thanks to our new grocery store, Market Street, I successfully went to the grocery store today and managed to shop for my week's worth of groceries with both of my kids. I give Market street the credit because they have these adorable little shopping carts for the kids to push (I'm sure other stores have them too, I just haven't used them anywhere else). Christopher was the best Little helper today, pushing his cart right alongside mine and putting his own groceries in it. He was perfectly sweet then entire time and all three of us had the best time. I wore Lucy in my Ergo pack and she did just great too.

Here is a picture of my little man with his groceries. He is blurry because we were dancing in the aisles to the fun music they had playing in Market Street, funny how your kids can get you to feel like you are the only people in the room.

Balloon Festival

We ventured out to the Plano Balloon Fest this past weekend. We had a good time despite the traffic, crowds, and long lines. A potty trained child sheds new light on these situations, ie. sitting in traffic having him kicking the back of my seat as he is trying to hold it with no where for us to go, was just an added thrill to our night! We ran into our friends the Newmans while we were there and had a good time battling the long food lines with them and baby Nora, who is such a cutie pie!

Here are some pictures:

I love the look of pure wonder on my little boy's face in this next one.

Occupational Hazzard

Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Followers

So I have added a new gadget on the sidebar of my blog. If you scroll down below "My Friends Who Blog" you will see it. I'm looking for my "followers"! I know you are out there so please humor me here and click on the link that says "follow this blog".

Follow me people, follow me...

Monday, 15 September 2008

Lucy's Baptism

We had Lucy baptized on Sunday at our church, St. Andrew United Methodist. The service was lovely and we were blessed to be surrounded by lots of family on this special day.

For me, the sacrament of infant baptism is such a reminder that Lucy is a child of God. He has entrusted me to be her mother during her time here on earth and I am so very thankful and blessed to have that responsibility. It is my hope and prayer that Lucy will be able to feel the love God has for her, through Cory and me. That she will one day come to know Jesus on her own and allow her relationship with Him to flourish.

As a mother, baptism also reminds me that Cory and I are not here raising these children on our own. The Lord is with us every step of the way, guiding us through the good times and carrying us through the bad ones.