little lucy who

we have a new routine now, now that both of us have been home with her 24/7 for the past few weeks.
1. pick up from bed
2. drink warm milk
3. pull out the laptop and watch Horton Hears a Who, but only the scenes where Horton is on screen

she loves this movie, she is like her mom and loves elephants. every book better have an elephant in it, and every story has to involve an elephant.

Long night

Lucy is having some sleeping trouble tonight. She is usually a great sleeper- 11 hrs or so but at times she will start crying in the night out of the blue. It is sort of a half sleep/ half awake cry that is different than any other cry she has. It is the saddest cry ever.

When we go in to comfort her, she will have tears streaming down her face and be shaking a bit. She will then just hold onto us for so long not wanting to feel the same sadness she just had either dreamed or remembered.

It happened early tonight, so I hope that means she will fall asleep again and have better thoughts until morning. Her Daddy is rocking her and hopefully that will make her feel secure again. Poor bubba.

6 Months!

Six months with our Lucy Blue.

She loves her bath and always tries to drink the water.

When she walks she runs, full steam ahead like a little train. Her head is down and arms and legs are going crazy. We always talked about hearing sticky little feet running down the hall and
we have that now!

She is absolutely not afraid of the dark.

The orphanage stated that she was laid back, quiet and shy.
Instead she is social, curious, busy, nosey, and super affectionate.

She still sleeps from 7:30pm-7:00 am. We will cry if it ever gets shorter than that.

Lucy loves to see birds.

She is turning into quite and outside girl. She will cry when we try to bring her inside,
no matter how cold it is outside.

Her favorite word is mama. She can say milk, on, up, nana, banana, gramma, yaya(dadda), lala
(for elmo), mia(her cousins name). Her language is coming slowly and she does not cooperate too well with her speech therapist. She understands pretty much everything though.
She still uses her signs all the time.

Just like her mommy, she LOVES elephants and asks to see pictures of them all the time.

Just like her daddy, she LOVES cheese and bread and pasta.

She is super naughty at times and thinks she is sooooo funny when she is naughty. She has always tried to make us laugh. Even within the first minutes of being with her.

She is a daddy's girl all the way.

Since August she has grown from a size 6-9 mths to size 24 months! We started with a baby
and have a toddler for sure now!

She loves her family and friends from our congregation. She knows who they are right away.

Whenever a visitor leaves our house, she puckers her lips over and over again so they have to keep coming back inside to give her more kisses. She knows she is irresistable
when she does that!

She still does not watch much TV but she LOVES music and dancing.

She is partially potty trained and has been since China. She has a potty routine for the most part and as long as we keep up with it, dry diapers!

She loves to say prayers as a family, she asks for them all the time, especially before she eats.

She destroys everything. She loves to rip apart pop up books, cards, paper, mail- etc.

She is a girlie girl. Her daddy cuts and paints her nails. She always picks out the shiny shoes to wear and loves to look at herself in the mirror. She even strikes a pose. She carries BAGS around everywhere. Another bag lady in the family. ;)

We just love her to pieces and know she loves us. She likes us to be close to each other and her and sing ' Family, Family, Mommy Daddy and Lucy!'.

We are looking forward to a warm summer and know she is just going to LOVE the pool and being outside everyday. She will love cook outs with friends and get togethers with the family,
so will we!

So much to say about her so I probably
forgot some important things about her life so far but let the video do the talking!!

Thyphoid Mary

The Dr appt yesterday was informative. He walked in the room and looked at us and said 'What is going on with you guys!'. We have the worse cases of mono he has seen. Me with my liver and fever and John with what he called 'dangerously swollen tonsils', high blood pressure and low grade fever. He started him on a steroid to attempt to reduce them from swelling anymore. He also required John to have more blood work( almost passed out on us).

So John also had his ultra sound this morning, swollen spleen. Not as big as mine though. I hold that record.

He has a follow up with the dr tomorrow. He will be checking out his throat again to see if the medicine is helping, so far it does not feel any different to him. Anyway, we are resting today- the nana or m-n law is here to help with Lucy. Lucy is also coughing and runny nose and stilll
GRuMPY!

Everyone thinks we have like the bird flu from China but all the drs feel too much time passed from our trip in August to when I got sick in December. Things happen. It was probably the girl at Wegmans that sneezed on me. Did you know once you get mono you can pass it along to other people for the rest of your life? It can stay in your system, go dormant and then not dormant at certain times in your saliva. So John and I better stay together forever because other people will not want to kiss us in the future!! ;)

Ok well off to close my eyes before Lucy is all ours again and she prys(sp?) them open.

ta ta

Grin and bear it.

Poor us. We are officially the leper colony. Mono is a lonely illness.

John was a mess today. He has a fever, can not swallow and has a dr appt tomorrow morning. Trust me I looked in his mouth and it hurt just to see his tonsils.
Lucy has an ugly cough and super runny nose. She has been a grump and doing all kinds of naughty things. She started the morning off by getting her hands on her cheese crackers and dumping out the whole box on the floor while I was on the phone with the dr and then dumped her whole bowl of cereal w/ milk on the floor at lunch. good times. The kicker is she grabs your hand to walk you over to show you what she did. Last night she opened a marker and drew all over the kitchen floor and the bottom of the refrigerator. The toilet and toilet paper is the most fun thing ever to her. All you who have been around kids know what I am talking about.

She has also been swatting at me and objects and herself constantly. She started that in China and really amped it up in the last week. She will also constantly hit at her grandma(my mom) which makes her feel special, I am sure about that. So all of this when you are tired and uncomfortable is a bit overwhelming.

On a lighter note- Her hair is growing in to be quite a mullet. What is up with that! Anyways, she is as cute as can be otherwise. She is going to be quite a handful as she grows up. More of this to follow. ;)PS. This is her face when we ask her to SMILE!!

new post

ok, here is the problem with the word 'positive'. it makes you assume that whatever is attached to that word is good.
except when your mono tests come back positive. yup, she did it.

anyway, here are some pics of lucy from today. we had her running outside - it was sunny and beautiful, but a bit cold. that does not scare our new fearless leader. she loves the outside now. she will always say 'yea' if you ask her to go outside.

so, some pics of that and the second topic of pictures is her in the tub. yes, we do it all the time, her in the tub shots, but check out how long her hair is getting!


Bath Time

'shares' well with others

OK, So now we have officially become one of those families that is just sick for weeks and passes it around to one another. Hopefully, Lucy will not enter the loop.
John just had a dr appt and he has a bad case of strep. His lymph nodes in the back of his neck are swollen, this could possibly mean he has mono but the dr wants to wait a few days to see if any other symptoms develop.

Good times, in our house!! I am exhausted and need to lay down all the time, John is sicker than a dog and Lucy is just a crazy woman getting into everything.

We want to update about Lucy someday but for now this is all we got.

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