Pull your weight

On our way to visit Charissa & Derrick

Rangers

Ice Skating Lesson 2.3 Tap the Toes

Saturday Morning Waffles

The Laundromat

"You waked up me"

Easter Sunrise Service at White Rock Lake... "Christ died and rose again for this very purpose - to be Lord both of the living and of the dead." - Romans 14:9

Dallas Morning News was also there taking pictures.

Easter Eve

"The Tomado"

We took shelter from the tornado. Lucy wore her bike helmet and watched a movie in the bathtub.

Great Wolf Lodge

Pushups

Driving to Houston

Favorite Cereal is Life

Night & Day

New Wakeboard

Ice Skating Report Card

It's Time

Rink Dad

#3 of 6 Ice skating lessons.

Outside

Lucy likes to collect roly polies and put them in her blue sparkly purse. Abby LOVES jumping on the trampoline. Lucy stopped (on the climb into the trampoline) and proclaimed, "Mom! Our garden is soooo beautiful!". [Those are weeds, honey]

Funnies and Facts 2.2012

• Abby likes to help set the table
• Lucy: It [the owie] melted.

Bedtime

Abby thinks she's too big for her crib. Tonight was the best from all the ones we've tried this week. Lucy asked me to leave when we put Abby with her, and they were both asleep in less than a minute.

Vaccines

Lucy got 4 "shocks;" Abby got 1. Lucy stats: height 39" (45th percentile), weight 34.8 lbs (50th percentile), blood pressure 98/52. Abby stats: height 29.5" (5th percentile), weight 18 lbs 4 oz (-3 percentile), head circumference 46.3" (50th percentile).

Funnies and Facts

• Abby will drop flat to her tummy to look for a paci under the crib. She looks like GI Jane on mission stomach crawling.
• Abby loves brushing her teeth
• Lucy LOVES playing tickle bug
• Lucy: I have 3 owies on me, but they'll melt.
• Lucy (while doing her most favorite thing, watching Dora): Why is she wearing that? I don't like her outfit. I don't want to watch Dora.  [It was the fireman episode and Dora was wearing the fireman uniform] 

* Lucy: Where do balloons go? (We had helium balloons for her birthday party, and she loves letting them go and watching them float.)
Me: I don't know. What do you think?
Lucy: I think they go to Bethlehem to Mary & Joseph.

Due June 17 (Father's Day)

I Love God

Lucy: Mommy... (She was playing by herself in her room.)
Me: (Going to her room.) Yes?
Lucy: I love God.

Sloan Christmas

This year was our family's turn to read the Christmas story (Luke 2). Bryan prepped Lucy to say the "Glory to God in the highest" line. When it came time, he pointed to her and Lucy happily said, "Glory to Noah!" We all laughed. She tried again. "Glory in the highest of the Lord!"

Christmas Shopping

(Bryan and Lucy had been shopping that morning. We were eating dinner.)
Lucy: Mommy, I have a secret. Daddy got you boots.

Fall 2011 Quotes & Conversations

FALL 2011 Quotes & Conversations [that I want to remember]

* Me: (answering questions about Samuel)... We'll see him in heaven again.
Lucy: I think it'll be too far.

* Lucy (while wearing her camo dress) saw a cat outside and told us, "We gotta shoot that!"

* Lucy: I left a monster at Robby's house.

* Lucy: I just want to play and stay at home and be a kid. I don't want to go to school, and I don't want to jump on the trampoline, and I don't want to go to kindergarten. And I don't want to grow up and be a big girl. And I don't want to go to the store anymore.

* Lucy: I can't jump really high because I don't have a tail.

* Lucy: (pointing to a fuzzy caterpillar) He's wearing a jacket.

* Lucy: This mountain is kinda really cool. Those are mountains so I think I can climb them up all by myself.

* Lucy: Dogs make girls happy. I have lots of names for my dog. (We don't have a dog.)
Me: What do you want to name your dog?
Lucy: Max

* Lucy (after seeing a dog run past our breakfast nook window): Is that my dog?!

* Lucy (playing with her cousins): I'll be the daddy. You be the sweetheart.

* Lucy: (pointing to the bath tub drain) Where does the water go?
Bryan: (gave a long answer)
Lucy: So that's how that works.

* We were driving in the car listening to classical music to calm the girls. A piano concerto came on (I only know that because I thought it was so pretty even I looked at the XM Satellite dial to see what it was.) When it ended Lucy clapped enthusiastically.

* Lucy: Everybody loves Lucy.

* Daddy: Where's Mommy?
Lucy: She's at the Errands Store

* Lucy: It's taking a long time to grow up.

* Lucy: Mawma!!! (Channel Will Ferrell's "Mama! Meatloooaf!)

* Abby: Maw-maaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

* Lucy: Why do I have to share everyday?

The Sweetest Thing

Lucy and Jane were playing "Mommy."
Jane: "I'll be the mommy"
Lucy: "I'll be the Daddy, and you be the sweetheart."

Names Lucy has for Abby {and herself}

- Abby
- Abby Sue
- Sugar Booger
- Sweetheart
- Abi-GAIL
- {and for herself} Lucy-GAIL

The New Tree Swing

{We pull up to Home Depot}

Lucy:  "Mommy! I came here with Daddy for my ladder for my swing!"
(We just got a wood swing that we hung on the tree in the front yard.)

"I bringed my Bear and all my animals."

{We walk in}

Lucy:  "Mommy! I'll show you where the nails are!"
And she did.

A Month Off: on our way

Bryan drove; the girls and I flew.

Stretching her legs

Last Day

We visited Bryan at work on his last day before celebrating at Chick-Fil-A (or "chickalay" as Lucy pronounces it) for dinner.








(We were driving into Chick-Fil-A and Lucy said, "Mommy. I see Chickalay. He says 'Ucy come play.'")