Time well spent

So after every Sunday and having to go get Lydia from nursery because she is screaming, I officially decided to stick with the task of doing room time again with her. So we started this task on Monday. So Monday she seemed like ok I am just going to play. Then Tuesday, all she did was scream. Wednesday, ok I will come and get you. I am sorry you were crying. Then today I got in the shower again and left her in her room to play and she again started to cry. We I listened and listened to her cry and then all of the sudden I didn't hear anything except a noisy toy in her room. She was actually playing and then she started talking to herself in a happy voice. WHOOOOOOO this never happens. So I left her there until I had taken care of all the laundry and did my devotions for the morning. And when I went into get her after 45 minutes of playing she was sitting on her floor with her previously used towel sucking her thumb. I was so happy with her and I went in and picked her up and hugged her and said "good job." So hopefully we will start to like nursery and tomorrow we will stick out this process again.

Much needed rest

Well we are finally settled back in to our home life here in KY. We had a great weekend. We also enjoyed being back at our home church and what a great message to come back to. Although a little bit more worried about Lydia coming to know Christ, but humbled that God brought me this far in my life from circumstances in my family that were awful, to enjoying an awesome life here with my wonderful husband and my great daughter. It is such a blessing to see how God has worked in our lives and He continues to work. So onto to an update on Lydia. She is walking around by herself most of the time now, and she started referring to me all the time as ma ma. So I am very happy. She still doesn't crawl or roll over from her stomach to her back, but I am not worried cause after all she has the muscles. So here is a video of her walking enjoy.

Another new thing

Today was a real fun day. Lydia didn't take good naps today but decided to be in a good mood anyway. She has discovered a couple of new things today. She can clap really well now. You can say clap Lydia and she claps. Then today she discovered how to do SO BIG and when her Uncle Phil comes in the room she loves to do it for him. She is still cautious to go to anyone besides Joel and I but we are hoping she will warm up to them. Here is a video of us in a pool and her clapping and just some random pictures from vacation.

Starting out

Well we have successfully made it to Virginia Beach. After having a great time with Melinda and Steve (my sister and her husband)we are here with Joel's family. While we were at Melinda's we went to the zoo. I will post pictures of the zoo so you can see them. We learned how to play a new game called settlers and that was fun. Joel also had the chance to help on their front porch. I don't have pictures of that yet so we will have to wait for pictures on that. It was a great trip here to Virginia Beach and it was quick too only 4 hours. Lydia is walking on her own now. The only person she will do it with really is me so Joel will have to take video for you all but right now I don't have her doing it. Here are some pictures.

Precious

Today, I took Lydia for her 9 months checkup except she is 10 months now. Everything looks great except she keeps falling off the curve for weight. So we need to fatten her up. She is 28 and 3/4 inches long. She is in the 99th percentile for height. So she is tall and skinny. I also talked to him about the fact that she isn't crawling and she isn't pulling herself to the sitting position. He said that she has all the muscles to do those things. So he thinks she is just choosing not to. So we just have to keep working with her and give her time. So it was an over all good appointment. She has her third tooth coming now so she is doing great. I labeled this precious because she has been cuddling with me a lot lately. She wants me to pick her up so she can hug me. It is so awesome. I love being her mom. I love the fact that I am her mom. It has been a very rewarding and growing time for me.

My first Father’s day

What a great weekend it was. As Michelle explained, she went above and beyond the call of duty, making it the most amazing first Father’s day anyone could ask for! Michelle not only brought me breakfast in bed, but got me a digital picture frame full of pictures of us and Lydia. Then Lydia got me the Indiana Jones trilogy on DVD. ;-)

So after all that wonderful stuff Lydia decided to make my day even more memorable. She managed to poop through her diaper and get it on my white striped shirt while I was holding her! LOL The first time she had ever gotten poop on my clothes, so that's actually a pretty good track record. But it was ironic that the first time was on Father’s day.

So now I'm sitting at my desk looking at the beautiful pictures of my wife and daughter on my new digital picture frame.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY DADDY

Today, was a particularly good day. Lydia woke me up at 6:30 and so I commenced the action of making Joel's day a special first Father's Day. I wanted him to know how great a daddy he was to our precious little girl. SO we took him breakfast in bed. I also made a great lunch for him of stuffed cheese macaroni shells (what we had for super last night)so overall a great day. So Lydia decided that she would be a good girl and she stayed in nursery. She even took a nap. I thought I was going to fall over when they told me this. She never stays in nursery and she always cried. Not this time she showed me up. SO we were very excited as another milestone in Lydia's life has been accomplished. Now onto conquering crawling. She has learned the art of scooting backwards so maybe soon. Happy Father's Day to all you dads.