Giggling!

Lucy has been smiling and laughing a lot more of late. Sometimes she looks up at me while I'm eating and laughs- apparently it looks pretty funny. We managed to catch a bit of her giggling on camera- enjoy!

More to come on our fabulous, friend-filled memorial day weekend in the next few days...

Lilac Sunday

A belated happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there! It was really special to celebrate my first one with Matt and Lucy. We started with a delicious brunch cooked by Matt- homemade Egg McMuffins, tater tots and fresh asparagus from Grandma's garden. Yum!

Then we took the train to the Arboretum for Lilac Sunday. They have something like 40+ varieties of lilacs, and most hit their peak right around Mother's Day. The festival has been going on for 100 years. It was such a delight to smell and see the beautiful flowers and to be outside on such a beautiful day. We had really missed being in nature, and enjoyed giving Lucy her first taste of it.

This past week Lucy has really gotten into sucking on all available fabrics. She likes that much more than sucking on a pacifier. Here she is with her little lamb blanket/friend.

She has also started blowing bubbles and making raspberry noises, and being a lot more vocal. It is SO cute to hear her venturing into the domain of language.

In bottle news, Lucy drank about 1 ounce this past Wednesday when I was away. Hooray! Hopefully this is a foretaste of things to come.

Let there be laughter

Breaking news: Matt and I were taking a walk with Lucy on Monday afternoon and we heard a radio on loud outside, playing "Just a Gigalo". I commenced to dance (how can you not when that song is playing) and sing in front of Lucy while Matt danced with her too. Lucy started smiling (like in the picture above with my sister) and then started laughing, a real chortling belly laugh. It was the most beautiful sound. And then we danced some more and she laughed again. It just totally made our day!

Now onto pictures. Above is Lucy with my sister, who has an endless capacity to delight Lucy for long periods of time.

Lucy and I out on the town in Morocco.

Mom and dad (aka Mimi and Papa Jack) with Lucy and Sam.

Caitlin and John are a wonderfully adoring aunt and uncle.

Sam and Dad playing with the Cheerio book. Sam is so super cute- these pictures hardly do him justice (no pun intended). You can check out more on my sister's blog (linked from ours).

And now onto the Lucy photo gallery.

A picture of our little gnome.

Gerber baby and daisy.

I love these overalls!Flying babeeeee!She's such a cute little tyke and we love her so much. This last picture shows one of her favorite positions. She loves standing up- I think so that she can look around and see more.

Here's a longish video that shows her smiling a few times. She's a bit groggy as she had just woken up.