Ben's Photography Class

For Summer semester Ben took a digital photography class. I wanted to post a couple of pictures that he took and edited. He did a great job.

Grandma and Grandpa

We were so happy that Ben's parents were able to come see us for a couple of weeks this summer. We had so much fun with them. Cloe loved all of the attention, I mean, who else but a grandma would blow bubbles with a kid for five hours straight?

Lucy sharing some of Grandpa's ice cream

Cloe and Grandma at the Golden Days Parade

Grandpa and Lucy ready for church

Cloe helping Grandpa mow the lawn

(NOTE: That is NOT our house. Our house is a nice light color, not Salmon Orange.)

It was so much fun to have someone come and visit us (hint, hint.)

Thanks for coming up Grandma and Grandpa!!

Cloe's Comments

It seems like Cloe is always making us laugh with the crazy and silly things that she says. So, I want to share all of these with you. I will keeping posting them under the new Cloe's Comments section of our blog.

I Know, I know...

I know that I said that I would post and didn't... I've been so busy. I know that sounds like an excuse, and I guess it is.

I know that a lot of you already know what is going on with Lucy, but I am going to post a little bit about it for those of you who don't know.

I took Lucy to her six month check-up and it turned out that she lost weight from her four month to her six month check-ups. Lots of diet-tracking and blood tests later, we found out that everything is normal but that she needs significantly more food than she was getting. I try not to feel terrible about her being malnourished and everyone says that it's not my fault, but it's so hard to see how skinny and tiny your baby is and not blame it on yourself. I've gotten over those first difficult weeks and am doing better with everything. In the meantime, nearly all Lucy does when she is awake is eat. I feed her pretty much all day, and she is gaining weight really well. Her doctor was concerned about the fact that she wasn't able to sit up or roll from her back to her front and refered her to a state-run program called Project Teach. A couple of therapists from Project Teach came over a few weeks ago to evaluate Lucy and see what she needed and what we can do for her. They found that while her cognitive and fine motor skills are right where they should be, her gross motor skills are that of a four-month-old (she is 7 1/2 months old.) I was pretty stunned to hear that she was that far behind and had a hard time not blaming myself again. The therapists from Project Teach and I made a plan and they are starting to see her a couple of times a month. They come to our house and help me learn new ways and excercises to help to stregthen her muscles. Lucy is thriving with all this work. She can almost sit up alone and can roll from her back to her stomach with ease.

I think it will just take a couple of months to get her all caught up. Cloe is having a harder time with me spending more time with Lucy and is acting out more, but I know that she will be okay with it all.

Thank you all for your love and support; especially those of you who have helped me not to beat myself up over all of this. Here are some new pictures of the girls.

Sorry...

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. We were out-of-town for a while and then my computer bit the dust. I'll get some of our new pictures up here as soon as I can!

Six Months Old!

Lucy is now six months old and I can hardly believe it's been that long already! She is such a sweet, wonderful, easy baby. She is getting better about sitting up (she still springs back straight occasionally) and she is so fun to be around. Cloe likes to help me feed her baby food, but I have to be really careful because Cloe tries to shove the spoon down her throat, haha. My girls are so sweet and I love them so much. 

Lucy is reaching for the camera. She always reaches for things with her palm turned upwards; I love that about her.

My happy baby!

First Solids

So, I was going to wait until Lucy could sit up by herself before giving her solid food, but for some reason she wont sit--even supported! You have to forcibly bend her in half and then she springs back. So, I  waited until she seemed interested in food. We gave her some baby oatmeal that was really runny and she loved it!! I'm so glad that she did even though it made a huge mess (it always does the first time..)

Eye-ing her next bite

She had to have a bath afterwards because she was so messy........ She hated it

I hate when she gives me this look like, "Why are you doing this to me?"