Waiting For Friends From Virginia

December 22, 2008
Today we are waiting for our dear special friends who are driving down from Virginia to spend Christmas with us. While we are waiting, Lucie plays with a local friend.

Lucie Takes Her First Solo Steps!!

December 21, 2008

This morning we went to church and I was able to leave Lucie in the nursery for the first time so I could go to the church service. Hopefully this is a trend that will continue. This afternoon we had a nice long visit from our friends S and C and her son M. Lucie loved M! They played and played and M made Lucie do her belly laugh for quite some time. C taped the laughing - I've got to get a copy and will try to post it if I can. It is too funny. So, the big news is that during this visit Lucie walked for the first time. She did it several times - walking back and forth between M and me. She did it with confidence and of course we were all thrilled to see her take her first steps. It took me so by surprise that I did not get any pictures. (A side note from today, Dec 29th - I haven't been able to get her to repeat this. Not sure what she is waiting for :).

Big Trip to Atlanta

December 19, 2008
Today we took Grandmommie and Papa to the airport so we stayed in town and met our friends G and K for dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant. Yumm!

A Thorough Check Up

December 18, 2008
Today I took Lucie back to the doctor as she has been running a fever off and on, and it seems to be higher than it should just from teething. Her ears are still red and we are worried that she is getting another ear infection. Our pediatrician says we might have to get ear tubes. We also drew blood to do a battery of tests. Boy was that fun. I was holding her body down, one nurse was holding her arm and the second nurse was drawing the blood. Of course Lucie was screaming through the whole process, which was drawn out because they had to get blood from several locations (arm, hand, foot - ugh). I was crying the whole time, but I was also talking to Lucie trying to get her to calm down. I asked her what the duck says and in the midst off her screaming she did the hand motion for the duck's quack. We both survived. Since then we've gotten results from all the tests and almost everything has come back negative or good, which is really awesome news. Her platelets are low and I'm not exactly sure what that means, but apparently it can happen when you are sick so I'm hoping it is because of the ear infections Lucie has had for so long. So, we have to go back for more blood in a few weeks. Not looking forward to that.

Busy Day

December 17, 2008
Today was a very busy day. We went to the Social Security Office to apply for Lucie's social security number. We will have to go through this process a second time after I get her name legally changed, but we had to go ahead and do it now for tax purposes. All I can say is I dread having to go through the process again. Then we dropped in on Grandmommie and Papa and had lunch with them. After we got back home our dear friend J came for a visit. She delivered a gift from another friend-you can see Lucie playing with her musical tower. She absolutely loves this toy. She stands at it and bounces with the music. I need to get a movie of it. Then my sister-in-law stopped by with dinner and to bring Christmas gifts for Lucie and me since she is heading out of town. Lucie is starting to get the hang of opening gifts now. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures this time.

Ride 'em Horsie !

December 16, 2008
This is the horse that Lucie was deathly afraid of last week.

More Exploring

December 15, 2008
Lucie continues to love the plantation shutters :) She has also found the stairs! I tried to teach her how to climb a couple of weeks ago but guess it was too soon. Today she decided she wanted to try them on her own. She does good about half way up, and then when she looks up she gets scared.