August: 5 months

Finally August is here and camp is OVER for the year. I will be responsible for 80 less children on Monday than I have been for the last 10 weeks. Down to just one, mine. The whole family has had a nice chill weekend in celebration of easier schedules. Lucy and I got to be Lazy while Mike was on chicken house duty (his choice). Lucy seems to be pretty into the 2 new chicks who are joining Tallulah on the Moerlins chicken farm. We now have Bama and Agnes. The chickens have all been given names that Mike vetoed when we were on the name hunt for baby Lu. Sadly Dixie the chicken did not make it a full year. She has mysteriously disappeared and the streets of East Atlanta are not as friendly as Key West to stray chickens. I’m hoping Lucy will enjoy learning about where her food comes from and I have my fingers crossed that she won’t have an egg allergy!

We’ve been spending time with dear friends and are gearing up for a month with a lot of action. After today the next 4 weekends are going to be full of travel. Lucy seems to be having a nice time, the picture is of her at brunch this morning. She was on excellent behavior.

Okay, I know it’s been a while.

I’ve been chasing other people’s children around for more than 8 hours a day, pumping my brains out (well it’s milk actually but it feels less extreme to say that) and trying to both exercise have a healthy social life with Lucy and Mike. I don’t want to raise a shut in, or become one. In the mess of summer I TOTALLY fell down on my blogging duties.

Don’t despair. I will resurface again soon.

Here are a few shots from this magical summer in the interim.

Lucy is growing like crazy and being hilarious. We more than passed all the 4 month benchmarks at her check up. She’s got a little personality and has a hilarious laugh. Our house is so full of happiness and I’m so gosh darn thrilled that this whole Mom thing hasn’t caused my brain to explode that I’ve been pretty low key on the old internerd.

Happy Day.

M

2 months and Mother's Day

Today Lucy is 2 months!!

We had a magical 1st Mother's day. Lucy came home from daycare Friday with a fun card that she "made" with her teacher's help. Her involvement was pretty much just sitting still while her picture was taken, but I was pretty darn excited. As a person who often works with children for a living I'm amazed that I am just as susceptible to crafts with my kid's picture and/or name on them. Yes, I too am a gushy mom ha ha.

This weekend Green Market opened at Piedmont Park so Lucy got to see her Dad's band play live for the first time. She was excellent at the park and got to meet tons of my favorite people from work as well as some of Atlanta's best farmers (I may be biased but they're awesome folks). She even got to spend some quality time with her Aunt Audrey, Auntie Ruth, Unc Luke and Momma & Papa Ubel. Lucy may have the most honorary relatives of any baby around in addition to her huge genetically related family. She's pretty adored everywhere she goes. We're feeling awfully lucky.

Sunday Mike gave me a framed photo of Lucy and I that is very reminiscent of another picture of my mother and I that mike framed for me as a gift a few years back. Lucy, Mike and I then headed off to the Fernbank Forest for a nature walk led by every one's favorite naturalist, Eli. She was really engaged with the tree canopy. It might have gotten even more smiles and stares than her best friend the ceiling fan. We're branching out these days. Then, we hopped over to Ruth and Luke's for a magical dinner with Lucy's furriest cousin, Bo.

Altogether it was a great weekend, and we're so lucky to have so many wonderful friends and our fabulous families. Happy Monday to all.

p.s. I plan to be a little better with this blog. I am way too delinquent!

Good Morning

It's been a pretty busy 1st month. Since Lucy was born she has had tons of visitors, traveled all over town, and even come with mom to work for a bit. Grandma Debbie came for a whole week to play with her so that I could go back to work for the week of Spring Break Camp. It was so nice to have her here so that I could work without being in mad panic.
This weekend Mike decided to paint the door. I'm calling the shade "Lucille Kelly Green" technically I think it's actually called Asparagus by the folks at Valspar, but I like my name better. The weather is also turning around making time outdoors a lot more pleasant.

We went on our second family picnic, this time we met up with some friends and had a really great afternoon. Lucy wore her new dress from my Uncle Walt and Aunt Amy. I can't yet tie my head around calling my aunts and uncles 'great.' Everyone is still pretty young :).

Better late than never

I have been horribly delinquent in keeping up the blog. While I knew that a baby would definitely take up my time, I didn’t also count on how awesome she was going to be. In short, Lucy is spectacular and Mike and I are thrilled- even when she decides to scream at extreme volume while riding in the car and manages to poop out of her diaper. She can do both with such a cute little face that you can’t hold it against her. Plus she’s got my eyes and her father’s mouth making most of her expressions ones we’re both quite familiar with. Everything is cuter in miniature. Here are some photos of her life thus far. I plan to get back on board with the blog as my maternity leave comes to an end.

40 weeks and counting.... that's 10 months kids!

So today is my official due date, but rather than magical pictures of a squishy pink face and feelings of accomplishment I'm sitting at my desk at work making faces like this one to everyone who says, "What? No baby yet" My stomach is huge. I am ready to meet this critter, but just like everything worth having she's making me wait. I appreciate the life lessons, but at the same time I wouldn't mind a quick jump into labor. It's pretty amazing how labor, the once semi dreaded end of the pregnancy road is now the shiny gilded door at the end of the tunnel. Go figure. I think biology has yet again scored a big one- Getting women excited and antsy about squeezing out a giant baby person is pretty impressive. I am 100% in the excited and antsy camp. I'm just milliseconds from yelling to the world COME ON CONTRACTIONS! LETS DO THIS THING!



I'm walking a lot. Hoping for progress. We'll see what happens soon.