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.

Waiting in the Starting Blocks

We’re so close; I’m hoping that the next post will include pictures of the BABY in person. Yesterday’s doctor appointment yielded some great news. I found out that the baby is in position (the doctor said she felt her head) and that I’m already 70% effaced and 3 cm dilated. Whoot! Keep it up baby Moe! The doctor also told me that she didn’t expect me to make it all the way to Tuesday. I’m hoping for labor to start FOR REAL at any minute. Mike and I are both at a decent ‘stopping place’ at work. We’ve got all the bags packed. The car seat’s ready and we even got a guest bed upstairs. These last few days of waiting seem like years. For example I think today has stretched into a week. I’m walking as much as possible and daydreaming of babies.

I will say however that at the same time the reality is setting in. That pelvic exam was less than pleasant yesterday. I’m getting ready to batten down the hatches and be pretty uncomfortable for a few hours soon. I’m sure that it will be worth it, but the butterflies are hanging out in my displaced stomach all the same. Wish us luck!