Lucy's Dedication

A couple of Sundays ago we dedicated Lucy at my parent's church in one of the morning services. This is simply a brief time in the service when we dedicate her to the Lord, promising to raise her in a Christian home and teach her how to follow Christ.

Lucy's life verse is Acts 13:47

" For this is what the Lord has commanded us: "I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth."

"Lucy" means light. It is our prayer that she will be a light to others by sharing Christ with them.

Right beforehand, we got Lucy dressed in her beautiful dress. This dress is very special because all of Pete's siblings wore it for their baptisms! We were honored to have Lucy wear it too.

Lucy got to meet her "GGpa" and "GGma" who came for her dedication.


The rest of the day, Lucy wore the dress that I (Michaela) came home from the hospital in when I was a baby!

More Photos

Here are a few pictures from the last few weeks.

Lucy met her (other!) great-grandmother ("G-G-Ma") a few weeks ago
and I was able to get a few smiles out of her while GGMa held her.



Lucy loves watching Jack Bauer tear it up on 24 with Mommy and Daddy.
You can see how intense her focus is. No, I'm kidding - it will be many many years
before she gets to watch anything as rough as 24. :)


Of course, we've already begun Lucy's music lessons. She's not very good.

But she is improving, slowly.

This was a particularly challenging Franz Liszt etude
that required her full attention on the music.

A Sad and Tired Lucy

We're definitely beginning to pick up on Lucy's different cries for different occasions. This is her cry when she's tired, and we think it's a little bit hilarious, so we recorded it. We are heartily convinced that filming our child crying does not make us bad parents. And yes, we put her down for bed right after this :).

Funny (and sometime's a little gross) moments

In the past 24 hours, Lucy has decided she didn't want everything she was getting rid of to stay in her diaper. The first incident was while I was in orchestra practice and left her with Pete- thank goodness we brought an extra outfit to church. The second happened tonight during dinner. My mom picked her up to discover this:


Lucy seems like she's been trying to talk to us lately and also makes some amusing faces. Also, her cry is really sweet and cute sometimes, and Pete thinks it's funny. We do, however, get sad when she cries for longer periods of time and we can't figure out what's wrong. We will post a cute clip of her crying soon.

Marietta

We have been enjoying our time in Marietta since we got in about a week ago. Just in case you're unaware of why we're here, we came down to visit my (Michaela's) hometown in order to continue to look for financial ministry partners. Our hope is to find many who will want to partner with us to reach students for Christ in Central Illinois. Lucy has enjoyed visiting her Nana and Pop, and was so happy to meet her Uncles Aaron, Luke, and Jacob!

Lucy has been a wonderful baby! Some recent events in her life include...

-Sitting through my brothers' band concert (3 hours long) completely calm and awake (most of the time)!

-For the past few nights, sleeping 6-7 hours straight, which has made all three of us, not to mention my family, very happy.


-Her cord finally coming off at 5 weeks!

-Growing 3 inches since birth.

-Meeting quite a few new people.

-Smiling a lot.

She does have her fussy moments though. :)

Lucy in her swing!

We tried to upload this about a month ago, but our internet wasn't working well, and then we forgot about it until now. Sorry for the constant need for our camera to be adjusting its focus!