Lucy's First Walking...sort of

Yesterday she started walking really well with this cruiser dinosaur whatnot. Today she was a pro.

Travel, Christmas, New Friends, and Still Not Crawling

This past month, our little family of three has endured much traveling. Our little Lucy, thankfully, does pretty well in the car. We first traveled back home to Illinois. Then on to St. Louis for Christmas. After Christmas we went to the Campus Crusade Christmas Conference, and then home again. A few days later, we started out for Georgia again, and this time, we stopped at a hotel halfway to break up the 12+ hour trip. Do you blame us? :) We have decided we are not leaving Georgia until our support raising is finished and we're praying that will be sometime in February.

Here is what Lucy does more than half the time we are on the road:

Lucy had a good time playing with her toys at home:

A Christmas picture:

Here she is making some new friends at Christmas Conference. Lucy loved the other babies. It was cute to see her interact with and "talk" with them.

Lucy had her 9 month check up earlier this month and weighed 17 pounds and was 26 and a half inches tall. Also, we went swimming for the first time with her at the hotel and she loved it. She still doesn't crawl but rolls everywhere and LOVES to walk with somebody holding her hands.

Some videos :D

I guess we should just go ahead and make it clear (after almost 2 months of not blogging!) that we won't be posting very frequently anymore because we are just busy being a family and I'm busy being a mom. :) This season of life for us is a little crazy. We're still at my (Michaela's) parent's house raising our initial support for CCC, looking forward to being finished with that soon. We spent Thanksgiving in Asheville, NC with my dad's side of the family and will be spending Christmas with Pete's family. After Christmas we are looking forward to going to the CCC winter conference in Indianapolis where we will get to see many old friends and actually hang out with students from central Illinois! :D

Lucy has changed so much! She looks and acts like a little girl now. Here are a couple pictures from Thanksgiving, and even one from way back on Halloween. Also, a couple of our favorite videos we took this fall. If you're short on time, the last video is the best!

October

Here are some of my favorite pictures from this month so far:

Half of a year has passed already?!

We absolutely cannot believe that Lucy is 6 months old! Now I feel as though I can resonate with parents that often repeat the popular saying, "I feel like she was just born yesterday!"

So many things have happened in the last month and I've been bad at keeping up with this blog. I'm okay with that though because I'd much rather spend my time with my family and working hard to finish raising our financial support so we can return home and do ministry full time.

That said, here are a few short updates:

• Lucy is sitting up well on her own.
• She loves to play with toys now.
• She's still laughing a lot.
• She eats all sorts of pureed fruits and veggies.
• She weighs 15 pounds.
• She is displaying more of a Mommy and Daddy attachment now, but still loves people.
• Her bedtime has been bumped up as of this week and is now around the eight o'clock hour.
• Her two teeth are absolutely adorable, in my opinion. :)

In the last 2 weeks, we traveled from St. Louis to Normal for a little less than a week in our own home, then back to St. Louis for a day, then to Louisville for a few days to visit our good friends, then on to Atlanta. Phew! That was a lot of time on the road. Needless to say, we are happy to be in one place for awhile, but so very anxious to get home for good, presumably sometime in December.

Last week when we were visiting our friends Kevin and Lauren, their 22-month old boy was very interested in "Baby Oosley."