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."

A Happy Disposition

Lately, Lucy has been full of laughs and giggles. We are so thankful for her better sleep schedule too! She only took two good naps yesterday (instead of the usual 3 or 4 shorter ones) and sleeps very well at night. We are praying that this phase lasts a long time. Her smile is especially cute now due to her two tiny teeth.

One of her favorite things to do is roll from side to side or tummy to back. She just laughs and rolls.

Teeth are coming!

Yesterday after Lucy's morning nap I noticed a small cut on her lower gums. When I felt with my finger, it was sharp. That, accompanied with lots of drooling, chewing on everything, fussiness, and a slight fever, tells me that she is teething. Also, the night before she woke up what seemed like twenty times between 3 and 6 AM.

Lucy is 5 months old today and we are still at Pete's parents house in Chesterfield continuing to build our team of financial ministry partners. Grandma and Grandpa are enjoying having their first grandchild around. So are Aunt Margaret and Uncle Tim... and Copper, the dog. He likes to lick Lucy.

We are planning to stay here three more weeks, go home for a week, then head to Georgia to (prayerfully and hopefully) finish up our support raising!