sidetracked while shopping

A trip to TJ, one of our favorite places, got a little off track when we spotted...

THIS!

She looked so dang cute in it!  I managed a few pics, but she usually popped it right off.

After a while, she got a little burnt out on all the publicity and started to play it coy.

Finally it was all too much.  Paparazzi.



things I want to remember

There are so many things that happen every day that I just want to capture in a bubble in my mind so I can remember them.  I wish I had a superspy camera...  If I did, here are a few things I'd like to have caught TODAY:

• When I walk carrying Lucy, usually my left arm and her right arm are free... I swing my left arm while I walk, and she has started swinging her right one in solidarity.  I just giggle every time.
• In the cart at Target, she said, "I dopt phone!"  (I dropped the phone).  I looked, and she had dropped her play phone into the cart.  Putting together sentences--what a BIG GIRL!
• She LOVES babies... singing, rocking and feeding her babies is a big job every day.  Today I put a safety latch into the cart that had a tiny picture of a baby's face.  Lucy gently picked up this safety latch and rocked it while she sang iy a little lullaby.  Melt my heart--she's so sweet!
• Lucy lost a shoe in Target's parking lot.  I strapped her in and went back a few feet for it.  As I walked back to her open car door, the other shoe came flying out!  It was really funny to see this little white shoe rocket out the door!
• When she walks backwards, she really thinks she's pretty cool.  It's a slow little backwards shuffle, but with a lot of barely-pent-up excitement and pride.  Wide eyes looking all around to make sure someone is catching it.  Today she backed up trying to sit on a big ball.  It kept moving, so she kept backing.  By the end, we were both laughing so hard.  I started laughing at her, and then she thought that was SO funny :)

Life (which was already pretty great) is made so much sweeter by these little shared moments.  (And a lot more funny!)

at the park

Hello warmer weather!  I have an outdoorsy little girl on my hands. We've been enjoying a local park.  It's fun to watch her on the slide.  She's a little afraid every time.  But she takes a deep breath and goes for it.  What a brave girl!

easter fun

Easter was lovely!

Getting ready for Easter is so fun with a little girl!

Lucy was pretty pleased with her dress.  There were both twirling and flouncing Easter morning.

One of Lucy's favorite spots in the world.  In fact, she now refuses to ride in a shopping cart if Uncle John is around.  She much prefers her spot on his lap!

Bubbles are tremendous fun!

Easter is a beautiful reminder that Jesus solved our biggest problem.  Our sin problem.  How to get right with God.  Imagine if we had to try to figure this out on our own... the guilt, the heavy weight of uncertainty...  But we don't.  Jesus took it all on Him and made it right.  By his wounds we are healed.  Beautiful.  Thank you Lord!

happy forever day

my polite little cowgirl

she's SO cool

Lucy's awesome uncle John had to play this little game MANY times over the weekend.  Her reaction was always thrilled, scrunched-nose clapping :)