What we've been up to

And by "we" I mean mostly Lucy.  Of course.

• It has been a crazy cold winter here.  All of my and Ryan's siblings live in warm weather places and I sometimes go nuts seeing all of their warm, park-filled pictures when I look outside and see snow or ice.  We're supposed to have another snow storm again this week.  I should be wearing capris and flip flops right now. :)  Anytime we go somewhere Lucy ends up sick, and she just so happens to be sick yet again.  In fact, we are all sick right now.  So basically we've been hunkered down in the house trying to use random things as new toys and inventing new "games" such as "line up all of the stuffed animals."  Super original and inventive, I know.  But Lucy was amused for a few minutes.

• I painted Lucy's nails for the first time ever.  She's always been a little too wild to sit still and try and paint them, but I did it.  I painted fast, which was easy considering her nails are super small, and pulled out the hair dryer to dry them fast.  Lucy loved it and kept looking at them all day.

• On this particular day, when I brought Lucy downstairs in the morning to eat breakfast, she scrambled out of my arms as fast as possible when we reached the bottom of the stairs and bolted for a bow.  Once she had it in, she was a happy camper.  I'm glad she likes bows so much!  She's also obsessed with water bottles and anything with a straw.

• Ryan's car died, we traded it in for a STEAL of a deal (on our part- we majorly lucked out), and walked away with a Honda Odyssey. We figured if it was going to last us the next 20 years (or at least a really really long time if not exactly 20 years :), we better be able to accommodate for the future.  Also, it solidified the fact that we won't ever have more than 5 kids since it is a 7-passenger van, not 8. ;)

•  This picture is my current favorite.  Like I've mentioned before, Lucy loves to vacuum and she insists we do it daily.  Well, we missed a few days and when we went back to it, she was super scared again.  To calm down, she pulled Big Bear and Violet the puppy over to the couch with her, put on her sunglasses, and sat there while I vacuumed the carpet and rug.  She also kept the sunglasses on all morning.  This girl is developing the funniest personality- she's just so goofy a lot and I love it.