"Ahh...Man!"

When your little girl goes to daycare all day and spends the weekend with family, it shouldn't be surprising that she comes home with a new phrase. However, Lucy has clung onto, "Ahh...man!"

Heath and I have decided that we say it, but only sparingly. She had to of picked this up from daycare or her cousin, Alex. The amazing thing is, she uses it in the right context. It's hilarious. Heath and I enjoyed the other evening when Lucy's personality was really starting to shine through!

She was wound up. I don't think it was from sugar, but that we were all together playing. She was all over the living room. On one pass, she cut the corner too sharp and hit her arm on the coffee table.

"Aowww....aowww....aowww...," she repeated looking at us.

"Did you hurt your arm?" Heath asked.

"Aowww," was the only response.We both laughed.

"You're okay," I told her.

Seeing that we weren't going to come running to her little arm's rescue, she gave herself a kiss on the arm. We laughed, as we continued to watch her roam the room. She started to run a little too fast and past the ottoman. Her toe caught the carpet and down she went. She just disappeared behind the ottoman as we heard a light thud.

Silence.

We waited to hear if she was going to get upset.

"Ahhh....man!"

We laughed until we almost cried. I can't wait to see what she'll say next!

Rice Cereal

Lucy recently started rice cereal! She is getting so big, so fast (5 months, 2 weeks).

We didn't start her on cereal earlier, because the doctor's office told us to wait until she wasn't content with formula alone. Also, they said the earlier we started her, the more likely she would be to have allergies. So, a month later, Heath fed her 8 oz. of formula and an hour and 45 minutes later she wanted more and ate 7 oz. That was when we decided it was time for cereal.

We started last Sunday with a very runny helping of cereal. Initially we tried to give it to her on a spoon, just to get used to the idea of a spoon. It worked for about 4 out of the 50 spoon fulls. She would spit out and re-eat the same bite over and over again. Somehow we managed to get most of it down, but had to resort to bottle feeding her the rest. Even Heath's sounds and dancing the spoon around didn't interest her.

After a week of thin cereal, we decided to thicken it up a bit. Last night's feeding was very successful! She is figuring out to open her mouth for the spoon and somewhat chews, or gums rather, the cereal.

I cannot believe she is getting so old and so big. I imagined some day feeding her in the highchair with a spoon; but, it got here a lot sooner than I imagined. I feel like it was just the other day that I was pregnant with her!

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