Life with Lydie

Here are a couple photos from the past few weeks...

Owen and Lydie investigate their friend Maeve in the stroller at playgroup.




Bundled up Lydie in her cousin's snowsuit (gotta love hand-me-downs!) and took a beautiful hike in Micheaux State Forest the first weekend in November.

Aunt Leslie and Uncle John


Mommy and Daddy are so happy not to be carrying a 20 lb. baby on their backs! Ahhh...


The view...


Poor Lydia had a cold. The running nose just doesn't end - what our doctor calls the "green 11s". Playing in the kitchen in her jammies. What a life!


So when we "babyproofed" the kitchen daddy said, "Should we put locks on the cereal cabinet?" I replied, "Nah". Ok,
so now I'm eating my words. Lydia is slightly obsessed with taking the
boxes out, removing the bags and this time dumping the entire bag on
the floor. This photo is almost to say, "Here,Mummeee, have some, I've got plenty!"


Lydie was snacking in her high chair before "school" on Wednesday. I just couldn't get over how the light was striking her face.

Albany

Last weekend we ventured to Albany to introduce Lydia to her Great-grandma Willson
- an almost 98-year old woman who raised 7 boys and 1 girl. We figured
she spent 6 years of her life pregnant and Can you imagine how many
diapers that is!?! She so enjoyed Lydia and the feeling was mutual. We
had a lovely visit.
Meeting great-grandma

Daddy is so silly!

4 generations


A split second on Great-Grandma's lap

The cousins: Double trouble...

Blinds are a blast!

Halloween

Donning the costume...


Truly not thrilled about this hood.

Lydia hugging her dog puppet and appropriately "wuff"ing on cue.

The day Babe moved to Penn Hall was Trick-or-Treat there, so we suited up Lydie. Definitely brightened her spirits! Lydie was digging through Babe's bag searching for a last bit of candy. We couldn't get her attention to look at the camera...

Riley, the cutest Penn State cheerleader and a squirmy Lydie

Definitely more interested in Luke's lollipop than posing for the camera

Go Penn State! :)

Lydie and G-ma on Halloween.

What a cutie!

Sitting on Aunt Leslie's lap.

Lydie with cowboyman Owen and mummyshirt Maeve

Happy Halloween, Maeve

So excited to see Owen as a monkey!

Unfortunately she was not quite as thrilled to pose for a photo with the monkey.

Owen the monkey on the go.

Too cute. :)

Autumn

Lydia one year ago...

Lydia one week ago...


From a totally zonked 2 week old...

To a "neigh"ing, squirmy 1 year old!


Sitting in the pumpkin patch she was enthralled with pointing to the tips of the stems.



Of course, then she figured out that she could "ride" the pumpkins which was great fun!




Dear friends, Jen & Ryan, the newlyweds came for a visit on a gorgeous October afternoon.

Posing for the camera :)

A walk in the woods: Longpine Resvoir



Daddy decided to inaugurate Lydie into one of his family traditions: cream cheese on saltine cracker...

One of her favorite activities...this time she found all of her utensils. When one runs out of hands, employ the mouth!

Since Lydia doesn't walk and can't carry things in her hands, she figures the easiest way to transport items is by mouth.

What we call "free standing" in the kitchen. Look, no hands!

Almost dinnertime and I had emptied a bag of apples into the fruit drawer. One got away and Lydia snatched it up. Before I knew it she was munching away. Almost as if to say, "See, mommy, I really am hungry!"

Baby Sign

Lydie signing "eat" "more" and "finished". She also knows "please" "milk" and "sleep" Obviously she still uses her voice in addition to body language (like grabbing the booster seat tray and rocking obviously means, "Get me out of here!") :) What fun!