Smarty pants

My little girl is getting so big! I was just tucking her in for her afternoon nap and we were cuddling in our bed reading books. She definately has her favorites that we read all the time, and then those that she will let me read a page or two before she shuts it and says "awww done". One of her favorite books is a counting in the desert book that Grandpa and Grandma Koops brought back for her from Arizona. As she holds the book and turns the pages, she reads it backwards and tells me the 5 owls "who, who", and then the 4 geckos "scoot, scoot", the 3 road runners "hot, hot", and then 2 tortoises "meet".........which amazingly enough is exactly how the story goes! She read me the book, and I understood everything that she meant!



She is definately a smart one, and this is how she amazes me everyday!



I posted a couple pictures of Lucy, her first (and only) meeting with Santa. She definately doesn't want Santa to touch her, but she'll take the gift, and later point at him and say "ho-ho". She also walks around our house most of the day with her shirt pulled up. She loves to rest her belly on anything cold; the fireplace, garage door.... This picture was especially cute because it's the first time she put on her cowboy boots. I think they are just too cute, but she has resisted putting them on, until now. We put on some music and I got her to dance on the fireplace marble. Those boots make the best noise, just like my Sunday shoes that I used to dance on my fireplace with. The last picture is Lucy supporting her daddy's Pistons. He was so excited when we surprised him with that outfit and Lucy saying "pissons"! Please tell me you all knew how big of a game is on tonight?!

Procrastination

Again....procrastinating....well actually I have got a lot accomplished since I've been waiting for something to post on-line for part of my final stats exam. I wonder quite a bit why I've choosen biostatistics (it sounds even scarier to me when I use the official class name) as my first class in a long line of grad school classes. Partly to get it over with; well mostly that exact reason. I'm sure after Thursday I will feel that way. I will be very glad to have the class behind me.



What an amazing weekend. Jim and I got to spend a relaxing day with Lucy on Saturday....something that doesn't happen very often around here lately. Nowhere to go at all, due to some last minute schedule changes. We were very happy about it. Lucy got to play in the snow, and we even taught her to eat it! It is so cute to hear all of her words for everything, I think that's why I post so many videos. You have the opportunity not only to see pictures, but hear her developing too. She is quite the talker, if you can get her going.



Today we got to see Justice's baptism, and a chance to hang out with both sides of our families. I'll post some pictures later on that. I will continue to call Justice my little butterball. He is so cute, and an amazing little cuddler.