toddlerhood welcome

i've been a total madwoman over these past few days. i finished lucy's baby book and first year photo album, which had been complete ongoing projects. i had planned to finish both this past fall, but because i had such terrible nausea during the first trimester with my current pregnancy [& lucy's too, actually], getting through each day & taking care of lucy was about all i could handle. then came the holidays, and now here we are- already the end of january! i definitely don't want to go into this move with any extra loose-ends on my plate. i'm such a planner...it drives jon nuts at times, i'm sure :)

lucy's tantrums have hit a new toddler high :) she's all about testing boundaries & wanting her way...NOW! saturday marked her first public tantrum while we were furniture shopping for her "big girl" room. she reallllly wanted to sit in a pretty pink chair she found...and do nothing else. i liken it to if we were given a huge paycheck that was all of a sudden taken from us, and we had no idea whether or not we'd get it back. with this in mind, jon & i laughed our way through it :) really, what can you do? on the furniture note, our plan is to get lucy's furniture for her new room, and transition her to her new bed when she turns two in september, about the time we'll be transitioning her sister from the cradle (which was mine, and then lucy's:) to the crib. phew!

last week, lucy figured out how to go down the slide by herself for the first time!

and i snapped a video of a few of her favorite sounds. snake & horse are pretty sweet, too :)

my 2 favorites during a daddy/daughter morning this past weekend :) 

house goes on the market a week from today!

-ivy