10 1/2 months old

So Lucy is growing up so quickly, I have been slower in taking pictures and blogging about her, but her it goes

Lucy:

Starting to crawl and move around a ton! She likes to get up on her hands and toes and making a 'V' with her body. She started crawling a little bit last week, and when I call her name while she tries she drops to the floor like she got caught or something..cute!

She just got her 2nd cold of her life, and it has been quite sad. She can't breathe, eat well, and is just miserable, hopefully it will pass soon. Thank goodness for baths.


Lucy is wearing size 12-18 mostly and some 18-24 month sizes.

She loves music, and tries to sing along.

Everyone loves her at church and likes to help with her which is a HUGE blessing since I am getting VERY pregnant with Peter and am overheated and tired a lot.

She eats well, not picky. SOOOO wonderful! She even eats snow and pickles like her mommy:)


She lifts her legs for us to change her bum:)

Her bedtime song is Silent Night, and as we sing it to her, she puts her hands up by her bed for sleeping position.

Her hair is growing and growing, starting to be a little shaggy, but is past being patient for me to give her pigtails, so for now it is and does what it does.

She LOVES LOVES LOVES little kids. She will squeal with delight and can't get enough of other little ones, thank goodness Peter is on his way:)


She is getting better at sippy cups, but she has been drinking successfully from my camelback water bottle for the last 3 or so months. I carry it everywhere I go, so she likes to steal my water. I had to get another one for her.

She loves her grandma, I think it will be SUPER cute when she can say grandma!!!


When she sees a fork or spoon, she wants some and starts grabbing the air, pumping her hands like she is going to grab it.

Evan makes her light up! He will walk in the room and she squeals, laughs, smiles, every cute action and sound comes from her.

She has been VERY patient and good as we have been fixing up the house and she has been hanging out with me!!! I can't wait for it to be done!!!


She also loves watching cartoons, and Finding Nemo is one of her favorite movies that she gets sucked into.

Anyway, she is a cutie pie, and I can't believe she will be one April 19.

Valentine's Day Weekend

So some friend's of ours were offering a $5 babysitting night at their house Saturday, so Evan and I jumped on that, and came up with a date night to celebrate Valentine's day. We dropped Lucy off and went to get a free $10 meal to share from Mi Cocina to take into our movie at AMC. (I called and they said they won't stop us from bringing in food, but it's not their favorite things for customers to do) We went and saw Valentine's Day, not the greatest movie, but it was cute.

We went to pick up Lucy, and they said she had a blast with the other kids and loved the cupcake that she ate:) She was cute. Evan went to wake her up to take her home, and she just was as happy as could be!

Today we went to church, and Lucy did well, she slept through the first hour of church and then was playful during Sunday school. I started feeling overheated, and couldn't make it through the rest of Sunday school or Relief Society-they need to fix the heating system. So Lucy and I hung out in the foyer until Evan came to bring us home. It snowed, and was beautiful! I love the snow, and will be happy it's gone for summer because then I get to swim, but I will miss it a lot, especially eating it:)

Evan made me lunch, and then let me take a 3 hour nap while he watched Lucy, and then I watched her while he slept, luckily she wanted to nap soon after he did:) Evan woke up and said "I might need some coaching" and then he made dinner, myValentine's day surprise:) He made chicken roll-ups, stuffing, potatoes, corn, and had sparkling cider. Yummy comfort food, perfect for the holiday and weather:) Lucy loved it too, not sure if she's supposed to have corn, but she loved it!



A picture of our new sewer line getting put in, that they have to dig up and fix tomorrow:)

Pictures of Lucy relaxing:)

Pregnancy and a few almosts

I am 23 weeks pregnant, wahoo! 17 more weeks to go!!!! I have gestational diabetes, and have a high risk pregnancy. Crazy times!!! I have been feeling alright, probably mostly because I am so tired and caught up fixing our new home, dealing with contractors, etc. so I don't even think about anything else. So mostly, I am just tired, and by 5pm I am ready for bed!!!

My little baby boy kicks me all the time and Evan loves feeling him, he sings to him a lot, very cute!

Lucy is growing up. She is finally starting to crawl a little and pull herself up on things. I will be so happy once we have new carpet in our home and no more stinky wood floors, Lucy hit her face once, not fun-good thing a water bottle calmed her down.

She is almost 10 months old, and loves so much!

She loves spaghetti, raviolli, meat balls, pears, veggie snack sticks-the potato chip kind, goldfish, cheese sticks, chocolate chip cookies, yogurt, chicken nuggets, ramon noodles and a few other things that I can't remember:)





A few almosts:

we almost caught the skunks
Lucy is almost crawling
we almost flooded our basement, good thing we got a new sewer line
my mom is almost here to stay for a week or so
we are almost ready to paint and carpet
and then almost ready to move in
Evan almost always is cooking dinner now
I almost got my entire legs shaved, it's hard to find all that blonde hair


I am grateful for my almosts, it means a lot of blessings are headed our way


Off to another busy day...thanks for all your help and prayers our way!

Pepe Le Pew and Chocolate Chip cookies

So last time it snowed, and then today when it snowed we had a special visit from Pepe Le Pew. Apparently he has been living there for a while, and so today, the fun exterminators are going to try to find him a new home..YUCK! I hope there is only one and that Pepe doesn't have little friends hanging out as well.-just another fun hiccup along the way of getting into our new home:)


Because of the snow, my electricians canceled on me today(well they claimed "something" came up) but anyhow we are staying home today. We went to Kaiser and the Chiropractor and the roads were crazy to drive on..I do not do well driving with lots of snow, I prefer to watch, play in and eat snow only:) So hopefully we will be skunkless tomorrow, the electricians will finish(I am actually very pleased with them), and the carpet people are coming to measure for carpet we ordered.


Lucy and I were playing and watching cartoons, and then I decided to see how she would do with a chocolate chip cookie, I forgot chocolate melts. I broke off a piece for her, and she would NOT let go of it or give it back. Let's just say that she LOVES them, chocolate got everywhere and I had to PRY the last remaining bits from her hand. I wanted a picture, so I sneaked a quick one, not the best, but boy was she messy!!!

More to do, and more before and after pics of the house to come..

CHEERS!

We bought a house!!!!

Wednesday we had a walk through and then closed on our house! We are so happy, excited and can't wait to get things fixed up so that we can move in. I will be keeping before and after pictures for you all to see.


Thanks for all of your encouragement along the way, it has really helped!!!!

If any of you would like to come help clean this Saturday-Jan 30th, from 9-12, email me at hilary.biddulph@gmail.com, and I will give you directions and an address. We will serve lunch at noon:)


YAY! I like being a home owner, it feels great! now the fix up begins, thank goodness for tax returns!



CHEERS!

Snips and Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails...it's a

BOY!!!

We had the ultrasound today, and it is DEFINITELY a boy!


Lucy will get to have a little brother!!! 14 months apart, we are super excited and can hardly wait:) Due Date is still June 10th, but we shall see:)

You know you're pregnant and have a 9 month old when....

Oh my! I got up, bathed Lucy while Evan showered for church. I then handed her off to Evan while I showered. I have my makeup downstairs, so I thought to myself,"self, put on makeup after I brush my teeth, after breakfast, after I do Lucy's hair, after I get the diaper bag ready, after I do X,Y,Z, all in 30 minutes-while my back is out and I hobble like I am missing a couple inches on my left leg".

So I went downstairs started on all my tasks. Got in the car, and half way to church I gasped, looked at my eyes in the mirror, and I never got the rest of the makeup off from my shower, and even though I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, I never put new makeup on!!! YIKES!! Evan said I looked ok, and Evan needed to go early to help set up extra chairs, so we couldn't turn back, even though he offered. Lesson learned, put extra mascara in the diaper bag:)-Lucy had cute hair. First week not in pigtails, and it's long enough to come over to the side:) I should have taken picture(she is wearing 12-18 month clothes now).

THEN I get to church, hold Lucy while Evan is setting up chairs, and I thought my shirt looked different, but didn't know why. Finally it was bugging me too much, I looked down again, and saw something purple, and couldn't figure it out. I looked closer and it was my tag. I had my shirt on backwards. I passed Lucy onto somebody, and went off to the bathroom to turn my shirt on the right direction. I passed Evan, in front of my OB Dr., told Evan what had happened, and my Dr. chuckled. Too funny!

The rest of the day went well....

Pregnancy brain..gotta love it!

Free Days in Denver

My friend sent me this list of :

2010 FREE DAYS
I would still call before you go to make sure that it is still the current deal:)


DENVER ZOO

· 2300 Steele St., Denver, 303-376-4800

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Monday, January 18, 2010

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Saturday November 13, 2010



DENVER ART MUSEUM

· 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000

(The art museum is free the first Saturday of every month: )

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Saturday June 5, 2010

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Saturday, December 4, 2010



DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS

· 1005 York Street, Denver, 720-865-3500

Monday, January 18, 2010

Monday, February 15, 2010

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Thursday, October 23, 2010



DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS @ CHATFIELD

· 8500 Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton, 303-973-3705

Friday, January 1, 2010

Friday, February 5, 2010

Friday, March 5, 2010

Friday, April 2, 2010

Friday, May 7, 2010

Friday, June 4, 2010

Friday, August 6, 2010

Friday, November 5, 2010

Friday, December 3, 2010



DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE

· 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, 303-322-7009

Monday, January 11, 2010

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Monday, March 1, 2010

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010

Monday, September 13, 2010

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Monday, October 18, 2010

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Monday, December 6, 2010



KIDS EAT FREE DAYS:



**Everyday**

O’Charley’s Restaurant

Old Spaghetti Factory (with coupon from Kids Pages Magazine)

IHOP - Actually $0.99 – 3-9pm

McAlister’s Deli – after 5pm



**Sunday

LoDos - $1.99

Lansdowne Arms – after 4 pm

La Msa Mexican Restaurant

Sunset Grill

Jose Pepper’s Authentic Mexican Food

Chartroose Caboose

Big D’s BBQ (Parker)



**Monday

Brothers BBQ

Buffalo Wild Wings - $0.99 – 5-8 pm

C.B. & Potts

CiCi’s Pizza

Chartroose Caboose – after 5pm

Cinzetti’s – 5-9 pm

Fuddruckers - $0.99 – 5-9 pm

Gunther Toody’s

Rio Grande

TGI Fridays

Big D’s BBQ (Parker)

Bono’s BBQ



** Tuesday

3 Margarittas

Bennigans

Black Eyed Pea – after 5pm

Brothers BBQ

Champps

Chick-Fil-A

Cinzetti’s – 5-9 pm

Denny’s – 4-10pm

Fazolli’s - $0.99 – 5-8pm

Fuddruckers - $0.99 – 5-9 pm

Lone Star Steakhouse

Perkins

Pizza Street

Planet Subs – after 4pm

Ponderosa Steak House – after 4pm

Salty Iguana Mexican Restaurant

Big D’s BBQ (Parker)

Treo (& ½ price hamburgers)



**Wednesday

Applebees - $0.99

Old Chicago

Rainforest Café – after 5pm

Zarda BBQ

Big D’s BBQ (Parker)



**Thursday

Buffalo Wild Wings

C.B. & Potts - $1.00

Big D’s BBQ (Parker)



**Saturday

Lone Star Steakhouse – 11 – 4pm

LoDo’s - $1.99

Lucy's first sleep over/Friday night date at the ER/house news/baby bath

So For the last couple weeks I have been having weird pains where my liver is. Every time I breathe in, sigh, etc I feel like little knives are stabbing me, not the coolest feeling. So then Thursday it had gotten so intense that I had been bawling the entire day and took about 3 hours to fall asleep. I woke up and used Kaiser's cool email system to email my OB. He called and talked to me and instructed me to call immediately if it got more severe. For now he thought maybe the baby was just growing bigger and smooshing my enlarged(2-3 times the size it should be) liver.

Well, it got SO much worse, I couldn't stop crying, I called in and made an appointment for 4pm. They called me at 12:30 telling me that I needed to get in immediately because they needed blood work done and there wouldn't be much time to get the results back. So I called Evan about 6 times at work, he finally answered, got someone to cover his class, and brought me to the doctor. I couldn't even lift Lucy.

After checking in they checked me out and then sent me to the ER thinking I may have gall stones or blood clots in my lungs. Meanwhile the Blais family offered to take Lucy and kept her over night. They had a blast! We checked into the ER, they did an X-Ray, ultrasound on my organs(Evan tried getting them to find out the sex of the baby, they just laughed), and then finally a cat scan(which they don't like doing to pregnant women, but I am far enough along that things should be fine). Nothing was found, and they decided to send me home, with pain meds, and instructions that I need to get a liver biopsy as soon as the baby is born and they can operate on me.


They killed my arm. My veins were sooo hard to get to, and then next day I was so bruised it hurt to bend my arm, that hasn't happened for while. The nurse just kind of dug around for a few minutes...ahhh! Evan cringed and that made me cry. I think out of the two nurses, they poked me about 5 different spots and each dug around..blah!



So now, I got a priesthood blessing, tell me that I will have a healthy pregnancy, healthy baby and a healthy delivery. I told that to my awesome doctor, and he liked that, but then reminded me that I wasn't told I would be perfectly comfortable, so I guess this is my trial and then my expanding baby is my blessing. I am grateful for this baby! I hope I can get super healthy after I deliver, that's the goal!

We got home late Friday night, 9 hours later, and it was weird not having Lucy in our home. I missed her, but we did sleep in which was nice. She was so cute when we picked her up..So cheery and excited to be there but see us too:)


IN OTHER NEWS
On Saturday afternoon, Lucy and I were napping and then all of a sudden Evan burst open the bedroom door and scared me so bad, but had great news! We got the approval letter for the house! YAY!!!!!! The seller's Realtor gave a complaint against the bank to HUD homes and short sales saying that Bank of America wasn't following protocol, so their hands were forced into signing immediately! YAY!!!! So Monday we find out the closing date, which will be before Jan 31. So if you want to help clean, paint, drywall, tile, etc, Let me know, we can work out bread or babysitting exchanges:)


YAY!

Overall a good weekend!

Lucy loves bath time!

My two loves!

Aren't they cute...She is getting better with the camera flash:) That's what her hair looks like after pigtails have been in for a while:)

Lucy is almost 9 months old!

Lucy 8 months 3 weeks, me pregnant with our 2nd at 17 weeks and Evan a happy daddy!

Lucy is growing up so quickly!

I keep forgetting to take the normal scrapbook photos of her each month and documenting it, but here goes a little on Lucy:

She is getting:
4 new teeth at the same time, and likes to bite with the 2 bottom she already has
getting fussier with the arrival of new teeth
she chews on everything and everyone-especially blankets when nothing else is available
into size 4 diapers soon-we want to finish off the 3's first

More of her personality:
laughs all the time-has a cute chuckle
makes her own jokes, or seems to get jokes or funny things
very social
loves people
explores everything, and loves going to the grocery store with us
loves going on walks in the stroller
loves to be loved and played with
poses for the camera and drops the smile when the flash comes out:)





Talking:
she gabs all the time!
when she is excited she moves her arms all over the place-and toys
she blows noises and air out of her pursed lips
sometimes it sounds like she says mom but it is just how she mumbles:)

Hair:
her hair is crazy!!! it is all over the place. Blonde and long and now we put piggy tails in her hair all of the time. too cute! She is keeping them in, but sometimes they fall out when she sleeps. She even sits still for me to put them in. Evan even helps do her hair sometimes. when we take them out it looks like little devil horns:) sometimes I will pull out the bumbo so she can watch cartoons while I fix her hair:)


She likes to eat:
olives
green beans
gnocchi
tomatoes
vegetarian pizza from Papa Murphy
toast
baby cheetos
yogurt
yogurt melts
goldfish crackers
cheerios
puffs
toast
tortillas
white and brown rice
apple juice watered down
celery
and of course her bottle





Moving:
she rolls and rolls everywhere
not quite crawling yet, but I am grateful for that!
pulls herself up in her crib at night time
rolls around her crib in her sleep all night long
hides in the corners of the crib during sleeping time

Likes/dislikes:
when she doesn't like a sound, she covers her ears with her elbows, too cute!
LOVES LOVES LOVES My Friends Tigger and Pooh, thank goodness for DVR
likes to bounce in her bouncer(sometimes we think she is going to fly out)
likes to stand up and "walk" with us holding her hands
likes to feed herself and takes the fork or spoon from me, she actually does a pretty good job!
LOVES tags, any tags, and wants to eat all tags, we gave her a taggie blanket that she loves
Likes being scared by mommy and daddy
dislikes the camera flash, and now when she sees the camera she squints giving us horrible mug shots:)
Likes daddy's arcade

dislikes the new church meeting schedule-during her nap time-mine too!
Loves her little piano


Cuddles:
She cuddles so much more
head butts us sometimes to get into our shoulders:)
When I startle her she burrows into Evan-sometimes slapping him in the face-too funny!

Sleeps:
in a pac n play for naptime (3-4 times a day)
in crib at night, unless I want to sleep in my bed and not the couch for nap time
on her belly, back, side, with legs up, etc:)
talks to herself for a few minutes before sleeping at night


What a little angel we have. We could not have been more blessed! My goals this year with her are:
teaching her more about Jesus and Heavenly Father and the gospel
helping her to have fun and be happy
to do her thing and not let pressures from others get to her
enjoy having a sibling
getting her into her new house and her room organized:)

Christmas Vacation

We had a great Christmas vacation, and now I am sad that it is ending. I love having Evan home, and am so grateful that he is a school teacher and gets holidays and the entire summer off. What a blessing!

We decided to save money and not travel this Christmas. Evan's brother Nate flew in from San Francisco for a week and we had lots of fun. Lucy and Nate met for the first time and we all got to just relax. Besides the big Mexican meal I made, things were pretty low-key. We had leftover Mexican food for Christmas Eve with Evan's oldest brother Geoff and his family. We played, ate food, chatted online with Grandma Betty and Grandpa Romney (who are in Santiago Chile serving a temple mission, returning in May). Watched the movie 'UP' and then had the traditional almond pudding dessert game, the two little boys won:) We didn't read the Christmas story of Jesus this time, but we will try to be better organized next Christmas.


We woke up to Christmas morning and while Lucy slept the 'big' kids opened presents, watched the rest of 'UP', and I prepared a Danish breakfast-our new tradition for Christmas morning, of Ebelskiver, boiled eggs, smoothie and clementines.


After Lucy woke up we opened her gifts, took video and we napped and relaxed for the rest of the day. My parents right a few chapters of their life every year, so we read some of those, I think I cried during each story..I love hearing how they followed or didn't follow the Holy Ghost and learned from it, what great examples! It was hard not being with them this year, another time:)

The Blais family(our surrogate family) invited us over for games and dinner. What a great night!!! Lucy was tired and teething so after about 3 or so hours we headed home and went to bed:)

Lucy loves her uncle Nate



After Nate left Saturday, we have just been sleeping in, relaxing, running errands, Evan saw Avatar in 3-D IMAX, we went to my 17 week appointment, tried a lot of new food(anything made from leftover Mexican, and homemade potato chips),
Chimichanga
had missionaries over for dinner, and now just getting ready for school to start back up on Monday. Oh ya, we also bought a pantry rotation shelf off of craigslist, with little cash and trades from our house. I love TRADING!!!






New Year's Ever was fun! We headed over to a friends house, and only lasted 1 1/2 hours. It was my bed time, I got sick and was ready to pass out and be sick there, so we skedaddled out and took me home to bed:) Everyone laughed that I was in shorts and sandals, but I overheat sooooo much!

Lucy is over 8 months now and doing lots of things. (another post)

We loved Christmas vacation!!!