so yes, it is confirmed..lucy is as funny as her mother. well, at least almost as funny. for those of you who aren't around me daily and get to experience my sarcastic sense of humor...you're probably a better person. and for those of you who are around me, ryan and andrea, they know that i am, indeed, the funniest person in the world. they've told me that, so i have to believe it. but on to more important things...like lucy.

lucy is cracking us up lately. i was inspired tonight after her most recent comedy routine. ryan, olive, and i were sitting on the couch just hanging out. and apparently we weren't giving lucy enough attention, so she put a blanket over her head and just began walking around like normal. this resulted in her running right smack into the wall and falling over crap in the floor. all the while with her giggling underneath and saying "uh-oh," while taking some pretty good spills. we were laughing so hard because it went on forever until she would find her way over to us. then she insisted on sitting in ryan's lap for quite sometime with this thick blanket over her head. okay, so maybe it's not that funny to you...but just picture it, and you'll laugh.

her most recent obsession is, of course, elmo. i thought we could avoid the elmo thing, but i was wrong. in fact, thanks to grandma byrd, we now have an elmo shirt which is way to big for her, but she wants to wear it all the time. in fact, it's actually got food and crap all over it, but she won't let me take it off of her. so she's been wearing it for about 2 days now. we've actually started calling her elmo sometimes and she thinks it's hilarious.

lucy is also potty-training, which is fun...yeah. i will not post photos of her on the potty like her father did on his blog. it's going slowly, but she's getting the hang of it. she has also started picking up several new words, which is scary. i just know any day now she'll break out with "crap." oh well, it's bound to happen. i guess it could be worse.

just tonight though she almost made ryan cry. he was putting her to bed and she was going around saying "night night," and then she said "love you olive, love you mommy." but then when he was laying her down he whispered in her ear "i love you lucy," and she whispered back "i love you daddy." and then all the times you want to yell at her or put her in her naughty spot are just forgotten.

she is a sweet little girl, or at least that's what they tell me when i pick her up from the nursery every week. it at least makes me feel special when i go to pick her up and she screams "mommy, mommy." and she has got the most hilarious smile with all her teeth, she gets so excited she just grins from ear to ear. it is so sweet. she has also started helping me in the kitchen, which is funny in itself because i don't cook that much. but she loves to pull a chair up to the counter and stand up in it and she what she can get into. the other night, i was gone and ryan hadn't heard her in a little while. so he went in the kitchen and she was up on her stool that she had pushed in there, at the sink pretending to wash the dishes. which is also funny because i don't do dishes either...at least maybe she will! she is getting so big so fast, it makes me sad. i was washing her hair the other night, and i realized that she has little girl hair now...not baby hair. she is such a big girl...

let me fill everyone in on what's been going on with us these days. well, it's mainly what's been going on with our friends. basically, our good friend rob found out last month that his cancer is back. he found out last spring that he had leukemia and underwent months of chemo and all that fun crap to get rid of it...and he did. but it decided to come back and he has started chemo again at uams and is currently living there for a while, thus being away from his wonderful family. let me say that rob's wife, stephanie, is ryan's cousin and needless to say we are all very close and they are some of our best friends. and they have four beautiful children. jack, lily, and averi have started staying at our house a few days a week, and are terrorized by lucy. today lucy was gone to my parents and i had a chance to take a few pictures of the kids. i know steph was wanting to get some pictures of them, and well, i know rob...you are really missing them. while they are not the best pictures i have every taken b/c i was holding olive most of the time i was taking them b/c she was just not cooperating....they are cute and just them. i must say that i tried for about 2 seconds to get a picture of all three of them together and then i gave up on that idea. so here they are, go to my flickr page page to see the rest!

yes, you all know that i am quite the procrastinator. which is why i'm just now putting up our christmas pictures. well, i've been a little busy. anyway, here's a few of our pictures, but as always, check out my flickr page for all of them.