She saw this tutu from Auntie Katie & Cousin Kat in her closent and pointed to it, so we put it on over her jammies.... yep, she's my daughter for sure!
Sweet girl
Here's a video of her pushing her baby in the stroller...This post is a little late (we are nearing 12 months) but I have been hit with the one-two combo of cold + stomach bug, and have been under the weather. So here is what the little lady has been up to this month:
*Sleeping through the night!! Lindsay slept through the night for the very first time, Dec. 31st... the one night a year that J and I actually stayed up until 12:30am. I think if we knew she was going to sleep through the night we would have skipped the ball dropping. LOL. We do get stretches of her sleeping through the night a couple times per week, or only waking up 1 time, where we have to go lay her back down. A full night's sleep is bliss!
*Teething...Lulu has cut all 4 of her teeth...top 2 and bottom 2, and is working on another one on top to the left. Ouch! I look at her little smile and it's not the gummy smile of a baby anymore, but of a big girl toddler.
*Favorite book: The Very Hungry Caterpiller, by Eric Carle. We read this book about twenty times a day! We decided to do a butterfly themed birthday party in honor of her favorite book...
*Social Butterfly... Lindsay is SO outgoing! She is her Daddy's daughter for sure! We cannot go anywhere where Lindsay does not feel the need to wave and smile at every person she sees, even across the room. I have had so many random people come up to us, especially at the grocery store, that say, "Your baby keeps waving at me down every aisle so I had to come say Hi." She loves to "ham it up"!
*Finger-licking-good! She enjoys feeding herself the most, and likes a bite of whatever Jarrett and I are eating.
*Hair... her hair has been growing, and I can almost put a clip in it... poor girl, her Mama loves bows.
I'm not ready for her to be 1. Where does time go? Love u Lulu!
For the past few months, I have been saying that I wanted to take a trip to visit Tehachapi, a small town 45 minutes east of Bakersfield, where my family lived for 12 years. I know this sounds crazy, but when I dream of "home" it is always in this house, even today. I think it is because I lived in it longer than any other home. I have so many sweet memories in this house and on the property! Now those of you who are reading this who remember or have been here, I do have more photos that I can share, but for those of you who haven't, I promise it's not too long :) 
The current owners have done a ton of work to a 20 year old house, and have made it more beautiful than my family could have dreamed. They put in a fabulous custom kitchen, and took down the wall between the living room and kitchen (where the piano used to be). How many Christmas's did we wait at the top of the stairs for Mom & Dad to wake up so we could open presents? 
We could see the fireworks across the valley on the Fourth of July from the roof. We climbed out the bedroom windows (mine on the right, Matt's on the left) and lay a blanket on the roof, and ate homemade butterfinger ice cream. Don't worry... Dad is a fireman, and he supervised us kids on the roof.
My Grandma & Grandpa's house they build in Golden Hills... We had a wonderful lunch at the Apple Shed before we drove home. Isn't that just the coolest gift ever?!!? 
