Lydia is ONE!

I can't believe my little girl is already one year old! To think that about one year ago we were bringing her home from the hospital just blows my mind. She has already learned so much and has her own little personality. I just want to share with you some of my favorite things about my cute girl: She has the most amazing pot belly, taking after her dad. I think McCall and I forget how big it is, because we chuckle every time we take her shirt off. (Pic doesn't do it justice) She loves to point at everything and anything, especially dogs. She has a cute immitation bark for a dog.

She LOVES, loves, loves going outside! It was our biggest mistake as parents to introduce her to the outside and to teach her the sign for bye bye because she must sign it about a 100 times a day.

She still acts like her carseat is the torture chair but usually does ok when mom just holds her hand (literally, if you take the hand away its screaming and gnashing of teeth). You can also notice her scab on her forehead that she suffered when she tripped herself and skid on the cement.

This picture brings out 2 things: One is that she has had a hard time growing her teeth (she only has 4 to this point), but they are pretty cute and she has a smile that melts McCalls heart. Two is that she soaks all her clothes in drool (I think she gets so concentrated with things she wants to do that she forgets to swallow) One of my favorite things is that Lydia loves her books. If I tell her to get one of her books she squeals with joy, picks up the book and comes to sit in my lap. I think it's because I bring the books to life and she lives in a short lived fantasy world. You can also see from this pic her bruise that she suffered by falling on an exhaust pipe in the parking lot (she's had many injuries)

I love playing stuffed animals with Lydia when I come home and bring them to life for her. I love playing dog and chasing her around the house. I love how when you tell her no with a stern face she just gets a huge smile on her face and keeps on doing it. I love her fake laugh that she has perfected. I love when I lie down on the carpet she comes over and gives me big ol slobbery open wide kisses. I love when I try to shut the fridge I can't because I realize that Lydia has somehow snuck in there.

I could go on and on, but basically what I'm saying is.. I love this little girl.

Facial Expressions!

Lydia has developed some pretty sweet facial expressions:

This one is "OH WOW" (you can skip the first 5o seconds they're kind of boring)

This is Lydia watching her favorite princess show...

Family Pics

We have our first family pics! Tell us which one is your favorite, cuz it will probably end up on our wall. These were taken by our brother in law Brandon Osmond. We love them and glad they turned out so well.

Halloween, Thanksgiving and more

So it's been awhile since our last post and we've done some pretty exciting things since then so here goes:
First off, Lydia is addicted to salt. 2 examples. McCall bought a huge carton of gold fish for Lydia. She'll take one and suck off all the salt and then spit it back on her clothes (as demonstrated below). She also loves finger salt. She'll crawl up to you grab your hand and stick a finger in her mouth, once she's sucked off all the salt and nasties off that finger she'll take it out and put the next one in until she's gone down the entire hand. Pretty hilarious!
Thankgiving break! It was awesome we celebrated with some friends from our church. The day after McCall convinced me to wake up at 6 because they were handing out free gift cards (anywhere from $10 -$500, but it was random). So we sat out in the freezing cold for 1.5 hours til we came away with..... two $10 gift cards, kind of disappointing but oh well.
After we were done freezing we headed off to Indianapolis we went to the children's museum where I was attacked by a polar bear...

McCall saw her x-boyfriends picture....

I found the land of my dreams...

We visited the Indianapolis 500 track... which you should never go to if you are not a race car fan, which neither of us are. Was pretty boring not going to lie, but at least we can say we've been there.

While at the Indy 500 museum we decided to take our family pic in a race car. Not really, but that's what it looks like. Even Lydia knew this was a special picture (hands on the laps...)

We were able to go to our first Louisville Cardinals game at the new YUM center! It's a pretty awesome place! We're off to a 8-0 start and nationally ranked! Still not as good as our alma mater though... of course.

This is Lydia just being cute as can be, (probably just pooped her pants)

Halloween: we weren't that creative this year for Halloween, I just pulled out my old football uniforms from highschool and McCall made Lydia's cheerleading outfit. McCall was a little upset she had to be a football player... I kept telling her she would make one hot water girl.

Lydia in her own little world again.

And some pics for the grandparents, these are pretty funny at least to us parents, maybe not to you all.

And here is us in Indianapolis when they light the huge Christmas tree downtown.

The funny part that I cut off was McCall says... Right? at the end, cuz she forgot she was in Indianapolis.

Gatlinburg, TN...Fall Break!

Gatlinburg was so much fun! We stayed in this really nice 3 story cabin up in the mtns with a bunch of our really good friends and had an absolute blast. Now can I just say that this cabin was incredible! It had a movie theater, hot tub, pool table, air hockey, arcade games, poker table... that we didn't use... :) a king sized bed and individual bathroom for each of the 5 bedrooms, a beautiful kitchen and living room... sigh.. It was awesome.

Now for our day and a half in Gatlinburg (since I had to get back to work) we went on two beautiful hikes. Our first was to this waterfall that wasn't very big... the pathway was paved...so it didn't really feel like a real hike, but it was still really pretty. So for our second hike we decided to take on one of the more difficult hikes they had to offer... Chimney Top.... dun dun dun.... Ok, so we were actually going to go on an easier trail but our car didn't end up making it up the mtn side.. .because yes... i forgot to get the oil changed and our car started smoking. SO....... we went back down the mtn after letting it cool off a bit and passed by this trail. It was gorgeous!

The trail head said it would take about 3 hrs round trip, and we didn't want to stay out that long so we thought we would just hike really fast. It was basically all up hill and we did it in 2 hrs! With a baby! It was really fun and hopefully you can see from the pictures we took how steep it actually was. :)



Here is JD hiking up the last cliff to the very tip top of an Appalachian Mtn.. Yes.....sigh... with our child strapped to his back. He actually got chastised by an older lady on his way down for taking lydia so far up... It was actually alot harder to climb that thing than it looks because the rocks were blazing hot to the touch. Yikes!

Can you find ME??

Lydia loved splashing in the water!

Who's that good lookin fella?

We visited the titanic as well..

Hmmm... perhaps the construction workers had their blue plans upside down?

HAHAHAA!!! So we were driving through the town and passed this clever contraption. Drive Thru Ceremony~!!! Now why didn't I think of that. Perfect! :) Oh and for your info we had to give it a try... as soon as we pulled up, a guy popped his head out and said, "Hey you guys wanna get married?" Totally caught off guard by his rapid appearance, the first thing that popped into JD's mind was, "Sure!" So we got married for a second time, only $98. Jk, JD told him we'd think about it.

Missing tooth?

Here are some of are most recent adventures... at the mall. Dates are pretty exciting when you have a kid. McCall and Lydia decided to take a ride with Arthur.

Here's Lydia's first encounter with finger food, everywhere but inside the mouth. And no it's not a piece of poo... it's an avocado.

Chief complaint: traumatic occlusion with a frozen snicker

Prognosis: Good if you live in Kentucky, terrible anywhere else

Treatment: Free but scary and unpredictable unexperienced work at the dental school

Lydia the 1% of her day when she's not crying. Jk. She loves being outstide and eats strange delights constantly.

Where is Waldo?

Well I was going to post some movies of McCall clogging but they wouldn't load, so until next time...

Lydia is CRAWLING!

Lydia has been crawling these last few weeks and also sitting up all by herself. She started crawling at 5 and a half months and has been indulging herself with the pleasure of going anywhere in the house and getting into anything her little heart desires. She is also starting to pull herself up on everything she can, mostly me and jd but still.... :)