Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Each Friday Lucy's daycare has a special theme - today it was St. Patrick's Day/wearing green! (Side note: A few weeks ago the Friday event was Wild Hair Day. Our bald little Lucy was sad that she could not participate. :) )

This Friday Lucy wore a My First St. Patrick's Day hat from her Grandma Nola and a sweet green shirt hand-me-down from cousin Abigail!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

4 Month Well-Child Visit

Miss Lucille had her 4 month well-child visit at the doctor's office this week. Here are her latest stats:
Height: 26.25" (97.27%)
Weight: 14 lb 11 oz (69.83%)
Head Circumference: 42.3 cm (81.3%)

She was examined by Dr. Rainwater who confirmed that Lucy is perfect. :) We talked about starting Lucy of solid foods, treating her eczema patches, preparing for international travel, and working on bed time routines. It was a good visit.

Lucy also got 3 vaccinations, if you look closely at this picture you can see little bandaids on her legs where she was poked for her shots.




Lucy was a trooper, she did a great job with her immunizations. She has been a bit fussier and sleepier than usual over the past couple of days. Also, she started to run a temperature at daycare the day after her shots. Dan brought her some infant tylenol and it seemed to do the trick.

We love you peanut! We are so blessed to have such a healthy and happy baby girl!

Dinner with friends

We had dinner with our friends, Andy, Erinn & Charlotte this week. We love getting together with these guys! We always have such a good time together. Their baby Charlotte is ~3 months older than Lucy so we always get to see upcoming baby milestones for Lucy when we hang out. Charlotte is such a sweetheart! She has lots of teeth, is eating solid foods like a champ and is taking swim lessons!


Here is a picture of mamas Andrea & Erinn with our baby girls, Lucy & Charlotte.
Thanks again for dinner Andy & Erinn, we'll have to get together again soon!

Weekend Up North

The Storm family headed North for a lazy weekend of snowshoeing, lounging, and spending time with our friends, the MacFarlands! The MacFarland family has a new little baby, Jacob, who was born in January. We we able to meet this little guy last weekend and he was wonderful! He was so tiny and sweet. The kids had fun playing together!

Sharing Jake's Activity mat

All smiles!

We bundled up the babes for some snowshoeing!

Laura found matching snowsuits for the kiddos.

Lucy and her papa

The Storm family out snowshoeing

The MacFarland family

We were able to snowshoe on Saturday but the weather was so beautiful that on Sunday we just went for a normal walk. The snow was melting all around us!

Laura and Daniel with the bambinos

What a relaxing weekend!! It was great to see you MacFarland family! We loved spending time with you and meeting baby Jake.

A fantastic Friday

I had last Friday off of work as a Recovery Day to recooperate from those long hours helping with Hurley support. I was so excited to spend all day with my baby girl. Guess what - we had an awesome day!! :)

The first adventure of the morning was getting pictures taken! Lucy had her 4 month old photo shoot in her Easter dress. So sweet. We just love love love our baby photographer - Kendra Stoltz. If you have little ones and live in the Madison area, we totally recommend her.

Here is Lucy's Easter dress, lots of pink and tulle, just like little girl Easter dresses are meant to be. :)


To take a look a Miss Lucille's latest pictures click on this link:
http://kendrastoltz.zenfolio.com/

Choose the Andrea Storm file under proofs, the password is astorm.

After pictures, we went to Mama-Baby hour at Happy Bambino! For a split second, we almost did not go because I thought that we might not know any of the mamas/babies who attend any more since we hadn't been there in a month. Happily, I was wrong! It was so nice to see lots of familiar faces and to touch base with everyone again. We miss our Friday's at Happy Bambino a lot so it was so wonderful to be there. Just like old times!! :)

Lucy was able to connect with her old friends! Here she is with baby Mackenzie. So cute.



Lucy and I were able to join Mary and Mackenize for lunch at Crema afterward. So good! It was great to catch up. Thanks ladies! We need to do it again soon.

After lunch, Lucy and I headed home to pack for our weekend up north. More about those advenures in a future post.

Lucy is 4 months old!

Can you believe that our little Lucy Bear is already 4 months old? Crazy how time flies. Our baby girl weighs more than 14 pounds and the little pink pjs that she is sporting are a size 6 to 9 months. Wow!
Here is a recent picture of our baby girl:


And another photo of her doing some kicks. :)


Lucy's favorite new thing at 4 months is grabbing her feet! She recently discovered that they are connected to her. :) She loves holding on to her toes, especially when we are changing her diapers. She can't quite get them in her mouth yet but she is sure close!

We love you Lucy Goose!

On the Road Again...

As you know, I travel a lot for my job. Since I first found out that I was pregnant with Lucy, I have been trying to cut back on my time spent on the road. I have had 4 glorious months with no travel. It has been so pleasant to go to Dane County Regional Airport over the past few months only to pick up family and friends rather than to head out on my own business trips!! Well, I knew that this travel hiatus would eventually come to an end. And it has. Insert frowny face here.

It is very difficult to leave my little peanut behind as I leave for work trips, even if it is just for a short time! It makes it easier to know that Lucy's Dad is such a wonderful caregiver but I still miss her so much it hurts! When I am traveling, everyone always comments to me, "You must love getting 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep." Ummm, in theory I do love getting 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep but when I am away from Madison that never happens. I always sleep terribly when I am gone!! I hear phantom baby noises or wake up thinking that Lucy is in bed with me or I need to get up to pump in the night. Crazy!

The good news to report is that my newest customer is just outside of Chicago which is wonderful! It makes road trips much easier. A 2.5 hour car ride is nothing compared to the travel woes I have had going through airports to far away cities. So, Dan, Lucy, and I are just going forward one trip at a time and seeing if my job will fit in with our family's needs! We will just have to re-evaluate as we go.

The other challenge that comes with traveling is maintaining my milk supply. I have had to pump in some crazy places lately. I will admit that there are some times that I want to drop kick my breastpump and just be done with it (mostly when I am in airport bathrooms :)) but I know that it is the best food for Lucy right now and I do love breastfeeding her when I am actually at home so I am keeping at it!! Here are some of the awesome places that I have pumped:

A CIO's office. :)


A storeroom/conference room

Special Needs Bathroom at the airport

Also - I wanted to add a shout out in this post to Lucy's Grandma Sharon and Grandpa Glen. These guys came all the way to Madison recently to watch Lucy and give Dan an extra set of hands when I was on a longer work trip to scenic Flint, Michigan. We really appreciate your help Mom and Dad!! Lucy is lucky to have grandparents like you! Love you.

Lucy snuggling with Grandma Sharon