In the morning we dressed her up and brought her to our usual breakfast spot. To my surprise, she kept her antennae headband on for quite a long time before tearing it off of her head. Afterwards she ran around outside picking up “tree trash” while her father took many pictures.

We were joined later in the morning by Chrissy & Tim, who were up to enjoy the craziness that is Halloween in Salem. While they were out doing their thing, we took our little bumblebee out for a stroll around the block before it got too nuts. Per usual, she took everything in stride, never got overwhelmed by the amount of people around her and was admired by many.

As it got dark outside, the crush of humanity (expected crowd numbers were 100k and I think it ended up somewhere around 80k) descended upon us and we stuck close to home. Since we were turning the clocks back that night as well, we kept Lulu up an hour past bedtime (which is why she looks so sleepy in the last photo).

While I wished that we all could have been out and about like last year, at least I know there’s always next year!

Swing! from Lulabean on Vimeo.

All the drunkie-bums thought she was so adorable that I was ready to smack their hands every time they tried to touch her, but she took it all in stride. She was so great during dinner, taking in all the sights and people-watching.

First St. Patrick's Day!

Dad must've had too much irish whiskey when he took this!

Yay, boiled dinner!

Honestly, being able to capture pictures of Lulu that aren’t completely blurry is somewhat of an enigma. She moves so fast and frequently that half the pics we take she’s a big blur. Well, here. This should illustrate why it’s hard to get a good picture of her!

We’re all looking at this big change as a positive one and hope that it’s a blessing in disguise.

Lulu is going through another growth spurt. She is eating baby food three times a day on top of her bottle that she gets every 3-4 hours. She is starting to feel “solid” and meaty and has the cutest chubby wrists. She still shows no interest in crawling, but sits up for very long periods of time and rolls herself across the floor over and over again.

A new behavior this week is that she holds her arms out when she wants to be picked up and shows a preference when she wants Mom or Dad to hold her. She also is learning to make different sounds (ba ba ba, da da da) and yelling or squealing at different volumes, which we love when we’re out in a restaurant or coffee shop!

Here’s a big photo update since it’s been a while since our last post. Some are from our visit with Lulu’s great grandmother, hanging out with her Dad and outside for walks when the weather is nice.

Two Lucille's are better than one: Lulu with her Great Grandmother Frazier

playing with Grammi & Grampy Frazier

hanging with Dad

there's the smile

flying!

feeding herself...kind of

talking a walk down Pickering Wharf

Mumma and Lulu

cheeky

she looks like she has something to say.

sitting with Grampy K.

The coffee shop has a nice mellow atmosphere. It’s always nice and warm in there, the colors on the wall and the lighting is  soothing and usually the music is good.

Lulu gets her breakfast first.

sitting with Dad

Cute moment

She’s usually content for about an hour or so before she gets too squirmy or too tired. We usually head home for a nap, but she decided she needed to blow off some steam so we played on the floor for a while.

I was happy to see that she can pretty much sit up on her own. She’s learned to master the balance required when she starts to list to one side. And when she’s on the floor playing she loves to roll and she rolls from her back to her stomach to her back again. We can see that she’s starting to figure out how to kick her knee up for leverage and that when she pushes she actually moves. Crawling is definitely in our near future.

She loves grabbing for the camera.

when the thumb goes in the mouth she's starting to poop out.

losing steam fast.

she actually rolls away from me to get away from the camera. Plus I think her backside is cute.

Like a fed up actress she grabs the camera. It's time for bed.