Silly Silly Girl

Lydia has developed a little personality, or I guess I should say BIG in the past few weeks! She is really turning into a little clown! It is so fun to watch it change and develop daily! She has started making this funny face and she LOVES to do it when I get the camera out! Here are just a few pictures of her making her silly face...

Holding her picture Allie painted for her (a little girl we used to babysit, pre-Lydia)

This looks like a scream...but it's not! She's just goofy!

Unfortunately, we had to take Lydia back to the doctor on Friday. She woke up Thursday running fever, coughing, and had a runny nose. They wanted us to bring her in just to make sure she wasn't getting RSV. We were glad when they checked her out and said that it is just a cold, but it hasn't been too much fun. Poor girls nose is running non-stop, and she is struggling to breath. Hopefully the medicine that they gave her will clear it up before too long. I know that she is ready for it to be gone!

Sweet Baby Girl

Doing what she does best...getting into things!

She LOVES her Daddy!

We've had a little bit of luck getting Lydia to eat things other than baby food. She had her first taste of cinnamon toast on Saturday morning with Daddy. She LOVED it! She also had some noodles and chicken for dinner, and yesterday ate a few bites of a chicken nugget and pudding. Hopefully before long she will no longer need baby food and will eat "big girl food"! I've been really worried about her not eating real food, but then I remembered that her adjusted age (since she was 6 weeks early) is only 9 months, and some things she does is right along with that age. Guess she likes to keep things interesting! :)

Yummy!

She has started to "walk" using her doll stroller that my mom got her for Christmas. It is so cute! At first she was a little apprehensive and would freak out, but now she goes until she runs into something! She then "fusses" until you come and get her straightened out, and off she will go again! Made us both realize just how big she is getting...and we know before long she will be getting around this out without that stroller!

Can you tell she's a little wild...you better get out of her way!

Here I come...

Look at me Mommy!

Last Sunday, Brother Carroll preached out of 1 Thessalonians3:11-13..it was such a great message on praying for your children. Since she has been born, or even before she was born, we've prayed that God would help us to be godly parents and to help us raise her to be a godly girl. He brought out three prayers that we should be praying as parents, and it's something that I am praying for Lydia.

**Send the right people into her life (vs. 11)

**Stretch her heart to include others (vs. 12)

**Stabilize her so that she will not be moved (vs. 13)

She means the world to us and we are praying that God will do these things in her life.