Happy 2012!

Lucy started walking right before Christmas. Grandpa came to share in the holiday with us and was able to witness her first steps! Unfortunately, we were all struck down by what I am referring to as "The Christmas Plague of 2011". We are now all feeling better and had a nice quiet new year's eve. Lucy is now perfecting her walking skills and should be an old hat in no time. Here she is yesterday walking around for one of the last times in 2011:

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

The Piper family had an excellent Thankgiving with Uncle Bill, Aunt Katie, Henry, Reese, Grandpa and the Seminarios! Now, we are getting ready for Christmas and enjoying activities to celebrate the holiday spirit. Last week, the whole fam braved the cold to put up some Christmas lights. Actually, Andy put the lights up and Lucy and I just offered encouragement.

Then today, Lucy and I went to the mall to see Santa. Unfortunately, he was on break to feed his raindeer. However, we did have luck in finding Lucy a Christmas dress. Here are some pictures of the whole family bundled up to put up our Christmas lights, the lights up looking pretty and Lucy getting ready for Christmas in her new dress!

Happy Birthday Lucy!

Happy Birthday to my little love! Being a mom to Lucy has made this the best year of my life. We celebrated her first birthday with a big party with lots of friends and were lucky enough to have her Nana, Uncle Bill, Aunt Katie and cousins Reese and Henry come celebrate. Henry was cute as ever but so fast in action I don't think we got a picture. He is such a great older cousin. When Lucy was crying, he went up and gave her a hug and said "Don't worry, Lucy. It's okay" and also included her in some of his playtime. Reese is really starting to show her personality and it sure is happy, go lucky and smiley! I love those kids:)

And the birthday hits are going to keep rolling! Today Grammy and Uncle Blair get to town and we're going to have a smaller, family party tonight. Here are some pictures from party #1. The first is Lucy and Reese playing and the second is Lucy with her cake!

Hair Brushing

Happy Halloween

Since Lucy's to young to eat candy and not yet walking we skipped trick or treating and celebrated Halloween by dressing Lucy up in her chicken costume and walking the dog:

Baby Gym

Today Lucy and I went to "Baby Gym" at the community center. Baby Gym is where the community center takes tons of toys and puts them all over the basketball court. Then, the 0-5 year old set gets to play for two hours. Lucy loved it. Lately, she's been pushing anything she can find, with or without wheels all over wherever she is, moving man style. (Our dining room has a new furniture configuration almost hourly). At baby gym, she found all sorts of things to push, but after an hour and a half she layed down on my lap and started to nap...Mission accomplished at Baby Gym! Here she is in action:

Grilled Cheese

Lucy loves to share a grilled cheese sandwich with me for lunch. Usually she dismantles her sandwich, mushes it up in her fists and eats it in one gooey mess. However, yesterday I caught her eating it whole, just like mama.