Pictures I love recently

Friends:



First time eating an orange:


Posing:

Balancing (that's a cracker in her right hand):

Flowers from Farmer's Market bought for me by the best husband in the world:

New Place Pictures

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures of our new place! A month ago we moved into a little duplex not that far from our old apartments. It's really a great little place, and we're very grateful to not be on the second story of an apartment anymore (and to have a garage and backyard!). I took a bunch of pictures, some with my old camera since the lens is so much wider and some with the new camera since they look better. Here's a quick tour!

First is our massive hazelnut tree in the backyard. The squirrels have eaten pretty much all of them, but if there are any left we plan on roasting them in the fall.



Our little garden patch (now has broccoli and tomatoes, it was too late to plant anything else).



The dining area:




A view from the dining area into the kitchen (on the left of the washer/dryer is the door outside and on the right behind the fridge is the door to the garage):




Shot of dining room from the living room:




Living room:




Fireplace in living room (woohoo!)

Reading nook in living room:

Small child playing:

Lu's bedroom:

Our bedroom:

Bathroom:

Lucy's favorite toy in the bathroom:

I kept wanting to wait until my house was completely picked up to take pictures, and then I decided that that was not a very accurate picture of what our house looks like most of the time. We've got one active, curious child who loves nothing more than taking everything out of cabinets and bookshelves, and I love her for it! (Don't worry, grandparents, all chemicals are on high shelves in the garage).

Sunday evening photo shoot

Living in the second story of an apartment for six months gave us a great appreciation for grass. Lucy loves to sit outside on the grass and watch the squirrels and try to eat discarded hazelnut shells.

I like to take pictures of Lucy. It's a bit of an obsession, and this is an entire post of pictures of her outside playing in the grass. I would say that this is for the grandparents, but really I just like to show off my adorable baby.

Her new favorite activity: pointing:

Multi-tasking:

The parents visit

My parents came to visit for the weekend, and even though Lu and I both came down with colds (murphy's law for family get-togethers), we still had a great time.

Dad and Lu got along swimmingly (Lucy forgot she was terrified of his laugh):

If dad's hair looks a little....windswept, it's because it was! On Saturday we went to Florence for the day and it was very, very windy down by the seashore. But I'll take it. I love being just a little over an hour from the coast.

And it's such a neat little town! We wandered down on the docks and looked at the little boats:

Lucy learned about anchors:

We toured the shops (and I got some amazing fudge):

Lucy got loads of Papa time:

For which she was very grateful:

Joel and Lucy at Mo's (yummy clam chowder):

And of course Lucy soaked up lots of Nana time too:

Mom and dad spent most of the day on Friday helping me hang pictures and decorate around our new place. It was SO wonderful to have my mom give her fabulous decorating advice. Pictures of our little duplex coming shortly!