A day in the life of...

What goes on in the Cohen household on any given day? Well, let's just say that one of us specializes in destruction and another one in repairing. But for the purpose of fairness we won't say which one is which. We'll just let the pictures speak for themselves.

Any guesses? :)

11 Months

Happy 11 Months Lucy Rose! We love our little girl so much more than we ever could have imagined. And she just keeps getting more wonderful and fun the older she gets. Her favorite words are "dada" and "cat" (go figure, since I think Whiskey is her favorite thing ever). Although we've discovered "cat" covers a wide range of animals.

She now stands on her own, although she isn't walking yet. But it'll be soon! And once Lucy's on the move, watch out world!

She's so quick at learning new things; right now her favorite hand motions are clapping, waving, pointing up to God when we ask her "who made you?" and throwing her arms out wide when we ask "how big is baby?" She also has some mad dance moves. Whenever music comes on, those hips start a movin'.

I can't believe she'll be a year old next month! This first year has flown, can't wait to see what the next one brings!

Vindicated!

Okay, I may have been unable to make anything live in Moscow, but in Eugene, the garden of Eden, I have actually succeeded! Woo hoo! I couldn't plant much since we moved into this new place in mid-July, but I did manage some broccoli:



And two tomato plants that I transplanted from a friend's garden (thanks Tawny!)



I can't describe the pleasure I get when I walk out to our little garden patch and see these beauties ready to be picked:



Oh, and since I'm pretty sure the grandparents would be sad if I went an entire post without a picture of Lucy, here she is sporting some skinny jeans. :)

Moscow Visit

Well technically I've been out to Moscow twice now, but these pictures are all from my first trip when just Lu and I made the trek up. We saw a wonderful wedding in Spokane (congrats Bret and Katie!) and then headed up to Moscow to relax with Nana and Papa.

Relaxing activities included:

Playing piano with Papa (starting her young):

Snuggling with Nana:

Chillaxing at the park:

Throwing the ball around:

Playing in the pool:

Grinning in the pool:

Pointing in the pool:

Throwing the ball in the pool:

Watching Sammy sleep:

Admiring my mother's outdoor decorations (isn't it beautiful?):

More fun times with Papa:

Fun times with Papa in an even bigger pool:

Yes we love our pool time!

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: