Pump Up the Volume

Lucy has really been getting her groove on this weekend. Anytime there's music (even if it's just us humming), she's likely to start bobbing around. She especially likes holding onto the edge of her crib - time to lower that mattress again! - and rocking out while we dance along with her. We'll try to post some video of this since it's really adorable.

Now that she can stand up to dance, Lucy has also discovered that her stereo has controls that she can touch. She's really good at turning the volume up.

Climbing Stuff

Lucy had her nine-month check-up last week (she's very healthy and still growing like a champ), and the doctor asked if she was pulling herself up to standing yet. I said not really - a few attempts, but nothing consistent. Lucy took that as a challenge! She worked on it for the rest of the day and through the weekend and now can stand up and pull herself up onto things like stairs and, strangely, boxes. Here she is perched atop an Amazon.com box. What a funny baby!

Mommy's out!

Barbara is out tonight - leaving Lucy and I to fend for ourselves.

Lucy claims the highlight of the evening was our adventure in Costco whereseemingly endless aisles of HDTV's had her cooing and drooling. She did mention that other highlights of the evening included eating turkey way too fast, laughing at Daddy's foot, and refusing to go to bed.

I did manage to get a little video in of our new "steal the sock" game (available in stores this holiday season).