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Tucker & Lana Davis
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Lana thought I was taking pictures, and I snuck this quick video of her interacting with him... watch it now! |
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I love how she explains to me what he needs/wants/is doing. watch it now! |
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Tucker "talking" to the duck on his Baby Einstein mat. Lana loved this same mat, but the red bird was her favorite. watch it now! |
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She is ALL ABOUT gymnastics right now...even loves watching it on TV. watch it now! |
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This video is typical of Tucker's attitude about life in general. I'm pretty fond of the smile he has for Mommy at the end. watch it now! |
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Lately, Lana has been putting towels on as capes and talking about superheroes. I couldn't pass up this clearance BatGirl costume. watch it now! |
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playing BatGirl outside...she decided to kill Goliath with some bubbles! (my favorite part of this video: I'm not a bad girl!!) watch it now! |
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Lana was washing her hands, and said, "I'm gonna dry my hands like Nana does!" watch it now! |
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I read the book "Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs" to Lana, and shortly afterwards, I found her reading it, calling it "Mama Sue Upstairs, Mama Sue Downstairs." The book is about a great grandmother, and Mama Sue is her great-grandmother! watch it now! |
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Lana went in her room & shut the door this afternoon, so I turned on the monitor. you can hear her giving baby a spanking! (FYI: we do NOT give that many licks!!) watch it now! |
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After she & baby came out of her room, I had her tell me about what happened. You can see her still holding her spanking spoon. watch it now! |
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Tucker is IN LOVE with his Daddy. They smile and talk to each other like this several times every day...melt a mama's heart. watch it now! |
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talking to mommy after naptime...he is such a happy boy! watch it now! |
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At preschool this week, Lana learned the letter Cc. They were also talking about sharing. So they made Cookies to Share!! Each child got 2 cookies, one to eat and one to share. Lana chose to share her cookie with me! watch it now! |
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Tucker smiling for Mommy in the morning....love my happy boy! watch it now! |
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Today we went to the NC Zoo for the first time as a family of four! The first place we went was the giraffe feeding deck. watch it now! |
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A breeze blew through the trees, and the giraffes scattered. It was beautiful to watch them run... watch it now! |
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Lana swinging herself!! We give her a good push to start, and she can pump her legs to keep herself going.... watch it now! |
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Reading her cookie book to us! (They are learning the letter Cc in her class at preschool this week.) She is always so proud to bring her books home to read to us! watch it now! |
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The Three Little Pigs is her favorite thing going right now...we play it all the time! watch it now! |
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She cracked me up with this piece of gum: "I'm going to chew it forever!" watch it now! |
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Changing Tucker's diaper at 3 a.m., I couldn't feed him fast enough & he found his thumb! watch it now! |
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She is her Daddy's girl! Lana has figured out her favorite way to get from the see-saw to the swing. watch it now! |
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Lana asked the nurse if she could take Tucker home, and when Mommy was coming home....she was ready for us all to be together! watch it now! |
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Sweet little cry, on the way from the delivery room to our regular room watch it now! |
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This is Carter, son of our dear friends Josh & Jacelyn. His mom called me the other morning to tell me that he was walking around saying, "Look at my belly, Mama! I'm just like Mrs. Rachael Davis!" watch it now! |
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sliding down the fire pole....and the classic "No, I don't need any help!" watch it now! |
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Hello, imagination.
*If your children have ever played with Caleb Doyle, I bet they collect cheetah food, too.* watch it now! |
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Lana was playing with worms, and wanted me to hold them. Um...no, thanks. Here was her response. watch it now! |
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Dan got the new Lecrae album....Lana likes to dance to the "Jesus music." watch it now! |
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And this is a sign that her mama is 9 months pregnant in the dead of summer. watch it now! |
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She invited Bear to our tea party. I love Bear's response! watch it now! |
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LOVE to hear her singing this:
"My chains are gone, I've been set free, my God, my Savior has ransomed me, and like a flood, His mercy rains, unending love, amazing grace." watch it now! |
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So happy to bowl!! Thanks, Baloo & Sue Sue, for the birthday money - what a treat! watch it now! |
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"Sue Sue" is my mom, and if you know her at all, you know that her signature is wearing high heels! It is so funny to me that Lana has picked that up, even living 12 hours away. She said this totally on her own, which cracked us up, so we had to get her watch it now! |
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I love it when he has her laughing so hard that she can't breathe...it's the best. (P.S. This is NOT the intended use of a birthing ball.) watch it now! |
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pushing the noodle, learning to keep her arms straight watch it now! |
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Lana found this hat & insisted that Dan wear it b/c it's "like Paw Paw's hat." It must remind her of his visor!! watch it now! |
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She is SUCH a classic firstborn! After I showed her how to paint with spaghetti noodles, she wanted to teach Dan how to. watch it now! |
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I caught the tail end of her singing a song: "I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait for Tucker!" watch it now! |
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Happy birthday to Lana at her 3rd birthday party in Wake Forest at Holding Park... watch it now! |
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swimming with Ms. Monique, her swim instructor at the Y watch it now! |
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Lana woke up about 2 a.m. calling for me, and when I went in, she was crying & holding her toe, telling me that a fish bit her toe. This is the first dream she's been able to remember & tell me about. watch it now! |
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The first day of swimming lessons at the Y: she could not have had more fun! watch it now! |
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hanging onto the side, going up and down, letting go... watch it now! |
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swimming - she did such a great job! Although she's the youngest in the class, she has no fear. watch it now! |
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practicing keeping her chin in the water while she swims...she has a hard time with that! watch it now! |
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Swimming during her first lesson...she can barely concentrate because she's looking for the flags above her! Her instructor told them to swim to the flags, and she's such a rule follower that she couldn't take her eyes off of them. watch it now! |
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shelling butter beans she just picked from the field behind our house watch it now! |
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As we put things away in Tucker's room, we have been letting Lana play with some things to practice. Her favorite are diapers and burp cloths! watch it now! |
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Now she's teaching MOMMY how to use the burp cloth. Love it. watch it now! |
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This probably isn't nearly as exciting for you as it is for me, but here's Lana drawing her first stick person! watch it now! |
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Lana was so proud that she could touch in Sue Sue & Baloo's pool. We didn't tell her that Baloo drained water out of it so that she could. watch it now! |
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jumping off the diving board to Uncle Allan - she was really concerned that he stayed underwater for so long. watch it now! |
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Somehow Lana has picked up the concept of addition...this is NOT something I taught her - she started doing this completely on her own. watch it now! |
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Melis gave Lana the book "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" a while back, and just recently she has fallen in love with it! She asks us to read it to her over and over, and now she wants to "read" it herself. watch it now! |
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This turned out to be her favorite thing to do in the pool at the hotel on the way to Alabama.... watch it now! |
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listening to shells in the Discovery Room at the National History Museum in D.C. watch it now! |
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She's so excited about turning 3, because that's when Tucker will come! (She calls it "growing out.") watch it now! |
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We had to take the Contour in for some work, and Lana was very concerned about our "red car at the car doctor." watch it now! |
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This was the first slide she went down at the Great Wolf...it's not a great video, but can you hear her just squeal with excitement? Love it! watch it now! |
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I could not believe how much she loved to go down these big slides!! She got to the point she was turning over and going down backwards, on her stomach, head first, etc. She gets that from her Daddy! watch it now! |
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She loves broccoli, but only the bottom/stalk part. She doesn't like the tops at all, but if we cut that off, she'll eat her weight in the bottoms. watch it now! |
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So excited to see all the horses at the Godzisz' farm! watch it now! |
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(April 2009)
She loves the see saw, and while ride on it forever, even if she's all by herself. watch it now! |
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This is her favorite bug - she was so excited to see a HUGE version! watch it now! |
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Still talking about the lions on the way home from the zoo.... watch it now! |
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Mark Driscoll - 9 Distinctions between the Gospel and Religion watch it now! |
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When we got to Vollmer Farms, they told us we couldn't pick because it was too wet. Lana was so disappointed (as was I!). Dan finally talked them into letting us pick on one field that wasn't muddy, and she kept saying, "I'm so glad that they let us pic watch it now! |
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While Dan's mom & I painted a little table, Lana & Noah wanted to paint, too. This was totally her idea....love it. watch it now! |
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Finding her Easter basket....it's so funny to watch how reserved she is sometimes. I wonder if Tucker will be like her or totally different? watch it now! |
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Lana was so excited that Hollis was coming to have dinner with us! We couldn't get it on video, but she said, "He's my favorite friend!" watch it now! |
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Lana's performance in the Easter musical. Truly, this is what she did most of the time. watch it now! |
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After a few minutes, Lana totally freaked out - all the people were just too much for her. I scooped her up and cuddled with her for a minute, and she agreed to sit with Mrs. Katherine. This is seriously as involved as she ever got in the performance. watch it now! |
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This noise?!? Crazy child.
Note at the end she's pulling at her nightgown and saying, "I don't like this!" Two seconds earlier she was telling us that was her favorite part. Such a two year old. watch it now! |
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Lana tells us that she's got a baby in her tummy, too. watch it now! |
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Calling Sue Sue to tell her that she's having a baby brother...I love the huge smile on her face the whole time. watch it now! |
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Calling Nana....she was so excited and it scared Lana! Ha ha ha ha... watch it now! |
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She LOVES to throw sticks in the creek...would do it all day if we'd let her. watch it now! |
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I asked her how to get to the creek, and this is what she told me. THROUGH the tree? Maybe we shouldn't ask the Scott's for directions... watch it now! |
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She is so proud of the new tennis shoes her Sue Sue bought her! watch it now! |
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This makes me giggle....she has recently started imitating us reading the Bible, and the references she comes up with are hilarious! watch it now! |
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Sometimes she plays the "teacher" and asks us questions about the Bible... watch it now! |
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On the chugga chugga choo choo train, headed to the chocolate station...who knows where she comes up with this stuff? I love to see her pretending! watch it now! |
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She was so excited about the moon pie Aunt Kacie sent her...my favorite part of this video is that her eyes never leave the moon pie. They literally cross looking at it. watch it now! |
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The first time Lana had a moon pie, I microwaved it for her (soooo much better that way). She hated it! Here she's telling me why she doesn't want me to do that again. watch it now! |
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The Scott's gave Lana an aquadoodle for Christmas, and it's been a big favorite lately. It's so great for her to practice those pre-writing scribbles and marks. watch it now! |
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Nana & PawPaw sent Lana a package of fun goodies, and included this fabulous noisemaker from the Davis cup. I'm gonna let her use this to wake them up when they come to visit.... watch it now! |
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I am almost embarrassed to put this on here, but it's TOTALLY the stage of life we're in right now... watch it now! |
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One of our favorite families here are the Reed's - we just love spending time with them! Jacelyn invited Lana & I over tonight b/c Dan was working and Josh had to study for a midterm. We were playing in the backyard, and Josh came out with his guitar du watch it now! |
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The Reed's have the sweetest dog ever! Lana is always scared of her when we first get there, but she's warming up faster each time. She had the best time throwing Bailey's ball to her!! watch it now! |
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Singing a silly song....she asks to sing this about EVERYONE - all her friends at preschool, church, our entire family... watch it now! |
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Today we went to Kazoom, an interactive puppet theater. Lana was so adorable. Here she is saying her lines! watch it now! |
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Drawing a circle. She's doing much better about coloring in the lines...you can tell she's being so careful at first, and then gets bored with it about halfway through. watch it now! |
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Lana is SUCH an encourager! She cheers us on no matter what we're doing. watch it now! |
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I came downstairs this morning, and she had her baby on her hip, bouncing her up and down just like a mommy. watch it now! |
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The first time she's ever had her fingernails painted! watch it now! |
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Lana was having fun reciting nursery rhymes tonight & let me video some of them. Here's Little Miss Muffett and Humpty Dumpty. watch it now! |
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***Weird warning: this is a video of my belly***
A little strange to have a video of my bare belly, but so sweet to hear baby's heartbeat. I know the grandparents will appreciate it. watch it now! |
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She had a hard time deciding if she wanted to go get ice cream or read books. Tough choice for a two year old. watch it now! |
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The picture on this video is terrible, but it was too precious for me not to capture on video. After I put her to bed, I heard her singing herself to sleep..."This is my commandment that you love one another, that your joy may be full." watch it now! |
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Lana was in her room doing puzzles, singing Scripture as she worked....we love our SEEDS music. This melted my heart to hear her singing "Blessed are the pure at heart..." watch it now! |
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This is the meal time song she sings almost every time we eat....I finally got her to do it for the camera! watch it now! |
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Coloring on the dry erase board on her easel is a favorite activity these days...I love it when she draws her curly hair... watch it now! |
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Lana has been trying SO HARD to say the tongue twister Peter Piper. Here's her latest attempt, along with the Freudian slip that we LOVE. watch it now! |
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This is such a typical Lana thing to do lately - she was so excited about having pepperoni in her lunch that she made up a little dance. watch it now! |
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Lana loves Jumping Beans! She can climb up the slide like a little monkey now. She's sliding with our friend Sarah, who teaches with me at Little Lambs. We LOVE Sarah. watch it now! |
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