Lacy and her Grandparents riding her Christmas horse.

Shopping in Branson

Lacy and Great Grandad Savage

Lacy and I at our visit to see Santa.

What a beautiful pair!

Hello Cutie!

I love her little eyelashes

Eating more cereal

I don't know what she thinks of the cereal.

Fun with Rice Cereal

Lacy's first taste of rice cereal

Lacy in Branson at Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe

Christmas

Lacy Ellen

Lacy's first Christmas Eve trip to Benihana's

The latest on Lacy these days is that she is now laughing when tickled. Katie discovered this the other day. Sometimes you tickle her stomach or blow on her neck she will let out this little high pitched laugh. It's really cut.

We're still working on the solid food situation. She's doing really good, but it still seems that more of it ends up on her bib than down her throat.

As for her toys, she is still enthralled with her pooh mobile, likes to sit in her "fun" seat, and pretty much likes all things that rattle and crinkle. Katie and I also have a set of Baby Einstein dvd's. We opened one of them up and she seems to like it. The dvd really is just screen shots of different toys or photos with someone speaking foreign languages. She seems to like it:)

This weekend will be fun and exciting for Katie and Lacy, not so much for me. They are going with Katie's parents and grandad to New Orleans and the coast to see how things are going down there. From what I understand it is still pretty rough. Mom and Dad went down to the coast last weekend and said things were really, really bad. Homes washed away everywhere and the ones that made it had been completely flooded. I've heard that it is going to take at least eight years of steady construction to get the area back to any resemblance of it's former self. (Who comes up with these numbers?) This should mean lots of work for the construction industry.

I will be in the not-so-great city of Jackson, MS this weekend. Starting tomorrow (friday) I have to be at the MC School of Law at 8:30 each morning for 3 days of fun bar review courses. Yippee!

What is it about Jackson that makes me not like it so much? Could it be the lack of any routes to get around the city that don't mean waiting in traffic forever? Why haven't they built more than one bridge over the Pearl River? Or is it because downtown Jackson is so much fun? (that's sarcasim folks) Who knows but I've never been that fond of the city. Mom and Dad, if you ever read this, why didn't we ever drive to Memphis more to do things? Memphis is just so much nicer.

While I'm rambling here is another thought that I've been discussing with Katie a lot lately. Why are all the terrorists from the middle east so, well, terrible at being terrorists? Think about it for a second. They hang out here in our country for a decade or more, all the while they are supposed to be plotting different ways to harm us. Then after a decade or more what type of oh-so-smart ideas have they concocted? They decide to use a truck to try and take down the World Trade Towers. Great job guys you managed to create a large puff of smoke, bravo! Okay, so what do they do next? Undeterred they then go back into hiding for almost another decade before they finally come up with another grand idea. This idea, of course, is to fly airplanes into our landmark buildings. Well, I'll give them one thing, they did get three out of the four planes to hit their target, but what were they thinking. They weren't even smart enough to figure out that it's best to hit an office building during business hours, come one no-one (excet me) likes to get anywhere early. Let me explain how we (Americans) would work if we were terrorists.

Americans would rule as terrorists. Do you think that Americans would sit around for ten years only to come up with the idea of hijacking four planes. Heck no! This is the way we would work if a few thousand Americans decided to take out there fellow Americans. (Which of course would never occur because again, we aren't that stupid. We know that America rules and we are the greatest nation ever.)

1. Some "uber" church with 10,000 member would decide on Sunday that it's time to take out, say, California.
2. Around noon someone from the church would be buying all of the Microsoft flight simulator games in whatever town the church is in.
3. The rest of they day would be spent learning to fly and buying at least 5-10 tickets on every flight in or going to California.
4. The next morning California would basically be gone. Game, set, match.

That is why Americans would be the greatest terrorists ever. We're smart, we're decisive and we act fast.

There you go 4 easy steps and 2 days. Yet these so called terrorists just can't figure it out. Ere, my earlier opinion stands, terrorists are idiots. (Thank God) At the rate these guys are going be on the lookout in the winter of 2008-2009 for a snow cone stand in Alaska to blow up around five in the morning. I'm sure there's a cell in Des Moines, IA plotting the master plan right now. And rember, you heard it here first!

As of Sunday January 8, 2006 Lacy is attempting to eat "real" food, if that is what you can call rice cereal. It's really more like a rice mush, imagine if you will, very, very, very fine grits or oatmeal. That's is basically it. And I say attempting because most of it is landing on Katie or all over Lacy's face. I took a few pictures of it that I will get up soon hopefully. I also broke out the video recorder and have it on tape. If I was smart I would convert that to an mpeg file and post it as well, so that everyone could enjoy. But, alas, I am not that smart. So hopefully I have some still shots up soon.

In other news I am beginning to think that it might not have been the brightest thing to sign up to take the Bar Exam while i'm still in school. I have about 25 pounds of books to study plus somewhere around 20 hours of lectures each weekend until February 22. Couple that with my work, working for the D.A.'s office, night classes, and a newborn baby and believe it or not I'm modestly swamped. In talking with others who are about to take the bar, they have all cleared their calenders until February 22 and do nothing but study. Aut viam inveniam aut faciam