21 months old...on Christmas!

It's hard to believe but my sweet baby girl is nearly 2 years old!
She now weighs 29 pounds and 7.5 ounces
She is 33.5 inches tall

As your child's communication skills improve, some - but unfortunately not all - of her temper tantrums will fade away. Encourage her new expressiveness by helping her use words to let you know what she needs. Just don't hold out for complete sentences quite yet.

YOUR BABY IS 92 WEEKS OLD

At this point, your toddler probably loves to hum or sing songs. She may also be trying to carry a tune, which is to say the notes she sings may vary in pitch. She might have a sense of timing when she sings. Try clapping or tapping along and encourage her to do the same when she's listening to music. And introduce her to simple rhyming songs - it's a great way to get her experimenting with sounds and words.                                                              
I got both of those blurbs in my email this week...
At times it seems clear that Lucy is approaching her terrible twos!  Other times, it almost seems like we may be able to avoid them, or at least get lucky with the severity.  Only time will tell but she continues to be a good communicator, both with spoken words and signed words.  She knows the sign for "help" and can also say it clearly so Dave and I have been encouraging her to ask for help.  Often, she'll be playing nicely by herself but suddenly burst out in a fit - crying and stomping and flailing arms...We just gently ask her, "Lucy, what do you need?" and 9 times out of 10, she'll stop the fit and say/sign help.  She gets frustrated easily, which may be something she picked up from her mama...

She's definitely becoming quite a little songstress...just today, she was signing Happy Birthday in the car!  And remember that "La la, la la la Lucy" song I made up?  She totally signs that one!  She breaks out in the "Lucy song" on her own but will also sing it upon request (if she's in the mood).

Lucy is also starting to put multiple words together.  Yesterday she and I were in her room playing and she came across her blocks.  She and her daddy play with blocks together a lot.  Dave was downstairs and she yelled down, "Daddy!  Blocks!  Baby!  Bed!"
He's pretty handy with the blocks and usually builds something for her baby out of them and she was yelling down asking him to come build her baby a bed out of blocks!
He was enjoying some quiet time downstairs but how could he say no to that??