Smart!

YOUR BABY IS 89 WEEKS OLD

At this age, your toddler probably loves any type of movement. Her running has most likely grown much more smooth, she can stand on one foot while holding someone’s hand or a piece of furniture, she squats a lot when she’s playing, and she loves to climb on anything she can. She’s still exploring and learning about her world as well as about her body.

She does, indeed, enjoy movement!  She runs frequently and rarely falls - unless purposely.  She once realized she gets a lot of attention for falling and now especially enjoys spinning in circles and falling down.  And as purposeful as these "falls" are (she looks to us for a reaction and usually even starts to laugh before we can say, "Oh no, Lucy, are you okay?!"), she probably also gets quite dizzy!
She's always been a squatter and continues to squat for long stretches rather than just sit all of the way down, but I have yet to see her stand on one foot...


Lucy has again been wowing all of us with her smarts...I got this text from her babysitter on Monday:
Oh my gosh, Lucy is talking up a storm!  Her vocabulary tripled since the last time I saw her!
When I got there to pick her up, Tammy had written down all of the words Lucy had said that day that she'd never heard from her before...It just warms my heart to see someone else loving my girl and feeling so proud of her!  Hearing compliments about my child is pretty much my favorite!

Two of my favorite "my kid is the smartest kid alive" stories of late:
I've been going through old pictures and trying to organize some things in the basement.  Lucy comes and goes, alternating between "helping" me and playing with her babies.
At one point, she walks over as I was looking at this picture:

She immediately starts to smile and giggle a little but looks at me questioningly...I asked her, "Who is that?" not really sure whether or not she'd know...and she laughed and said, "Pawpaw!"
Fast forward a few nights...last night, my helper and I were wrapping some Christmas gifts and she picked up the copy of the new Batman movie which we'll be gifting someone in just a couple of short weeks.  She pointed to Batman and said to me, "Pawpaw!"
Yep, she now thinks my dad is Batman!  It looks like his cover may be blown...

My auntie and I traded baby girls the other night...while Cleo and I went to get pedicures, Lucy and Donna did a Christmas craft and tended to her babies:

Donna got out Cleo's baby's bed for Lucy to play with and where there used to be many strands of beads, there are now just two.  But Lucy took one look at it and a light bulb went off...she ran away, over to a basket Donna keeps nearby filled with kid's books.  Lucy rooted through that basket until she found what she was looking for - several plastic necklaces!  She brought them over to Donna and signed / demanded "More!" until Donna hung the beads up on the bed.