What's up in the life of our 21.5 month old?
She is back on a Signing Time kick after a period of not watching it much and she continues to amaze me with the sings she remembers. The past few nights we have watched the "Going Outside" edition and when they mention a sign, I ask Lucy if she knows what it is before they show us and she always does! She knew the signs for rain and grass and leaf and those are not signs we typically use...or even signs that I knew! She just remembered them from the last time we watched it (several months ago).
We now also know the signs for thunder and snow!
Lucy loves to sing and does so frequently! Dave has always said that she sings when she's tired...even as a baby, she's start to make song-like whines before falling asleep. She sings at the top of her lungs and sometimes we can kind of figure out what she's singing...she sings "Happy Birthday" a lot and I've also detected some "Old Macdonald's Farm" and "Rockabye Baby!" Sometimes she sings so loud in my car I turn off the radio and just enjoy the music from the backseat.
She's very silly and she's very crazy!
Dave taught her to do this some time ago...lately, she doesn't even eat all of the cereal before drinking the milk out of the bowl...she's really good at it, too! Very rarely does so much as a dribble of milk escape! And sometimes she picks out the soggy cereal and eats it with her hands.
Speaking of cereal - she can be a bit bratty about breakfast. She basically refuses to eat Cheerios anymore. She ate Kix for a few days but as soon as she was introduced to Trix...Kix were off her menu. I bought her Lucky Charms but she's not a fan of those, either...I thought she'd really like Apple Cinnamon Cheerios and I sent them with her to the babysitter's on Tuesday and I'm told she turned her nose up at those, too (she's usually more adventurous with her eating at the sitter's house which is why I sent them there for her to try for the first time). She eats a banana for breakfast everyday...and sometimes some Trix...
Lucy loves to wash her hands! And she always need to use soap!
Her favorite method for drying her hands? Wipe them on mom's pant leg, of course!
She's a cutie! Cuddled up watching Monster's, Inc. recently at GranJan and Grandpa's house.
When we first started using the B for sleeping time only, Lucy adapted very well. She rarely even asked for it and knew as soon as she got up, to put the B down.
Over the past few months, though, we've had a regression...she says she wants to give it to her baby but as soon as we turn our head, she puts it in her own mouth...if we say "No, the baby doesn't need it," she cries...She got a couple of pacifiers for her babies for Christmas and she puts those in her own mouth as well...
Over the holidays we had some late nights and I gave the B to her a few times - but at those times, she was quiet and in pjs and near sleep. Never do / did I give it to her if she's still dressed and running around playing...
We often play upstairs in her room and she likes to get in her bed...I know this is just in hopes of finding a B "for the baby" but I make sure it's hidden and stick her in there. She frantically looks for the B and sometimes asks for it but usually just starts jumping or pretending to sleep or turn on her mobile...still, I can't help but be nervous about the day we have to take the B away for good...
I am also getting a little nervous about the whole potty training thing...
We have both kinds of potties and she hasn't really shown a preference (and though the free-standing one is much cuter, Dave and I totally prefer the one that sits on the regular toilet - no clean up!). She has gone in each kind more than once but with no amount of regularity and it had been awhile...
But on Monday, babysitter Tammy got her to use the pottty TWICE! We were so excited and grateful to Tammy...Lucy even used the potty again that night at home! However, she hasn't gone since...Grandma bought her a potty time DVD that we're going to need to start watching regularly. Her day at Tammy's makes me think she is ready for potty training now...I know I will be pretty pumped when I no longer have to pay for diapers!
Poor little baby! I have no idea what she did to deserve to have her feet cuffed together but I guess the baby knows and Lucy knows and that's all that matters!
(At the Stallkamp Christmas, we play a game with gifts ranging from $1-$5 in value and we ended up with these cuffs, along with a Nerf-like ball shooter and the Santa plate that Lucy used for every meal for a few days straight).
This girl loves to draw and color. Recently, she got a hold of a pencil and worked on her artistry while I was on the phone. For like a minute and a half. But she managed to cover the fridge, three cabinets and four drawers. Good thing I hadn't left anything worse than a pencil within her reach!
She got a new little table and chairs from Grandma and Troy for Christmas and she loves to sit there to color. She really enjoys using her washable markers on paper and can't ever seem to resist also coloring the tips of her fingers...very deliberately, might I add. And I'll be sitting nearby saying, "Lucy, no, don't color on your fingers! Only on the paper!" and she will ignore me while she finishes coloring on her fingers...baby wipes actually do a decent job of removing the color right away!
After 14 healthy days of being home with mom and or dad, on the first day Lucy was due to go back to the sitter, she woke up with a fever! Figures!
Okay, technically she went to bed with the fever, too, but it wasn't very high and we gave her some Children's Advil and thought there was a good chance she'd be fine in the morning.
She was not.
So on what would have been my third day of work this year, I called in to spend the day with my sick girl. Her fever never did get very high and after 6am, she never had one again (we kept up with the Advil doses and took it easy all day). At times she was her normal self and at times she was sleepy and slow-moving and very cuddly, which I enjoyed. We went to my work to fetch my laptop and she was very nice to my coworkers...Gina gave her a banana and she chowed down on that puppy while I got a few things done, then she went on a walk with Denese and went to fill up my water bottle (with Denese's help). When we left, I told her she wasn't very good at faking sick!
By that evening she was pretty sleepy again so we started bedtime routine early but I let her have her B after bath and she laid on the couch watching tv...but I could tell she was fading so I asked her if she was ready for bed (yes!) and if she needed a new diaper first (yes!). I picked her up and carried her to the changing table in the dining room and when I laid her down - she was asleep!
My sleepy, sick girl slept well and was back to herself 100% by morning.
That next day was a fun one...we went to get her haircut again!
Remember the last time she went to Ejay's for a haircut? She wasn't too happy about it...
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| Back in September |
This time, we talked about it a lot. I told her we were going to get her haircut and that it would not hurt and it would not take very long...just "snip snip snip" and then, if she didn't cry, maybe the lady would give her some candy. We had this same little talk many times on Friday and Saturday and even got to the point where I would say "snip snip snip" and she would say "candy candy candy!"
What a Lucygirl won't do for candy!
My girl was SO GOOD! The stylist was absolutely amazed! This time, Lucy wore the cape (freaked out about it last time) and sat on the booster in the chair by herself (last time she was on my lap)! She sat perfectly still on looked up or down when asked and was just amazing...and as soon as she was done, Lucy looked at the stylist and asked, "Candy?"
Too stinkin' cute!
She LOVES when the candy turns her mouth colors!
I let her plan the rest of our day - Skyline for lunch, then the library!
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