Just a quick "Lucy lately" post to tide you over until I have 2 year old things to write about!
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| I love when she crosses her feet at the ankles like that while relaxing on the couch! |
She came home from babysitter Fawn's house with this adorable hairstyle one day last week and she seemed to know just how cute she looked! She modeled the hair and an outfit Grandma and Grandpa Meyers got her awhile ago which was amazing because lately she can sense when I really want to take her picture and she totally messes with me...she'll either sit and smile and jump up just before I snap it (and laugh evilly in the process!) or simply say "No!" and giggle and run away...
By the time I picked her up on this particular day, it was sunny and practically warm outside! But she and Dominic had fun in the melting snow that morning while Talia and Roxy looked on jealously from inside!
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These moments don't last long, as my dad found out...embrace them while they last
because 3 minutes after I took this pic, she'd slid off his lap and down to the floor |
On Saturday we had some errands to run - namely, to pick up a few things for her upcoming birthday party and to pick up one more small gift for Sam's 5th birthday. She loves perusing Toys R Us and spent quite a bit of time playing with this train table on display. There were three trains and one was smaller than the other two and I heard her playing, making one of the larger trains say, "Come on, baby!" I asked her to tell me about the trains and she showed me the mama, the daddy and the baby! I love watching this girl play and am so proud of her when she uses her imagination.
Later that day, it was nice enough to play outside so we went to "Chutes and Ladders" (after getting her pink car out of the shed, which she thought was pretty cool):
She put the sunglasses on by herself at one point (pic on right) - upside down, but still doing the trick!
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We went after lunch...she was clearly finished with it while we were inside
but insisted on taking it with her anyway...she stuck it in the trunk of her car
and got it out as soon as we got there...and yes, she ended up finishing it after all! |
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I was sitting on the step watching her play and she came over and sat with me
and said "Watch cars, Mama" so we watched the cars go by together! |
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| Party girl at Sam's bash! |
Yesterday I decided on a whim that I'd take the girl to the Newport Aquarium. We have a pass and she's been so obsessed with birds lately and I know they have a lorikeet area. Every time we're outside, Lucy spots a bird and follows it until it eventually flies away and she yells, "Come back NOW!" It's pretty funny...but also kind of sad, trying to explain to her that the bird will not be coming back...and usually the lorikeets are a-plenty at the aquarium and zoo and are walking on the ground and on low branches and don't flitter away when you get too close. We finally made it into the lorikeet area (and it was very anti-climatic...there weren't very many birds in there and they were really high up, but Lucy didn't even care) but at first all she wanted to do was sit on a bench with her snack. I thought I left work early and brought you to the levee to eat snacks?? And they were her own snacks from home! Ha! But she ended up exploring and having a nice time.
She took the picture on the left and then agreed to cooperate and let me take the other one.
She's getting so big! As big as a pyjama catshark, in fact!
Once they closed, we walked over to the bookstore. Another train table! She had the area to herself for a bit but eventually a little boy walked up and put his hand on one of the trains on the other side of the table. I was a few feet away and heard her make a little noise and I looked over to see a distressed look on her face. I did the sign for "share" and while she may have rolled her eyes at me, she calmed herself and allowed the little boy to play, too.
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| Skyline for dinner afterward! |
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| Someone's got a birthday coming up! Guess what the theme is! |
