Just wanted to jot down a few things about my girl for those who are Lucy obsessed.
Yesterday she counted from one to five without skipping any numbers all by herself. I couldn't believe it! I praised Lucy so much, she didn't know what to do. Later that day, with a little coaxing, she counted 4 airplanes or as Lucy says "awpane"s while pointing to each in her book. Usually she just says one, two, two two, as she points at them! My is she growing up!
A few weeks ago she started going up and down stairs without holding the handrails. I was impressed.
She is great on the big girl swing, and is pretty much done with the baby swings. She moves her body with the swing and even pumps her legs half the time. I guess if all you do at the park is swing for an hour you master it quickly. It usually takes quite a bit of excitement to get her to do anything else at the park. A normal day at the park consists of starting in the baby swing, moving to the big girl swing, swinging on Mama's lap, pushing Mama on the swing, then playing airplanes with our tummy's on the swing. At this point I am tired of swinging and try to convince her to go on the playset. We go up the stairs and then she just swings on the bar above the slide for about 3 minutes, finally decides to go down and then runs back to the swings. Pretty amazing considering she hated the $100 baby swing we bought for her as an infant! My favorite thing about the swings is the way Lucy says it "swwwwwwwing." She always draws the word out and then finishes it with excitement!
She has learned to say "No Thank You" which is very pleasant. The Pendergrass' dog, Timber, was licking her face this morning and she told her "No Thank You" while trying to cover her face. Priceless moment!
She sings something very similar to the ABC song, at least to the letter "p." She has "ABCDE " skip "f" to "g" and then comes "nenenenen" "P." It delights me when I hear her start singing that while playing by herself. I am glad there is someone who always wants to sing with me.
I found out that Lucy is a fish. I am very sad to be leaving the beach ( I guess now is a good time to mention that we are moving back to Utah, I have been in denial and so I haven't posted anything about it, guess I had to confess sometime!), but I have realized that Lucy will survive anywhere as long as we have access to a pool. We have taken her to the pool a few times recently and she is obsessed. She has no fear. She will jump off the edge whether someone is there to catch her or not, which concerns me. She doesn't even have floaties, she just dunks under until someone helps her up. She loves to go underwater, which surprises me because half the time she gulps water and forgets to close her eyes, but then she just wants to do it again anyway. She kicks and paddles at the same time pretty well and never wants to get out. She even jumped off the diving board for the first time. She saw me diving and really wanted to try. Like mother like daughter I guess!
Anyway, she is a fun, sweet girl and I feel privledged to be her Mother. I am so happy that parenting has become a blast. It makes me laugh everyday and brings me more joy than I could have ever imagined. I have to admit, I was really worried parenting was going to be long and hard when she was a baby. I am thrilled that is not the case. I guess some babies just have different temperments and Lucy seems to like being a kid much better than being a baby. Well, whether she does or not, I sure enjoy it!
Then, just because it was our anniversary, we spoiled Lucy and let her ride the carousel twice! Once with Mom, once with Dad. Out of all the pretty horses, Lucy got to ride the goat (Dave claims she chose it, but I know better than to believe that story!) I guess it was just a goat kind of a day!
Lucy Pendergrass, you are much too young to be practicing your make out skills!!!
Seriously, though...how sweet is that! You can just feel how much the Mommy elephant loves her baby. I was too lazy to post on Mother's Day, but now I wish I would have put this picture up. Oh well, I guess you can honor mothers on any day!
