- She says "chippy" for chips. So if she wants a chip, she says, "Chippy, please!" which I think is constantly hilarious.
- Her new favorite exchange with us is "Thank you, Mommy!" and "Thank you, Daddy!" and she says it so sweetly that it just melts your heart.
- She loves to have conversations now (I can converse with her because I know exactly what she's saying ... other people, maybe not so much.) I wish I could just write down all the conversations we have during the day, but I will try to recreate some of them here.
Scene: Lucy going potty.
Me: "Lucy, hold on to the potty, okay?"
Lucy: "Lucy fall in. Mommy sad. Lucy wet." (She refers to herself in the third person. I blame Elmo.) Translation: I've told her before that if she doesn't hold on, she will fall in the potty and get wet and Mommy will be sad.
Scene: Going to bed on a Monday night. (I have a Bible study on Tuesday mornings and my mom comes over and spends time with Lucy and Ian while I'm there, then we usually grab lunch together.)
Me: "Tomorrow, Nana is coming over to play with you!"
Lucy: "Mommy church."
Me: "Yes, Mommy is going to church."
Lucy: "Nana play. Nana noodles."
Me: "Yes, Nana is going to play with you and then we'll go eat noodles (pad thai with chopsticks, her favorite.)
She just always connects ideas that I haven't really talked about with her, or she'll remember things I only told her once (yikes!) and it is constantly amazing to me.
- She has a friend named Liam that she calls "Lee-mee."
- She loves to help with things. When I'm cooking dinner, she wants to be right there. When I sweep, she wants to sweep. When I load the dishwasher, she wants to put the soap in and then press the button to start it. I can usually give her an age-appropriate task to help me with whatever I'm doing, and it's so fun to see her help so joyfully.
- She enjoys telling me what Ian is going to do. If we go to the park, and she wants to swing, she is sure Ian wants to swing, too. When she eats breakfast, before she climbs up in her chair, she pulls out Ian's high chair and insists "Ian baby food" (meaning, Ian needs to eat baby food). If Ian starts to cry or gets grumpy, she says, "Ian night-night." Ian sure is lucky to have such an attentive big sister. :)
- She loves for us to wrap her up in a blanket like a swaddled baby and then hold her, or walk around with her like that. "Lee-lee (which is what she calls herself) baby! Lee-lee baby!"
- She rarely wears clothes. I make her wear clothes out in public, obviously, but it's a pretty sure bet that if she's at home, she is only wearing her undies! I don't know what it is, but she hates wearing clothes.
- She has two things that she says a lot these days. One is "Momma like" or "Daddy like" in regards to anything. For example, if she puts on her rainbow socks and then shows us, we say, "Lucy, what pretty socks!" and she says, "Momma like!" as in, "Mommy likes that!" She applies this saying to almost everything. She also says, "Momma buy" if I talk about anything being gone or used up. It can be very funny what she thinks Mommy can go buy, apparently.
She loves Elmo, playing with all of my kitchen tools, taking bubble baths, eating fruit snacks, going to the park, going to the library, basically going anywhere but home (LOL), playing with Ian, stacking her blocks, reading books, coloring, pretending to "go" somewhere anytime she find anything with a handle (as in, here's my suitcase, I'm going on a trip), buckling the top part of her car seat, only using the potty at our house or in our potty chair that we take in the car (grrrrrrr), putting on her "pretty" shoes and walking around the house, and singing. Her least favorite things are taking a nap, sleeping in, stringy foods, loud noises, letting me help when she wants to do something by herself, and sharing some toys with Ian.
She is funny, loud, thoughtful, caring, independent yet needy, smart, observant, and just plain fun. Our lives are much richer because she is our daughter.
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