Lucy Holland. What a joyful baby you are. You are content, happy, and so so loved. This month has fallen right in the middle of a world-wide pandemic and sometimes things feel heavy and uncertain, but you, darling girl, you are a light to us. Because of Covid-19 we've spent our days at home with our own family without going out or spending time with anyone else. I already love our slow lifestyle where our family is more important than rushing around to other places/things, and this has taken it to another level. But to be completely honest, the people who matter most to me in the world are right here and I'd take 100 more days of your daddy working from home!
Stats: I'm still trying to squeeze her into 6-9 month long sleeved jammies to protect her from the sun when we are outside, but she's clearly in 12-month clothes. Size 3 diapers. No shoes - but hats forever!
Some things to remember:
-With Covid-19 we've been self-isolated to our home 99.9% of the time. Lucy has loved having David around all the time and it makes my heart happy to pop into his office with her when she's just waking up from her nap and seeing her big smile. She loves him. We've had a few social-distanced visits with Cal and Sue where they stay in their car and we sit on a blanket and chat. A weird life in April 2020.
-Lucy finally has her own ROOM! We've been working hard on our basement for a long time. The coronavirus put a damper on our progress, but we FINALLY got our storage room in the basement finished with shelves! Up until now, Lucy's nursery has been serving as the storage room for everything that had previously been in our basement and was packed so full you couldn't even walk in it. But now that stuff has been moved downstairs and Lucy has her room back! (Well mostly, there is still quite a bit of odds-and-ends stashed in there, but her crib is open and we are all so excited. I was a tiny bit worried about the transition to a crib, but it was smooth as butter. She loves having her own bed and is sleeping SO well. She goes to bed with just a whimper and she's slept through the night several times. Most of the time I go into her once in the night, and that is working for us.
She's also going to bed earlier. Previously, she would go to bed with me at 10:30 or so, then sleep until 9:30 in the morning. It was great for my homeschool day, because I was able to get the kids breakfast and get them started on their morning jobs and schoolwork before she woke up, then she'd eat breakfast in her highchair while we kept working. But now, she's going to bed at 7 and waking up at 7. Which is good for the productivity of our nights, but has taken a little adjusting to. I think she's happier and I know she's sleeping better and it's been a win all around.
-Speaking of breakfast. Her absolute favorite is yogurt and Chex. I mix it all up and dump in out in her highchair and she feeds herself. It's the best. She has a highchair (the same solid-wood one we bought off KSL when Lydia was a baby) but these pictures have her sitting in Caleb's booster at the table. She doesn't do that often, but it makes her look like such a big girl!
Lydia's new favorite trick is to carry Lucy around on her shoulders. They both love it and it makes me slightly nervous. Lydia is such an amazing big sister.
Lucy LOVES chocolate. How would I know? I certainly am not GIVING chocolate to her but she's got a chocolate sense. She's snuck chocolate from Easter baskets, from kid's candy stashes, and she's sneaky about filching chocolate covered pretzels from the pile that I'm eating without me realizing. (In the top pictures I was sitting on the couch talking on the phone and had grabbed a few chocolate pretzels to snack on. I had set them out of her reach, but didn't realize that she managed to snag one (multiple??) until after I was off the phone. I can't remember what happened in the bottom set of pictures, but it was a similar situation and both she and I were covered in chocolate without me realizing. What can I say, she's a girl after my own chocolate-loving heart.
But my FAVORITE thing that Lucy has started doing is chasing me around in the kitchen and grabbing onto my dress/clothes/legs. Her crawl has progressed from an army-like crawl using mostly her hands and toes to a full on crawl. She follows me around the kitchen and is so pleased when she catches me. I'll be standing doing the dishes while she's playing with toys in the family room and pretty soon I feel a tug on my leg and she's made her way over to me and is trying to get my attention. I can not express how much I love this stage with her.
Some more pictures of this lovely month with our Lucy including:
-Trying to get into dads office, napping in her bed (I love that Zippity-Zip), hanging out with Lydia, her first sink-bath (which was her favorite bath of all time, she doesn't particularly like the bath-also I have pictures of all my other kids at this age getting bathed in the sink, which is fun),
Learning how to crawl, hanging out with dad, snuggling with mom...
Oh Lucy, we love you so much. Thank you for being such a wonderful part of our family.
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