Oh Lucy-goose. All the sudden you are so independent, determined, and stubborn and it's enough to just make my heart explode for the loving of you. You're a walker now. You learned to walk and never looked back. (You crawl basically never.) You're into everything- so curious about the world around you. You love music and snuggling and laughing at your siblings. And we.. we love you.
Stats: Size 3 diapers. Except for a box of size two that I found and I've been squeezing her into during the day, which is typical of me and also hilarious. 10 teeth - which is a lot of teeth for a little girl who still thinks she wants to nurse before bedtime (or maybe just a lot for her mama, ha.)
Things I want to remember:
-She's burning so much energy walking that she eats all. the. time. She can out-eat most of my other kids and although she is sometimes particular about what food she wants to eat. She'll eat most things, most of the time.
-Lucy puts things on her head and I love it so much. She pulls off her hat and tries to put it back on her head, but also picks up random clothes or papers from the floor to put on her head.
She was taking 2-3 steps at a time for about a week, but then as soon as she took 6 steps - she immediately transitioned into being an official walker, and never crawled again. Jenna and her family have been staying at our house this month, but she went back home to Iowa for the weekend. She left on Friday and Lucy was still only taking a few tiny steps at a time. By the time she got home on Monday - Lucy was had started walking all over the house.
I think it's especially notable to me, because most of our other kids have started walking earlier. So they'd do the "take a few steps, fall down, crawl the rest of the way" and sometimes they would walk but sometimes they would still crawl. However, Lucy started walking and even if she fell she would stand back up and keep going. I could almost hear her saying "I'm a walker now. I walk. I don't crawl anymore." I attribute it to her being so much older that her muscles were just READY to walk. But I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge that it's clearly a personality thing, too.
-Now that she's walking, she's getting into all sorts of trouble. Her favorite thing to do? Put things (including her hands) into the toilet. Ugh.
-Sometimes, especially when she's tired, she drops her head down into this semi-headstand and just giggles to herself.
-She has started bringing me a diaper when she needs her diaper changed. I'll ask "Do you need a new diaper" and she'll chirp a short sound that sounds like yeah, but with a slight mmm at the beginning. "mYah". She's not saying words, but I can definitely tell her "affirmative" and "no" sounds.
-Lydia watched our neighbors dogs for a week and Lucy LOVED them. She would sit by them and let them lick her face and even crawl after them when they left her.
Also, at the neighbors house with the dogs - they have a trampoline. Lucy LOVED playing on the trampoline while we were out playing with the dogs. Lucy would go to the middle of the trampoline and lay down while the kids jumped around her. I would always have to tell them to jump lower, but she just giggled and giggled!
We are doing well with keeping her sunscreened up with her hat on whenever we are outside. Summer is almost over and she's only gotten two sunburns (the first at the very beginning of spring, and one more much milder one mid-summer.) I honestly feel awesome about that, and am so happy for the wonderful summer we've had together!
Also, I could put a hundred pictures of Caleb being such a good brother to Lucy. He loves her so much and has taken his "big brother" role to heart.
Here are some more. Sometimes he's a little rough with her. Sometimes he tries to "teach" her when she's doing something wrong, which usually ends in her tears. But most of the time he's the sweetest brother and I love to see them loving each other.
Sweet sleepy baby.
When we pulled out the kids winter jammies for the changing seasons, Lydia remembered that Lucy had matching jammies. They are size 9 months so I told Lydia that they wouldn't fit. Lydia was determined and dug through the boxes until she found them and put them on. We snapped a few pictures while Lydia rocked Lucy before bedtime.
We went to the zoo. I forgot her sun-suit so I LATHERED her in sunscreen about every 30 minutes and used an extra t-shirt from my diaper bag to keep her covered most of the time. It looks so different to see her sweet soft arms and legs while we were outside in the sun, but we kept her protected and we all enjoyed the zoo! As we were walking, Austin came up to hold Lucys hand while we walked and it was so sweet I needed to snap a picture. And I was trying to get a picture of Lucy smiling at me and Caleb jumped in to hug and smile with her.
She loves to climb on this little purple chair. SOmetimes she sits in it, but most of the time she stands on it and gives me the most "look at me and how proud I am of myself" look.
I still wear her in the carrier pretty often. She does really well in it and I'm grateful.
Oh Lucy, We love you!
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