Lucy Gone Wild

Don't even know where to begin with that girl! She runs circles around Frank. Loves to pull out the kitchen chairs, climb up, get on the table and turn on the t.v.  She seems to love music, dances and stomps her feet to a beat. She "talks" on her phones and thinks her monitor is a phone as well. She has started saying cheese. She loves Easter eggs. She will sit with a basket and open and close them for hours. She hates her car seat, even short rides I have to provide a book or some sort of entertainment. She walks up to the counter and blindly reaches for anything she can touch on the top. She had also started to have an interest in coloring. She loves cheese, peaches, apples and chex. I've been letting her feed herself with a spoon and she's not too bad about half way through she starts to use her hands which is interesting when its oatmeal, but she manages.
The other day she got into my pantry, unwrapped and started eating a corner of a brick of almond bark. We already have a little chocoholic on our hands. She loves to walk and run. I took her to the park the other day, we walked the loop 3 times and I was cold so I figured she had to be. We started to head toward the car where she screamed and tried to run in the other direction. When I picked her up to put her in the car she threw the biggest fit. I thought someone would come over to see what I was doing to her. Thank goodness she looks like me, so people would know I wasn't kid napping the little stinker. She has also recently started to spin in circles, till she falls over and then will lay on the floor and giggle and giggle. Sometimes she chases Frank and gets laughing so hard that she falls over.
It seems like every day she grows by leaps and bounds. Always discovering and trying new things. (I'll post pictures as soon as I can figure out how again, I hate windows 8!)

 

Family Post

I have tried to always keep this blog about Lucy. But I feel like I need to say something about the past month or so, and how it will effect our family.
Chad and I are divorcing. It looks rough in print but, I know we both still love Lucy and our family. I hope that you guys can continue to love us both in our separate lives. I know that relationships change, and divorce is not a win/win situation. It feels like a lose/lose. Both parties lose no matter how you look at it. But I feel like Lucy doesn't have to. She can have a great family, that includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, great grandparents etc.... She is a special little girl and Chad and I can agree than even though our lives will be separate we will always want what's best for her.

16 months with Lucy

Where does the time go? Lucy is turning into a little toddler right before my eyes.
She has started to blow kisses, not just kiss her hand and make the mmm sound but actually pull her hand away and wave. She has started to say "there you go" when handing you something and when taking something. It's pretty cute, we were at a friends house when I noticed my friends husband with a pile of things in his lap. He said she keeps handing him things saying "there you go"! Apparently he didn't know he was suppose to had it back and say the same thing.
She is defenantly a climber. I was putting my make up on when I heard her screaming and squealing, when I went out to inspect, she was standing on top of the table dancing and pointing at the Grover on the tv. I was very impressed, since I was unaware that she could even get up on a chair.
She now is running, she loves to chase Frank. He is unsure of the whole game so he runs around, ears back, all eyes and very nervous. She also loves to be chased.
She has suddenly decided she's a picky eater, I'm not sure how long I'm going to let that last. She loves canned peaches and grandma Joan has given us a good supply which is good since its hard to get her to eat anything else right now.
It's crazy how she knows what candy is. She had a candy necklece from her cousin Luke's birthday party. She has never had one before or even seen one as far as I know. Anyway she found it and brought it to me and made the eating sign.  Later that day she pulled a package of rolos out of the freezer and did the same thing!
Lucy is already addicted to electronic devices. When she sees you it seems like she does a body scan to see where your phone is. She is also a magnet to my iPad. She takes her finger and slids it along the arrow and then presses the numbers. She has been able to lock Chad out of his phone and freeze up my iPad, it lasts about 20-30 mins. We no longer have to wonder what happens of you forget your pass code.
She is still a great sleeper. She goes to bed around 8 and sleeps till 8-8;30 the next morning on  good mornings she will wake up and look at books and play with her aquarium for 30mins or so before standing at the edge of her crib calling "mom!?"
She is such a happy little girl. She is still a bit shy when it comes to strangers, it normally takes her 5-10mins before she decides she really likes someone. Every once in a while she will see someone and smile and giggle like she knows them, either way is fine with me, funny little thing. We have been letting her walk around in stores/public and she thinks she is pretty cool. She'll find a shelf her level, sit and kick her legs.
She is not longer a baby, makes me kinda sad to see her long legs and she's been thinning out since she is running everywhere, sigh....sometimes it seems like you can see her grow in her sleep.