She is recently addicted to the movie Tangled. Which she calls Tangles. She sings and dances along. And always asks where the witch went at the end when she falls out of the tower. She also asks/looks for her purple princess dress whenever it is on.
This month she has started saying I love you. Its the best three word sentence out of her mouth. I love hearing it. Her other favorite phrases are "Frank potty outside", " its hungry time", "mom wake up!", "ah, man!" and either "I'm making cookies" or "I'm making eggs"
She's added Happy Birthday, Jesus want me for a sunbeam and let it go to her list of songs. Itsy Bitsy Spider still seems to be her favorite.
She loves to read and play with her babies.
She loves to eat ice and Mac n' Cheese. I have recently made it a goal to cook a real recipe at least once, trying for twice a week. Which is always challenging but, we eat a bit healthier and left overs are nice to have for lunches.
Along with my cooking goal I have added staying off my ipad and phone until Lucy is in bed. Which is sometimes challenging but we are finding better sources of entertainment (outside of Tangles) we read, color, do puzzles,play with play dough and babies, work on numbers and go over colors and shapes. And it is just getting nice enough to walk Frank again.
It seems impossible to sit and think of everything new she is doing this past month. Her vocabulary has grown quite a bit and it seems like she is putting bigger sentences together. Her stories are getting longer and sometimes understandable.
She is a total animal lover. She is obsessed with kitties lately. Anytime Mittens is around she wants to cuddle him and then make him lay down so she can cover him up with a blanket...which he is not as good about as Frank is. So normally it ends up with her yelling at him to lay down and he is running for any exit he can find. Though I think he must kind of like it since he lets her catch him on occasion.
While cleaning up Frank poop outside the other day, She realized that Frank actually poops outside. She looked at me and said "Frank poops outside?" And I said "Yes, Frank poops outside". She looked thoughtful for a minute and said "Mama poop in the potty?" And I said "yup, Mama poops in the potty" Which she got quiet again, So I asked her "Where does Lucy poop?" And she responded with a big smile, "In my pants!" I then asked her when she wants to poop in the potty and she said no thanks... We will get there.
Seems like she is getting more and more expressive in good and not so good ways. But with the screaming fits, words and demands are starting to be said which in some ways makes life easier.Sometimes it makes saying no or walking away that much harder. I swear she knows just which buttons to push to make me cave!
We went to the Aquarium again last week and she loved it! She loved the low pools with little guppies that they have to play in. She still wasn't so sure of the sting rays. She would put her hand in until they came close and then she would grab on to me. She also liked touching the starfish. They had stools all around and she gloomed on to one and carried it around to the different displays. She loved being able to climb up and see them by herself. She was rather passionate about wanting to touch the Jellyfish, but with all the displays it was easy to distract her.
I'm excited to see what summer adventures will come. And I'm so grateful for this sweet little girl.
