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.

Days with Lucy

Lucy's latest trick is to pull things out of their container and put it back. The other day she found a container of bath toys. She pulled everyone of them out in the middle of the hall and played with them, when I went back to check on her she had put them all back and even managed to put the lid back on and left it sitting in the hall. I found her in her room reading books! 

She has also been signing "more" whenever she sees something that she wants. And every once in a while "food" I must say its one of the cutest things to see.

Lucy has her second ear infection, correction double ear infection. Poor baby. She also has a stuffy nose to go with it. Though, It hasn't slowed her down much. Just made her a bit more fussy and demanding. She gets into my purse now and pulls out the mini m and ms, brings them to me, and signs "more" funny girl
. Grandpa found out that she loves pineapple. 

She has also figured out door handles, not sure if it was just a chance time but she opened the front door. She will open and close the hall closet and her closet over and over again.

It's funny to watch her walk around, we went to the salon the other night and she just did laps, she'd walk on everyone's floor mats, she went around in circles and take a few steps on each of them. She knows when I put my coat on its time to go and she walks over to the door. And if I call her she's getting better about following me,  not always but sometimes, I hope that, that training will come easily. When we went to see baby Presley at the hospital I let her walk down the hall and in the elevator and she was pretty stoked, though she would randomly turn around and start walking away. She wasn't so sure about the people smiling and talking to her, she is a cautious little thing. It takes her a few mins before she decides if she likes you or not. But once you win her over she's all smiles and giggles. And she'll talk too. It's funny she gets serious about what she's telling you. I love when she hands you something and says " there you go" and sometimes when I hand her stuff it sounds like she's saying "thank you"

Snow

It snowed and snowed yesterday, while I was at work. So today we bundled up and went out to shovel the drive way. Lucy loved it. She walked around in it, would bend over and touch it, she'd slip and slide, fall over. She laughed and talked the whole time. When I was done I  dragged her in screaming and wet. She was having such a good time. I think she's going to be a little snow bunny when we get her on some skis.

15 Months, New Years

New Years Eve we went to Jerome, When we got down there Lucy was wild! I think its the wildest we've ever seen her. She would shriek and run back and forth the front room. Stop and get some cocnut puffs from Grandma and then run over to Grandpa  and get a sip of soda. She  figured out that if she didn't eat her meal that she would get some snacks that were much tastier. Lucy also helped organize all the straws in their cupboards, I think Joan will be finding straws all over for the next while.
What else can I say that I haven't already. Lucy is the love of our life. She is now running around. I don't know that either of us have gotten use to seeing her vertical. She likes to carry around shirts, towels and anything fabric related, she seems to favor silky fabrics. You can fin my underwear/garments around the house, and she also likes my purple bra, just that one though.
She has started to sign and sing more. She signs all done and more really well.
The other night she was crying and I walked into her room and she said "Mama, up" it was so sad and sweet. She had her last K9 and molar pop through, well they just barely broke through the skin and are on their way up. So hopefully she gets a little break before the second molars make an appearance.
She still seems to have a special bond with Grandpa Emery, Its fun to watch her follow him around with her mouth open, shes like a little bird. She's figured out that he and Grandma have the "good stuff" weather it be food or soda.
Chad's latest thing is giving her flavored milk. She seems to prefer chocolate. In fact after an evening with her Papa I reached in the fridge, grabbed the white milk and she yelled at me! Little stinker is smart.
She figured out how to open the "child proof" bottle of Motrin, I was doing her hair and looked down, she had not only opened the bottle and spilled half of it but she was sucking on her fingers! Like Father, Like Daughter!
Lucy wasn't in the cooperating mood when I was trying to get a picture of her in her chair, so we played peek-a-boo till I got a decent shot.

Merry Christmas

Lucy started walking on the 20th. She stood up walked across the room smiling and giggling. She'd walk back and forth, down the hall and back. There is no slowing her down now!
 She talks so much more, up, dog, cat, done, Dada, Mama. She loves to sing. And look at books, the other day she spent half the day in her room looking at books. I'd go back and check on her and she would be turning pages of a different book.
We went to Jerome for Christmas. On Saturday night we went to the south hills to see the lights, with Dean, Joan, Crystal, Roo and Lily. The weather was perfect. Lucy finally got to see Santa, she wasn't impressed, but she loved the lights. I was so glad we got to go since it will be the last year they will be doing it.
Christmas Eve we opened presents, Lucy loved the paper. She was thrilled to rip and throw and play with it. I think she liked it more than her presents. We got Lucy a bean bag, She loves it. she throws herself into it and sits and looks at books in it.
She loved hanging out with her grandparents. Grandpa gave her soda and Grandma gave her whatever else she wanted.

14 Months, oh my!

Its been a week since her first step by herself and she continues to keep learning. She will stand and walk a step or two and then crawl really fast to wherever she is NO! to everything, I'm pretty sure she knows what it means but then she'll just sit and say it over and over about nothing to no one in particular, so who knows!I think she is going to be an early talker because she already thinks she is talking, and singing. Her newest trick has been trying to ride Frank. (Frank has other ideas) She has also figured out that Dad is the one with the "good" snacks and he will give her sips of  his soda.
She is so cute. If I lay on my stomach on the floor she will come crawl on my back and bounce. And when I get up to give her a ride she laughs and squeals the whole time. One of her other games is to crawl back and forth through the closet, she'll poke her head out of side and giggle and then turn around and go to the other. She is rather good at entertaining herself and anyone watching. She still loves her chair, she will stand up and sit down, crawl and stand on top, and stay happy with it for hours. Who would have thought a chair could make her so happy.