Monday, 21 September 2009

• So Big!

  So, this is isn't the catch up post I was hoping for but considering that it's 11:00 at night and I've been up for 37 hours straight (thanks in part to Lucy's nightime fits and partly in part to the hormone roller coaster that is the female body) this is as good as it's gonna get. I got an iphone a few months ago (best invention in the world might I say) and I  l-o-v-e, love it. I've all but abandoned the laptop which is good for my facebook (message me if you're interested) but bad for xanga. It's just not the same blogging on a "keyboard" half the size of a business card. Lucy is doing awesome! I can't get over how big she's gotten. Short list of big skills:

  • She crawls!
  • She talks! She says Mama, Daddy, Nana, Tib (our cat), BeeBee (Becky, my sister), Hi, Bye, Cado (avocado), Mo (more), KiKi (kitty), Me, Uv ooo (love you), My Mama, Hello, Oos (juice), Eed (read), play, toy, baa (sheep sound), whoo whoo (owl sound), yes, pees (please) 

              Cute story: Mama was her first word but it took me a while to believe it. At the beginning of the summer I started doing play therapy with a couple of little kiddos who have language/speech problems so after the first session, while I was feeding Lucy, I carried over some fun sound and syllable games with her. From out of nowhere, she looked up at me and said, "Mama". I literally did a double take. I looked at her wide-eyed and incredulous and asked, "Lucy, did you just say 'Mama'?" She grinned and looked proud of herself but I just couldn't believe an 8 month old could be saying Mama with intent.
  
  The next day she said it a few more times during the day, always when we were cuddling or doing something close together, but the clincher came when Jake got home. He was changing her diaper and she was fussing. She was squirming, and crying, and trying to crawl away when I walked into the room. She looked over Jake's shoulder, reached out her arms to me and cried out "MAMA!" I looked at Jake, out eyes met and our mouths dropped open in pure amazement at our incredible little baby.

  Fast foward a couple of months:                                                                                                                       Last week, we picked her up from the nursery at church and when we picked her up the nursery worker asked, "Does she talk?" I smiled and replied in the affirmative. "What'd she say?" I asked. "Oh my gosh! She talked so much! I thought I was hearing things!" Came the astonished reply before she continued, "She picked up a toy cell phone and said 'Hello? Mama?'Then she crawled over to the toy shelf and said 'Play. Toy' and pointed at a toy on the top shelf."                                                                                                                                           They were amazed. That's my baby!

  • She eats only table foods (sounds like she's a dog or something) Tonight she ate a whole ear of sweet corn from my sister's garden, garden fresh okra, and a huge slice of meatloaf.
  • She can crawl all the way up the stairs all by herself! I of course follow close behind but she does it all on her own.
  • She's just altogether wonderful!

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