Walking & Dancing Calypso Style!

As I shared in an earlier post, Lucy LOVES her new Lion push toy. He plays Calypso music when you press his big purple nose, which Lucy thinks is just great. Here is a short video of her walking with the Lion and then stopping to dance to the music. Note, when the music first stops she says that famous first word, "uh-oh." Enjoy!

A Bubble Bath to Relieve Your Tension?

Bubble baths can have a calming effect. Soaking in a warm sudsy tub has always helped soothe away a bad day or stress. Lucy has a very unique approach to the bubble bath though... Last night we gave Lucy a bubble bath (usually she just takes a regular bath with baby wash on the wash cloth), she has had only several bubble baths in her short life, so it may have seemed new to her. Anyway, Lucy was quite excited about the bubbles. I should back up - Lucy is always still very excited about bath time. Now she crawls to the bathroom, pulls herself up at the tub and watches with delight as water fills the tub (well a couple of inches anyway). Squeals and shouts of joy accompany the water filling process - just to make sure we know she is excited to get in the tub. Last night was no different until Lucy discovered the bubbles! This resulted in additional squeals and excited bubble bashing - which led to lots of splashing! Lucy decided to work her day's tensions out by eliminating ALL bubbles from the tub. She moved around in the water in search of the exciting bubbles and then went about smacking her hands into the water with lots of accompanying sound effects and much delight. It was so funny! I may just need to bring the video recorder in with me for the next bubble bath. The bubbles were so much fun that Lucy didn't even want to play with her bath toys. She just cracks me up!

The Lion Walks Tonight...

As I shared in the previous post, Lucy has been doing a great job standing and cruising along furniture. Ms. Steph, Lucy's teacher, had shared that she was enjoying using the push walker at school. I shared this with Aunt Amy, and lucky Lucy got an early birthday gift from Aunt Amy, Uncle Paul, Zoe and Ella. Lucy's new push walker is a lion with a felt main and fun colors. His purple nose activates laughter and calypso style music that gets little Lucy dancing away. She is so cute holding on to the front of the lion while she wiggles, jives and bounces to the beat. She also loves to push the lion. Lucy is doing a great job walking with her new friend. If she falls, she just continues forward on her knees - silly girl! Lucy is also testing the waters by letting go and trying to stand without holding on to anything. I think this new toy is going to really help prepare Lucy for those first steps on her own. And, it will grow with her. Once she has mastered walking and isn't interested in pushing her new lion, he converts into a riding toy! The fun will go on. Thanks to the Nolan's for the early birthday gift. Lucy may be walking by her birthday!

Update after a long absence...

It has been quite a while since my last update and so much has happened! A quick re-cap of the past (almost) month since my last post. We enjoyed a fun visit with Nana Jean who came for Kenzie's birthday. We celebrated Kenzie's official entry into her teen age years with Nana Jean, Nana Kathy, Aunt Amy, Uncle Paul, Zoe and Ella. We all had a great time and I think Kenzie really enjoyed the day.

Lucy has been mastering some new skills and she enjoys showing them off to everyone. She loves to clap and wave (though she often waves after we have left the person we are waving to...). Lucy is crawling up a storm and she likes to climb/crawl over things. She can crawl up several stairs before needing a rest and she can pull herself up to stand. She cruises along furniture pretty easily now. Lucy can now stack the wooden ring blocks on her ring stacker. She is really quite good at it. Our stacker is wood, not the plastic fisher price one, so the rings do not have to go in the "proper" order, they can be mismatched because the hole in the center is the same size for each ring. She loves to stack the rings and then turn the stacker over so they spill on the ground. Lucy also has a stacking and nesting cup set. You would never realize looking at this small stack of cups that it could provide so much entertainment for one little girl!

Lucy is now pretty consistent with saying mom or mama and da-da. This is quite exciting for the two of us! She also continues to enjoy saying uh-oh and will create situations so she is able to use her favorite first word.

Lucy's top two teeth are about to break through any day now, I can just barely see them peeking through. Needless-to-say, she has been a little cranky while dealing with the teething pain - she is a trooper though!

I have more, but can't think of all the stories right now, so I will try to update again tomorrow night.

Uh-oh!

Well, I think it is official - Lucy's first word is uh-oh. She has been saying it a lot lately, and it seems she knows what it means. Lucy was full of uh-ohs tonight... We have a bunch of Lucy's board books on the shelf on a side table in our family room. Lucy really enjoys taking all the books off of this shelf. She places them on the floor and then grabs another to stack on top of or place next to the other books. Sometimes, a book falls backwards off the shelf. Lucy likes to reach over the shelf to get the books from the floor and then add them to her stack. Tonight when some of the books fell off the back of the shelf, Lucy said uh-oh and reached for the books, one by one she picked them up. When all the books were off the shelf and spread out on the floor, Lucy picked up a book, dropped it off the back of the shelf, saying uh-oh and reaching to retrieve the book. So funny and so cute!

Fun Fall Photos

Well, tomorrow is the first day of Autumn! That means the cooler night air and crisp days are here to stay. I love this time of year, especially with all the pumpkin treats - pumpkin pie, bread, muffins and especially pumpkin spice lattes! Lucy hasn't tried all the treats yet, though she loves her pumpkin banana puree mixed with oatmeal for breakfast. However, she does think pumpkins are pretty neat.

We decided to take some photos of Lucy to celebrate fall. Lucy had a lot of fun with the pumpkins and we got a some great shots. Here is a sampling:

A Healthy Lucy Girl!

Lucy had her 9 month check up with Dr. Olivieri today. He said she is perfect - which is always a nice thing to hear. Her heart and lungs sound good, she is developing just as she should be and she is growing well. Lucy now weighs just barely over 19 lbs, which puts her in the 50th percentile for weight. She is 2' 4" tall, which is the 60th percentile for height. Her head measures in at a whopping 18.7 " which is the 99.43 percentile for head circumference! Everyone thought Lucy was so cute and she waved and smiled for each person who talked to or smiled at her, which just made people even more interested in talking to her. The nurse shared with us that the infant flu shot is a two part shot, Lucy needs to come back in 4 weeks for part two. To this, Lucy clapped, raised her arms and made hurrah kind of sounds. I don't think she understood what the nurse was saying! Lucy was a real trooper during her two immunizations. She barely cried and once it was all over, she was smiling and chatting again.