Happy Easter!

(These posts will be a little bit out of order...bear with me...Easter before birthday and 2 year old stats but they're coming!)


We colored Easter eggs at home one night last week, and Lucy got pretty into it!  She cracked every single egg she was given...but she had a great time.  I can remember, as a kid, going to church on Easter with dyed hands but the good folks at Paas (or, in our case, Dudley - because they had a Disney Princess kit) seem to have made some improvements because her hands were quite colorful at the end of egg dying but were back to normal by bedtime that night!  I wiped them with a baby wipe before she made her escape from her high chair, Dave wiped them with a wet washcloth later after a snack and then she took a bath and was dye-free!

On Friday night, we went to GranJan and Grandpa's house to color eggs with them and the Hicks family.  After that, GranJan decided to have an egg hunt for Lucy and Cleo (though Lucy didn't let Cleo find any eggs) and she thought that was pretty awesome.

The following day, we went to the library for another egg hunt and Lucy was loving life.  When we got there, we saw there were quite a few others there waiting for the egg hunt to begin as well...the librarians mentioned that there were two "grand prize" eggs to be found but didn't mention how many eggs each hunter could find.  I was worried that some kids might not get any eggs.  I didn't have anything to worry about.  There were lots and lots and lots of eggs!

She found several eggs but when one popped open and she discovered there was candy inside...well, let's just say her hunting was over!  She was 100% focused on unwrapping and eating that candy!

The hunt was at 1pm...which was basically nap time.  So straight from the hunt, she got into her stroller and she and I went for a "nap walk" while Dave went back home for a bit.  She loves stroller naps!  She and I walked for about an hour and ended up at Friendship Park, just as we had the day before.  This time, Daddy met us there to play.

Egg hunting wears a girl out!

Fun at the park!

"Me hangin' upside down!"

There was a baby at the park.  He was laying on a blanket drinking a bottle.  Lucy and daddy talked a lot about the baby and what he was doing; she was very interested.  As soon as we got home, she wanted to roll around on a blanket and drink a bottle!  She found the blanket and asked for help laying it out and found one of her baby's bottles to drink...she's wacky!

Soon she needed a real drink, though, and wanted to drink my water...

she's getting pretty good at it!

On Easter morning, when she woke up, we told her that the Easter bunny had come!  We had talked about this a lot in days prior and we were speaking excitedly...but Lucy was looking nervous.  She did not want to search for her basket, which the bunny had hidden, she did not want to help us search for our baskets and she did not want to search for eggs - even though we kept mentioning treats that the bunny may have left us...I could tell she was on the verge of losing it - until I said, "The Easter bunny isn't here anymore!  He came and hid treats for us and hid our eggs but then he had to go home"  and that was all it took!  Reassurance that there wasn't a creepy bunny lurking around the corner and she was off!  She found daddy's basket under her pink table!

Her basket was found in the closet!

"Should I get it out?"

When she woke up that morning, she found her snow boots and wanted them on for some reason...they made for a pretty cute and hilarious pj accessory.  She had so much fun finding eggs in the basement and yelled "M&Ms!" when she opened an egg to find an M!

After the egg hunt, it was time to get ready for our busy day.  First we went to church with Great Grandma Herman and then to Grandma and Troy's house.  After that we went to Great Aunt Beth's house for Stallkamp Easter, then Granny and Grandpa's house for another egg hunt and dinner.  Last but not least, we stopped at Grandma and Grandpa's house...fun Easter!

Super cute Easter outfit!  Snagged at a yard sale by GranJan...shoes on loan from RC!

 We sang "Happy Birthday" to all of the March babies at Aunt Beth's house -

Great Grandma (25), Lucy (25), baby Rachel (26) and Auntie Ema (8) 

Lucy really loves "Happy Birthday" - and cupcakes, too!

 Egg hunting with two good buddies!

All filled up...

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Nothing much to report...

...but I figured I was due for a blog post anyway...

These pictures were taken back in August but I failed to share - until now!
I was just telling Jill recently that I keep Lucy's shoes in a dresser drawer at this point.  They were in the third drawer up but one of Lucy's favorite things to do is to open the shoe drawer and says "Oosh!" and try them all on...if no one is right there to help her with the drawer that's just a little too high, well, that's no problem for my Lucygirl!  (We have since moved the shoes to the bottom drawer).


Getting her balance...

Peeking in the drawer...



Snagging a shoe...or two!

She's crazytown!  Have I ever mentioned that??

Here she is looking pretty last weekend:

 (Hat and tights are on loan by our friend RC, denim jumper was a

GranJan consignment shop find, boots were a souvenir from GranJan's trip to Chicago)

Flashback Friday...a pic of Lucy last November and one from this November - same outfit, different sizes:

(She wasn't really in the mood this year...)

Being silly and mischievous - she has a lot of fun playing in her room!

Being cute and funny:

I'll be darned if she hasn't made my botched haircut look super-cute!

Last weekend, it was nice enough to play outside...she's really going to miss playing outside this winter!  We played in the backyard and later in the day, we went to the park in Cold Spring.

 This girl is one cool cat!

 She rarely does anything without the company of a baby these days.

 I couldn't believe she could climb this step all by herself!



This was a couple of nights ago after bath.
I was wearing this headband as I dried her off and she pointed to my head and said, "Mama,"
but then pointed to herself...she wanted to wear it!
She looked so cute and said "cheese!" for the camera when I asked if I could take her picture.



Recently Alli spent some time with us and was over at mealtimes...so we brought Lucy's booster up and hadn't taken it back down.  A few times since then, Lucy has spotted it and has requested to eat at the table with us, in her booster.  I figured she was ready to be a "big girl" anyway but apparently it's just another game to her...Lucy now enjoys going from high chair to booster to Daddy's lap to high chair...and is spending less and less time eating at dinnertime...too many choices has become a bad thing so the booster is going back to the basement for now and sitting on laps at the the dinner table is going to have to stop also...but above is a cute pic of a cute girl actually participating in meal time very nicely!


I think I mentioned that Lucy has 16 teeth now:

It seems she got a little ahead of schedule according to this chart but it also seems we may have some more big dogs making an appearance in the back of her mouth soon.  In fact, she has a bit of a cold now and often it has seemed that teeth and colds (or cold-like symptoms) go hand in hand...and she has been asking for her "B" a lot lately...so maybe she is getting her second molars on the bottom...I may have to take a peek in her mouth (which is very risky business!)

She has "gone" on her potty exactly two times.  She has sat on her potty closer to two million times...sometimes she asks to have her pants pulled down and her diaper removed, but most often not.  She just likes to sit there and whisper "Peepeepee!" (which we did NOT teach her...she's just cool like that)...and she has recently found the need to use toilet paper (yes, even when she is still fully clothed).  Sometimes she wants to sit on "mommy's potty" but then she always gets nervous (because of the giant hole and her tiny booty) so I cashed in my Pampers rewards points and got her this:


Don't be grossed out...the tp in there is hers...and was not used to wipe anything at all...


She is finally starting to get the difference between "yes" and "no" but her first instinct is always to say NO.  You have to be careful when asking her a question and finish it with "Yes or no?" 
"Lucy, would you like some more milk?  Yes or no?"
And my absolute favorite new thing she does is nodding!  Whenever she answers yes, she also nods...and it's a very animated nod - her head goes all the way back and all the way down to her chest...it's totally awesome!

My favorite recent Lucy story (I've already told this story many times to many people so please forgive me if this is a repeat for you):
She and I were playing in the basement and she kept repeating something..."Blahblah!" and looking at me for an answer.  I had no idea what she was saying so I kept asking her to repeat it..."Blahblah!"
She was getting more frustrated (as was I) and finally yelled at me "Vroom!" with a very exasperated expression upon her face!
"Ah!  Your police car!" and I pointed her in the right direction...I don't know which of us was more relieved but I thought she problem-solved very well!
("Blahblah" = "Police car")

One night when I was out, Dave sent me a video of Lucy...singing Happy Birthday!  She doesn't sing it for long and she doesn't sing it perfectly but you can tell what she's singing...and she's been singing happy birthday to her friend Cooper who turns 1 today...Happy 1st Birthday, Cooper!  Lucy can't wait to go to his party on Sunday!


In closure, my kid is crazy but we're still loving life!  And if you're wondering what to get us for Christmas, we could probably use some toilet paper...