Crazy girl

YOUR BABY IS 81 WEEKS OLD

Your toddler is probably playing with toys more than she used to. That’s partly because she’s starting to have more of an understanding of spatial relationships (how things fit together). One way she develops this understanding is by pushing things around, which children this age love to do. She can also probably make a reasonably accurate copy of a vertical line on a piece of paper.

Lucy does love to play...she really likes all of her Little People and tries to find specific ones.  She has one original Little People girl with blond hair and has decided she's a "baby" and often searches for her and puts her in a chair and then places her in the kitchen of the house so she can eat!
She has a Little People convertible and gets agitated when she can't find the girl who came with it to put her in the driver's seat.
Her new thing is to eat at her "table."  I set up one of the ottomans next to her favorite chair and put a burp cloth on top like a tablecloth one night while she ate a snack...guess what she expects every evening now??

She likes to play in her room and especially in her bed...she tells me the baby needs to go to sleep and then tells me she's going to sleep, too.  Last week she got in bed with her baby to "sleep."  She knew she was cute, too!  She couldn't stop smiling at me!  I told her to stay there while I ran to fetch my camera and she did:

We have all of our Halloween decorations out and she really likes them...I let her eat off of the skeleton plate one night and she just kept pointing to the skeleton and looking at me - asking me what it was.  I kept telling her "skeleton!" and she'd smile...and ask me again a moment later...

Donna gave her some Halloween treats and she pulled this book out and climbed up onto the couch...Dave and I watched her from the hallway...she was pointing and jabbering her way through as she turned pages - she was reading!

We bowled on Saturday night so Lucy hung out with her Grandma but I couldn't resist a sneak-peek when we got home:

Her memory continues to amaze us.  Lucy and I went to a consignment shop in Alexandria on August 29.  The cashier gave Lucy a ring pop which turned her mouth blue/green. 

An entire month later, Lucy and I were back at the consignment shop, this time with her daddy.  She walked around the store for a bit but when she saw the counter, which is in the back of the store, she said "Candy?"  She remembered she'd gotten candy there!  Sadly, blue/green ring pops make Lucy super crazy and we had to deny her smart request...

She has a new word.

"No"

She likes to say it a lot, too...sometimes she just seems to like the sound of it (like last night at Skyline - she just randomly started yelling "No!" and laughing...) but other times she answers us with her cool new word..."Lucy, it's time to take your bath"..."No!" (followed by her running away).

She's been throwing tantrums a bit more often lately, too...if we try to help her with something and it turns out she didn't want help?  Not good.  She's been taking her shoes off a lot lately (which is a little unusual for her because she's always preferred to wear shoes) - she took them off at the zoo on Saturday when we ate lunch...and got a little pissed when I tried to put them back on her after we ate...And yesterday when I got to the sitter's house to pick her up, she was ready to run out the door to leave, but when I reminded her she didn't have her shoes on and tried to help her get them on, she melted down...by the time we were in the car, though, she was back in a great mood, making me laugh...

Lucy and I are doing this on Saturday:

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