All Better

Lucy bounced right back to normal the next morning. Yeah! I was pretty sure she would, but I must say, I was a little scared she was going to wake up sick because she is just not a whiner. We were so lucky that was not the case. We are all entitled to have a crappy day.

Lucy's Nana and Grandy are in town (Justin's parents). When she woke up Friday morning, Nana went in to get her, and Lucy has literally been attached to one of them nonstop. She always remembers them when she sees them, but this time has been different. She has just been so excited that they have been here and pretty much ditched Justin and me for her grandparents. I was holding her tonight and made the comment that I have not really held her since they have been here because she has wanted them the whole time. I love the fact that she loves all of her grandparents so much. It is so sweet.

Yesterday we worked in the yard all day. It looks beautiful. I will post pictures of it next time. Justin's parents come every spring and help us get the yard in shape. I can't thank them enough. We got all of the weeds up, trimmed back every tree/bush that needed it, planted new flowers, put out new mulch, and fertilized the yard. Lucy was in HEAVEN for yard day. First of all, the weather could not have been any more gorgeous. It was warm enough that we brought her little pool in the front and once the water warmed up a bit, she swam around. She helped pick out flowers and then helped arrange them in the flower bed. She seriously kept herself so busy while we worked our tails off. I am so thankful at how well she can keep herself entertained as long as we are close by. She finds all kinds of things to play with and it does not have to be some big fancy toy. The littlest things make her happy - like using a water bottle to fill up in her pool and then water the flowers. She LOVED watering the flowers.

Today we finished the last of the yard work. I made a pot roast and mashed potatoes for dinner and it was yummy! Then we took Lucy to get ice cream at Marble Slab. When we get to the ice cream shop and Lucy realizes where we are, she starts doing this little happy dance. Then she wants you to hold her so she can look at all of the flavors. She got Birthday Cake ice cream with chocolate sprinkles. We all got something different and you should have seen her. She would take a bite from her own cup, then nose dive into Nana's cone (strawberry and chocolate), then sit there and stare at Justin's milkshake until she got a drink, move on to Grandy's malt, get a quick bite of mine, and then start all over. She had so much ice cream and loved every second of it.

To say she got a bit of a sugar high is quite the understatement. She was nuts. We came home and I put her in the shower with me. Justin was trying to get her lotion and pjs on, but it was not easy because she was so wiggly. Then, she was just jabbering away with herself. She would say all of this jibberish and then shout YEAH. It was so funny. Once she started to wind down a bit, I took her up to try and put her to bed. She was actually letting me rock her, but she was still talking away. I was saying our prayer and her little face was right by mine. I see her start to grin. I knew it was all downhill from here. She was smiling so big that it made me start to giggle. Giggling is bad news as far as bed time is concerned. My giggle got her giggling and soon we were both hysterical with laughter. This went on for about 5 minutes. Really, it was so funny and we were both laughing SO hard. Then, she is winding down again, and she pulls out her best trick - the word ELBOW. You guys have seen the video of how she says it. We ask her to say it all of the time and she won't because she knows we want her to so badly. Well, she starts saying it over and over again because she knows how much I love it and she knows how it is buying her a lot of time at the moment. Finally, I call Justin in to witness this madness. We are both just dying laughing. Eventually Nana and Grandy come up. She is so excited at this point that everyone is in her room. She starts pulling out books and toys. After a while, I tell her it is time to rock. She insisted that Nana rock her! She NEVER does this. I know that Nana was really excited to have the honor to rock her.

I have had several comments about wanting to know the secret to our sleep schedule. My next post will be devoted to how we got to where we are as far as sleeping is concerned. So stay tuned. I certainly don't hold a secret clue, but I can tell you how we got here.

Here are pictures from yesterday in the pool.








This first video is to show you all the wonderful things that Lucy's daddy loves to teach her. He always has something fun up his sleeve that is going to be fun to try and reverse.

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And this video shows her counting and kind of the abc's. She can actually say the first several letters on a good day. You can also hear one version of her fake laugh on this one. This is a mild fake laugh, and some days it is much more dramatic. Also, Bruiser snips at Lucy a lot, as you can see. He never actually gets her and it has lost any scare factor that it ever held. Most of the time she laughs at poor Bruiser as he tries to scare her off. Poor dog. Don't worry, we would never let him hurt her or vice versa.


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