Alright, a "get-you-up-to-date-on-our-life" post.
So Lucy is getting SO excited for Santa and Christmas. It is a wonderful time of year with a little one in the house, and I would have to say this is the first Christmas that Lucy has really grasped the "commercial" concept of the holiday. She still doesn't really understand the magnitude of the Christ child being born, but she understands lights, evergreen, reindeer, Santa, and PRESENTS. We put up our tree a week or two ago, and ever since then she has been saying it's "Our Christmas." She went as far as to say that the tree in my room is MY Christmas and the tree in the front room is Yaya's Christmas, and that she was very sad that she did not have a Christmas. She also has been asking to open her present that is under the tree ever since I wrapped it and put it there a week ago. I keep explaining that we have to wait until Christmas morning to open presents, but her concept of time is a little off. As that magical morning is approaching though the anticipation is growing and it is so wonderful to see such an innocent joy, and the look of wonderment every time we talk about it. I have been missing that in my Christmas seasons for too long, and I am enchanted just to be a part of it again.
So, I mentioned that Lucy's concept of time is a little lacking. Well, anytime you ask her when something happened or is going to happen her response is "Satuesday." Not Saturday or Tuesday, it is her very own invented day of the week...Satuesday. She also believes that after her bath it will be her Birthday. Which I hope she will get at least a few baths between now and March 17th! :)
A few other gems that she has shared with us these past few weeks go as followed:
-She had all of her wooden alphabet blocks out on the floor in my room, and she was walking around and would pick one up, say "too fat," and throw it over her shoulder. I asked what she was talking about, and she told me that these blocks were too fat for her to play with. How absurd of me to ask such a silly question.
-This illustrates the saying "monkey see, monkey do." We were watching a Christmas movie (I can't for the life of me remember which one) and one of the characters went up to the other one and hit them right in the middle of the chest. So, here comes Lucy trotting over to me and WHAM! punches me right in the sternum. I had to hold back my laughter long enough to tell her that hitting was not nice and we shouldn't do everything we see on TV.
-I have been trying to catch Lucy before she poops in her diaper and if I do, I try to make her go sit on the toilet. I know it's not really potty training, but it's a start at least. Well, if she is successful then she gets to ring the sleigh bells that hang on the post right outside of our half bathroom. She loves this idea and it's a great way to celebrate using the toilet. The only drawback is she REFUSES to ring them if she doesn't have her diaper back on yet. Ideally, we would use the bathroom, walk out and ring the bells, and then walk back to her bedroom and change her diaper. No, this is not acceptable. We cannot rings the bells if we are naked from the waist down. No way.
I'm sure there are others that I just can't think of right now. I will post them as I remember them!
TA-DA! POST COMPLETE!
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