There have been so many interesting things that Lucy has started doing these last few months that I am almost afraid to attempt this post. But I was reminded that I would regret not writing them down. So today I am going write down a few funny stories about Lucy's most recent adventures.
Lucy is well, what you would call an energetic child. She is constantly moving/talking/dancing/yelling. It is exhausting I tell you, but all in all a very entertaining. Let's start with some of the things that she says.
Obviously she is very talkative. And (un)fortunately she will repeat mostly in the proper context everything we say. Especially those things that we say to her repeatedly. Some of the highlights "calm down," "oh really!" "Lazy bum!" (which for the record we don't call her...since she really isn't ever lazy). The other day while we were enjoying dinner with the grandparents Lucy was yelling as she has become prone to doing these days. If we are talking I think she tries to catch our attention by yelling gibberish. It is extremely difficult to carry on a conversation. In one of these moments she changed tactics and said instead, while lowering her arms "Everybody calm down!" None of us could believe that she was telling us to calm down. Apparently we were being really too rowdy.
"Oh really!" is a new one. Lately when I tell her about something that she can do. If you go potty then we can go for a walk, Lucy will respond "oh really mommy!" Yes, really Lucy. If she doesn't like that thing/event that we are going to do she says (in a teenager sort of voice) "but Mom!"
And lastly "Lazy bum" came up when I went up to check on her during her nap. Normally I wouldn't check but I could smell something that concerned me. She is wearing big girl panties during nap time so I was concerned she had smeared bodily fluids around her room. I walked into her room, she had no clothes on and thankfully she hadn't relieved herself in the room. In that moment I realized that I wasn't going to get my planned nap because this little girl was not sleepy. So I asked if I could lay down on her bed for a minute. As I put my head on her pillow I was taunted with the words "get up you lazy bum!"
Speaking of nap times, did you know that leaving your child in her room in big girl panties is prone to dis-robing and playing dress-up? Unless extremely tired I almost always find Lucy in different clothes(or none at all) when I go to get her at the end of her nap. The funnies part is usually the clothes are not even all the way on her body. A few times I have caught her asleep in bed with a dress hanging around her neck. Or with no shirt and red tights. Earlier this week she wasn't wearing more than a shirt and she fell asleep on her brush, which left little indents in her tummy. I swear she must just collapse on her bed at some given point during her nap. Because we don't want her wandering around the upstairs we have placed a small potty in her room during nap time. It has happened more than once that I found the potty in bed with her. Slightly disturbing, but I try not to think about it too much.
Potty training has brought a whole new slew of adventures. Our most recent adventure happened while I was away. Last Saturday I was at a women's conference and Jimmy had Lucy at home with him. Grandma Nancy, Lucy and Jimmy decided to go out for dinner. While out for dinner Lucy had an accident (not the kind that is easy to clean up) so he took her to the bathroom. He was able to clean it up enough to get through the night. However while he was in the bathroom Lucy sat on the potty. With the automatic flush every movement caused it is flush noisily. So it flushed once and Lucy started to talk about it nervously, it flushed again and Lucy started to panic, crying and carrying on. And it flushed a third time and Lucy went into hysterics, screaming like someone had stabbed her. Apparently the guy in the stalled next to them chuckled a little bit.
That was Saturday night. Sunday we went to church with our normal plans to take Lucy to the potty every hour or so. I took her the first time and the moment she saw the potty she demanded to leave. I tried to coax her to the potty but she would have none of it. About an hour later Jimmy took her to the potty and had the same issue. These were not automatic flush toilets but they still were pretty ominous and to be fair, the flush is pretty loud. To help her overcome her fears Jimmy decided sit on the potty with her. I wish I had a picture of this memorable moment. Unfortunately since these moments Lucy has been a little more reluctant to use the potty. She will use the big potty at home, but ANYTHING that resembles the restaurant potty and she becomes overly concerned and demands to leave. It happened at the library on Friday.
Lastly, and this mostly because I don't have the endurance to write much more, there are Lucy's prayers and songs. We have taught her the basics. How to start and end, and some ideas of things to say in the middle. Lately she has been thankful for her bed and her pjs and the prophet. I am actually quite impressed that she is started to say most of the pray without any prompting from us, but needless to say they are normally quite repetitive and she will often open her eyes, say something silly and then smirk because she thinks she is hilarious. Tonight this happened while we were singing a song. She had no idea what the words were so she would make them up. When she saw that we thought it was funny she started to laugh and continued to make up the words. Gosh, she is a funny girl.
I can't imagine what this little girl is going to be like when she is three, but age two has turned out to be quite a fun age. I am never quite sure what words are going to come out of her mouth and she is so energetic I am not sure where she will be from one minute to the next. All I know is that she is pretty darn awesome and that we love her.
