Little Eyes and Ears...Part 2

Lucy's ability to pick up on the negative aspects of conversation is becomming uncanny. A few nights ago in the tub, she threw one of her toys and said, "That's dumb." I had to remind her that we don't say "dumb" and she replied by saying, "Sarah says that". I told her we would have to tell Sarah not to say that anymore. She proceeded to sit in the tub for the next five minutes repeating over and over, "We don't say dumb. We don't say dumb. We don't say dumb." When I finally said, "LUCY!, stop saying dumb." she responded by asking me about every other thing we have taught her not to do: "Mom, do we hit anybody?" "No Lucy, we don't hit", "Mom, do we kick anybody?"...etc.
And tonight, she added another phrase to her growing list of things not to say, "What the heck?" This was again followed by a lesson from mom that we don't say that...to which she responded, "Matt says that."
I guess we're going to have to start practicing some good old-fashioned censorship 'round here.

Tattle-Tails and Trivial Pursuit

Visiting Grandma and Bumpa's house today made for some interesting interactions between Emma and Lucy. Lucy is quick to tell anyone whenever Emma heads for the stairs by yelling: "Go Get Emma Please! Go Get Emma!" At one point, she rushed over to Tammy yelling just such a statement, and we heard Emma from the stairs yell out, "Lu-cy!" As if to call her a tattle-tail...all the adults got a quick kick out of it.

As Lucy woke up from her nap she was quick to yell out: "I'n awake!"...."Gramma Boo-urne, I'n awake!"

As Tyler read us Trivial Pursuit Genus questions one of the answers was 200. Lucy quickly repeated the new word. He then asked her if she could count to 200 and she responded by saying, "100...200!" I guess we never specified by what she had to count by.

Captain Fierce

While eating lunch today, Tyler decided to put my hairband over his eyes and pretend he was a superhero. Lucy got quite the kick out of it and soon wanted to try for herself. This is her "grumpy" face that makes her look tough.

Too Soon

In case anyone else missed it, last night was a fairly clear night, with some pretty alright weather in this here province. I know this because I saw most of the night. I decided to go to bed at 10:00pm last night. Pretty decent (ie. lame) for a Friday night. I was enjoying my much needed time in bed when at 11:30 I was awoken by some killer back labor. I continued to have contractions every 20-25 minutes, mostly in my back, hips, and legs until about 4:30am. I wouldn't have been surprised in the least if my water broke last night, but fortunately, things calmed down and I was able to get some sleep. Tyler was up at his parent's house playing RISK with his siblings till 3:30am, so he missed much of it, which only meant I had more of the bed to roll around in while trying to find a comfortable position. The worst part was that the contractions were just far enough apart that I'd just be settling down and falling back asleep when another one would start. No signs of labor today, but here's hoping the next 4 weeks aren't all like this.
I am getting to the point of feeling like I'm ready to be done, but when the prospect of early labor actually hits you in the middle of the night, you really start praying hard that your secret daytime wishes aren't coming true.

Snow Bear

Today, Lucy and I decided to enjoy some outdoor time and build a snowman with the mountains of snow outside our house. We got completely bundled up and headed outside to discover that the snow was actually not the greatest for making a snowman. In most places the wind had blown it so much that the drifts were hard enough for her to walk on top of...and everywhere else it was too powdery. So I ran inside quickly and got some water to help make slushier snow that would stick. Because of the lack of good snow, our grand idea of a snowman quickly scaled down to a snowbear. Once the bear was complete, we added the scarf and Lucy named him Frosty (because all snowmen/bears with a scarf are named Frosty). He sits outside our living room window and she enjoys looking out to see how he's doing.

Happy Valentines Day

For the past week, Lucy has been surprising her dad with pictures, treats and little valentines in his backpack for him to find when he got to work. Yesterday, as a finale to our week of surprises, we spent the afternoon making and decorating sugar cookies. We delivered them to Tyler at his office this morning and stayed for a nice visit. It was a fun way for them to celebrate valentines day together, especially since Wednesday nights are our Youth Activity nights and Tyler and I are both in YM/YW.

Lucy has so much fun cutting out the dough into heart shapes. It's like real-life play-doh. When we got to Tyler's office today, we called him from the foyer. Lucy and Tyler's conversation went like this:

"Dad, you at work?"

"Yeah buddy, I'm at work."

"Me too!"

"What?"

"Come and see me...outside."

Tyler proceeded to the foyer to find us sitting there waiting. It was a great surprise. And immediately, Lucy said, "Dad, we have cookies!"

She had been very patient waiting to have a cookie until we gave them to dad.

Off to the Races, etc

Because of the Worldwide Leadership broadcast this morning, Lucy spent some time with Aunt Janeen while Mom and Dad went in to the Stake Center. It's not really babysitting, as I think Janeen has just as much fun as Lucy. We thought we'd post a few pictures of their adventures together.
Lucy got this shopping cart from my mom for Christmas. When she pushes it around the house she feels the need to bend over as far as possible. It looks like she's practicing to enter the shopping cart races.

Here's a picture Aunt Janeen took.