Lucy update

I know that this is a little behind some of my other posts but Lucy is changing ever so rapidly!  That's the exciting part of this age... even a week or two make such a difference!  As I said before Lucy was taking a few steps (this was just last week) and now, today, she is a walking machine!  I couldn't believe how fast she did that, but Tristan was the same way.  He didn't really show a lot of signs of walking a ton, but then he just got up and did it and never stopped!

Eating wise she has been maturing.  She will only eat baby food if she doesn't see anybody else eating other 'big kid' food.  So she usually eats first, the baby food, and then she has bits and pieces of whatever we're eating.  She LOVES polenta... which I thought was pretty funny.  Fish. Peas.  She is also doing really well with her sippy cup.  I tried giving it to her about two weeks ago and she didn't seem to have much interest in it.  But, just two weeks later, she is wielding that cup like she's always had it.  It's kinda nice because this means I don't have to sit there and hold it for her while she figures it out.  I think she had a bit of a learning curve on it because she never had a bottle... so she was unfamiliar with what to do with that type of thing.  But, she surely did figure it out in a hurry!

With her motor skills she is getting into everything.  One of Gaetan's spring break projects was to put baby proofing thing on the cupboards (which he did already :)  I would come into the kitchen and all the tupperware would be out on the floor with her sitting there smiling every so sweetly.  Or, she would've gotten into Tristan's cupboard and all his plates, cups and bowls would be strung out all over the place.  I didn't want to squash her curiosity, so I let it go on for a little while, but the cupboards are now Lucy Cane proof.  We got Tristan this shape box for Christmas and she has figured out how to put some shapes in the correct spaces already... what?!  crazy!  She has also learned how to untwist things to get into them and you know those rings that snap together?  She's figured out how to get them together and take them apart.  She is very clever...

I can't wait to see what other new things she is going to show us that she knows.  I swear that kids know way more than they lead on, it's just a matter of us catching them doing it.  Then, once they know we know their tricks they figure they might as well show us all the time.  :)

I love you Baby Girl.  You are wonderful and you amaze all the time.

JVG