a short list of things lucy likes

(as dictated by Lucy: "Mom, write a list of things I like.")

A List of Things I Like
taco meat and taco
halloween
my body
my eyes
my water bottle
the pictures that I make
Slippery
everyone in the whole world
taco meat and taco
mac and cheese and capicola
gingerbread man
candy
hearts
flowers
pink
TT
that picture
sheep, because their fur is really kind of cozy actually
cheese
fridge milk
trains, I like trains actually
this picture
these light bulbs
this pink bottle and whatever it has in it

a list of things before going to bed

fridge milk
water, you bring it to me in my bed
no potty
a hug
a kiss
rub my back
i think i want chicken*
mommy, mommy, i want other chicken
you forgot to say 'see you in the morning'



*Note: Chicken here is a stuffed animal and not a food, though I too was thrown off initially. Already in her bed at this point were Giraffe and Marsho (both two-and-a-half feet tall), Piggy, Oddie, the ladybug pillow, black bear, the lamb pillow, Baby, and Moose.

one-year round up

Favorite foods: Hummus and crackers, sunbutter and rice cake, meat, cheese. Bacon. Toast. Sometimes fish, sometimes oven-roasted broccoli ("trees"), sometimes smoothies. Sometimes yogurt, or bananas. Strawberries and blueberries for biting only. Maybe licking.

Favorite books: The Backyard Birdsong Guide, Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders (it has a character named after your dad!), The Little Engine that Could, Mother Goose, the Runaway Bunny, Baba Yaga and the Stolen Baby.

Favorite songs: Twinkle Twinkle, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Frere Jacque, Wheels on the Bus, and any of one-thousand lyrics inspired by daily minutiae set to those tunes. (Recently: "Moo sheep moo sheep that's a rainbow", "don't be scared, I love you" and "Dr. Truckee, Dr. Truck")

Favorite friends: Oddie (or Addy, or Audi, depending on who is spelling), Marsho, and any number of babies, all of whom are simply called "baby". Also Bear, Moose, Ladybug, Piggy, Chicken, and Other Chicken.

Favorite games: Pretend to sleep, change baby's diaper, and 'chase you'.

Number of Teeth/Pounds/Inches: All of them/30/almost 35.

seventeen months

new words since we got to Virginia: clouds, Rocky, Wendell, J, cousin, Sam, Gramme, Grandpa, banister, snow, hurt, boo boo, throat, medicine

high temp of the week: 104.9

a visual vocabulary

Ready

Lucy is saying so many words lately that I stopped keeping track. Well, I stopped keeping track briefly, then I got really curious and started keeping track again.

My favorite new additions to her vocabulary are: silly, freckle, pillow, blanket, iloveyou.

Lucy: A Picture Dictionary

Box

Hat (and Ready)

Cooking

Teeth

Hug

words, 16 months

words, 15 months

spoken*

tiger
fish
bath
again
truck
moon

sky (with arms up, as in 'reach for the sky!')

park

cat

car

baby

hot

cracker

Nana

go
ball
eye
no
baa baa
mine
out
down
up
hi
dog
Mama
uh-oh
Dada


signed*

book
bird

all done
please
fan
water
food
more
milk


one hit wonders**

pumpkin

spices

flower

doctor

*In rough order of appearance, most recent on top. Words added since the last list in blue.
 **Words we awesomely got her to say once. As of two days ago, tiger was moved from a one-hit-wonder to the regular list!

words, 14 months

spoken*
go
ball
eye
no
baa baa**
mine
out
down
up
hi
dog
Mama
uh-oh**
Dada


signed*
all done
please
fan
water
food
more
milk



*In rough order of appearance, most recent on top.

**Sound or word? This question could apply to a few of the others as well. I don't really want to get into that discussion, as I've been told that tiny mouth muscles are hard to control and tiny people are really supposed to get the benefit of the doubt, but I will say this:"Go!" is perfectly articulated when she sits in her birthday wagon and wants us to zoom her around the house.

the things of lucy i have forgotten to record

1. She says hi. Waves, and says hi. To parents, to friends, to dogs, to birds. To strangers, even. When we pass people on the sidewalk and she bursts out of her solid stare with a smile and a wave, they are perfectly charmed.

2. She sings! It's mostly da-da-da, but to the tune of Frere Jaque, and lately, to some other tune that she seems to have made up. It goes da-DA, da-DA, da-DA, but tuneful. Sometimes she puts her baby doll in the little rocking chair that used to be mine and she stands behind her, rocking the chair and singing in a high ethereal voice. Less tuneful, those lullabies, but lovely nonetheless.

3. She says some words. Or some sounds that pass as words: up, down, dog, mama, dada, out. Today she and her daddy were wrestling over a scarf, and she added 'mine' to the list.

4. She has sixteen teeth, a full and toothsome grin. The last of the pointy eye teeth broke through on the bottom left side last week, and now all that's left is the second set of molars.

5. She signs "please" when she wants something. Really, it's after she whines mightily when something is out of reach and then mama says, "Can you ask nicely?" and she follows up with the belly scratch that is the toddler version of please. I will pretty much give her anything when she combines this gesture with hopeful eyes under those never-ending eyelashes of hers.

Modes of Transportation that Lucy has Experimented With

Rolling
Scooting
Crawling
Cruising
Walking
Car
Bus
Ring sling
Pouch sling
Moby wrap
Lillebaby
Carseat stroller
Jogging stroller
Loud caterwauling
Sheer force of will

Words Lucy Seems to Understand

kiss
mama
dada
doggie
Lucy
peekaboo
milk
high five