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364 days old

Is that right? Or is it 365 days and 364 nights? In any case, today is Lucy's birthday-eve. She is teething something fierce on numbers 12 and 13, and seems to have an itchy runny nose. Not the best way to wrap up a year, I suppose, but we had a fun day that involved lots of dancing and giggling.

After today she will have a full year under her belt.

Now she just has to get through the night.

the ins and outs

Lately Lucy has been very interested in putting things into other things. She has a nice wooden egg and cup toy and a nice plastic ball and ring and funnel toy, and both of those will hold her intrigue for many minutes at a time, but she (of course) likes to venture into non-toy items as well.

So we might walk around the house and find a bath toy in the bathroom garbage can, a hair clip in a glass of water; diaper spray on the record shelf, or, in a feat that still puzzles me, the knob of the hepa filter inside a sock. Usually we find these things when we aren't looking for them and cannot find them when we are, so very often these days diaper changes involve a wipe wet with water instead of spray and we have a pair of pliers handy for turning on and off the white noise when the knob goes missing.

We've taken to storing the bathroom garbage can up on the counter, because even worse than what she might try to put in is what she might try to take out. Curious monkey!

froggie went a courtin'

Now that Lucy and Scarlett are both getting older they are finally starting to take more of an interest in each other.

At the last meeting they began with the mandatory sampling of each others' fingers:

Then moved on to hugs . . .

 . . . and kisses.

Oh, the cuteness to come once they start makin' trouble.

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