Dear Lucy,
Happy Birthday! If the past few weeks are any indication of how you will be for rest of the year, the “terrible two’s” are going to be more like the “terrific two’s”! You continue to be a happy ray of sunshine in our home every day.
These are the things that make you happy
- Going outside (regardless of the activity or the weather)
- Swings
- Baths (you call it wah wah)
- Babies in general
- Baby Sam (Iverson) in particular
- Bella (dog next door) and Bella’s owner Scott. You think they are interconnected.
- Cookies
- Caillou
- The new Winnie the Pooh Movie (but you do NOT like the scene about the Backson!)
- The book Kitten’s First Full Moon
- Picking up Jack from the Bus
- Being awake when daddy comes home from work
- Markers without lids
- Playing with Jack and Marian
- Your heart shirt
- Saying thank you
- Having your binky, bobbies (blanket), and your baby doll when we get in the car
- Canned peaches
- Playing with legos. Putting Jack’s tiny legos in your mouth, showing it to me, then running away as fast as possible makes you particularly happy.
- Singing “I’m bringing home my baby bumble bee”
- Laying on Marian’s blanket when she is trying to fold it for her bed
- To “go”. Any time we ask you if you want “to go” you get all excited and hustle to the door
- At bedtime you choose either “You are my sunshine” or “I am a child of God” for your bedtime song
- Trying to potty train yourself…I am not supportive of this. You are constantly taking off your clothes and asking to use the potty but with zero success and then you are very unhappy when I get you dressed again.
You have brought pure joy and love to our home since the day you were born (and even before that). People still stop me in stores and other places to tell me how beautiful you are and I have to totally agree. You are still petite and off the charts for weight and height but you are almost never sick and super active and eat pretty well so I’m not worried. Happy is your default setting. You sing songs that we don’t recognize and you do a little dance every now and then just to let some of your happiness out. When you can’t find something you wander around the house saying “___(lost item)___where are you?” You know what belongs to who and are very particular about no one touching Jack’s or Marian’s things if they are not around. You are not too possessive of your things except your new yellow chair. You almost always wake up happy and most mornings I know you are awake because I can hear you cheerfully yelling at Jack to wake up. At night when I put you to bed, just as I walk out the door your little voice, muffled by your binky calls out, “Luh you mommy” . Oh I love you baby girl! Happy Birthday Lucy.
