Lucy's quirks and progress in general

There's a few things I failed to mention in my last post, but now things are just piling up, so I'm just going to get as much done as I can and post the rest later.

Back in March, we went to Utah to attend our neice's baby blessing. She is Lucy's only cousin on the Hixson side. On the Law side she already has twenty cousins, going on twenty-one.

Lucy is here sitting with Great Grandma C. and Charlee, her cousin.

While we were in Utah, Lucy made a few discoveries.

She discovered she enjoys the park. Long ago when we first took her down a slide, she cried the whole way down and some time afterward.

Obviously, she has overcome her fear, although it wasn't without some protesting at first. Pretty soon she was ready to venture onto other slides.

We have visited the park a little more often since then.

She also discovered how it feels to ice skate.

The skating rink we visited just happened to have skates in her size. So we set her up and brought her on the ice with us. She ended up clinging to us the whole time, dragging her feet on the ground, not allowing herself to put any weight on her skates. Can't say I'm surprised, especially when she hasn't even spent an entire year walking on a steady surface.

When we returned from Utah, life went back to normal. I eventually became aware how long Lucy's hair has grown and I wanted to get a picture of her curls that show up every now and then. Her hair is usually pretty straight.

Looking back through her pictures from the past, I'm amazed at how little hair she used to have. She is almost unrecognizable to me when I look at her younger self. Now I finally get to play with her hair, something I've been wanting to do for a while since she has stopped allowing me to put headbands on her for quite some time.

Now I've done it enough that she has actually learned to sit still when I do her hair.

So I played with her hair some more by doing Easter pictures.

And every once in a while, I catch a photo on Sundays, after church of course, when I'm not running around trying to be on time.

Lucy's hair is not the only thing that's grown. Her list of words that she uses on a daily basis is getting longer and longer. Her vocabulary not only includes "mom" and "dada", but also "oh no", "all gone" ("aw gah"), "what's that" ("wha da"), "cracker" ("cacka"), "please" (which sounds more like "tchee", not sure why), "baby" ("beebee"), "uh-uh", and "amen" ("ahmeh"). We get excited whenever she learns a new word. She also knows how to point to different parts of her face and we're currently teaching her more body parts. 

On a random note, I one time entered her room to wake her up and I found her like this. I guess the sun was shining too brightly that morning for her taste.

I actually videotaped her for almost two minutes in this position. I guess she was just bored.

Another moment where I caught her being unnaturally still.

 She was just staring at the dog on the other side of the baby gate. She was lying like that for almost fifteen minutes.

Another odd thing she likes to do is giggle and squeal at people standing behind me in the grocery store when I'm in the checkout line. I'm pretty sure she has no idea how much she brightens their day. They can't help but laugh with her.

Though she can be quite a handful, she brightens my day too. I wonder if the next one will be as happy as she is.