Twenty Months (Lucy's Monthly Photo)

Good grief these collages are getting very time-consuming!

Lucy is saying all kinds of words now.  Our favorites are:
hello (he-whoa)
butter and brother (both sound like "buh-wer," so context clues are helpful)
potato (tay-to... as in the "sack of potatoes" game we play in the evenings)
Elliot (said "Ey-yi-yi-yet")
pacifier (said "powow")



Lucy's down to just having her pacifier at night time and nap time (and in the car.  Gotta keep my sanity somehow in the car).  Which means she's obsessed with Elliot's pacifier, which is always clipped to him.



On a couple of occasions, I've glanced over, thinking Lucy is bent over Elliot to give him a sweet hug or kiss.  But no.  She is sucking on his pacifier, tethered 6 inches from his clothes.  She stays like that until she's gotten her pacifier fix, and then she moves on.  Don't get me wrong though, she loves Elliot.  And she does give him a fair number of hugs.  and kisses.



Lucy has become like a little sister to Jack recently.  She tries to annoy him by shouting, "MINE!" whenever he is near.  It used to drive him bonkers, but he's become more chill about it - partly, I think, because we've begun really correcting her when she does it.

We're at one nap a day now, though she still goes down for a "rest time" in addition to the nap time.  I'm hoping to keep the 2 nap/rest schedule for as long as possible.  Some days it is a life saver.



One of Lucy's favorite evening games with Daniel is the game of "Whoa" - played by standing on Daniel's tummy, with him holding her hands.  She leans to one side and then the other, and both Daniel and she say, "whooooa" as if she were about to fall.  She's taken to playing it at other times, too - - in front of a mirror while leaning back and forth, for example.  It is so cute.

She is definitely keeping us busy!  Lucy, you are such a joy to Daniel and me.  We love you and are so grateful for you.