ELEVEN

Such a character!

Guess who's 11 months old today? CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? In less than four weeks I'll have a one year old. Holy moly - let's not get ahead of ourselves, my head almost exploded.

Oh! The angel baby! Sitting so NICE!

I almost didn't notice the date, so (grandmas) you sure are lucky that I decided that I should probably sit and write down some Lucy updates lest I forget. And today happens to be the perfect day for it!

Lucy's ever widening vocabulary now includes:

(in order of importance with dialectical pronunciations in parentheses)

• bath (dat-th)
• more (mo!mo!mo!) (as pertains to food)
• walk (wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, as we hold her hands so that she can walk)
• NONONONO (usually as she does something I tell her not to)
• water (wa-ttt)
• circle (euh-ckl)
• oops (ooop)
• uh-oh
• moo, moo
• quack (mack, mack, mack: in Lucy's world, birds say this as well as ducks)
• Ruff, ruff (muh, muff)

Signs she's added to her repetoire:

• help
• boat
• change (diaper)

Favorite foods (the girl still only has two bottom teeth, but this doesn't seem to stop her...):

• blueberries
• spaghetti
• buttered toast

Favorite activities:

• anything outside where she might see trucks or busses
• the pool
• her sandbox
• reading books
• knocking on doors
• dancing

Other things she has learned this month

• how to make tears come while fake crying
• how to bear walk so that her delicate knees don't touch the scratchy grass
• how to pull all the books off the shelves in the living room
• how her legs work to climb up on things

And let's go ahead and be honest here. This is what all the rest of those bear pictures looked like: