Our little "big girl"

As I've mentioned before, Lucy is very into being a big girl. One of the most common phrases we hear (second only to "why?") is, "No, I do it!" She wants to (and mostly successfully does) serve her own food, spread her own butter and jam, wash her hands, dress herself, put her dishes away (hooray on that one!), go potty, and brush her teeth. The thing is, although she's as independent as a 15 year old, she only has the gross/fine motor skills of a 2 1/2 year old, which makes it challenging. Still, you can only learn by trying, right?

An update on her Lucyisms- just over the last few days she has switched (seemingly on her own) from saying "yesterday" about everything in the past to "the other day". It does work a little better for most situations....

And a new one- she was pretending to be a frog before nap time the other day, and then told me, "I tired froggie".

We had tacos the other day, which Lucy loved putting together and eating. She was concerned how it kept falling apart as she ate it (she has a real need for order), but I assured her that was totally normal and that she could eat everything that fell out.


Here she's changing baby Annie's diaper. She's very attentive with her dolls, and the other day carried around her little baby tucked into her shirt for a long time.

We love going for little hikes, and at the end of one of them are some horses. Lucy stayed watching them for a long time.