Can We Have a Moment?

Can we have a moment for my precious little girl?

I'm about a month shy of her birthday, but my heart is just so full of this little girl that I had to share some of my favorite things about her current phase of life:

• Her vocabulary has SOARED in the last few months. I've been discouraged for quite some time about her lack of verbal communication. When Charlie was her age, he was speaking in sentences and he knew every letter in the alphabet and the sounds they each made. Lucy wouldn't even repeat sounds I made after me...until recently! Someone told me that when she went to daycare her vocabulary would take off. True story.
• The girl LOVES books. When we get in the car, the first thing she does is reach for a book from the bin between the car seats, and if she can't reach it, she looks at me and says "Book? Book?" over and over again until I give her a book. And, thanks to her vocabulary surge, she's now saying things like "apple book" or "tuck (truck) book."
• Lucy understands what it means when we pray. Before we eat she grabs our hands and shouts "Ayyy-MEN!" when we are done. She's even started closing her eyes. We pray as soon as we get in the car in the mornings, to which she also adds her hearty "Ayyy-MEN!"
• I refuse to carry her places 1) because she is HEAVY and 2) because I feel like she's too old to be carried around all the time. However, she has a hard time staying focused when I let her walk. Even if I hold her hand, she drops it and wonders off to look at the fill-in-the-blank. So brother has started taking her hand. She follows him with no problem wherever he goes.

 

•  First thing in the morning, when I pull her out of bed, she nestles her head on my shoulder with her face in my neck and we have a little snuggle moment. Even if I'm running late, I take time to do this sweet thing. We also do it when she's right out of the bath - I get her snuggled in the towel and I squeeze her tight and rock her. She is quiet and still for a spell. It's wonderful.
• She is a momma's girl. I've never experienced this before, as my son never seemed to care who he was with - mom, dad, grandma, stranger - we were all one and the same. Lucy, on the other hand, doesn't even want DADDY. She wants me. This is mostly annoying, but a small part of me is trying to savor the fact that she wants to be with me.

What a sweet, sweet girl.