Percentiles

I just looked up where Lucy is on the growth chart. She is between the 25th and 50th for height, not bad considering what a shorty I am, and between the 5th and 10th for weight, also not bad. I wish had the problem of being skinny. :)

Growing Up, Literally

Lucy is growing! We went to her 12 month check-up today and she has actually put on weight and gotten taller. She weighed 18lbs 13oz, only 1lb 3oz to go in order to turn her car seat forward. She is 28 and 3/4 inches tall. I think Molly may soon out grow her but it is progress!

Other than that Lucy is healthy little girl. She had to get two vaccines today, one of which stung a lot they said and is likely to cause a fever. Worse than that happened though; Lucy had to get blood drawn! :( It was awful!!!!!! At one year they check for lead and anemia, so we had to go to the lab after the doctor's. Dave had to hold her down while they did it, it was terrible!!!!!! I was terrible, I hid in the other room while they did it so that I could swoop and be the good guy afterwards! :) When we got home I gave her some Motrin and an early lunch so we can take an early afternoon nap.

I think it is time for nap now. Goodnight!

Rocking Chair

Lucy has figured out how to rock herself in her chair, it is very cute! (Yes, she is reading a suduko puzzle book, I don't know why.)

Growing Up

I haven't had the time yet to give to Lucy's newest development, but I think I can write a bit now. Lucy is weaned!!!! She hasn't had milky (what we called breastfeeding) in 10 days! Last Thursday in the middle of the afternoon she was being a bit cranky and I realized she hadn't nursed all day so I asked her if she wanted to have milky. She turned her back on me and crawled away! I couldn't believe it; not that she turned her back on me and crawled away she does that all the time when I ask her to do something and she doesn't want to do. :) After that I didn't ask her and she hasn't asked me (she would ask by doing this certain whiny thing).

I nursed Lucy for 11 months, 3 weeks, and 5 days. It's kind of weird to be done with it. I am very proud that we nursed for that long, but more, I am very proud of how smoothly weaning went. My emotions are a bit mixed on how I feel though really. Mostly I am glad to be done, but a part of me is sad too. Lucy doesn't physically need me anymore. After trying for so long to conceive her and all of the physical hardships that went with that, and then carrying her for nine months, going through 23 (LONG) hours of labor, and then nursing her for a year, I am really relieved to have my body back. But, she doesn't need me anymore, she is growing up and making her first steps toward independence already. But, back on the plus side, I can celebrate, and console myself, with some wine! :)

Now if I could just get Molly to teach Lucy how to sleep I would have it made!

Bad Parenting

I am a bad parent. :( Yesterday afternoon I was on the computer when I noticed that Lucy was playing awfully quietly. So, I turned around and she was eating dirt out of a potted plant! Ahh!!! We went and rinsed off and had to change our shirts because we got so wet getting clean. I am a bad parent. ;)

In other news, this morning Lucy said "Mae Dog" on her own, unprompted. Every morning when we come downstairs we say good morning to Mae, but this morning Dave had let Mae out and she was still outside. Lucy was saying "blah blah blah" in a high pitched voice and then I heard her say "Mae Dog". I realized that she was doing what I do every morning; baby-talking in a high pitched voice to the dog! Isn't she the best! She is so funny, the things she does now. :) She copies us all the time. I guess we better start watching what we say!

The Party

The party was great! Lucy ate some pizza, played in the frosting on her cake, had a bath, and opened lots of cool presents. She also got to play with her friend Haley, and crawl around to talk with all of the guests.

Dave and I taught Lucy to put up her finger and say one. Here is a video that she kind of does it in (plus you can hear my super sexy deep voice from my cold):




This is Lucy starting her cake. There are more videos of her eating her cake on My Videos. I will update MY Pictures too, but here is one of Lucy after her cake:


She went straight into the tub after this photo!

The party was great, and Lucy slept like a rock all night! Of course she ended up staying up past her bedtime after all of that sugar and excitement. Mommy and Daddy slept like rocks too after that party! I think Lucy had a really great first birthday!

My Little Lucy Baby

Tonight it was hard for me to put Lucy down to bed. I knew that that was the last time I was going to hold the baby Lucy, in the morning she will officially be a toddler. It's exciting, scary and a little bit sad. Of course if I remember what I was doing a year ago right now I am not so sad to be far away from that; I was on my 15th hour of labor with 8 hours left to go! :)

Good night Baby Lucy, hello Toddler Lucy!