Ketchup - Lucy

I want to fill you all in on the goings on here while I was away. You'd think I would be short on stories since I was incapacitated and hardly aware of my surroundings, but boy are you wrong. Turbo & I actually decided that my drug induced stupor led to even more bizarre behavior from the kiddos and, believe it or not, the strangers around me.

I figure I'd start with Lucy, because at a whopping 9 months old she is my easiest child to explain.
Here is what she has been doing...

She has teeth, just two, but teeth all of the same. And with these teeth it is obvious her new favorite thing to do is bite. Yup, within a couple weeks of having teeth she tried as hard as she could to sink her brand new and pearly whites into Rex's arm. He was playing with her toys and refusing to share, which she saw as the perfect reason to chomp. Don't foresee this happening too much in the future, do you?

She still eats like a cow and has perfected her 'num num' noises while she stuffs her face. However, she now starts num num-ing long before the food makes it to her tray. As soon as the stuff is out of the fridge/pantry she gets going. Or if she sees something she likes in the shopping cart, or on the shelf at the store, or in my purse, or in someones hand, she gestures for the immediate transfer to her hands or, better yet, mouth. It is hilarious to an outsider, but worrisome to Turbo & me, the future parents of Lulu the Giant.

Newest in the little world of Lucy is the dance party. Turn anything resembling music on and the kid starts bopping around. Sometimes she even tries to sing along, making Rex's rendition of 'Can't Touch This' one step closer to tolerable. (By the way, we didn't teach him that song. Credit for that one goes to a handful of kids on a Wisconsin playground. Not that we would ever fault the little lads for being 10+ years behind the times, but c'mon...)

These days she claps and stands on her own. She's just now started to climb up the stairs, something we could have waited a few more months for. We think she is starting to talk a little, we've noticed consistencies in her words like Dada and baba and swear she says yay and it and this.

We're on the brink of an entirely new era with our little princess, one that is exciting for her and terrifying for us. Having done this before, we know all of this cuteness leads straight to a terrible toddler. Since we lived through it with Rex we think we deserve an easy round, but are starting to think that is not even close to what we're going to get.