Today the boys had a field trip with their Chinese school. I must admit, it was rather glorious. I am so thankful I get to spent most every day with them and I love them and am thankful...but a day every once in a while where they are gone all day was really a gift. It was quiet. I had Lucy's nap time all to myself. And I enjoyed some fun time with Lucy, who is changing so quickly and getting big.
What did I do with all this free time? Well, I had a longer-than-usual time with the Lord, which was quite refreshing. I did my PT exercises, which I have not done in 2 months probably...definitely fell off that wagon. I made granola ( we finish one batch every few days now), made some sugar cookie dough to freeze so we can pull it out throughout the month, printed and laminated our Jesse Tree devotional and ornaments for Advent season (from Ann Voskamp, a new favorite writer - author of 1000 Gifts- and homeschooling mom blogger), read to Lucy, took her for a walk on her new pink trike, worked on pizza night, listened to Christmas music...and some other things I am sure. But it was a nice day. Keeping up with Lucy is no small task these days either. Here are some shots of what she is into ...
I am no longer afraid she will be illiterate...she really likes books these days as well as climbing up and sitting in this little chair. She can turn the pages, chatter as if she is reading, point and make the right animal noises...so cute.
She can also climb up on the couch now. Not so excited about this new feat....it is still difficult for her, but she can do it. Note about this outfit. Yes, she is wearing a shirt and tights. I was planning to take her out and her thick pants to go outside were still drying so she played in tights for awhile.
Well, she has this love/hate relationship with shoes. She doesn't really like to wear them and bunches up her toes when you try to put her shoes on. Drives me a bit crazy now that the weather is so cold and shoes are necessary. But if she finds them, she acts like she wants you to put them on. Or she will try to put them somewhere near her feet. As you can see she is wearing one pair and mad because I will not put the other pair on. Such a girl!
Uh oh Mommy, it came off (b/c you bunch up your toes and they won't fit).
She is in a rather destructive phase...at least destructive to any attempts at cleaning the house. She loves to empty the hat and glove basket, pull all the books off the bookshelf, ransack cabinets and close doors (and nearly pinch her finger or get stuck in a room since she can't open them. She is keeping me on my toes.
Here she is on her new bike. She seriously loves this thing...more than her brothers ever liked bikes at this age. If the front door is open, she makes a beeline for it in the hall. Today I took her out for a little walk in it. It was SO cold, but she just makes these singing noises and rocks and bounces happily in it the whole time.
Her doll. She has loved this doll (and all dolls and stuffed animals, but especially this doll ) for several months now. She has to have it when she wakes up and gets out of bed. Loves and cuddles and kisses it. Sleeps with it. Such new territory in our house!
Sweet sleeping face. Another new development is her reaction to the word "no". She sometimes ignores you at first but if I raise my voice even the slightest bit when she is into something she shouldn't be she gets this trembling lip and tears fill her eyes and she gets SO sad. Twice Chris has said "no" very firmly (but not loudly) and she will put her head down on the high chair tray and just SOB. Totally bursts into tears and needs lots of comforting. Chris turns to putty instantly and gives her hugs and kisses. Wow, quite the drama queen already and much more sensitive to being told no than her brothers ever were. Or knows how to work it, hard to tell at this point, ha. Not that it keeps her out of mischief, but she does seem to pick up pretty quickly on what she can and cannot do. After a few days of telling her no, she mostly is already leaving the Christmas tree alone, which I thought might be impossible.
Tomorrow we start our first day of Advent reading, are planning to make some salt dough Christmas ornaments... posts of our tree will come. Good night.
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