Independent!

Rockin' the vintage sweatshirt from the eighties (or seventies?) - hand me down from mama!

I fear that Lucy's baby days are officially behind us!  Little Miss Lucy is getting to be such an independent little girl!  She does a good job of saying "bye-bye" and watching from the window when Jason or I leave the house and she is home with the nanny.  She is also pretty brave when she is at her weekly Early Childhood class with her little friends and we separate to talk about parenting topics while the kiddos stay with a teacher and play.  She is less excited about church nursery and is often a teary when we pick her up, but I think that will get better when winter (and cold and flu season) passes and she is in the nursery more consistently.

She has been learning that climbing can get her things that she wants...like to the top cupboard of her play kitchen or to her pacifiers, which are resting on her dresser until sleep time!

Balancing in the rocking chair to reach her pacifiers....

Look mama!  I did it all by myself!!

We are all pretty sick of winter (I know, everyone is!) and are grateful to have had a nice lull in doctor's appointments over the past several weeks.  We were all feeling pretty lazy this afternoon, as evidenced in this picture of Lucy laying down on the living room floor - a brief rest before playing more of "Where did Elmo go?"