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Archive for February, 2009

I know that kids learn by copying their parents but Lucie has taken this literally. Me and Wellsy are trying to encourage Lucie to say “please” and “thank you”, it was all going really well until one day Lucie forgot and I said “what do you say?” Lucie’s response was “what do you say?, please, thank you, good girl”. The look of confusion on her face when we started to laugh was priceless.

She now uses commonly used phrases to tell both of us what to do, for example as soon as we get through the door “coat off, shoes off”. It’s funny but I think it’s supposed to be us telling her what to do not the other way round but never mind, she’s even started giving guests instructions or when we go to people’s houses she tells us what to do.

A classic example was when we went up to Wellsy’s parents’ house at the weekend as soon as we got through the door she started telling us to take coats and shoes off, then told Wellsy “careful daddy” when he helping to move furniture. She then told Gail that she was drawing something wrong, “no nana like this ok?”.

Funny little bean

Since we moved into our new house we’ve had Sky which most people would think great. Unfortunately Lucie is fascinated with Cbeebies so its on alot in the evenings when I get home from work. I wouldn’t mind but when I find myself either singing along to the songs or getting them stuck in my head it’s usually space pirates that I get its just bloody annoying.

The worrying thing is when you know the names of the characters in some cases better than Lucie, or when you start googling who does the voices for the various characters.

We’ve now opted for one of three options:

• Just accept you’re stuck with it, till both Lucie and bump have grown out of it
• Change the bloody channel
• Play on the wii, or as Lucie calls it buttons

At the moment it depends what mood I’m in as to which option I chose.

Lucie can now talk properly, well most of the time anyway. It is nice now that she can tell me what she wants, and she seems to be saying a new word or several every day, I can now have proper conversations with her. At the moment she attempts to copy what we are saying, think the funniest example of this was yesterday when I’d cooked dinner and said to Kirsty: “Dinner’s ready babe”, then Lucie runs up to Kirsty and says: “Dinner ready babe”. We were laughing for ages although Lucie couldn’t understand why we were laughing.

Her memory is getting better though as she remembers that it was granchy Bob’s birthday and that she went to Tracy’s house for dinner. It was when she asked where Nana’s cat had gone, the cat had been put down last month, thankfully Lucie accepted that it had just gone, attempting to explain death to a 22 month old would have been interesting to say the least.

Another funny example was when she was looking at the pictures on my phone and said what sounded like “what the hell’s that?” looking at the picture of a cow suit. Funny little bean.

As many of you will know we are expecting another baby, due on the 23rd June. When Kirsty attempted to explain that Lucie couldn’t jump on her belly any more because there was a baby in there, Lucie’s response was “baby in mummy belly yum yum?”. We had to laugh she is so innocent that it was funny that was how she had interpreted it.

Over the weeks she has gone through lots of different feelings about the baby, at first she thought it was confusing, then through a phase of not liking the baby because it “make mummy poorly”. She is now in a phase of liking the baby, wanting it to play with her but tells it off when she’s having a cuddle with Kirsty and it kicks.

On the plus side when the baby is a bit older I’ll be able to get my lie ins back….well I can hope anyway. Alternatively the pair of them will gang up on me as Lucie already started pulling the duvet off or jumping on me when I’m lying on the sofa. We’ll have double trouble soon but I can’t wait.