Feb 26 2009
Valentines
Happy Belated Valentine’s Day all!
Lucy and I made valentines this year. This is a tradition handed down from my dad (G’pa Tom), who always crafted handmade valentines for us from construction paper or whatever materals he had handy (I remember an intricate lace-edged one made with a holepunch.)
Lucy enjoys crafting things, and is getting much more precise with her crayons. She designed these cards (i.e., told me where to put the hearts, and crayoned on them), all except the first one, which is the valentine we made for her.
She is definitely understanding a lot more about birthdays and holidays at age 2! She frequently grabs ‘Father Christmas‘ for reading material, even now that it is February, and recognizes him in other venues (when he is a polar bear in Richard Scarry, or has a different outfit in Babar.)
In other news, she had a dr. appt. today, and was weighed and measured standing up for the very first time (so grown up!). She is also thankfully done for shots until kindergarten. We are both very happy about that.
She also surprised her daddy by counting to ten last night, which we had no idea she could do. And she can sing abc…’a e u b e u b, 8 a u b e b e….’ Lots of new words too…’walk, car, shock (=sock), shark, pink, blue, apple, Aunty, Omie, Izzy, nope, yep, park, out, in, up, down, oh no!’ and the evocative ‘meow pyuew.’ And whenever you ask who did something, she blames ‘meow.’ Smart kid.
Feb 26, 2009 @ 17:06:32
She’s a sharp kid. That meow is indeed a pyuew!