Lucy, Age 2

Photos by my talented friend Rachel Cupps

 
Lucy is 2!!! She's been convinced it's her birthday every single day since we started our birthday season in November... It's been a rough couple months! We finally celebrated a few days early, since the first Friday in Lent was not a great day for her requested foods (beef and chocolate cake, because she likes brown foods the best). And now she has finally stopped trying to convince the rest of us that every single day is her birthday! My favorite was when we lit the Advent candles for the first time and she gasped, "It's my BIRFDAY!!!"

She is quite a character. Probably the least-shy child we've ever had, she warms up to strangers (the few she encounters) ridiculously quickly, and always wants to know everyone's name, which is helpful when I forget because Lucy can just ask! She loves being read to and being sung to, and has a huge vocabulary and range of songs and poems memorized. She dropped her nap around 18 months, the little stinker, and instead "rests" in her crib for an hour, hollering every song she knows at the top of her lungs while jumping up and down or kicking the wall.

I tried to get her to do a birthday survey, with limited results...

1. What is your favorite color? Mmm... *looks at her pajamas* mmm... Pink! Pink eyephant!

2. What is your favorite toy? Umm a chipmunk (currently holding a chipmunk calico critter).

3. What is your favorite fruit? Mmm... Orange.
4. What is your favorite television show? Mmm... (She refused to answer, but I've heard it's Peppa Pig)
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Mmm... Pancake. (She has never had a pancake for lunch.)
6. What is your favorite outfit? Uhhhh... Uhhhh... What's your favorite thing to wear? An outfit.
7. What is your favorite game? Ummm... A fireman. ???
8. What is your favorite snack? Ummm chips.
9. What is your favorite animal? Mmmm... *looks at board game piece she's holding* Mr. Prickles! (a cardboard hedgehog for a board game)
10. What is your favorite song? Mm... Mmm... Mmmmmmmm... *starts singing nonsensically, I think something from our Singsong Pennywhistle CD*
11. What is your favorite book? To read it. (she has MANY favorite books, right now she makes me read our Poppleton books or any of the My First Little House picture books the most frequently)
12. Who is your best friend? Peter!
13. What is your favorite cereal? *gasps* Brown!
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? She refused to answer, but swinging is probably her favorite thing.
15. What is your favorite drink? Peanut butter! I yike to eat peanut butter and jam!
16. What is your favorite holiday? Mm? Umm. Mm. Mmmm. Do you like Christmas? Or Thanksgiving? Or Easter? Easter?
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Mudder. ("Mother" is Peter's elephant calico critter with whom she's obsessed, and has never taken to bed.)
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Toast. Butter.
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? CAKE! 
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? MUDDER!!!!! (I am fairly sure she was still talking about the calico critter...)

1. What is your favorite color?
2. What is your favorite toy?
3. What is your favorite fruit? 
4. What is your favorite television show? 
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? 
6. What is your favorite outfit? 
7. What is your favorite game? 
8. What is your favorite snack?  
9. What is your favorite animal? 
10. What is your favorite song? 
11. What is your favorite book? 
12. Who is your best friend? 
13. What is your favorite cereal? 
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? 
15. What is your favorite drink? 
16. What is your favorite holiday? 
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? 
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? 
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? 
20. What do you want to be when you grow up?