Day at the Lake

On Saturday, my sister's family, my cousin's family and us went to this fun little lake that had a sandy beach and all sorts of water things, like a tunnel slide, a diving board, a high dive, a raft, a rattle snake for climbing on and a huge floaty thing that you can jump on. So we packed a lunch and enjoyed the day at the lake. My nephews, who are 7 and 4 were jumping from the high dive, and it was really high so we were watching them and Lucy takes off swimming towards it and says "I wanna jump." She wasn't very happy with me that I didn't let her. The scary thing is that she would have done it because she doesn't have fear, so unlike me. She also wanted to go down the water slide and it was one of those fast tunnels that has a huge drop so I didn't want her to go down that either, but Michael said he would take her. They came flying through the air at the end and she drank about half the lake. She didn't ask to go on that again. She spent most of her time jumping from the raft and swimming around. She also didn't fail to poop in her swim diaper. All you need to do is put the girl in a swim diaper, let her swim around and a little while later if you ask her if she pooped she will say "I pooped in Elmo", even though we had discussed that Elmo doesn't like to be pooped on. Regardless, it was a fun day. So if I had a brain at all I would have remembered my camera, but since it was a fleeting thought I had that morning I don't have any pictures to post.

A little bit of everything

So I have been a horrible blogger and I know it. I am feeling better for the most part. I still have some nausea at times, but nothing like it was. I remember with Lucy the nausea just stopped, but this time it is just dwindling on and on. Lucy's new saying is "I tired".... hmm, where does she hear that from?

So what am I listening to right now? Lucy plucking the piano keys and singing Jesus Loves Me. While we were in Kansas, some good friends of the family came over to visit and of course we made Brenda play the piano for Lucy because she is amazing and we want Lucy to see that you can make beautiful music on a piano, not just chopsticks (my song) and pink panther (Michael's song). So Brenda took Lucy's little finger and played Jesus Loves Me over and over again. She also saw her cousin's piano recitals while we were there. We were in Kansas for 10 days at Michael's sister's farm and his parent's farm. Lucy got to ride horses, see pigs, chickens and tiny baby kitten's. I wasn't too pleased that she was talking so much about kittens, but I agreed that kitten's are cute and cats are still yucky. I didn't get any pictures of Lucy riding the horse because I was in the house sick, but my sister-in-law took a bunch that I haven't gotten yet. We also went to the dairy that isn't far from the farm and Lucy got to pet calves and see the cows get milked. We didn't last there too long because it got a little too stinky for nauseous Erin. Lucy also loved to go for 4-wheeler rides with Michael and she really liked going fast. She does not get that from me. Last summer when we were there, she would sign "more" to go faster, this year she just told Michael to go faster.

So I need to write down some other things that Miss Lucy has been up to. Lucy has a new way to sing her alphabet. She did it once and got a lot of laughs, so now she continues to do it. Here's how it goes... abcdefghijk mmmmp qrstuvwxyz. She says the m's super fast and it is just very cute! We also went to the library the other day and she picked out some Dora books. So that night her and Michael were reading it and Michael decided to count with her in Spanish. So he said, uno and she said dos.... he looked up at me like, Erin, she's a genius. It was a priceless expression. He kept going and she said several more all the way to 10. He was in complete amazement. I was too actually, but earlier that day I had heard my niece, Samantha, teaching her to count to 10 in Spanish. I wish my mind was a sponge too, but it seems to just be mush. Speaking of Dora.... Lucy puts things on her back and says "it's my packback." So funny!! Lucy entertaining herself while I was sick one day

Lucy and her cousin, Gracie