We’ve had a busy and exciting couple of weeks, what with moving, lots of family visits, my trip and Lucy starting new daycare.

Thankfully, Miss Adaptable has been fabulous-o through the whole thing, with nary a waking night or tantrum to show for it. Who knew toddlers could be so easy! Let’s have three more! (PLEASE SMACK ME.)

Now that Lucy is really settled in the house and fully trenched in toddlerhood, she is hitting us up with a ton of charm and new tricks:

• Lucy has some European flair to her, as goodnight kisses now involve a kiss on both cheeks, with a grand finale big smacker on the lips
• she “wiggles noses” by shaking her head back and forth against your schnoz
• when looking for something, she now raises both arms out, palms up, while saying the word and turning around in search of said item
• if you pout your lip in mock sadness, she will mock cry
• as soon as we enter the house from outside, she immediately plops (“Sit!”) down to remove her shoes
• she loves to find things: items in books, stuffed animals from her room at your asking, Spencer and the praise that comes with a correct response
• I’ve always done “millions of kisses” by smothering her with pecks on the face and head. Now she will return the favour, spit included
• before leaving a room for nap/bed, she says waves goodbye to everything. Ditto at the end of shows when the credits start running
• she immediately points to airplanes in books or the sky and makes the sign and noise (now more like a rumble in the back of her throat, as opposed to the song-like wowwws of yesteryear)
• while reading one of her favourite books, Don’t wake the puppies (with Clifford), she kisses and hugs and wiggles noses with you when the book mentions these
• any type of condiment is “dip-dip-dip.” Mass hysteria ensues if toddler dipping is not allowed
• Lucy will now do Snuffle Monster to me, gently rubbing her face in my neck and exploding in giggles when I laugh
• I chopped down this vine at the front of the house when we moved, and every. single. time. we are in the front yard, she points out where it used to be and makes a chopping motion with her hand
• she likes to feed her stuffed animals with a plastic spoon. They also regularly go night-night on the floor covered in a blanket
• learning the word “again” — accompanied with a pleading nod — has been incredibly helpful in getting Mummy and Daddy to repeatedly read books or sing songs ad nauseum
• speaking of which, Lucy LOVES hearing me sing Row-Row-Row Your Boat (throwing her hands in the air and saying “rowrowrow”) and the Itsy Bitsy Spider (waving her hands side to side while shmerziling, imitating the spider being washed out) over and over and demands it at all hours — like the middle of the night when we have to change a poopy diaper
• when we say she’s going to Julia’s for daycare, Lucy stars saying bye-bye and waving to everything/body
• her unique, weird and hilarious actions while on the potty are a whole other post…

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3. Jabba, following the pentapus, squealing and screaming: The first three months
4. My days as the Snuffle Monster: 18 months
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