Freebird!!!!

Lucy has always had a strong personality. From the terms by which she decided to come into this world, to how she asserts herself as a toddler. Lucy has developed into this funny and quirky littler person who totally cracks me up on a regular basis. She is such a chatterbox these days. I think it was sometime around twenty-two months or so she just exploded with conversation. We would drive along and chat and I would forget just how little my Lucy was. She absorbs quickly and parrots back everything. I relented and now have censored her music for the most part simply because I don't want her singing "Golddigger" at playgroup.

Lucy has adopted all of these new funny sayings. Some of them are of course strategically modeled and ingrained into her personality. She is a very polite little girl, saying her please and thanks you's when required. If you sneeze she will say "god bless you," and when she burps she says "excuse me." These are things that we have consciously taught her. There are also a number of things which over the course of time she has seen or heard us saying and has become quite fond of integrating into her repoirtoire. The more reaction she gets, the more she does it and so on and so on. Now when she farts, she laughs and says, "there is a duck in my butt." I probably should correct this because it is not very ladylike behavior, but it cracks us up and she is only saying it because it is what we taught her. She will also on occasion, when caught up in listening to music, pump her tiny little fist into the air and intermittently yell, "rock and roll" and "freebird". Again, all us - but she was the one who took it and ran with it. It is hysterical when we are driving to look at her in her carseat, fist up yelling "freebird" as we cruise around Watertown. It makes me proud.

So far this week she has worked "holy moley" into a lot of her chatter. Now she tells knock, knock jokes that don't make any sense at all and she tells me she smells like a beehive which I don't know what it means or where she got it. Everyday there is some new saying or word that seemingly comes out of left field. For a while after Josh was born she would say, "can you do me a favor," because I was always asking her to do me a favor like get Josh's binky or bottle. However, she would use her,"can you do me a favor," line to ask for outrageous things like a drinkbox while she was in her crib ready to sleep.

The development of her language skills are fascinating. To tracking her correct usage of pronouns and verb tense to hearing the funny little sayings she comes up with. There are some things she says now which cannot be described as anything other than Lucy, like Lucy is an adjective. Like when she looks at me with sunglasses on and tells me, "Mom, you look like a movie star." It is just so Lucy and I love it!