ABC NYC

outtakes

Dance Class

You could take all the animals out of the zoo and just have the statues and the face cutouts and Luz would be fine with that.

Zoo

Dentist

Subway dancing

featuring Yaz Band

4th Birthday Party

NY Photo 1

Central park street show

Rockefeller cntr tree

New York streets

Central park rocks

W/ cricket

Reindeer breakfast

Thanksgiving

in two acts...

Friday

School Thanksgiving

Lunch

Or a massacre

Southern sweets

Laughing Pizza

I took Lucy to see Laughing Pizza on Sunday.  Two new milestones in her development were marked by this trip. 

1.  She begged go to this concert after seeing a commercial for it somewhere.  "Mommy, did you know we could see Laughing Pizza- LIVE IN CONCERT!"  She is highly susceptible to marketing and boy, don't those marketers know it.  Christmas should be super fun this year. 

2.  After the concert you could stand in line to meet them and have them sign autographs.  She waited very patiently and was super excited.  They signed her DVD and posed for this picture.  During the concert they sang a song they had written about the product Plumpynut (food product that's saving starving children in Africa) so I told them that Lucy's nickname was Plumpynut.  They thought it was very cute.  In the car Lucy let me have it.  She told me several times. "I did not want you to tell them my nickname was Plumpynut."   Then, the next day when Wes asked about the concert she brought it up again.  She gets embarrassed now.  Embarrassed by her parents.  I can't tell you how much fun this is going to be!  Muahahahahahaha.

Another cute anecdote from the concert: One of their songs has the line "five fingers on each hand."  I watched Lucy count the fingers on each of her hands during the song then she looked up at me very excited and yelled "Mommy, I have five fingers on each hand TOO!"

Such a happy revelation.

Toast

More NC

Chapel Hill Clip

Planetarium

Chapel Hill

Pollos

Middle school

Quote it

I need to take a Karate class.

Why?

Because I've got these KARATE PANTS

The State of Children's Clothing

**Warning: Mommy rant**

This morning I put a pair of pants on Lucy (in all fairness she put them on herself, but I laid them out) and noticed right away that they were too short.  Never mind that I just bought these pants three weeks ago- it's not her fault that she's growing I guess.  What bothers me is that now that she's grown out of these pants she is firmly in the next section of the store.  We are no longer shopping in the baby/toddler section.  

I have been thrust (against my will) into the little girls' section.  There will be no more clothing sized by month or with a T after the number.  No more guidelines on the tags about what height and weight the size will fit. This alone is enough to cause the gnashing of teeth, but just to rub salt in the wound- all the clothes in the new section are apparently designed by Miley Cyrus or those of her ilk.  This Mommy is not ready for her baby's bottom to be bedazzled.  Nor am I ready to be the crotchety old lady in the little girls' section of the store muttering about the state children's clothing.  

Target and Old Navy- I'm looking at you.  

Vocabulary

**This is a very old post that I wrote but then never published- found it today**


Have you met Lucy recently? If yes, then you know her vocabulary and pronunciation are better than most high school senior's that you'll meet. She has a lot to say and she doesn't mispronounce much. That is why I am really trying to cherish and remember the "toddlerisms" she comes up with. One day she is mispronouncing a word, and the next she's fixed it and it's gone. Yet another sign that the baby days that became toddler times are now growing up into child days. So here's a current list of some things she says that make me smile:

Ar-fur (Arthur- a favorite cartoon of hers)

fun-der (thunder) (obviously, the TH sound is tough)

roni mac n' cheese (macaroni and cheese)

flo (floor- and for the record I think she's already fixed this one)

hop a doodle (magna doodle)

fa lu ta (flute)

it's really hot (the sun is in my eyes)

ah bah leh (abre (a spanish word that means open- she mispronounces the spanish))

alligator (elevator)

 My Southern Belle at Southern Belle Farms in McDonough, GA

 Nothing like rolling around in some corn

 Buried in corn

Relaxing Hayride

 Pig races = hilarious.  They swim.  Did you know pigs could swim because I did not and I have a degree in Animal Science.

 With Cousin Noah

 Me and my punkin on a pumpkin

Wonderful day with family!

Ballerina

La Luz loves ballet.  She also wants to do gymnastics and swimming lessons and soccer.  For now we're going to focus on ballet.  Once she has that mastered I might consider another extracurricular.  She says her favorite part of ballet class is the "free dance" portion.  This does not surprise me not one little bit.  My Luz is a free spirit if ever there was one.  Happiest when she's making her own rules and everyone else is playing by them.  Have you ever seen such a cute ballerina? Look at that form!  

Zoo

Windy Day