Look Mom!

I turned my head for two seconds to put some dishes up and look who climbed up to give me a hand.  

Geez . . . pay attention mama.  

Funny Sayings

Things my Sweet Girl is saying these days:

We went swimming at my dad's house recently, and when he took off his shirt to join us in the pool, Lucy Mills exclaimed:

"Pop Pop na baby!!!!"

{Pop Pop is a naked baby}

She loves to throw trash away in the garbage can.  She is also in a big stage of naming the colors of everything she sees.  Travis handed Lucy Mills a white paper towel to throw away and she said:

"white trash."  hehe

We have been attempting some potty training around here.  Lucy Mills was scared to go #2 in the potty, so I decided to throw in the towel that day and walked into the next room to grab a diaper.  When I came back in the bathroom there was a pile of, well, you can guess what, laying next to the potty on the floor.  She looked up at me and said "Maggie went poop poop" over and over.  Hmmm.  She is not even 2 and is smart enough to blame it on the dog.  

One night I was getting ready to meet up with some girlfriends to grab some frozen yogurt.  Lucy Mills walked into the bathroom and observed me putting on makeup.  She said "bye bye mama." I guess the days that I actually dress and put make up on are pretty few and far between - she knew I was heading out of the house if the make up was going on! 

This week she started calling me mommy, instead of just mama.  So sweet. 

Whenever Travis and I yawn, Lucy Mills would look at us with a puzzled look on her face.  I would proceed to tell her that Mama/Daddy was sleepy.  Now anytime someone yawns she says "Mama binky." {Mama sleepy} Maybe sleepy sounds like binky? 

Whenever she puts a necklace or hairbow on Babydoll, she looks at her and says, "oh, petty baydoll." (pretty babydoll)

I recently went out of town to visit my sister.  Travis told Lucy Mills that mama went bye bye to see Aunt Tutu.  Lucy Mills said "Mama bye bye . . . Mama at work." I guess she associates when someone is not at our house, they must be at someplace called work? 


Her little mind is always at work . . . and it's fun hearing what she is thinking. 

This Is What I Saw Today . . .

when I walked into the playroom.

Yep, that is her sitting on top of the changing table! 

Lucy Mills managed to shimmy the toy bin next to the changing table, climb up and sit on top, and then pour the liquid soap all over herself.  Of course that was after she put the headband around her forehead.  

She thought the whole incident was hilarious. {I must admit, I thought it was a funny photo op.}  But I was stunned not only that she could climb up there but that she thought it was ok to do so.  

I was wondering when she would start getting into mischief like this.  Such a stinker! 

The Things She Says

Because I don't want to forget the things she says at this age...


Whenever McClain cries, or even starts to stir, Lucy Mills winces and says "baby ga, baby ga." Translation = baby crying

When I open her door after nap time or first thing in the morning, she says in her cheerful little tone "hey...hey...hey." 

She has somehow swapped animals' names with the sound they make.  Instead of calling a kitty cat a cat, she calls it a "meow meow."  And a duck doesn't say quack but is called "quack." Guess we'll have to fix that at some point. 

She went from always taking the bow out of her hair, to being obsessed with asking me to put her "bow, bow" in.  And not just one...

She loves cell phones.  So much that she will either carry her plastic pink cell around or the calculator {hey, whatever works!} and put it past her ear and say "hewwo...bye!" A lot of times when I am on my cell, she will say bye-bye at the same time I do.  She thinks she's hot stuff!

"Booka" or "bookum" is still book.  Her favorite has always been "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb."  We've read that darn thing about

 8, 262 times. 

When she started walking Travis and I would say "yay, Lucy Mills!" over and over.  She started saying "yay, mama!" Travis asked her to say "yay, daddy," and she thought about it for a second before shouting "yay, mama!" That's my girl :)  

If I am in a conversation with another adult and we start laughing, she throws her head back and starts laughing above our voices.  She must outdo our laughing I guess? Our little extrovert is pretty funny. 

When Lucy Mills and Travis have guitar time, she climbs up in his lap and immediately asks him for the "pick pea." Translation = guitar pick.  She can strum the "ga ga" {guitar} on her own.  Watch out American Idol....we may have a contestant for you in a few years! 

If she is fussing when I am changing her diaper or giving her medicine, I try to sing to her to distract her.  Her new favorite song is "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes." She wants to sing it all.the.time.  She starts it off by raising her hands to her head and in her most high pitched voice singing "heaaaad." That is my que to come in and finish the rest of the tune.  {I have zero singing ability so I apologize to anyone who witnesses this!} 

We have been working pretty hard on manners, in particular saying please and thank you.  When she wants something, I ask her to say please first.  She looks at me dead in the eye and her fists bunch up under her chin as she begs in her most dramatic voice "peeeaaaassss." 

Thank you is a different story.  She says "tank ew" whenever SHE hands me something or if I have something she wants. 

"Nee Nee" is still her puppy Lindsay.  Heaven help us if we ever loose Lindsay! 

She loves to yell "hewwo outtide!" {hello, outside!} when we open the back door.  Even though there is no one back there, she must greet the back yard every morning. 

Lucy Mills, you are too cute and I love hearing you communicate with words now.  Well, I guess you can call them words. 

Maggie is so funny!

Love the sounds of sweet laughter.

And don't worry, Maggie is not nearly as ferocious as she sounds here :)