I'm officially a toddler!

It's time to play catch-up in the blog now that there are some exciting things to report. Lucy started walking on Friday afternoon! This is great as she's been using Matt and I's fingers to guide and support her for the last few weeks obsessively and we can finally sit back and....not relax...as we watch her stumble, waddle and even attempt running already. Watch out world!

About half an hour before Lucy started walking I gave her a haircut, really her first change in hairstyle, her first "real" haircut. I attempted giving her bangs. I think they came out OK and they have definitely alleviated the constant wispy hairs that were in her eyes when she didn't want to wear a barrette anymore. When Matt came home from work he said he thought it was the magical bangs that made her look so grown up that gave her the courage to walk.

Lucy's friend Kaelin came over last week to play. They are about the same size so her mom, Carrie, and I really enjoy watching them play together. You can see them comparing sippy cups below.

We went to Kaelin's first birthday party yesterday and all Lucy was interested in doing was debuting her newly acquired skill of walking.

She cruised all around the party from room to room and definitely did not act shy! Please note that she STILL sticks her tongue out all the time.

She even found a cool keyboard to play. After she realized the sounds it made, she'd just bounce looking at it because she knew it made music.

We couldn't get her to wear the birthday cap but she loved holding it.

Matt took the last video the evening of the day she started walking. This is her AFTER I tried to put her down for the night. She was way too excited to walk some more to care about going to sleep. She decided it was time to play "steal the bone from Canute" again but this time she walks a bit to change things up.

Lucy now has another bottom tooth - her 7th tooth emerged this past week. She also signs for "more" when eating and breastfeeding now. Books are much more fun to read now and she wants to read the same one over and over. Lucy really wants to speak. We are working on totally random words that she has shown interest in learning by attempting to repeat them when we are speaking. These include: bug, birch, puppy, and baby. She seems to like the b's.