After feeding the ducks, Lu found this rock. She LOVES to climb. I really have to watch her though because she thinks she is bigger than her britches.She kept finding bugs on the rock,and then talking to the ducks across the pond. (Like they actually could hear her.😉)Then she got the idea of taking her sandals off. No sooner would I strap them back on, she would have them off again, along with an explanation as to why she didn’t need them on. This girl is a crack up!Our neighborhood has done a fabulous job at planting tulips in various places. I really wanted to get some pictures of her with them.BAD Idea! It was like a kid in a candy store! Little girls LOVE flowers, but boy! This one does not know how to be gentle yet! I could just hear those poor flowers screaming, “No! Not a toddler! We’re all gonna die!!!”I diverted her attention with the idea of swinging, and luckily only one tulip suffered her wrath. We had a long talk about being gentle to flowers, and only looking with our eyes, not our hands, when we see some. Hopefully she’ll remember that when we go to the Arboretum. 😳We ended our beautiful day with a bit of dancing. Lucy really loves her dance class. She doesn’t let that be known during class, but when we come home she is always singing the songs, doing the movements, and asking when she gets to see Miss Kristen again. Now to figure out when to take pictures of the boys. That was my main goal for today, but they left because they said it was too hot! 😂 Hoping I can catch them soon.

“Charlie Duck”, actually. Don’t know how he got the “Duck” part, because he is not a duck at all. Really a goose, but Lucy could care less. His name is “Charlie Duck”, and Lucy had to make sure I knew that. We took her to the pond today to get out of the house for a bit. She still LOVES to feed the ducks. I think I am going to call her “Goose Girl” though, because she has absolutely NO fear of these creatures at all! She just walks up to them like they are the most docile animals she has ever encountered. (Hissing and honking at her all the while! 😳) We keep telling her that they can and will bite her if she gets too close, but she just looks at us like we are nuts, and proceeds to interact with them like it’s no big deal.They seem to have a unique connection. Lucy reminds me quite a bit of Brie, because Brianna had very little fear of animals at this age also.Lucy loved throwing the ducks and geese her bread, while snacking on some inbetween. Then, when the bread was gone, she moved to making them soup out of woodchips, convinced that they had to eat it.Refusal did NOT make her happy! 🤣 Oh the faces these little peanuts can make at this age! They have the best expressions!

Some nights, I am just SO exhausted! Of course those are the nights that Lucy is the most buzzed and will NOT fall asleep! Tonight was one of those nights. I just had to laugh because she just kept on going and going. I finally decided I needed to record her, after she had gone on for over ten minutes.

Even after this, she still sang Old McDonald and Humpty Dumpty before it was like she had been hit over the head with a frying pan and fell asleep. Oh blissful sleep! Thank You!

Sam and I have not been on a date night adventure in a while. We decided to go tonight, eve though we didn’t have a sitter for Lucy. We just decided to bring her with us.  She actually did surprisingly well. She was just our moving obstacle at Putt-Putt……and my personal server/feeder at dinner.  She decided that if she sat on a golf ball long enough, it might hatch. 🤣 Crazy girl!

What a fabulous day! It could have turned out really frustrating. But we chose to see the sunshine in the day and make it wonderful! To celebrate Pi Day, we played in shaving cream. Boy we made a mess! 🤣The boys really wanted to make pies, but Lucy had gymnastics, Nate had to get to work, and Alex had soccer practice. We decided to make them after dinner. They turned out great! William made a coconut cream pie.It was really pretty and yummy!Alex made a cherry apple pie.It was delicious! The boys are great cooks! Now it’s off to brush our teeth. 😉 

Update: Brie sent us pics of her pies!They look fabulous! I wish we could have tried them too! 

Things are about to change in our house. 😮Not sure if I’m a ready for this, or not. Only one way to find out. 😏

I HATE Cheetos! Strong word to use, I know, but they are not the greatest thing for you, don’t taste that great, and make a horrible mess. However, kids LOVE them. At least my kids do. 😕 Having a mixture of older kids and younger kids in the house makes it hard to keep the little kids untainted from big kid junk food. Even if I don’t buy it, they will visit friends and come home with it. It is a battle I am so tired of fighting. Today Lucy had a HORRIBLE day! She was incredibly whiny about everything, and then screamed most of the afternoon. I was trying to be sympathetic because I know a lot of it is probably exhaustion from our crazy week, but man oh man, my patience level is not the greatest lately. Nate was wanting to visit a friend, so I had to wake Lucy up early from her nap. When we put her into the van, she blood curtling screamed the entire time we drove. When we got home, I explained to her that I was not going to take her out of her seat until she stopped. She did right away. (Stubborn little miss!)  When we got inside, she started up all over again. In asking her if she wanted a snack, she said she wanted some chips. Well of course the good kinds were all gone. All that was left was Cheetos. I tried telling her that they were yucky and didn’t taste very good. Her reply, “Mommy, these chips are yummy. They’re not yucky.” 😏I tried. I guess sometimes it’s okay to have a Cheetos Day. Lucy was happy the rest of the day. Happy Lucy=Happy Hardy Household!