Her First Shiner

Lulu's Shiner

Well I hate to admit that I turned my head for a couple of seconds while I knew Lulu was on the deck playing with the Mickey Mouse push toy we picked up in Minneapolis. I was looking at my flowers and thinking about how much I love the Peonies and Cone Flower that are growing by the deck and how wonderful that combination might be across the entire front of the house if I tore out the juniper bushes that I am allergic to anyhow. Imagine how many fractions of a second that took for me to think that, meanwhile Lulu was going down the 3 wooden steps in front of our house. The best we can figure is that she did a summersolt down to the walkway. It must have hurt pretty good because she cried for a good 10 minutes it seemed.

By Friday morning she'd recovered and became very playful, or she really knocked her noggin'! She was crawling around on all 4's panting and going up to our dogs panting as if she's having a conversation with them then crawling away really fast as if they were chasing after her. It was too funny! She's also figured out how to open the dog food and scoop it out... so it's a new problem we haven't figured out how to fix without putting it one the counter.

Later we were playing on the floor with her Doug-n-Melissa puzzle pieces clapping when she put a piece in correctly. We also like to play with the shapes bucket that Tracey gave us last week... she can put the circle throught the circle hole, but for any shape she doesn't get on the first try gets flug across the room at warp 10. What a stinker!

Penelope unknowingly donated her "Spin-spin a letter" toy to Lulu. Who I noticed yesterday was spining it and singing to the "ABC's" So not bragging here, she wasn't singing the actual ABC's she was just singing and it was so sweet. I tried to catch it on video... will upload anything I find if I got any.

As she was playing in her favorite black chair she was messing with the attached massage remote and was leaning too far over the side and fell on her head. I was quickly moving over to try and catch her but it was too late. Good thing she only fell about 4 inches, but all the crying, kicking and head rubbing I am sure it was a good bonk. Unfortunately she didn't learn her lesson, she still climes on the black chair and looks over the side.

During both lunch and dinner she let me put food in her mouth wth a utencil in between her own bites. After dinner we were sitting outside and I was spooning some yogurt into her hust before she popped off to plat in her car. I left the yogurt and spoon on the step and sometime between her playing and resting on the step she grabbed the spoon and started to feed herself. I am pretty impressed because she use to use a spoon before when she was really young but then she lost interest in feeding herself until now. So at breakfast this morning I gave her some applesauce with her eggs & cheese... I am guessing about 1/2 made it into her mouth with a spoon, but she sure looked like she was having fun. That's the same with drinking out of a big girl cup, she loves to do it... when she took it away from me one day she ended up dumping the milk on her head, surprizing even herself.

What else is new? Hmm, kisses on demand, and a hug now and again... and my favorite is that she likes to snuggle up to me in between her play time. Oh and the way she uses everything at her height as a chair, legs & laps especially, then she leans back and melts into me... I love it.

And at the end of every evening I love to see her resting so sweetly with her Mac & BB.