One and a half!

Tomorrow Lucia Penelope is one and a half years old. I feel like we have always had her with us and also like she was just a brand new baby last week. Wherever we go she says,"baby! " When she sees a stroller or a new mama with a little baby. I usually say " YOU are a baby" and kiss her neck. We watched dispicable me last night and at one point the littlest girl falls in love with a stuffed animal and shrieks," he's so fluffy I could DIE!!!" that is just exactly how I feel about Lucia. She is talking more and more. Let's see. She said "two!" earlier because she wanted another fruit bar ( as in " one, two" which I say a lot when handing her crackers ). Sach said that she said "other" because she wanted something else. She said," coco!" because I was reading them a book about Coco Chanel before bed. She said ,"papa home!" when sach walked in, that may have been her first sentence! She walks around the house saying ,"mamaaaaaa?" and then I shout," over her mija, in the kitchen" and she comes running in. Its like Marco polo. She's so sad when we say no & so sure of what she wants to do all of the time. She will just sit down and cry-tears actually spraying out of her eyes because I won't give her the whole bowl of oatmeal to hold or because sach told her no no. My mom saw her do this the other day and told her that she really needed to learn how to form her own opinion. Funny. She's just like India. So intelligent and passionate and naughty. My girls. Lucia pennypie, my squishy darling! You are better that a tumbler full of scotch & we just love you too much every day, every second.