Lydie Lew's world

I feel like I’m neglecting coverage on my dear Lydia on the blog so here goes!

The many faces of Lydia



She does actually SMILE too!)


Life with Lydia is certainly an adventure. As of late she has taken to having what I call “rages” – amplified temper tantrums. She kicks, screams, and otherwise loses all control including her bladder which makes her even MORE upset (just when you thought it wasn’t possible!) We are still working on how to deal with these outbursts: isolation, calm voices, distraction, time… No one thing works every time. Go figure. Of course, giving her what WOULD stop the tantrum, what she wants, is not an option. She also has become fiercly independent. Her most frequently used phrase is, “NO, I do it!” I suppose this is the “terrible two’s.”

As her vocabulary expands so does the intricacy of her pretend world. She will spend a good portion of an hour setting up her doll houses. Each person and item has a specific place (but each time it’s different so there is no ‘helping’ her!) And she’s using the props in different ways. For example, she put all the people in the Little People Noah’s Ark (a boat) and they sailed to the Little People farm where they had a picnic in the barn. She has a very difficult time terminating this activity. If you ask her to do something else (like come to dinner) she’ll reply, “I just have to finish this.”

Here she’s putting on a puppet show for her dolls.


She also takes them outside. They all pile in the shopping cart. She sets up pillows for them to lean against, and “teaches” them. They sing and talk and clap their hands.


She certainly has figured out how to be a “rock star”. Note she has created an audience for herself.


And that IN the toy chest is just as good a place as any to read.


Lydia loves to be outside. This day we made a picnic by the creek at Wilson and then visited the horses. She could have spent all day there and has already outlined detailed plans for another picnic in the future. (We will go in the car. We will eat by the water. Uncle John and Aunt Leslie and Rachel will be there...)



Last week, Lydia was sitting at the table dining with the family. She turned to daddy, home on his lunch break, and said, “Daddy, take your clothes off.” He said, “excuse me?!!” She explained, “Take your work clothes off.” She figured if he wasn’t all dressed up, he wouldn’t have to return to work and he could play with her. Cute.

This morning on the way to school, Lydia prayed the whole way. Here’s how it went, “Thank you, God, that mommy is a good eater. Thank you. Thank you, God, that you make her salad. Thank you, God for Toby. Thank you God, for Guinness. Thank you that you made Lydia. God made me! Thank you, that you made me. Thank you. Thank you that you made cars. Thank you, God for the sun. Thank you. God made everything, Mommy.”


I had to include this video. Mark and I would read “the names” of the newborns out of the newspaper for fun. Lydia is doing the same thing, “Ready for the names, mommy?” If you can’t tell, at points she is saying the names of her dolls which include, “Blooper, Tada (both of the Cabbage Patch dolls are named Tada), Sally, Sleeky, Moses, Ariel, Tinker Bell (Tinker for short)”. I love how she describes us as “teacher mommy & teacher daddy” and “Toby baby”. She also declares that Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader is the Bible which she throws on the floor and then starts naming everything that “God made.” At the end she’s asking me to get her Little People Animals so she can line them up. These are the moments to cherish.


We love you, Lydie Boogs!