My Girl

Lucia has really, really enjoyed a new thing we've implemented to positive reinforce good behavior at school: solo time with Mommy. To my delight, she has chosen to spend this time going for walks with me. I love love love going for walks and the fact she wants to makes me so happy. The night after Halloween she was very explicit in her instructions of our walk: we were each going to pick two pieces of Halloween candy, put them in separate ziploc bags, and take them on our walk and eat them somewhere. We did just that, and had a great time. I've been making a huge deal of our solo time together and reminding her that Daddy or Espen can't interrupt us and it's just time for me and her. She swoons each time I say that. Aww. Tonight she wanted to do the same, but because of Daylight Savings it was super dark, so we wore headlamps and sat on a newly constructed staircase near our place. She tried a tootsie roll and peanut M&Ms tonight and although she had a reaction to the milk chocolate, we still had fun anyway.