Interview with a 9 year old

Favorite color: Blue
Favorite food: Mac and Cheese
Favorite restaurant: Monicals
Favorite dessert: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Favorite toy: Legos
Favorite stuffed animal: Bear
Favorite game: Hotels
Favorite sport: Baseball
Favorite book: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Favorite animal: Shark
Favorite movie: Jurassic World
Favorite thing to do at home: Play video games
Favorite thing to do at school: Play outside for recess
Favorite place to go on vacation: Wisconsin with the waterpark
Favorite activity to do in town: SkyZone
Favorite TV show: Teen Titans Go
Favorite superhero: Spiderman
Favorite Disney character: Mike Wazowski - Monsters Inc.
Favorite thing to do with Lucy: Chase her
Favorite thing to do with Caroline: Torture her and make her scream
Favorite thing to do with Mom: Play games
Favorite thing to do with Dad: Go to movies

What can you do now that you're 9? Stay up later (not gonna happen)
What are you scared of? pitch black dark
What are you good at? Baseball, sports. Reading.
What is the best thing about you? I'm strong so I can hit in baseball.  I'm funny.
Who is your best friend? Evan, Luke, Andrew and Jonathan
What do you want to be when you grow up? A famous baseball player

Lucy at 3

This is my long overdue post about who Lucy is at the age of 3. It is long and is for us to look back and remember our girl.

Lucy at the age of 3 is still our most social and outgoing girl. She loves to say hello to people in the store and before leaving daycare will very loudly say goodbye to all of her friends. The "terrible twos" never really happened for Lucy but we are beginning to have some outbursts now that we have crossed into the "threenagers". I sometimes get "UH! MOOOMMM!" and "NOT FAIR!"

 We like to watch Daniel Tiger especially since he has lots of fun songs to sing about good ways to calm yourself down. Lucy's other favorite shows are The Incredibles 2, Elsa from Frozen and most recently Scooby-Doo.

It is hard to say what Lucy enjoys eating the most. Macaroni and cheese, grilled cheese and peanut butter sandwiches are still at the top of the list but most meals involve her not eating most of her food. It takes a very long time for her to finish a meal. Sometimes breakfast can take over 2 hours if I leave it out on the counter.

Lucy loves to wear fancy dresses or her princess dresses. If she had her way she would wear her Elsa nightgown, her Belle dress and her Moana nightgown. Since most days we have to leave the house and for ease of potty training we put her in pants and a shirt. Dresses are really hard to hold up by yourself when you're only 3.

We began potty training with Lucy around September of 2019. In the house, for the most part, she was golden. During church, errands or daycare we were not so lucky. To be honest, I gave up trying. If we left the house she would be in a diaper (I'm pretty sure that was not the case with the other two). Sometimes in mid-December it finally clicked. It is rare now that we have accidents with her.

Lucy still loves to sing and loudly at that. She loves to sing Elsa songs both 'Into the Unknown' and 'Let it Go'. She enjoys listening to Caroline's Frozen II soundtrack in their room. Her favorite toys are her princess figurines and also her stuffed animals. She also likes to "read" to her stuffed animals. She loves playing in our bathroom in the master tub. She is pretty content to play by herself but loves it when her siblings are home to play with. She enjoys baking with me and always pulls up a chair to help.

Lucy still naps for about an hour and a half every day. There is the occasional day where that doesn't happen but the next day she is a bear so at this point it is still needed. She does have a hard time falling asleep at night though so naptime may not last too much longer.

Lucy knows all of her colors and can count up to 14 without help. She is 37 1/4 inches tall bypassing both of her sibling by over an inch at the same age. I still have yet to take her to her wellness exam so not sure on her weight.

Lucy loves to make her family laugh and has the most silly, expressive faces to accomplish this task. She is a great little girl and I can't wait to watch her grow up.