Lucy Goosey

Here is the post devoted entirely to Lucy, as promised. I found a bunch of random Lucy pics from the past year and scattered them throughout.

I can't believe this girl is almost 4! I guess that's about right though because we're almost done with med school, which takes 4 years to complete. When we moved to Hershey the girl was about 8 weeks old. Geesh, where did that time go? Seriously!

She thinks her full name is Lucy Goosey Banbury. No joke. She wanted to write her full name yesterday and this is what she wanted me to help her write.

This girl just gets more and more interesting and funny as she grows older. I can tell quite a difference in her level of maturity recently. I wonder if it's preschool or because she's a big girl and in primary now or if she's just growing up. She doesn't have near as many meltdowns as she used to. She is such a little sweetheart. She loves to help and is pretty good at doing what she's told. She's come a long way the past year and a half with that. She still is my little shadow, as she's always been. She loves to follow me around and always wants me to play with her. It's really sweet but sometimes a mama just needs her space! :) I just keep telling myself that in 10 years I'll be wishing she wanted to be around me, since she'll be a teenager and all. Yikes!

She's a sensitive soul, very similar to her mother. I can empathize with her having such a tender heart. She adores her little sister Ruby so much. I love to watch them play and giggle together. There is nothing better. It truly melts my heart.
I love all these pictures of her with Ruby.

Lucy has been working the phrase "just kidding" lately, and she actually uses it right. She's our little jokester.

She never walks, she's always prancing around the house on her toes. You always know when Lucy wakes up in the morning by the sound of her little feet pitter pattering across the floor. She loves to giggle and be silly. She'll make up words all the time and sing funny songs that definitely don't make any sense but she thinks they're hilarious. She loves to sing and mash several songs together.

She loves to dance and dress up in weird stuff. She has the funniest moves, I can't even explain them but everytime she does her few signature moves Trey and I always bust up. She loves playing Just Dance 3 & 4 with me.

She went from hating her hair to be brushed or even touched to being obsessed with it. It has to be nice and flat (no fuzzies). She went through a phase where she wore headbands about 95% of the time. She would even sleep with one on! Luckily that phase kind of died off and she's less obsessive about her hair being perfect and only wears headbands about 55% of the time. It cracks me up how she goes through phases of things, some are funny/weird, and others are just annoying.

Her favorite show is Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. She's also been loving Pucca lately. She can work the computer pretty well. She knows how to turn it on and go to PBS kids and play her favorite games on there. She navigates Netflix like a pro. She also knows how to turn on itunes and find her favorite songs and then turn on the screensaver that looks like fireworks and dance to it.

Her picture of Santa

Other favorites of hers right now include...
Favorite food: ice cream(but it has to be vanilla), strawberries and grapefruit
Favorite drink: orange juice
Favorite color(s): green and yellow
Favorite animal: fox
Favorite song: To Kingdom Come, Passion Pit
Favorite place to go: Hershey Park, Chocolate World, Costco, the Niehoffs
Loves to: help me bake, play with Ruby and make her laugh, take pictures, puddle jump, ride her bike, wrestle with daddy, go to preschool, create things, doodle, dress up and play pretend.

 

Doesn't love: having her picture taken(staged photos, as you can see in our latest family photo below), big crowds, being put on the spot(attention just on her), new situations and environments, strangers.

She loves to call her little neighbor friend Ellie on the phone and ask her to come over and play. I love that she's old enough to do that already. They have a fun time giggling and being silly. We have to remind Lucy to not be too bossy. :)

She is starting to understand writing her ABCs and she can write her name like a champ. She asks me how to spell stuff and I help her write words on her doodle papers. We have so many little post-its and scratch pieces of paper spread out on our desk with her little doodles and words on them. I love it. They always make me smile.

I'm happy to say we are finally 100% done with diapers with her. Yippee!!! The past month has been magical. She's been potty trained since September(ish) but had to wear pull-ups at night for quite a while. She finally decided she wanted to wear panties to bed one night (a month ago) and hasn't had one accident since. :) Go Luce! It's been a looong road so I'm hoping it goes a little bit smoother when it comes time for Ruby to be potty trained. Let us pray!

We sure love this little human. She is so much fun and has a huge heart. It has been so fun to see her grow into her "big sister" shoes. She loves Ruby so much. She's always hugging her and saying "I love you!" I know Luce will always have Ruby's back as they get older.