Lucy Lou - 3 years old!

So my 2014 folder of pictures mysteriously disappeared the other day.  The ENTIRE folder!!!
Let me tell you, I was devastated!!! It was honestly the closest to depressed I have ever felt!
My pictures are a big deal!!!
It put me in a major funk for a couple of days while Mark and I desperately tried everything to recover it.
Thankfully we were able to salvage some of the pictures (Some unfortunately are goners!)
It has been a major pain reorganizing them and I have for sure learned my lesson on backing them up.
But since I'm not finished wading through partial and out of order pictures,
we are going back in time for the pictures in this post dedicated to my dear little Lucy girl.

Lucy Lou has seriously come out of her shell these last couple of months.

I think it's because the older girls are gone to school and it's just me and her and Sam at home.

It has been really fun to see her personality develop.
She's clever and silly and kind and happy.

Here's a little bit more about my favorite little three year old.

Lucy has always been my quiet and content little girl and never really had much to say.

Up until recently that is!  She has finally found her voice and has become quite the little gabber.
She is still be pretty quite at times, but if she's in the mood, Lucy will talk your ear off.
Besides holding full blown conversations with me (which is awesome), she also LOVES to sing.
I'm super impressed with how many songs she really knows.  Thank you Nursery teachers!!!
We sing "I love to see the Temple", "I am a child of God", "Popcorn", and "Sunbeam" on a daily basis!

And most the times she has to sing it by herself.  She seriously covers my mouth if I try to join in. 

 I think because Lucy was my third and I finally felt like I had this mom thing down.
I had successfully seen two other girls through the toddler stage so I'm feeling pretty darn good!
And because I also realized how fast these sweet little babies of mine grow up,
Little Lucy has gotten away with a little bit more than the other girls ever would have.
For instance, I never really pushed the veggies on her.  Or picking up the toys.  Or even clearing her plate.
But we've been working on that lately and she is becoming quite the responsible little girl!

 Miss Lucy loves to do anything the older girls are doing.
She loves to ride bikes (She insists on riding Hannah's bike!), swing, dance, jump, color, read, etc.
She does a pretty good job keeping up with them too and I am so grateful they are willing to include her!.
When it's just me and her at home, we usually play a game...or two...or three.
Her favorite games as of late are Zingo, Memory, and Wash and Dry Bingo.

I have also been impressed with how much she has picked up from the girls just by listening to them.

She knows her colors, her alphabet, and counts to almost 20 (she skips a few numbers but hey!)

On the flip side, however, she's picking up some not so sweet things from her sisters too.  Ahem...sassiness!

It seriously amazes me what they can learn when you don't even think they are listening.

Her measurements at her three year appointment are...
Weight - 33 1/4 lbs (76%)
Height - 37.5 inches (65%)
#1 in Weight and Height compared with the older girls.
She's growing like a weed and is really starting to look so grown up.

 Oh Lucy Lou, you are such a joy to our family.
You make me giggle daily and I cannot imagine life without you.
Thanks for bringing such a sweet spirit into our home.
Love you to the moon and back!

Love Momma!