Lucy Belle..TAGGED!

I feel like I talk about Lucy every other post, but Shaury and Ezra tagged her, so bear with me. I'll try to keep it fresh!

When Lucy was just a babe, we called her Lucy Goose, which evolved into Goosey mae, which evolved into Goo Bug, and then Willie started calling her Buggy. That one stuck. She still answers to a load of other nicknames, but, to Will especially, she is Buggy.

I know I've mentioned before how stubborn Lucy is. She has been this way since birth. I remember as a tiny newborn how "feisty" she was, clenching her tiny fists and kicking her little legs. She was also a pretty difficult baby. She knew what she wanted and would cry and cry until she got it. She was absolutely beautiful, though, with tons of crazy jet black hair. I was thinking she would be my one who didn't go blonde...wrong!

Lucy is a very verbal child. As I sit here typing this she is chattering away to herself. She spoke very early, and was using huge words and paragraphs at a very young age. She tells it like it is, and almost every day we have a funny little Lucy quote to share. It makes me sad when kids grow out of saying funny, cute little things! I remember a few months before she turned two, my mom was reading a book aloud to Abby and Phoebe and when they came to the epilogue the girls said "Lucy, can you say epilogue?" and she repeated it as plain as day! She also has been using these vocabulary skills to boss the entire world around for a couple of years now. Not only is she always telling everyone what to do, but how to do it, too. Luckily she has a pretty patient older brother and some easy going cousins that go along with her demands.

Buggy is a horrible sleeper, and always has been! She sleeps with one eye open, I swear. I still rock her for naps, after 3 stories and 3 songs, and Brandon rocks her at bedtime. She will go to sleep if she's laying with one of the girls, too, but we only let her do that on the weekends. Then once we lay her in her bed we have to sneak out. Millions of times she has popped her eyes open the minute I reach her doorway, and then I'm stuck for another 10 minutes! It can be extremely frustrating!

Lucy walked at 10 months, and has always been very coordinated. She has a cute little pigeon toed stance, that probably won't be quite as cute when she is older. She always wanted to dress herself at around 18 months. She would get so frustrated, because of course she couldn't do it quite right, but she wanted to so bad! She is very independent, except when it comes to going to Nursery or Primary. But my theory on that matter is that she is just trying to control me. It works. She knows exactly which buttons to push for me. Brandon is a little more firm with her, she knows she gets her way with me easily.



I love my little Lucy Belle so much! She is definitely a handful, but I see her growing out of her terrible 2's and 3's a little more every day. She is for sure a ray of sunshine in our home!

Lucy and I tag Brookie, Emily P. and Belle! Tell us all about them!