Lyla at Three

Our little girl is three! Lyla is such a blessing to our family! She is spunky and full of personality and excitement for life. Lately, she has been saying "I love you Mommy" and "I love you Daddy" out of the blue and quite frequently throughout the day. It is the sweetest. She also told Todd the other day, "Daddy, you're my best friend". Truer words have never been said. She is a sweet big sister to Penny, and frequently lays next to her and tells her in a sweet little voice, "you're my biiiig sister". We're working on explaining that Penny is actually the little sis, but it's still super sweet.

She also loves to tell people about Penny. She will point to Penny and say "that's my thithter (sister). Her name's Penny".

When Penny was born, she immediately started sleeping in till 8/8:30 instead of her usual 7/7:30, which as been really nice, except that her naps have been hit and miss, and I fear that she is fazing out of them.

She had her three year well check recently and was in the 82% for height and in the 60% for weight.

A few of Lyla's cuties from the past few months:

We went on the train with my mom when she was visiting and Lyla said "Grandma's gonna buy us our chickens (tickets)"

She calls dandelions her "enchanted garden" and loves to pick them and blow them

I asked her, "What color is our house?" and she said "Blonde!" Actually a pretty good answer because it is yellowish/tan

She calls the headrest on her carseat her carseat's ears.

She was singing one day "Twinkle, twinkle like a little star...lead me guide me walk beside me"

"I do my loculars (binoculars)...come 'splore with me!"

Back in May, she fell and hit her tooth and it was bleeding a lot in her mouth. she had her hands over her mouth and when she finally looked at them later they were all bloody. I was worried about her seeing all the blood, but she looked down and said "Uh oh, have strawberries on it".

We sure love our firstborn!