The Erickson's: Lucy Turns 3!!!

It's pretty hard to believe that Lucy is three years old, a preschooler! What an amazing three years it has been...

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I got the greatest idea on Pinterest to ask you child, starting at 3, a series of questions about themselves, and then you repeat them every year on their birthday. Then you combine them with a picture into a scrapbook. Here are Lucy's answer's this year:

1. What is your favorite color? Pink

2. What is your favorite toy? color crayons

3. What is your favorite fruit? strawberries

4. What is your favorite tv show? Scooby Dooby Doo

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Macaroni and cheese

6. What is your favorite outfit? Unicorn Dress (that I made her for her birthday this year)

7. What is your favorite game? Eye Spy

8. What is your favorite snack? fruit snacks (she gets these at Grandma''s house!)

9. What is your favorite animal? giraffe

10. What is your favorite song? "ballet music"

11. What is your favorite book? Numbers (A picture book we have)

12. Who is your best friend? Originally she said herself but she was being really silly and so I re-asked the questions the following day and she said Beau :) I knew this one because she tells him at least 10 times a day!

13. What is your favorite cereal? "chocolate, the hard kind when daddy said no"...we don't really eat cereal.

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? "play and I like to run."

15. What is your favorite drink? "chocolate milk" (pretty much just milk... I add about a 1/4 tsp to 4 ounces and she is thrilled with this!)

16. What is your favorite holiday? "Christmas. Halloween." Me to Lucy "so Christmas and Halloween?", Lucy "No, JUST Halloween."

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? "Not anything because it bothers me in my face."

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? "not anything...just grilled cheese sandwiches."

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? She thought this was hilarious since I asked this the day after her birthday. I posed the question what would she want next year on her birthday for dinner and her reply was "apples, I really like 'em.'"

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? "A princess"

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...So I had some making up to do for Lucy's birthday this year. Last year Beau was still a new baby and I remember making her cupcakes (which really WERE laborious - layer upon layer of rainbows in 24 cupcakes!) and feeling like I had just ran a marathon! In other words the cupcakes were about the extent of her party; I think we got some pizza, had some friends over to Grandma's house and that was that.

We kind of have a rainbow thing going...funny that this year it was Lucy's idea! Last year she was too little to have any real concept of her birthday -really emphasizes how much she has changed this past 12 months. She anticipated her birthday for MONTHS this year and had very clear ideas about what she wanted. It all started about 5 months ago when she spotted a unicorn pinata at WINCO....Rainbows and Unicorns is what she stuck with! I had so much fun with this party, even though it was A LOT of work, especially her dress! But all so worth it!

These are the cupcakes from last year ...............