The True Fam: December 2013

My precious THREE year old,

How did this happen? How are you three? I look at you and literally could melt into a puddle on the floor. I still don’t believe that you are mine and that God has blessed us with such a precious, loving, strong willed, compassionate, remorseful, determined, beautiful little love. Daily, you amaze us by just being YOU! here are just some of the important things about you at 3 years old!

You are still not a great sleeper, it comes and goes. One month you will be fine and sleep through the night and the next month you will wake up whining in the middle of the night, not sure when or if this will ever change but we have finally just come to accept that it is just you and it may not change for a few more years. however you did just get a new big boy bed for your birthday so were hoping that helps! Embarrassingly enough, you still sleep with your binky and don’t like talking about not having it when you sleep! I don’t know when I’m going to be willing to tackle that! it really isn't fun and you of all 3 of my binky suckers I feel needs yours the most only because you rely on it to sleep, the girls loved their binky’s very much so too, but they at least slept through the night so once they fell asleep it was fine, you still put yours in your mouth through-out the night!

you quit taking naps about 6 months ago, pretty much the same age as the girls were, but if you wake up early there are some days I can get you to lay down and nap, the only problem with you napping is most of the time if you nap you are up pretty late, and I will say its nice you going to bed by 7 on most nights, so we don’t do naps most days!

As far as eating goes this is our #1 complaint with you! you are not a good eater at all! you were difficult from about 15 months and if anything you have gotten worse! you basically only like bread items! for breakfast you will usually eat either, cereal, toast, muffins, waffle, breakfast bar, pancake, yogurt, or fruit! you will not TOUCH any kind of egg, which is so frustrating because the other 3 kids loved them! for lunch you will eat chicken nuggets, pb&j sandwich, grilled cheese, quesadilla, pretzel’s, mac n cheese, yogurt. and pretty much those are the same items you will eat for dinner, some nights you will just have a bowl of cereal, but you will eat cheese pizza, rice and bacon also! you will not eat any kind of vegetable what so ever no matter how much we try, we have begged pleaded, offered treats, everything but you will not even try them, well I guess no one ever died from not eating veggies. I have actually even shoved food into your mouth before just because I thought if you would lick it you might like it but nope it always gets spit out, you also wont eat any meat either unless its breaded chicken. its just so frustrating!

You play so well with toys! we love that you have an imagination and will talk to your toys and make sounds and interact with them, even come up with silly and fun things with them! you love your imaginext toys, and cars, you also recently have learned how to shoot nerf bullets with your gun you think that is pretty fun too! you enjoy puzzles and are so good at them! you still like me to read to you which I am so thankful for! you also love to paint and color!, you are enjoying your new scooter you got for your birthday also! you learned how to peddle your trike and have a blast with that inside and out! the funny thing is you also love dolls and barbies.. and we know you get that from peyton because you love to pay with her all the time, but its ok you do love your boy toys as well!

You enjoy tv! and you have specific movies that get played over and over, they do change at times right now you love toy story that is probably your number 1 (you love buzz and woody so much) but you also still like nemo, cars and bugs life, as for tv shows, you still like yo gabba gabba, mickey mouse clubhouse, doc mcstuffins, special agent oso, jake and the neverland pirates and sophia the first!

as far as music goes you LOVE it you have from the time you were 12 months old!!! you dance and learnt he words so quickly it amazes us!!!! it is hilarious and priceless!

You are a very cautious and timid boy just like your big brother was, you don’t get rowdy or rambunctious you are very fearful and don’t like dark rooms, loud noises, rides or things unfamiliar! your big brother was exactly the same way! I’m pretty sure my girls were more wild than my boys! you also can be very dramatic if you get hurt but, thankfully, lots of love and a band-aid usually fixes it pretty quickly. you also get frustrated easily with toys if they don’t do something specific you are wanting them to do or if you cant figure out how to do it! your very vocal and can tell us what you are wanting so we have to help before you get too mad!

you are very much a mommy’s boy! you love daddy too and enjoy doing stuff with him but you are a mommy’s boy big time! and I’m ok with that! you also love playing with your sisters, and you love to play and wrestle with ryley you really like to tease him, as he does you! you also like playing with a couple of your friends caden is your best friend and you both play so well together I love it! You also enjoy being out of the house, you get stir crazy at home a lot, so I try to get you out of the house at least a few days a week. you are so good when we are out and about also! but you can become whiny and bored at home.

you do have some bad habits (I’m sure as most toddlers/preschoolers do:

*using your binky a lot

*You have the tendency to be bossy at times. We’re working on asking for something instead of telling us what you think you need.

*You still think you need a sippy cup to take to bed with you

*By telling us “in just a minute” instead of doing what we ask right away.
and *by making a HUGE mess with your toys!!!

*You refuse to use the potty (that’s soon to change)

BUT your good habits sure outshine them:

*You are polite, you tell us please and thank you usually always (we are working on telling strangers and others, but you are pretty shy)

*You are compassionate…to babies, people, animals, your toys! You just have such a sweet heart!

*You love and always want to help…help me cook, clean and more!

*You go to bed so well, when you are tired you ask to go to bed, you never fight us on sleeping

Oh, how I love you! I can’t imagine how you could get better! I recently looked at you and told you that I wanted you to stop growing and stay this little forever. You looked at me like I was crazy…but smiled at the same time! You are precious and full of so much innocence and life. It’s so humbling and rewarding to be your Mommy and I am daily thankful that God gave me such an amazing privilege! I love you, my sweet last born, and can’t wait to see how you change and grow and become even more precious in the next year! All I ask is that you never loose your love for life, your love for us, and your precious positive attitude! Thank you for being my sweet love!
I love you,
Your Mommy

ELFIS IS BAAAACK!!!!! And, we all couldn't be more excited!!! After getting the tree up and decorating the house we had a good idea the following morning we would probably see him, and sure enough on sun Dec 1st Elfis showed up with a table full of goodies! We were all SO excited to see him after a year apart. Peyton had been anxiously awaiting his arrival. And, Elfis even gave them lovey “Elfis’s” that they can hug and squeeze! peyton got a girl and brody got a boy! they LOVED those things! he also left a sweet little note, a couple different advent calendars, donuts, cute little cups, and a little sticker, coloring book pack (the cups and coloring packs I found in the dollar bins at target along with the santa advent calandar) (the plush elf dolls I had bought back at costco a couple months prior) when the kids woke up they were pretty excited!!!