- She loves with a capital L to play Hide & Seek. Homegirl asks 50 bajillion times a day if we want to play with her. Luckily for her, she has been able to teach her brother to play (though he's not a very good hider.)
- She can write 80% of her ABC's & is starting to spell words on her own by sounding them out. (See the pic above. She called into me "Look, Mommy, I made a cat." I fully expected to see a picture of a cat.) She gets really frustrated with the few letters hasn't mastered just yet. Just tonight we heard "I can't make a G. I'm giving up on my alphabet! I'm just gonna walk away!" (Soooo much drama, you guys. She is my mini-me.)
- She's becoming more of a picky eater, which makes us sad. Don't get me wrong; she's still a rockstar eater for a 3 year old. She's still eating plenty of fruits & veggies, just not the variety she used to eat. We don't have a Clean Plate Club in our house, though we do insist she eats her vegetables if she wants dessert. Speaking of dessert, she asks for it after every single meal without fail. She doesn't always get it, but when she does, it's often something very small but seems very big & exciting to her (for example, tonight's was 16 mini M&M's.)
- She is 100% potty trained, even at night. Which is 100% awesome in so, so, so many ways!
- She has become a pro at making excuses to get out of bed at night. Almost nightly we hear her going to the bathroom about 20 minutes after we put her to bed, even though she always goes just before heading upstairs. Most of her excuses are typical ("I can't find my bunny!") but sometimes we get a few gems like "My sheets almost fell off the bed" or "My socks are all crazy!"
- School is going great; she loves it, never fights it. We have parent-teacher conferences next week (yes, a parent-teacher conference for the 2 year old class...kills me) so we'll find out how she's really doing. She also started a new class down at the Rec now that she's 3. It's a class of 3 & 4 year olds, so she's certainly the youngest, but she seems to be holding her own! Up until last week, she was taking baby ballet, too. She loves it, but my sanity (and wallet, yikes!) needed a 6-week break. She hasn't mentioned missing it, so we'll see if the interest returns in the Spring.
- Her memory is insane. She forgets NOTHING, people. I'm often saying "How do you remember that?!" about things she brings up from months ago. She can tell you what kind of backpack each of the 13 other kids in her class has, including the old backpacks of the kids that got new ones at Christmas.
- One of her most favorite things to do lately is to "make cards", i.e. play with scissors & tape. She makes cuts in the side of the paper making a fringe, if you will, & then puts a large piece of tape in the middle of the page. She'll sign her name and call it a card.
- Words she still butchers so adorably: "wiper towel" (paper towel), "lasterday" (a combo of last night & yesterday, but really used to discuss any previous period of time), "rice kissme treats".
- I am so impressed by her imagination! She uses voices, you guys, & it cracks me up. She also has an imaginary sister named Lolo (have I mentioned this before? I couldn't remember...) that pops in & out every so often. Oh, and she makes up songs on the fly.
- She passed her 3 year well-child visit with flying colors. She weighed 38.5 lbs and was 40 inches tall. Her BMI was in the healthy range, so we're still not worried about her size. She's slowing down dramatically in the growth department; most of the size 5 clothes I bought for her for this winter still don't fit (she's been holding steady in mostly 4's since the summer.) Everything else checked out great. She took her first eye test and passed. (BTW, she did the adult eye chart with the letters, not the shapes one for little kids. And then, as we were leaving, we passed a 5 year old doing the shapes chart. BOOM!)
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