Happy THIRD birthday!! For the past two months you have been saying "I two..almost three." And now you are THREE! You have the biggest personality- happy, energetic, excited, dramatic, passionate, strong willed, and hilarious! This all comes with emotional and moody. I often describe our days as a roller coaster ride with the highest of highs and lowest of lows. You are challenging little boy to say the least! We have started figuring out how to better with your passionate ways because the usual time out or ignoring behavior just doesn't work. However, these new strategies seem to be working even if that sensory bucket of rice lead to mommy sweeping... a lot. You are very creative and imaginative with your play. We often are looking for jaguars!!
You love to wrestle on the bed with daddy and go flying everywhere! But you still want mama for the snuggles! Every night you say "Daddy get Brooklyn, mama get Jackson."
Big one monkey is your all time favorite (he even goes to school!). But CARS, trains, planes are the next best thing! Look how handsome you are!!
You are getting a little rigid with what you eat but with a little help you are branching back out to new foods. Your favorite being anything sweet- cake, cookies, waffles, fruit, sandwiches. You do love green beans, peas, and corn...starting to like broccoli. And now you love rice! We frequent chick fila way too often but you love that too :)
Oh sleep. Sigh. You go to bed around 7:30 and will sleep anywhere from 6 am to rarely 7am and NO naps. None. We still make you go "rest" which really involves you changing your clothes and playing loudly in your room. You often destroy something in that time frame as well.
Your 3 year check up is Friday so we will get the height and weight checked. You have a crazy awesome vocabulary, constantly talking! You tell us the funniest things! You new favorite words are "anymore" "not" and "oh my gosh/goodness". "I not taking a nap ANYMORE. Hmp." "You not my best friend!" "OK mommy you are my best friend!!!"
You just got done with swim lessons where you were getting much better being in the water and kicking! No actual swimming this year. You just moved up to the beginner preschool gymnastics class where you are amazing! You can do a back bend, rolls, lots of great jumping and swinging.
You still really love your sister! You two love playing chase and getting into lots of trouble. Most of the time you are sweet but there have been times you have just shoved her down for no apparent reason.
We have take two vacations in the last six months- Atlanta to visit your cousins and Destin. Atlanta was very rough on the sleeping department but you loved playing with Lexie and seeing all the fish. We had the best time in Destin and you surprisingly slept! Improvements :)
You are potty trained with some accidents at night but we don't use pull ups anymore!
Jackson we love you more than you will ever know! We can't wait to see what next year brings!
