Happy Happy birthday to you! You are pretty happy your birthday is finally here. We have been talking about it since the week before Halloween, so you are ready! When I ask you how old you're going to be on your birthday it ranges from 3 to 3 1/2 to 10 1/2! I think you're stuck on the 1/2's because you're used to saying you're 2 1/2:)You bring so many smiles to our faces...everybody just loves you and your little personality.
What you're like these days...Well, you and I get lots of time together when Max and Mya are at school everyday. You never want to take the kids to school or pick them up. Sometimes you even physically try to keep them from going out the door in the morning! You are in the stage where you think running away from me and hiding when I'm trying to get you dressed, get your hair combed, or get you to go somewhere is pretty funny. It was funny the first time, but not really since then! You are getting more and more particular with your clothes. You refuse to wear jeans (why am I surprised...)and you don't like having your coat on while buckled in your carseat. Could be a tough winter if you don't change your ways with the coat!
Stats...you are 36" tall, 34 pounds, wear size 8 1/2 shoes, size 3T-4T shirts and size 3T pants. You are still a pretty good eater although you definitely prefer junk food to real food and you have very strong opinions on whether a food is considered a snack or not. apple=not a snack. crackers=snack. You love salmon (you call is just "sam") any kind of pasta, cooked vegetables, peanut butter sandwiches, all berries, smoothies, ice cream, ketchup, and any kind of bread/pastry/muffin around. (wonder where you get that from..:) You are not allergic to milk, but don't like the taste of it, so you are still drinking almond milk. Your other drink preferences include ice water and a water/oj mix. Oh and you still love to drink my coffee after it cools down! You have a bladder of steel, when you want something you ask for a "whole whole whole bunch" of whatever it is you want and I still love it when you say the dinner prayer. You squeeze your eyes shut really tight and have a cute grin on your face as you say the prayer:) You're still a big fan of your blankie (mostly just the tag) and we're trying our best to wean you from that paci, but it's proving very difficult! You are quite the negotiator already...
Last week you started a gymnastics class and preschool! You go to gymnastics on Mondays for 45 minutes without me and then school is Tue/Thurs. afternoons from 12:45-2:45. You loved both last week and hopefully that continues! We also go to kindermusik class together Wednesday mornings. The week is pretty full for us which is good because when we're home the only thing you want to do is watch tv which drives me crazy so we have to get out of the house for at least part of the day. You would still love to take a nap everyday, but we've started to cut it out a few days a week. Partly because we knew afternoon preschool was starting and partly because when you nap, you love to stay up super late with mom and dad! The days that you don't nap are rough. You start asking to take a nap around 5pm and we try to hold you off until 6:30. Speaking of going to bed...you are kind of in a funk with that right now. We have to put you to bed in our bed and then daddy moves you to your bed when we go to bed. But somehow in the morning, you end up back in our bed!
We have a little neighbor girl named Cali who you like to play with. And you still talk about Audrey, Cadence and Abby from Dubuque. Last week we were driving and you said, "do you remember when we went on Audrey's boat?" You remind me of Max when you bring up random things like that. You love to have books read to you and you go in spurts wanting the same 3 books for a week or two and then switching to a different 3 books. This week we're reading Mouse Paint, The Big Red Barn and a Strawberry Shortcake book. You also love to "read" on your own. Since we read in Mya's classroom every morning you're getting pretty good at fake reading. You're quite stubborn when it comes to me teaching you something. I have to make sure it's your idea or else you'll have nothing to do with it. You started making "I's" but that's about as far as we've gotten. You can count from 1-23, and then a bunch of random numbers in the 30's and you usually end with 41. You can say your ABC's, but again it has to be your idea or else you'll just give me a jumbled mess of letters if I ask you to say them!
We sure love you baby Ivy. I wonder how long I'll call you that....I'll give myself at least another couple of years or until you ask me to stop:)
Love, Mommy
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