Emmalyn's 3rd birthday 4-13-17

Cute words she says wrong - "Restauronk" for Restaurant, "Molana" for Moana.  I love her sweet little lisp.

Counts to 20 but always skips 16.  Knows her letters but depends on the day may forget some.  She has been working on sight words with Brittany and knows 13 of them.

Pretty solid usually on her colors.

She knows her birthday is April 13th and totally understood that starting on the 13th she would be three years old.

Won't let me choose her clothes all the time now - so we compromise.  I choose one day and she chooses the next day.  She's great at putting on clothes as long as there are no buttons, snaps, or zippers.

Doing great with potty training.  Only 1 or two accidents a week (we still put a diaper on her during nap/sleep).  She's really aware though and when we are going somewhere she will ask if there is a bathroom there so she knows she will be able to go.  She ends up going multiple times when we are out of the house.  (At the baseball game I think she went 8 times)

Loves the movie Moana right now.

She loves Kindermusik and loves to sing.  I'm really impressed with her memory for music and she can match pitch at times but better than Maxwell could.  At Kindermusik she's super engaged and likes to try and take charge and tell Ms. Carolyn what she should do.

She's an animal lover, especially dogs.

She loves her brother and cousins Landen and Hayden.  She is like their shadow and wants to be playing and doing what they are doing whether it's a game or baseball outside or riding bikes.  She's great at riding her trike.

She likes to color and write with pens.  Not close to writing her name yet.  I just started introducing her to writing an E the other day.  Poor girl is going to have a much harder time learning to write her name compared to Max.

She's very much your usual kid eater.  For breakfast she likes cereal and milk (while watching her ipad) and for lunch she likes peanut butter and jelly.  For dinner she would love to eat pizza, mac n cheese, or chicken nuggets every night.

She will eat more types of veggies than Maxwell does and even eats tomatoes sometimes (I'm super proud of that).

At bedtime she always wants daddy to brush her teeth because he will let her watch Moana videos on his phone while he's brushing her teeth.  (She brushes them in the morning).  She likes to cuddle and sing songs.  She hasn't slept with a sleep sack for probably 5 months and now sleeps with the fleece Peppa Pig blanket she got for Christmas.  She is not a very sound sleeper and often wakes up when we walk in the room.  Plus, I often hear her cry out in the night with her dreams and even talk in her sleep.  But when I go in there to check on her, she's asleep.  One of the last things she always says before we close her door at night is she tells you that in the morning she wants cereal & milk and to watch the ipad and play on the ipad.

She still takes a nap in the afternoon that's usually 1 1/2 to 2 hours long.

She's a cuddler and likes physical touch.  She will rub your back or your arm if she's next to you or she will scoot super close to you on the couch so that you are touching.  I love it when we are cuddling at night because she will want our heads to be touching.

She still doesn't have a favorite toy.  It changes all the time.  She does like to play with her doll house.

She's wild and would jump all over the couch if we let her.  I keep trying to get her to go jump on the trampoline she got for Christmas but she never does.

Like a typical 3 year old she's quick to cry if she doesn't get her way but she also can shut it off super quickly if we remind her that she needs to use her words instead.

She's super polite and says "excuse me" if someone is in her way, or thank you and please.  She's really aware of when someone is giving her a compliment and will say thank you.  She's also pretty demanding and has no problem telling you what to do.

She loves wearing her squeeky shoes and while they totally annoy Peter, I find it great to know at all times where she's at.  She also loves wearing her boots.

She doesn't want to kiss Peter except on his forehead because his face is "spikey"

It's great when you get home because as soon as she hears mom or dad come in she will yell "mommy" (or daddy) and run full at you.

Different than Max in that when she's done eating her cereal in the morning she wants to come in and cuddle rather than keep watching her ipad.

Her curly hair is crazy.  When you do it, it's super cute but she will want it undone when she takes a nap so usually her hair looks great in the morning and then awful the rest of the day.

She loves ice in her water.
She calls Maxwell "brother"  and is always super aware of what he's up to and where he is.  They are starting to have conversations and really engage with each other (he's also starting to be willing to help her with things).

She loves swimming but doesn't want to go to the bottom of the pool to get the ring. I am hoping she will be swimming a little bit on her own this summer but we'll see.

She's at the phase where she's fascinated with whether or not everyone has a penis.  "Does he have a Peanuts Momma?"  All the time.  And she will ask for people that she already knows the answer.

For her birthday she wanted "a doll that closes it's eyes when it sleeps"  and for her birthday dinner she asked for Jambalaya (that was out of left field for me) but then didn't really eat it because she still rarely eats more than a couple bites at dinner.

She's a great cheerleader and loves to cheer on others (especially her brother).  For example, during Maxwell's Kinder program, she cheered for him multiple times. "woo Go, Maxwell!"