Three's A Crowd

With a January birthday so soon after New Year's, you rang in 2020 with three seperate celebrations. Fitting, given your age this year. The day before your birthday, you celebrated at daycare and then we went to dinner at McDonald's. Much to your father's horror, you wore your new Llama slippers from Grammy. It's what you wanted.  Then on your actual birthday we had a family get together filled with pizza and presents.  The following weekend we celebrated with your first off-site kiddie party at Noah's World. It was a huge hit and required minimal cooking and cleaning on our part. In the adult world we call that a win win, aka #winning. 

Over the past 12 months your little personality has really started to blossom. Your speech has improved right along with your temper and your stubbornness.  "I'll do it me-self" and screaming "Jayson!" at the top of your lungs have become your calling card. You were old enough this year to use Santa and Buddy the Elf as behavior incentives, so that was a plus.  

You're also getting easier to travel with thanks to potty training and less baby gear. This year we spent a week in the Bahamas on a family cruise, a week in PA and a weekend at Great Wolf Lodge with cousins, and a week in Georgia with Daddy's side of the family. You've traversed via land, air and sea.  You're not spoiled... and somewhere in the mix of all that you said goodbye to your binky!

You've always strived to be your brother's shadow. When he was learning to ride his bike this year without training wheels, you were learning to zip around with training wheels like Ricky Bobby.  Other firsts you experienced alongside your brother included a kidz bop concert, attending a race at Fonda Speedway, and an 80s party on Long Island.  You long for the day you get to go to school "like a big girl." It kills you that he gets to ride the bus to school and you don't. A lunch time visit to see him ends in tears when you realize you can't stay and I end up looking like a kidnapper smuggling an unhappy child out of the building.  

Let's see... what else?  You love crafts, cooking shows on your tablet, round cheese, and chocolate coins.  Your favorite vegetable is broccoli and you pretend to make hot coffee in the bath tub.  You hate being told no, when you're asked to change out of your pajamas, and when you're forced to eat supper without your tablet streaming Blippi or Peppa Pig right in front of you. You refuse to let me do anything with your hair which most days makes you look homeless.  You refuse to go to bed without socks. You're pretty good at your ABCs and counting to ten. Your favorite songs are by Arianna Grande (7 Rings), Lizzo (Good as Hell) and Lisa Loeb (Hush Little Baby.) 

Height/weight: 34lbs, 3ft 2in (~80th percentile)

Clothing: mostly 4T items, size 10 shoes

Every day I set out with the intention to be the very best mom you know and deserve. After tantrum #657 and the start of WWW III with your brother, I'm aftaid I'm a little short of the mark. At the end of the day, it is important to me that you know just how much you are loved. ♡