Our girl turns three today. She’s so much more grown up than last year. Her vocabulary exploded over the winter, and even her Sunday School teachers have commented how verbal she is. She talks and sings all day long. Right now, we’re trying to sort out her pronoun usage. (“Her wants to play with me, Mommy!” “She wants to play with you?” “Yes, her does!”) She uses “because” as a connecting word a lot, though she clearly doesn’t know what it means. (“I used the potty because I didn’t use the potty, but I did.”) She has been fully day-potty-trained for months now, though she still wears a pull-up to bed and wets it most nights. She can dress herself from head to toe. Swimming lessons were a dismal failure this spring (she loved parent-child with me in the winter but spent all of her big girl lessons last month screaming, “I don’t want to go under water!”), but she loves ballet and loves it when I put on music for her to dance to. She wants to “do school” with Tommy, but she just doesn’t have the fine motor skills to do anything but scribble and cut up paper. So we color and cut up paper a lot. She loves having tea and going shopping. Whenever we leave the house, she asks if we’re going shopping, and if we’re not, she cries. She particularly likes Sprouts and Target.
She’s still a good little napper. She insists on peeling off her clothes to sleep in her “skibbies,” and as long as she has Lucy, Bunny, and Blankie, she’ll stay put. She even asks after lunch to go down for her nap. She’s a fairly adventurous eater. She tends to gallop places. Her favorite colors are pink and purple. She tries to read to her baby sister, but she’ll often ask Tommy to read her the “big” books like My Father’s Dragon. She and Tommy like to have arguments about meaningless things (like whose sister Susanna is–Tommy’s, or Lizzie’s?!) and compete to see who can shout or scream louder. She stick sucks her thumb incessantly and is rapidly twirling off the left side of her hair. As you can see from some of our recent family photos, she is quite the ham!
I miss her so much and look forward to coming home to give my three year old lots of hugs and kisses in just a few more days!
Beautiful pics! 🙂 Happy Birthday Lizzie!!
your family pics are great! and elizabeth sure is a cutie!
Happy Birthday Lizzie!! I remember the first time I met her when she was just tiny! Where has the time gone?
She’s looking so grown up–and super cute!!
Happy Birthday to Lizzie! She sounds like such a sweet girly girl. I love that!