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what do you like about 3?
Shanny
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I feel like we've been pretty hard on the 3 year olds lately (we sure have a lot of them around here). It is no doubt a very challenging year! But it has also been pretty amazing on many levels. Here are some of the things I have really enjoyed about the 3's (which I only have 4 1/2 months left of but who's counting!?!):
The memory and comprehension for things has reached an astounding level! I've seen this a million times of course with other peoples kids but when it is your own of course the amazement is always magnified! I am particularly excited about this because my memory is aweful so I look forward to having some to refer to on what happened when
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Kate has always been helpful and independent but she's taken it to a whole new level as well which is so great to have an "extra set of hands". Other than the slicing, she is officially in charge of squeezing the orange juice for our weekend breakfasts now. I don't have to help her at all. Which is great because I was sick of buring the toast and over cooking the eggs while trying to do everything myself!
Kate was kind of a show off in the first 2 years - what with the early walking and talking before 1. Then the potty training and swimming before 2. 2-3 she was kind of......unimpressive, haha! It was a lot to live up to and as kids usually do she kind of plateaud. But the last several months I've seen things (there's a theme here) - go to another level and been impressed once again. I'm kidding of course she always impresses me!
What do you love about 3?
The memory and comprehension for things has reached an astounding level! I've seen this a million times of course with other peoples kids but when it is your own of course the amazement is always magnified! I am particularly excited about this because my memory is aweful so I look forward to having some to refer to on what happened when
.Kate has always been helpful and independent but she's taken it to a whole new level as well which is so great to have an "extra set of hands". Other than the slicing, she is officially in charge of squeezing the orange juice for our weekend breakfasts now. I don't have to help her at all. Which is great because I was sick of buring the toast and over cooking the eggs while trying to do everything myself!
Kate was kind of a show off in the first 2 years - what with the early walking and talking before 1. Then the potty training and swimming before 2. 2-3 she was kind of......unimpressive, haha! It was a lot to live up to and as kids usually do she kind of plateaud. But the last several months I've seen things (there's a theme here) - go to another level and been impressed once again. I'm kidding of course she always impresses me!
What do you love about 3?
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I spent the last school year in a classroom of 3-5 year olds, the three year olds were so much fun for me, aside from everything I mentioned above - they have so much more knowledge and skills to acquire between 3 and 5 it is amazing to see their growth over the year.
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Two miscarriages in between (August 2012 - same donor as Maggie, and December 2014 with husband)
Maggie
I also love the affection. There's nothing sweeter than your child saying "mommy, I love you" just because she does
I love it!
he's 5 now so there's much different questions... but yeah, at 3 he was thinking everything through... and wanted to ask everyone questions LOL the guard at his school got a bunch of questions - do you have a weapon? can you take it home? can I see it? where's your badge? do you go to my school? where do you park your car?
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I also enjoy hearing him try to explain himself with a 3 year old perspective. At the end of each day, I ask him about his favorite thing that happened all day, and his least favorite. Last night he was telling me an elaborate story about the best thing being visiting the pigs that morning. We hadn't visited any pigs, so I was completely perplexed, and kept insisting we had gone to daycare in the morning. After he went to bed, I remembered that we had watched a new tv show yesterday (I meant to DVR Super Why! but DVR'd Word World instead), and the main character was a pig and all the other animals were farm animals. That's what he'd been trying to explain all along . . . that he'd liked the new tv show that we'd watched that night.
And at least once every few days I wish I was keeping a journal of what he does and says, because he would get such a riot out of it later. Like the other day we were working on math skills, and I asked him, "If mommy has two eyes, and Justin has two eyes, and Juliet has two eyes, how many eyes do we all have?" and he responded, "Enough." I mean, stuff like that goes on here all the time and I wish I had thought to start writing down the little stuff after the first year . . . good and bad, so that when he has kids, he knows what to expect, especially since my mom isn't around anymore to answer questions about what it was really like, what I was like, if this is normal behavior, etc. Who knows what my memory will be like in 20 years? :P
Kate and C could keep each other company. The FedEx man was delivering a stroller a few weeks ago and as I opened the door C yelled "DADDY!". Then a few days later we got pizza delivered and he yelled "Hi Daddy!!!" to the very young driver. DP told the delivery man..."Don't worry I'm sure your not his Daddy"
("only MY Mommy" is something they say when they're trying to express that they are my only child.
*I love that he gives me a hug, kiss, or says I love you because he does without me suggesting he hugs, kisses, or says I love you.
*I love that he can be somewhat independent such as getting a snack out of the cupboard, going potty by himself, etc.
*My favorite of all is he has started giving me a little toy and saying, "Mommy, here is a present for you for being such a good mommy."
Carolyn