Wheeeee! You are THREE! And you are fierce and mighty and stubborn and hilarious and silly and creative and introspective and fun-loving and very very busy. First thing in the morning, you ask "what is our day today?" wanting to know all of the things we have planned. We must have at least 3 fun things on the agenda or you will either protest or demand that something be added.
You love to go swimming, to play in sand, dancing, visiting Coney Island, playing at home with your dolls and toys, playing with your friend Ossie and being read to. It's a toss up on how excited you are to go to a playground, ride your scooter, go the Child Watch at the Y or hang out with your sister. Sometimes those are awesome and sometimes NOT.
You really like to sing and often sing to yourself while you're playing or riding in your stroller. Some favorites right at the moment are your Brooklyn Nature Days songs (I don't know them, but one is Heyla Sheyla, which is a bunch of silly words and sounds), Call Me Maybe, Fight Song, The Lady with the Alligator Purse, Irreplaceable, Please Don't Stop the Music and The Four Questions.
You just finished up your first session of drop off ballet and swimming classes at the Y, which you loved. You did a year of Brooklyn Nature Days once a week and are continuing that through the summer. You're a bit slow to warm up in new situations (except ballet class, but maybe it didn't seem new to you since you've been going with your sister your whole life), but after a few weeks you are comfortable and having fun.
You have a total mind of your own and cannot be deterred when you've set your mind to something. You pick out your own clothes every day, you decide what you want to eat every day (breakfast is always toast with cream cheese and bagel seeds AND cookie dough AND smoothie) and you decide what mode of transportation we use. Just today we had to backtrack and add time to our walk home from camp because you NEEDED to walk over a specific sybridge and I missed the turn for it. There was no tantrum, simply "But, mama, I need to go over that skybridge. You need to go back" Most often we accomodate the requests (within reason, of course!) because you're so pleasant about it all.I can't wait to see you grow into the fierce person you already are.
Now that you're three, you're super excited to be BIG! You can reach the water fountain at the Y all by yourself (and so now do so often), you can put on your own sunblock, you put on your own shoes and socks. The baby is almost all gone. ALMOST. You still nurse to sleep and use diapers, but other than that, your babyhood is solidly in the past.
