Mara-3 Years

I cannot believe my baby is now 3 years old! Each and every day I am blown away with something she says or does.  It's crazy how fast they grow cognitively at this point!

She really understood this activity matching the colored paint inside the circles

Sisters

She is putting full sentences together that are complete as in have a noun and an action.  She rarely uses words we don't understand anymore even if her sentences are sometimes nonsense :)

She loves to dance and sing.  She just learned "Go Cubs Go" and will sing it daily when prompted and unprompted.

Hanging out in France

Rocking Mama's dress from the 80's

She's really into dress up and the princesses

She is very routine. She will repeat a comment one of us made while reading a book right at the same page we made that comment.  She has specific ways she plays with certain toys and gets angry if you switch up how you do bedtime.

She is super imaginative.  She plays very well independently and especially loves to create stories around her little people toys and figures.

In Croatia

Still loves to match her sister!

She has really blossomed as a friend.  Before this last part of her two's she was still pretty content to play on her own at a play date or at church.  Now she wants to play with the other girls and has her few girl friends she really loves to be around.

Insists she can do everything Maddy can do

Pinic lunch

She amazes us with how much information she retains.  I was shocked as to how many Sunday school songs she knows off of her Bible cd.  She will regularly sing: My God is so Big, The B-I-B-L-E, Noah built an Ark, Deep and Wide, etc.

She loves her sister and continues to show this daily.  She has started to realize that having a sister means sharing and she's not too sure about this.  She will move her toys further and further away from Maddy yelling out to us, "Move Sissy!"

Can't let a flower go unpicked

Pretty girl

She loves chatting to family on Skype.  Aunt Mary, Grandma, Nana & Papa are the favorites!

She has recently started exercising with me when I do my daily 30 minutes.  She loves following the instructor and reminds me when we haven't done it for the day.

Her manners are on point!  She is really good at saything thank you, being grateful for what we give her and asking polietly.  We are still working on please and patience.

She's a great traveler.  These past three months we went to Croatia, France, Signahi, Svaneti, and Batumi!

Eating grapes in Signahi

 This is such a fun age!  I love hearing what she has to say and comes up with.  I love watching her interact with her friends and start to navigate that world.  Sure we still have our three-anger moments but for the most part she is still my amazing little girl!