Happy birthday Lila! Luckily you're only three and won't remember that your daddy and I completely forgot it was your birthday on Friday morning. In our defense, we celebrated on Saturday with your grandparents and your friends, so we didn't technically forget it.
Lila was so excited for her birthday party. She talked about it for a week. And on Saturday morning she declared that she was ready for her party. I told her that she had to take a nap first. So she marched into her room and went to bed. At 11:30. She wasn't going to let a nap stand between her and her party!
Like Benny, Lila has made some really great friends with really great families. And now she's old enough to play with them. She had a great time at her birthday party. Her favorite part? The alligator cake that her Nana made for her. It was pretty great.
Lila is going through some growing pains. We just finished with a phase that involved A LOT of meltdowns. Luckily, she snapped out of that phase pretty quickly, but there are still moments of extreme distress over a white shirt, opening a cheese stick wrong, riding in the bike trailer. You name it and she's probably been pissed about it in the past two weeks. I know these phases come and go. They can be trying. But I'm excited to have my cuddly, lovey little girl back full time!
At three, Lila is potty trained, sleeping in a big girl bed, knows about 3/4 of the alphabet, knows how to spell her name, is drawing circles, can ride her balance bike (really well!), can get dressed/undressed below her waist (shirts are tricky), has lots of friends, loves cooking, reading, babies, trucks and anything her big brother is doing.
I'll post pictures soon. I recently bought a new computer and I'm still learning how to use it! I feel old :).
2 comments:
Happy birthday, Lila!! I loved reading that last paragraph with the list of things she can do at three. It's fun to think about C. being able to do those things by this time next year, especially when it feels like potty training and moving to her big girl bed is NEVER going to happen :) I guess sooner or later it all will happen, so I may as well relax about it.
Wishing Lila a wonderful year head as a three year old!
S.
Thanks, S.! It's so funny how slowly things seem to happen - until they happen - and then it's wait wait wait until the next big thing. Now I'm wondering if Lila will ever dress herself completely :).
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