3 Year/9 Month Stats

Size 4 boys or 5T clothes
Size 10 shoe

HEALTH: Yayyyy! No sickies! Could it be, after EIGHT bouts of respiratory illness this past fall/winter, we are FINALLY out of "cold season???"

NEW TRICKS:

• Balancing on one foot for extended periods of time.
• Swim lessons--doing good floating on his back and jumping in with help, puts his face in with no hesitation.
• Helps dry pots and pans after I wash them.
• Getting good at coloring.

FAVORITE FOODS: Must have had a growth spurt--eating more than usual. 2 packets of oatmeal in the morning!


FAVORITE BOOKS: We re-read his whole Storybook Bible again. He asked for it every time we would read before naps/bedtime, and he really got into the stories. It is an awesome book for 3+ year olds.


FAVORITE TOYS/ACTIVITIES: Doctoring Harper with his doctor kit, riding his bike, spraying with spray bottles, filling his dump truck with stuff, filling his Thomas freight cars with stuff, playing with play food and making "meals."

DAILY ROUTINE: Up at 7:15-7:30ish, can go without a nap (but still usually takes one from 1-3ish), to bed at 8.

FAVORITE SONGS: "Loud boy songs" he says.

DISLIKES: Time out, sharing with Harper, eating.

MOMENTS I DON'T WANT TO FORGET:

• Went and got a burp cloth and wiped Harper's tears (w/out me asking!) when she was upset one day.
• When I go in to get him up in the morning, he feels my shirt and tries to see what I'm wearing (the lights are still off) to see if I have on my "work shirt" or if I'm wearing "stay home" clothes.
• How his favorite color is "lellow" right now.
• Tucking him in one night, he wanted to know how you get to heaven. (Not in the spiritual sense, but physically. He doesn't understand that your body stays here and it's your soul that goes... so I just went with it. I told him angels come and get you and you ride on their backs and fly up to heaven.)
• One morning at breakfast I could see his wheels turning. He looked at me quizzically and asked, "So God let Jesus die for our sins so we could go to heaven? He let that happen?" I was amazed at his grasp of the Truth.
  
• We were laying in his bed and he kicked off the blankets. Then he reached down and pulled them back up over me! So sweet.
• How he was running through the yard with his Buzz Lightyear toy hollering in his "superhero voice, "TO INFINITY AND BEYOOOOOND!"
• Our new bath routine--usually we bathe them together, then Mike finishes Brax up (drying off, brushing teeth, getting jammies on) while I put Harper down. Then I go in and read to Brax and tuck him in.
• Going to see "Hop" at the movies, going to the zoo (even if it was a flop), Nana and Papa T coming to visit, Grammy and Pop Pop coming to visit, going to Tulsa.
  

BRAXISMS:

• At the mall... Pointed out that "some girls have fat tummies." Nice.
• I asked him what his favorite part of swim lessons was--he said, "Drying off."
• Told me he called Jesus to ask Him to help put his shoes on.
• Always says, "Mom! Check this out!" or "Let's go check that out!"
• Says, "SWEET!" when he really likes something.
  
• Brax bumped his head on my front tooth one day, which hurt us both. I thought I might be able to distract him from his own pain if I could get him to care about my poor tooth. He wailed, "I DON'T CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
• Took a toy with him to go pee. He came out and said, "I dropped it in the potty!!!" When I responded with disgust, he goes, "I'm just teasing!!!! That was so funny it cracked me up!"
• I was putting his jeans on him and he said, "We gotta be sure and zip 'em." I agreed, then he added, "So the horse doesn't get out!" I could not stop laughing. I asked him where he heard that and he told me that Grandpa Russ told him to zip his pants so the horse doesn't get out of the barn door! Hilarious!
  

15 Month Stats

HT/WT/TOOTH COUNT: 22 lbs., 4 oz. (50th %) 31 1/4 inches (77th %). Size 4 diapers, 18-24 month clothes, size 5 shoes.

HEALTH: No problems.

NEW TRICKS:

• Wednesday, April 6, at 6:30 (thank goodness it was after I got home from work!) Harper took her FIRST STEPS! We were playing on the living room floor and she just decided to stand up, then took a few steps! She didn't do it much the next few days, she still would rather speed-crawl, but by the next week she was walking more and more. Two weeks later, she was walking across the room by herself.
  
• ID's hair, head, hand, eyes, ears, nose (says "beep beep" every time!), teeth, tongue, hand, socks, shoes, feet, legs.
• Puts her head under the faucet in the bathtub, puts her face in the pool
• Stacks blocks.
• "Plays" Connect 4 (likes putting the pieces in the holder thing)
• Puts garbage in the trashcan on command.
• Told me she pooped one day!
• Has major separation anxiety from me. I can't leave her sight without her crying.
  

NEW VOCAB:

• "wa-wa" (water)
• "ace" (Jace, our neighbor)
• "ay" (eye)
• "duh" (all done, w/ sign)
• "muh" (more, w/ sign)
• "nana" (banana and Nana)
• "fos" (flowers)
• "fafa" (waffle)
• "papa" (always said in a whisper for some reason, for Papa and Pop Pop)
• "poo" (yes, poop)
• "soos" (shoes)
• "buh buh" (bye bye)
• "die die die" (itsy bitsy spider, done w/ hand motions for song)
• "boo" (peek-a-boo, book)
• "ba" (bath)

FAVORITE FOODS: Loves everything!

FAVORITE BOOKS:

• Rainbow Rob--LOVES the page with the orange orangatan waving his hand. She will sit and wave at him as long as I'll let her, or gives him kisses or high fives.

• Itsy Bitsy Spider--Loves the page where the spider falls down. Everytime we see that page she says, "Die die die UH OH!" (I always say, "The spider fell down! Uh Oh!) She also loves the page where he lands by three birds and has a scared look on his face--she makes a scared face and screeches.
• Baby Cakes--She loves the parts where the baby plays patty-cake and peek-a-boo.

FAVORITE TOYS/ACTIVITIES: Watching Fresh Beat Band, playing in water, playing catch, wearing necklaces, pushing her baby stroller, riding her trike while Brax pushes her, climbing anything.

DAILY ROUTINE: Up around 8, eats breakfast (Kashi waffle, blueberries, banana), snack at 10, bottle/nap 11:30-1, then lunch (OR bottle/nap from 9:30-11, then lunch, then bottle/nap at 1:30)... snack at 3ish, dinner at 5:30ish, bath/books/bottle at 7, to bed by 7:45. (I really need to cut out the bottles-she sometimes skips them before nap, but I haven't really pushed the issue. She drinks out of sippies just fine, so that's not a problem. I will totally admit that I'm simply not ready to let go of my baby yet!!!!!)

FAVORITE SONGS: The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, anything by The Fresh Beat Band or Black Eyed Peas... She LOVES to dance!

DISLIKES: Getting out of the bathtub, brushing her teeth, and changing her diaper. She throws a royal fit.

MOMENTS I DON'T WANT TO FORGET:

• Seeing Harper take her first steps across the living room floor!
  
• Bit Brax one day when he was antagonizing her. Not a very nice thing to do, but sometimes he deserves it! She went right for his belly.
• She was crawling on the concrete and tripped over her hand, falling face first and chipping her front tooth (#E). I took her to the DDS the next day and he smoothed it off so you can't really tell. It wasn't too bad, it didn't bleed or get loose.
• I just love how she snuggles into my chest as we rock before bed.
• Our new bath routine--usually we bathe them together, then Mike finishes Brax up (drying off, brushing teeth, getting jammies on) while I put Harper down. Then I go in and read to Brax and tuck him in.