Reagan's 3rd Birthday was on a Monday so I took the day off work to spend with my girl. We got Rylie off to school, spent some time outside, went to Mommy's appointment to see the baby, and met some family for lunch. She took a long nap and when Ry got home from school we went to the park! Dan worked that day and had golf league that evening so once he got home we did presents and ice cream cake. Their big family party is coming up in June. Reagan is having a Sofia the First party and Rylie is having a gold theme since it's her big GOLDEN birthday this year.
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| Singing to the birthday girl! Morning cartoons in mommy's bed |
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| First order of business after taking Ry to school- getting her toes pretty for her special day |
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| Ready to go! |
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| Lunch at Culver's with Grr and Grr Mom, Auntie Leslie, and Sophie |
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| Birthday nap |
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| Reading her card from her big sis after school |
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| Playing at Kinderberg |
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| Finally time for presents and cake after daddy got home |
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| Head to toe Sofia the First! |
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| Ice cream twice in one day! |
First of all, her speech is crazy. She is definitely making up for lost time. At her 3 year appointment she saws the nurse, PA, and doctor and talked all of their ears off. They said she's definitely hitting all of her verbal milestones. LOL. She does.not.stop.talking. Which I love. I love the sound of that sweet little voice that we waited so patiently to hear. And the facial expressions that go with it are the best part.
She weighed 28.2 lbs and is 35 inches tall. We got rid of the paci at about 2 1/2 and we're working on potty training. She's been ready and it's on us at this point to just dedicate the time to doing it, which we haven't done. So that will likely be accomplished up at the cabin this year, which is where we trained Rylie. It's just easier because we're with her for a straight week and there is consistency to the process. Then she'll be ready for 3K in the Fall.
She started climbing out of her crib quite a while back, so we moved her into the twin bed that Rylie used first. And then the girls decided they wanted to share a room. We had told Rylie that when she turned five she could sleep on the top bunk, so we moved Reagan into the bottom. I'm wasn't sure how long that would last, but soon they won't have a choice!
She loves jumping, dancing around, singing, and swimming. She loves acting out the Princess Ivy song (a song from a Sofia the First episode). She recently started singing to Taylor Swift songs like her big sister. Unlike Rylie, she is very opinionated on what she wears. In the Winter she only wanted to wear leggings. She wanted nothing to do with jeans. And in the Summer she only wants to wear skirts or dresses. She doesn't want anything to do with shorts. She also has to do everything on her own- "I do it myself", so it takes 10 years to get dressed. She knows her colors and counts to 10.
For a while there everything she said started with"super". I supa hungwy, I supa tired, dat supa yummy (rubs her belly), dat supa yucky (waves her hands at it). The last one sums up her appetite. Everything is super yucky and she eats practically nothing. She has an appetite only for things that aren't good for her. At 3 year old she pretty much survives on cheese crackers. I ask her what she wants for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and the answer is the same: cheese crackers. I can get her to eat yogurt, applesauce, watermelon, orange, apple- but definitely nothing two days in a row. What she eats one day, she will not eat the next. She'll eat bacon, sausage, beef jerky sometimes pizza. No other meat, no peanut butter, and will not try anything new either. At this point, I'd love for her to eat some hot dogs or chicken nuggets! LOVES donuts, chocolate, cookies, candy, etc. So that has been the biggest challenge for us. I think part of it is a texture thing. She also doesn't like to have anything wet or messy on her hands.
She loves dressing up like Princess Sofia, "punzel", playing Anna and Elsa, mommy and baby. Her imagination has really been expanding and she's been doing a lot more pretend play. She says "you be Elsa, I be Anna" and she falls to the ground or "you be mommy and I be baby" and she starts crying. She and Rylie love to go shopping and fill up Sendik's or Target bags full of everything they can find from every area of the house and "check out" with the cash register. Reagan walks around taking orders for food from people - "what you like?" She has started packing a purse or bag with all her treasures when we leave the house. She also likes to play puppy and crawls around the house waiting for someone to pet her. She tells us she's a girl bandit and she's going looking for gold. She dresses like a cowgirl and says yee haw. She tells us she's Elsa and is going to freeze everything to ice. Or she's Princess Ivy and will turn everything to black and white with her magical powers and then "take over your whole kingdom". She is a pirate and says Ahoy Matey!! .
She loves Rylie's bed and tries to sleep with her every night. Our mistake was letting it happen for a weekend. She likes to do whatever her sister is doing. She's very stubborn and does not like to apologize. She gets very upset when she gets scolded and sits and cries, but for the life of her will not apologize. It's about a 20 minute process. She pulls hair, hits, and pinches. So there is constant tattling going on. She delays bed time as much as possible and comes in our room and says "I tell you a secret", or she gets up in our bed and says "just a couple more seconds" and snuggles in. She takes a little princess flash light to bed and we see the light bouncing off the walls in the hall way. She goes to bed late and gets up early. She does sleep through the night the majority of the time, but no matter what time she goes to bed, her internal alarm goes off at 5:30am.
She still runs to me when I get home from work. We're still surprised we haven't ended up in the ER with her. She's constantly running into things, falling down, etc. Some of our recent incidents with her are when she took her diaper off and comes running out with her legs wet. I said did you go potty? She said yes. I said where. She said "Ry Ry's room. I cover it with book". Sure enough there is a book laying in the middle of the floor. I pick it up and there is a giant pee soaked spot underneath. There was a weekend about a month ago where she came into our room at 5am and we were trying to get her to go back to sleep. She kept moving and kicking so I decided to go into her room and go back to sleep in her bed. Shortly after I wake up to Dan telling me he has to go out and meet an officer in the driveway because she held down the emergency call button on my phone and called 911 twice. Constant adventures with this one and she keeps us on our toes.
I'm trying to take advantage of snuggling up with her at night time when she asks me too. I know it's going to go fast and I love laying and singing with her or talking a little bit, just like we did with Rylie. I love when she puts her hands up to my face or those little arms around my neck and hugs me tight. She gives good hugs and big kisses. She takes a deep breath and holds it and puckers those lips up...it's so cute.
I have loved this stage and how much she has grown. I love how much Reagan is talking and the conversations she has. Her imagination has developed so much and she's very independent. She has this amazing little personality that fits her so well. We just love her to pieces.
