Emma @ 3 Years

3 year old stats:

Height: 38 inches

Weight: 33lbs 2 oz

Both the 75th percentile! (she gets mistaken for a 4 year old all of the time!)

I love my dear little Emmabear. It really blows my mind that she is so old now! I can't believe I have a three year old!

I love that she can tell me what she wants. I love that she's potty trained. I love that when she gets hurts she comes to me for a kiss that makes it all better. I love when she gives me a million kisses goodnight. I love when I say "hey Emma" she says" I love you too" before I can even say it! I love that when I make Abby take medicine or something else that makes her mad and Emma stands next to me and says over and over again, "mom! Leave Abby alone! Leave Abby alone!" 

Emma is so funny! She says silly things on a daily basis that make me smile. She came into my room at about 3am on her birthday and I woke up to her standing over me (scared me to death) and she begged me not to make her go swimming... Yeah, I have no idea either, haha! Then the other day she was carrying around a picture of Dumbledore and she informed me it was her Jesus picture and when I tried to explain to her it wasn't Jesus, she just looked at me like I was crazy... Haha, maybe it's the beard that does it? And then during quiet time a couple of weeks ago I whispered to her, "are you awake?" she was quiet for a minute and then whispered back, "no! I'm sleeping."

She LOVES to play with our neighbor Mason and I know it will be really hard for her when we move to Twin Falla in a few months. They play together 4 or 5 times a week and see each other at story time at the library and when Sharla and I grocery shop at the same time and they go the the Fred Meyer play land together. She talks about him all of the time and sometimes she will sit at the door between our homes and try to yell for him. 

Her favorite thing to watch on TV is Diego and she's picking up quite the Spanish vocabulary. She LOVES almost any food as long as she can dip it in Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing. I am currently preparing a blog post with her eating numerous different things dipped in ranch. It will be pretty.... Strange. She also struggles to get up in the mornings. She is often grouchy and will lay in bed for 30 minutes insisting that she is "still sleeping". I guess I'm going to have to wake her up pretty early when she has to start going to school is a couple of years!

And last of all is our binky update. We took her binky away about 4 months ago. She did really good, but would often have some sort of toy or something in her mouth. And then about 2 months ago she started sucking her thumb like crazy. At the doctors yesterday he told me it would probably be best to give her binky back because it will cause less damage to her mouth. We then went to the dentist and he agreed (reluctantly) with the doctor. He just wasn't happy about giving his approval for a binky or a thumb :) But he did tell me that really a binky or a thumb will move teeth and stuff around but if stopped by about 4 the mouth usually corrects itself with no damage done. But they still try to avoid it anyway. Made me feel a little better about it so I wont stress as much. Also, she has a cavity... we are taking her to get it filled in two weeks. Should be... fun...

The pictures were taken by my good friend Kelly Spence. She has been taking our pictures for a few years now and they always turn out great.