June 7, 2016 (Third Birthday)

My girls are 3!  T H R E E !  I can't believe how fast time goes.  Their birthday was actually 2 weeks ago but here is a recap of their special day.

Brian and I woke them up.  We sang them Happy Birthday first thing.  Then we took them downstairs so they could open their gifts from us.

I made them each their own book from our Disney vacation.  Here is Taylor "Kissing" hers.

Then, each of the girls had an opportunity in the prior week to get each other birthday presents.  It was so sweet watching them get excited about giving to their sisters.

Then it was breakfast time.  After pancakes, we let them eat a piece of their tie-dyed cake Dad made them the night before.

After breakfast, we got everyone ready and headed to Wet n Wild Splashtown in North Houston.  The girls had so much fun and I think it was the first time that Brian and I weren't stressed the whole time during a family outing.  The girls behaved and we all had so much fun.  They loved doing the water slides in the smaller kids zone... over and over and over again.

Back at home the girls got in a nap while MeMe and Grandpops arrived and set up this...

They spent hours refurbishing my old Barbie doll house.  It turned out so adorable and it made me want to play before the girls woke up.  I did snap a few photos of everything set up all cute before 6 little hands got to it and destroyed it in 4 seconds flat.

They had to pull everything out.  They loved it so much and I can't wait to watch them grow up playing with my childhood doll house.  Its pretty special.

After they got to play with the barbie house, there were more presents to open from Nana and then we headed to dinner at their favorite restaurant.  What is a 3 year old's favorite restaurant you might ask?  Well, its Freys, a restaurant with a huge backyard and lots of balls to play with. They technically won't eat any of the food, but they sure love to play.  

The girls birthday was so much fun and I think everyone enjoyed themselves.  They had their birthday party on June 11 and I'll share photos from that in my next post.

Triple Play: 3 Years

How old?  3 years.  

Our weights?  S:  28.8 lbs T: 29.8 lbs M:  28.2 lbs

Heights - S: 35 1/2 in  T: 36 in M: 35 3/4 in

They are wearing size 3t.  

Shoe size:  S: 7  T: 7.5 W M: 7.5

Our sleeping patterns?  They still nap about 1.5 hours every day.  We can skip naps if we absolutely have to, just makes for a crankier bedtime.  Occasionally Taylor or Sam may just not nap, but Mallory always does.  Some days it's a breeze to get them to sleep and other days it's a fight for an hour because they are keeping each other up giggling and playing around.

These kids and they sleeping through the night.  We've only had 4 nights in a row where they all three slept through the night.  They need covers, or their stuffed animals, or just to know that Mommy or Daddy will come upstairs to see them.  Taylor and Sam sleep through the night on most nights and Mal has a hard time sleeping a lot of times.

They wake up pretty consistently around 7:30 AM. 

 Our eating schedule?  The girls have breakfast at 8:00 AM, Lunch at noon, snack when they wake up from their nap (between 3-4), and dinner at 6ish.  

 Our favorite foods?  S: Chocolate milk, Nutella, and gummies are the only consistent foods this girl says she likes.  She loves noodles or fruit one day and hates it the next.  It's so hard to feed her.

T: Pickles (and she likes to be called Pucklepuss when she eats them), tostadas, gummies, Mac and cheese

M: Veggies, meat, fruit... I wish all three are like Mallory.

Our likes? Dress Up... It's the first thing they do right out of bed. They even call each other Anna, Elsa, Cinderella, Belle, etc.  They also like painting, swimming, picnics, and making a mess (Mom hates this).

 Our dislikes?  When I've given them the wrong color cup, or I carried their plate to their chair, or I put a vegetable on S or T's plate, or I won't let hem watch TV, or I say we need to clean up, or I gave sister the dress she wanted, or And the list goes on...

Our favorite games/toys?  Barbies, Princess dolls, Paw Patrol, coloring books, books, bubbles, tracing lines

Our milestones? 

S: jumping and singing really well.  She is very verbal and talks a lot.  Her imagination is bursting.

T: jumping and seat drops in gymnastics, singing LOUD, spelling her name

M: recognizing all letters and asking what words start with, recognizes all of her numbers, has started doing addition in her fingers, traces all the numbers and letters, writes an 'M', pretty much getting too smart for us. This girl loves to learn.

Things we do to make Mom and Dad smile?  When we see them figure out the answer to a problem all on their own, when they play together like when they take turns being Anna and Elsa and act out the scene where Anna asks sleeping Elsa "Do you wanna build a snowman?" When we do something like take the 3 of them to the water park and we have an excellent time with no meltdowns.  They are really growing up fast.

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