3 Years Old

My Precious Cade,

You are THREE YEARS OLD!!!  I would have to write a book to include everything I hope to remember about you at 3, but I'll do my best to sum it up here!

• I'll check back in with your weight and height.  I accidentally threw away the paper with this info. that I got from the doctor.  Oops!  I do remember that you're slightly above average in both...between 60th and 70th%tile.
• You wear size 3T clothing and size 8 shoes.  You are starting to get an opinion about what you wear and will sometimes protest wearing what I've picked out for you.  Your favorite items of clothing include jeans and hats.  You ask to wear jeans every day and you pick out a hat from Daddy's hat rack to wear nearly every morning. 
• You're still a pretty decent eater, although you're a bit pickier than you used to be.  Your favorite foods include:  pasta, cheese, boiled eggs, pancakes, fruit (you love all fruit), chips and crackers, fish, and pizza.  Your favorite things to drink are milk and juice.
• You sleep well for the most part - but you often wake up crying for a couple of minutes during the night.  You go to sleep around 8:00 and wake up around 6:30 or 7:00.  You take a 2-3 hour nap during the day. 
• You are a very social little guy!  You love to play with others and you greet your teachers with a bright smile and a cheery hello each day.  You're not shy at all and will often say hello to strangers. 
• You are equal parts cooperative and difficult.  At times you are the most agreeable, sweetest, helpful little guy ever and at other times you make everything very difficult.  You are definitely trying to figure out your power around here and are testing limits like never before!  You are a bit of a jekyl and hyde - you go from sweetest boy on the planet to throwing a total fit over the tiniest little thing.  You get frustrated when things don't come easy. 
• You love to be with others and do not like to play alone (at home, anyway).  At school, you like to make others laugh - sometimes pushing the envelope a little with potty talk (you think it's funny to say poopy and similar words) because you think it's funny.  :) 
• You are super smart and love to learn new things!  You love, love, love to read books and look things up on the computer.  Right now your favorite things to "look up" are animals and what they eat, planets and space ships launching, and dinosaurs.
• Your favorite toys are:  trains, trucks and cars, dinosaurs, ride-on toys, balls, Legos.  You often carry around a little toy or trinket of some sort...like you did as a really little guy.  :)  You still sleep with Snuggle Bear
• Your favorite TV show is PAW Patrol.  You also like Bubble Guppies and Peppa Pig.  You LOVE to watch TV!! 

We love you Cade!!!  We can't wait to see what your next year will bring!  We'll check back in with birthday party details.  :)

You're holding a piggy bank you got for your birthday.  You took it everywhere you went for the first few days you had it!