Clare Evelyn, you are THREE years old!! This past year has been a roller coaster ride with you - your highs are high and your lows are low, but we wouldn't have you any other way.
-You are so sweet, you love to cuddle and be held, and you aren't afraid to go after what you want. You can be a bit ... bossy (I know we're not supposed to call you that, but I'm pretty proud of your assertiveness) but underneath that bluster, is a very sensitive little lady.
-You love to be read to and you "read" books constantly. Each night you're up an extra 20 minutes or so leafing through books by nightlight.
-You love to talk and sing. You sing songs you've heard on the radio, songs from "Frozen", songs from TV, and even songs you make up in your head.
-You love to play. You play soccer, you play with toys, you play with dolls, and you play with your brother!
-Speaking of your "brudder," you love Sean - you always call him "Seany." You watch him all the time, you copy what he does, and you love to tackle him and give him hugs and kisses. But nobody drives you crazy like Sean - he can really get under your skin! You both scramble to be first at everything and you two always want to play with the same toy at the same time!! You are really learning to play up the part of "little sister" - crying to us the minute a situation doesn't go your way.
-In some ways you're so "grown up": you try just about any food that comes your way from beets to green juice to spicy black bean soup. You now prefer to take showers as opposed to baths. You are totally potty trained - even through the night!! AND you don't use your paci ("Gacki") anymore!!! Gackies started disappearing from the house one-by-one and after we lost our last one, that was it! No more Gackies.
-In other ways you're still our little baby - snuggling up close during a movie, giving us tons of kisses, preferring to by carried everywhere as opposed to walking, and trying to make we're always "happy to you"
Of course, we took your picture with Pooh Bear:
