Abbie at 3

Abbie is 3 years old! Where did my toddler go?

She did a really good job cooperating at the target portrait studio to get her 3 year old pictures taken. I have included my favorites.

• Sleeping: Abbie is still a great sleeper. She goes down around 8 and wakes up a little before 7. She knows she is not supposed to come wake Brandon up before 7. So if she is up before 7 then she plays in her room. Sometimes she will come in early and proclaim it 7 even though its not.  Naps are sometimes a struggle. We go through phases. Sometimes she is great at taking a nap everyday. And sometimes after I put her down I will then hear a noise, either playing or reading, and it becomes only a rest day. When she does take a nap its usually about 2 hours. 
• Social: She is not very social. She would prefer to play by herself, or with princesses than to play with other kids. We do have a play date weekly with Gracie, and most of the time they will play together. She does like to play with mommy, and daddy.

• Potty-training: Still completely potty trained during day and hardly ever has accidents. Finally back to wearing underwear during naps and most of the time stays dry. She still wears diapers during the night.
•  Temperament: She is a really sweet and caring. She is really good to Luke, and usually helpful when I ask. She is very obedient and responds well to rules.  Even though she is a good girl, we still have whiny moments, tantrums, and drama.

• Language: She has always been advanced in her talking and expressing of emotions. She speaks in complete sentences, sometimes even paragraphs. She is able to describe things really well. She has a very wide vocabulary and uses big words like: actually, understand, usually, complete. 
• Favorite foods: anything sweet :)  She also loves chicken nuggets, fries, noodles, MILK, cheese, ham, carrots, oranges, pepperonis, cucumbers

• Favorite movie: Frozen
• Favorite color: still pink
  
• Favorite songs: Do you want to build a snowman?  and Let it go from Frozen. She also likes Beautiful (One Direction) and Taylor Swift and Imagine Dragons.

 

• Favorite pretend play : Princesses and Dress up.  She is very organized in the way that she plays. Lately the princesses (all her little characters- about 20) do everything in a line. Whenever they go somewhere they have to line up, usually the same order every time. (It can take forever). The nice thing about this is that she doesn't need or necessarily want anyone else to play. Whenever she plays dress up she will go to her 'dressing room', change, and then come out and dance, and repeat.
• Favorite activities: riding bikes, going to the park, playing board/card games with her own made up rules, playing games on the tablet, watching shows, shopping, reading books.

• As stated earlier she is very organized and has a certain way of doing things. For example bedtime (if we suggest to do things out of order, she will say something like 'we usually do ___ next'):
• go potty
• get out choices of jammies, choose one, put them on
• pray
• read scriptures with mommy
• read book with daddy while eating bedtime snack

 

We are so lucky to have this sweet girl in our family!