Sofia at Three!

Our little girl is the big 3!  She's still talking up a storm, but has just started asking the "why?" question at nearly everything.  A common question is "But, why, Papa?"  Somehow she seems to throw that out with CK more than with me, although I do get my share of "whys" during the day.  She's such a big girl at 40 inches and 35.6 pounds!  She actually wears 4T clothes, especially dresses, since 3T are way too short on her.  She still LOVES Green Beup Beup, Thomas train, trains in general, and playing with her matchbox cars.  She's really good at make believe and we often have 'treats' together or pet animals that don't really exist or hold her water sippy cup that has become her "baby".  She especially loves making up dialog for all of her trains and cars when she plays with them, which is so fun to listen to.  She loves swimming (she could spend all day in the pool if we let her) and remains fearless when it comes to going down our slide, jumping off the rocks into the pool or trying a new trick.  Like all kids, she loves going to the park and enjoys the slide and swings the most.

She still loves to eat macaroni mickey mousse, and pretty much anything with bread or cheese on or in it, although she's not really that picky of an eater.  She still isn't much of a meat eater, but does like salmon and will at least try other fish and meat, but usually prefers eating without meat in her food.  She loves strawberries, bananas, pineapple, and peaches (but without the skin).  She'll eat pretty much any fruit or try any vegetable but may not devour it like she does her favorites.

Since our time in California, her napping is hit or miss.  While we were with Mimi, I found that Sofia could easily nap for 2 to 3 hours, but then would be up until 1130 or midnight.  Since we didn't have a nightlight with her books and toys (and since I was sleeping in the same bed with her), I decided to have her skip nap time so that she would go to sleep easily at 730/8pm.  After we got home, she napped the first two days, but since then it hasn't happened regularly.  When she does nap during the day, it's clear that she stays up after CK has put her to bed and reads or plays with her toys by her nightlight.  She's very quiet and puts herself to bed at some point, so everyone is happy.  I do miss that mid-afternoon break though.

We are still debating whether to start her in a two-day program at Spanish Schoolhouse, but she is very excited to "go to school" even though I'm not sure she entirely understands what that means.  Each time we praise her for something she's done well, she then says "Now do I get to go to school?" - it's very cute.

She's such a big girl and so much fun!  We are so lucky!