So what is our sweet little Katie bug up to these days? She's growing up so much and I thank God every day that he chose me to be her mommy.
Katie just turned 3 years old and she's mostly wearing size 3T clothes. She can still fit into some 2T stuff though. She weighs 29lbs 8oz (50th percentile), and is 36"tall (25th-50th percentile).
She's so sweet and cuddly. She loves reading books. She would let me read to her all day long if I was able to. I love reading to her. She's beginning to comprehend stories I read to her and ask questions or tell me what's going on in the story. She is also starting to memorize some books and retell or make up her own stories by looking at the pictures in books. She sleeps with almost every stuffed animal she has and about 30 books. We try to take some of her books out of bed but she has a huge meltdown when we do and ends up getting out of bed after we leave the room to put them all back in bed anyway. It's kind of cute so I don't make a big deal of it. She's a pretty heavy sleeper. After she goes to bed each night, Andy and I go back up and tuck her back in on our way to bed. We've completely redressed her before and she had no idea we were there, but after redressing her when we tried to take some books out of bed (so she wouldn't have to sleep on top of the tons of books in her bed), she woke up and said, "Don't take my books." Ha!
Most nights we get to read books (usually a devotional book, prayer book, or one of her kid Bibles). We always say our prayers. I usually ask her what she wants to say to God tonight. What should we thank him for, etc. Then as I say a prayer, she repeats each thing after me. Lately she always wants to thank God for her yellow Bible and thank God that the Bible is true. I love it. Makes my heart melt.
When I was little, every night I told my mom, "Good night. I love you. Sweet dreams. Sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite." Now I've continued that with Katie. If I forget to say it, she says "I want to say it mama." So she repeats each thing after me as I say, "Good night. Sweet dreams. Sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite. I love you. See you tomorrow. Marshmallow!" I think when I say "See you tomorrow" it is so fast that to her it originally sounded like "Marshmallow." So now we've added marshmallow to the end of it all. She cracks me up.
She doesn't alway nap. When she does it's a very late nap. She plays (looks at books) for a long time before falling asleep. But she sleeps really good at night and unless it's a school or church day, she will sleep until about 8:00 or 8:30 then usually stays in bed looking at books until me or Andy goes and gets her up. I let her sleep with me one night while Andy was out of town and found out that she talks in her sleep. Ha!
She is getting more into the pretend play thing. She likes playing with her dolls and ponies. She likes playing with her kitchen set. She loves listening to or watching Veggie Tales.
She loves school and talks about her friends all the time now. She's learning so much at school. She knows all her shapes and colors. She knows all of her capital letters and some lower case letters and sounds. She counts to 20 (except she skips 16 every time). She recognizes her numbers to 10. She spells her name (orally, she can't write it yet). They have a letter and a word each week and show and tell every Friday with the letter of the week.
She started dance class this fall (ballet and tap) and LOVES her class, her new friends, and her dance teacher.
She loves her sister and is so helpful. Hannah's starting to play with toys so Katie helps Hannah with her toys, making them play music, or handing them to Hannah so she can reach them.
And she is finally completely daytime potty trained! Yea! No more Katie diapers (except for nighttime).
She's definitely 3 and has mastered whining and throwing fits about as good as I did when I was a kid. But she's so sweet and loving. I'm proud of her every single day and love her more than words can say. Happy birthday sweet girl!
