Caroline's 3rd Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday to our little Caroline.   She was very excited to have a rainbow cake and this is what I came up with.   She also now wants balloons almost every time we go to Walmart.

At her well check visit on July 21 she measured:

Weight: 29.1 lbs (30th %) 

Height: 37.5 in (57th%)  

That's a pretty significant jump in the height category.  Tall and skinny... lucky gal.  

When we asked what she wanted for her birthday she said, "friends." Thankfully we have a few cousins around who are also friends so they joined us for a party.

A little about Caroline:

~She is a little parrot.  Now I know she heard me when I told her to "chew and swallow"  because she's very good at telling her brother to do the same.  

~She is an older sister and all that that entails.  Ben already has two moms. 

~She is mostly potty trained.  She still wears a diaper for naps and bedtime.  She also refuses to poop in the potty- despite our many attempts at bribery.  

~She loves nursery at church.

~She still naps during the afternoon, although she is fighting bedtime more and more.  But she is a bear without a nap so we're going to keep on keeping on.

~She loves watching shows (Especially Daniel Tiger) and playing with the ipad.  It's the first thing she asks for most mornings.  I have mixed feelings about it. 

~She loves cheese.  Not only because of cheese, but we actually have to give her mira-lax everyday- I think some of her bad experiences are why we have potty troubles now.

~She loves to dance. 

~She loves her grandpas and grandmas.  

~She likes to "help" mom.

~She is really good at saying "no"

~ She seemed to get much more opinionated, bossy, and defiant when she turned three.

~Loves playing outside and in the water.

~She can be a very good helper with her brother and they can play really nicely together... when she's not pulling on the back of his shirt tackling him.

~She is liking arts and crafts more and more.