Dear Owen,
Our sweet boy. Today you are three years old. We can hardly believe it. This past year has been a big one for you. You have grown SO SO much and we have loved every minute watching you do this. It has been bitter sweet for us to reflect over this past year, but here is year two of your life in a short summary:
Over the past year, you have developed a love for just a few favourite things:
- You still love and are obsessed with trucks, cars, tractors. You have an entire suitcase full! You spend quite a bit of time racing them back and forth on the floor or down the stairs on your track. Carefully watching the wheels as they turn, turn, turn!
- You also love your blocks and building towers with them.Your most favorite part is knocking the tower down when you are done building it!
- You have a small collection of dinosaurs that you like to “ROAR” with.
- You love your books, and you have so many! Your favorites are Robert Munsch Series, Llamma Llama Red Pajamas & Mercer Mayer Little Critter Series.
- You love spending time outside in your sandbox and at the park. Your favorite is the swings, but just recently, you have become an expert climber and love to climb to the top of anything! When you go to the park, you HAVE to pull your little red wagon behind you.
- You LOVE your blankie and often carry it from room to room in the house. It is the first item you call for when you are hurt or sad. Your bed is full of stuffies, your favorites being your puppy and bull dog. You hate being woken from your nap, and you MUST have your nightlight on whenever you sleep. You also love to take one or two toys or books to bed with you...you lay them by your head and go fast to sleep. We secretly love when you do this.
- Your favorite TV programs are Toopy and Bino, Max and Ruby, Harry and His Bucket Full Of Dinosaurs and Bubble Guppies. You love to dance and sing to the intro songs, which I hope you know, is the best part of Mommy’s morning. You have also mastered the Ipad and love getting Ipad time. You could watch and play with these two all day if we let you :-)
- Your favorite foods are chicken nuggets, pizza, applesauce, dried bananas, raisins, steak with sauce, blueberries, cheese sticks and yogurt.
- You love to cook in your kitchen and make Mommy or Daddy lunch. Your specialty is soup!
- You loved your gymnastic class and swimming lessons this year. You love to jump and swing and splash...what boy doesn’t?!
- You LOVE traveling down to Medicine Hat to see your Grandma and Grandpa, Nanna and Papa and Aunties and Uncles, George and Penny. Grandma and Grandpa have such a great big yard with tons of animals that you like to feed! You used to LOVE riding on Grandpa’s tractor, although recently, have developed a fear of it because it is too “noisy”.
We are working on expanding your interests, but other activities that you like to do from time to time are: coloring, pasting, letters, science experiments, and playing with your animals.
At three years old, you are so independent. The words “I can do it” are appearing in your vocabulary more and more and although it makes us proud, it secretly makes us sad. You have mastered your strider bike like none other, you clear your table at every meal (when asked!), you fill your glass up with water before bed and you love to turn lights on and off yourself. You are growing up too fast baby boy.
Our sweet boy, you have such a beautiful heart. You are sensitive, loving and very concerned when you see others who are sad. You have recently started interacting with others in the playground and it makes our heart smile. It is very rare that you need to be disciplined, but when you do, we know instantly on your face that you know you are wrong. A little time out gives you that fresh new start that you need. You are so smart. You talk in complete sentences and your imagination has really taken the past couple of months. You have an AMAZING memory for sight, smell and experience and you are so, so curious! Always asking “What’s that and how does that work?”. You can name pretty much any construction type motor vehicle. You are learning new songs every day and I often catch you quietly singing them as you play. You know all your colors, and a good amount of shapes, numbers and letters. You are excited for the opportunity of preschool in the fall.
You become a big brother this last year and although we were nervous about how you would react, it did not surprise us that you loved on your little brother with your big heart. You are so sweet with him and he loves you to the moon. You love getting him his toys when he knocks them off his highchair and turning him around in the exersaucer. It is hard for you to share your toys as he is getting older and more interested, but, you always manage to find a replacement for him, so that you win and he wins. Right now your winning, but we are giving you fair warning now....when he is older and more verbal and physical, that might not always be the case :-).
Happy 3rd Birthday Baby Boy. You made me a mommy you and are our heart and we love you more than you know. You are our PERFECT chubby cheeked, curly haired, talkative, sweet little boy. Don’t ever lose that. (well, you most likely will lose your chubby cheeks, but that curly hair? I hope not!)
Stay beautiful baby boy,
Love Mommy and Daddy
xoxoxo
