After some very challenging and terrible 2's, the 3's have turned out to be pretty pleasant for us!!
Brooklyn has really started to develop some manners and is becoming quite pleasant to be around!
On occasion, she will just randomly come over, give a hug, a kiss on the cheek and say she loves you!! She's always pretty much given a hug or kiss on command, but other than that has been pretty unaffectionate, so this is REALLY sweet and new!!
She is a CRAZY puzzle worker! She can do a couple of 50 piece puzzles all by herself!
It blows me away!! At school, they say she barely says a word all day, but is a crazy puzzle worker. When other kids are having trouble with their puzzles, they send B over to help!!
At her 3-year check up, there were some concerns about her speech. It has really started to pick-up now and is hilarious (when she is being totally serious and not trying to be funny at all)!! She says at least 1 thing that cracks me up each day and I will likely start posting many of those 1-liners.
In the picture above, she put on that plastic bowl (as a hat), put that puppy in that high chair and told me, "Bye, I have to go to work now." Probably just funny to me and Eddie, but it cracked me up to think about what she was thinking her profession might be.
Her 3 most common phrases are:
1. "Maybe shake it off?"
(this phrase has saved us MANY a melt-downs about getting "sticky", falling down, recovering after being reprimanded...it pretty much works for EVERYTHING and she usually comes up with it all on her own)
2. "Maybe get bigger?"
(Like when asked to eat something she doesn't like or told to do something she doesn't want to do...she says it like - ask me later, maybe when I get bigger I will eat that or do that)
3. "Maybe some more at the store?"
(She wants to go and get more of EVERYTHING at the store...she's always been my good little shopping buddy)
I probably answer each of these questions (no exaggeration) at least 10 times a day.
She has THANKFULLY gotten into dressing up and is so excited about being a flower girl in my friend Andrea's wedding this weekend. I have very mixed feelings...very excited, but also a little nervous!!
When Brooklyn is NOT being super-easy or cooperative, 90% of the time it's related to her sister. Brooklyn has developed a bossy streak, but only when Chandler is around.
But to be totally fair, Chandler instigates about 1/2 of their issues by pulling B's hair or scratching her. B thankfully NEVER retaliates, but ALWAYS cries and comes and tells us just before reminding herself to maybe shake it off. =)
Hat Day at School
Here's a happier picture, but very blurry...
Pajama Day
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