Sweet Juliet Claire is 3

Where has the time gone?  Seems like yesterday you joined our family.  You are a precious gift and we love you so much and are so proud of you! You woke this morning to a room filled with balloons.  All I heard through the monitor was MOMMY, MOMMY come get me.  I didn't know if you were scared or excited.  Excited won, you couldn't get enough of the balloons.

We had Chick-fil-a for breakfast and lunch, where we opened presents and played.  Then it was on to Liberty to see Mama and Papa and celebrate with them.  You had a fun filled 3rd birthday.  I was so excited that you seemed to understand what was going on and that the day was for you. 

At 3 you:
Can spell your name and recognize it when it is written
Know your first and last name, along with the whole family
You know when your birthday is
Favorite colors are pink and purple
You have an active and entertaining imagination, your favorite thing right now is to rescue your ponies with pixie dust and the phrase "pixie dust away" (From Izzy on Jake and the neverland pirates)
You love your little brother, just don't like him to touch you
You know the days of the week and the months of the year
You have an incredible memory, especially with books and your memory verses
You love to play outside
Art is your favorite part of the school day
You love to sing songs and know most of the words to alot of songs, especially your school songs
You give really awesome hugs
You dislike being corrected, even for minor things, you cry very easily, but as for now mommy and daddy hugs and kisses fix most things
You have really gotten into having Buddy the Elf around, your eagle eye spots him very quick
You have recently found a love for chocolate and chocolate cake, no icing though
You love chicken nuggets, steak, strawberries, cheese, crackers, fruit snacks, gummie bears, apple juice, Papasito's rice, grapes,
You love dance class and did awesome in your first recital
You loved decorating the Christmas tree this year
Says "I think Yeah and Maybe Nope",  "I can not believe it",
You like girly things and really like it when you and your doll Lisa match clothing
You really love your daddy, he is special.

You are a really sweet girl, we love you so much.  Happy Birthday Princess Juliet!
Love,
Mommy, Daddy and Nate

Busy Busy

Where on earth have I been?  I had no idea I hadn't blogged!

So I wish I had a video of every cute thing the kids are doing to show you, but you would be doing nothing all day long but watching videos.

 

Juliet is now a pirate princess; just ask her she will tell you.  She loves Izzy off Jake and the Neverland Pirates.  She will play with her my little ponies and they will be stranded or in danger and one will have to save them.  She will throw pixie dust on them and say “pixie dust away” and they fly to safety.   She knows all their names and will play by herself with them for quite a while.  She had her first dance recital last Tuesday and she loved it.  She seems to be a natural at being cute and following instructions.  She did so good, I did not know what to expect from her and she did great!!

We also had her 3^rd birthday party at Jumpalooza so now she tells everyone she is 3.  We just let it go.   She loved her party, some of her friends from school came and so did Drew and all the kids loved jumping.

She has added to her list of Christmas songs for her party at school.  Now we know Santa Claus is coming to town, Jingle Bells and Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. 
Nate is getting so big, put him down on his back he rolls over to his tummy, is fine for a minute and then screams because he can't get back over to his back.  He apparently rolls around in his bed at school and sleeps on his tummy.  Not at home he prefers his back and a very warm blanket.  He prefers to sit or stand but not for long periods of time.  He has started laughing, it is such a precious sound, especially after lately when he wants to scream for long periods of time.  He is also super ticklish.  We have started him on solid foods, he seems to love carrots and apples and tolerates peaches, HATES sweet peas.
He played Baby Jesus in a Christmas Play put on by Northeast Christian Academy.  A friend's little girl was Mary.  He was so good, only whimpered a little bit when he started to slide into a laying position rather than sitting.

We took the kids to the zoo, Meme's company deal for the kids.  It was Juliet, Drew, Cooper, and Nate, that is in age order.  The two older had a BLAST while the babies slept.  Yes, Nate slept thru his first zoo trip.  As always, Juliet loved the giraffes and this time was not at all scared of the elephants.  I was so proud of her.
I don't think I have mentioned our new house guest until Christmas.  His name is Buddy, he is an Elf on the Shelf.  He watches the kids to see if they are bad or good and reports to Santa every night on how they behaved.  Juliet is having a blast with him, Nate of course has no clue what is going on.  You can follow Buddy by clicking on his name to flickr.

Three days and I still haven't posted this, here it comes, so much left out it makes me sad,  but I will just make a list and post that!