Jack is Three!

We began the day (even before breakfast) by opening gifts.  So, so fun!!!  He's excited by EVERYTHING he opens :)

A few Jack-isms...

"Ha Ha Ha - Scary Christmas"

translation:  Ho Ho Ho - Merry Christmas

QRS truck

translation:  The FedEx truck

H I JK Momo Momo P

translation:  "H I J K L M N O P"

"I do not know"... he says this very precisely.  

Gunk-Gunk (anything he really wants it to be)  

It usually refers to a game of some sort that he's made up.

Ta-Ta (short a).  This is his baby name when he pretends to be a baby 

and can't come up with a legitimate name.

"Goodnight Dark"  aka The Dark Night  

(which he's only seen a motorcycle scene from)

His vocabulary is expanding everyday and he talks pretty much non-stop.  

He's still pretty shy around people in the beginning

He "pretend" plays a TON now... and for really long periods of time.  Some of his favorite pretend toys are his little people and his new horses / farm / barn.  

He's finally decided that he'll watch tv.  His favorite show is The Wiggles, but he'll often tell us that he wants to watch football or some other random show that happens to be on.  haha

We recently watched the movie Brave together.  He loves Marida (the girl in the movie) and has said she is his girlfriend.  I happen to think she's the perfect first girlfriend.  She's adventurous, self-reliant, adorable, out-spoken..... and best of all - fictional!!!

He's really into dinosaurs and bears.  BUT... at night, sometimes he thinks there are dinosaurs or bears in his room so we have to "spray" it down with anti - dino/bear spray.  

  We also let him choose his own cake from the bakery this year.  We celebrated the day at home this year and are going to have his party in a few weeks (ok... about 2 months.  How was I supposed to know I needed to book his party 6 months in advance?!?!  Rookie mom mistake apparently.)  So, for our casual family get-together, this is what he chose.

 And he took it quite seriously that this was HIS cake!!!

Happy birthday, my little Peanut!!  We love you so very much!!