I Love Her Being 3!

 

She has been an angel all week. 3 must be the magic number for her. I have struggled with this girl for the past 6 months. Lots of battles over EVERYTHING.  Tantrums left and right.  When she has her mind set a certain way, there is no changing it! I had her pretty well potty trained before Parker, but the last two months she pretty much wet herself every time! Didn't even bother her! She has done so well this week.  Not perfect, but a HUGE improvement! She'll go all on her own again, which she refused to do for the last couple of months.  Sometimes I still remind her, but can't give it too much attention or I'm afraid she'll go downhill again.  She has to decide that she's ready and she can do it! Her strong personality amazes me! When she gets to talking at the dinner table or anywhere, her voice drowns out anyone elses.  I can't even explain how crazy the bedtime battles have been.  Sometimes I'm surprised that the police didn't show up at our house with how loud she would be screaming.  I consider myself a pretty patient person, but she sure knew how to test it! As long as I give her some unwinding time and snuggles, she goes to bed very well now.  I know I shouldn't hold my breath, but I am!
I still have to blog her birthday, but we got her a little nursery set for her babies.  She LOVES it! I would have loved something like that when I was her age.  She is such a sweet little mommy to her baby dolls.  She is such a good little helper with Parker too.  This week she was "babysitting" Parker while I was in the shower.  I told her if he starts crying to put the pacifier in his mouth.  I put him in his little jungle gym, play mat thingy.  When I came out, he was as happy as could be.  She had gone to get his blanket and had him all wrapped up.  So sweet.
I told Annika when she turned 3 we would get her in gymnastics like Nolan.  She's had to watch for the past 3 years and now it's her turn.  I've had to stall this last month, but now Adam's back to working 6 nights a week, so maybe starting March we'll sign her up.
The weather's been so nice lately, we've been able to get out more and more.  Annika loves the park! I think she could stay there all day and still not be ready to come home!
Remember my last major project of making those ruffled bags? I ended up having to make one more.  Well, I thought I had caught a break, but nope! Not a week later, I'm now on to making around 300-400 bows for a store.  They're just simple small ones, but this should keep me busy for the next couple of weeks.  I am so grateful to have this hobby that's not only fun and pays for itself, but is now keeping me as busy as I really am capable of being, on top of doing hair, and I'm earning a decent amount of money for trying to stay at home and take care of 3 kids at the same time.  I've really been getting a lot busier with hair appointments too in the past year! I am soooooooooooooooooooo grateful that I was able to go to cosmetology school while I was in high school so I could have this way of helping bring in $ and doing what I love to do! Not only that, but the money we've been able to save by me being able to cut Adam's and the kids hair have been so worth it! Thank you to my family for helping make that dream possible!