Greer Girl, your first quarter as a 3yo was as busy and booming as ever! You finished 2yo preschool a few weeks after your birthday, and thank GOODNESS they offered two weeks of camps in early June, because you missed it immediately. I love that you have Hope as a home base similar to what Crew had at this age, where teachers know you, friends recognize you, and you feel at ease.
You are loving art more and more – drawing, painting, and the concept of telling me WHAT you are drawing not just scribbling. You recognize all of your letters upper and lower, and you’re starting to understand the sounds a few of them make. You can audibly spell your name out loud but and we;ve been working on writing Gs! Numbers are a bit trickier for you – we are still working on the teens but your 1:1 correspondence has gotten up to ten accurately.
You love to help – in particular you like to clean up spills and rush to care for someone hurt (bandaids by the hundreds). In contrast though, if YOU are hurt, you go to level 100 irritated and refuse any sort of comfort.
The tinier and more pieces the more you love it – Polly pocket, any tiny figures, peg dolls, critters. Fortunately, a lot of this showed up for your birthday, and it’s all been in heavy rotation.
Your body and verbal language both are getting much more expressive. When you’re frustrated with a situation we hear a big sigh and “this is not working”… you also have a very dramatically slow arms-lowering gesture when you want Crew and his friends to “everyone…calllllllm dowwwwwnnnn”.
You’re about 50/50 on right/left accuracy, but simple steering seems beyond your capacity 🤣 Keeping your power wheels on the sidewalk is a STRETCH.
You’re learning more detailed colors like peach, or light blue versus dark blue, and have a sudden and intense interest in puzzles. You love hide and seek and every countdown is to ten instead of one two three – you love suspense!
Your interest in real life jobs/roles has spiked big time – specifically around firefighters, and the idea of “being” something is a frequent topic — you are constantly asking if you can be something new for Halloween.
Sharing and turn taking comes and goes, but you often at least try to do so at first 🙃 Compliments are your love language – you offer them all the time to people and if given one you automatically find something to say back.
You were SO excited for a big girl bed — and made the transition like a champ without so much as a hiccup! At 30 lbs. and 37” – over 4.5” since this time last year – you are growing like a weed!
The pictures below largely speak for themselves, but you loved your final days at preschool and music class, followed by two weeks of preschool camp, a family trip to Minnetonka which included boating and lots of lake town time, and general start-of-summer exploring with your buddy Crew home from school to join in.
