Nolan,
You are 3! It is almost as hard to hold up three fingers as it is to describe your dynamic personality at three years old.
Your emotions are very close to the surface. You certainly wear your heart on your sleeve, but you also keep your frustration and anger there too. You are so quick to tell everyone that you love "I love you" for no reason at all. You tell me when I bend down to help you tie a shoe, get dressed, dry you off after a bath or just give you a drink. It often comes with a sweet kiss attached. I over hear you telling your brother "I love you, bubba." during the middle of a Lego building session or super hero rescue. You ask me in the car if you can give me hug as soon as we get home. Nolan, you are as sweet as they come!
Snuggling is among your favorite things to do and by snuggling I mean trying to get a close as physically possible to daddy or mommy. You will push your head up into our necks so that every part of you is against us. It is so sweet and terribly uncomfortable, but we absolutely love it.
You ADORE your brothers, both of them. You and G are the best of friends and anything he loves you love. Together you two love your baby. You are proud of him and quietly (because you aren't really comfortable talking to strangers) show him off in public.
But just as quick as you are to love, you are super quick to a fit. You regularly get overly upset about decisions that you made yourself, like what cup to drink out of and where to sit at the table. We have been working for a year and a half on communicating your desires before the meltdown screaming tantrum and we are making progress...slowly.
You have these faint freckles that scatter across your nose and melt your momma's heart.
You are fiercely attached to your dad. You would love nothing more than to be on his shoulders all day long. Some of your biggest fits come when you are told you can't be on daddy's shoulder because he needs to do something like take a shower. If it were up to you, you would just stay put through the shower and all.
You make random observations about the world around you and blurt them out at the funniest times. For example, you regularly observe the entire families eye color or remind us that you are sitting in a chair or have on pants.
You know all of the words to What Does a Fox Say, thanks to the book we got for Christmas and are often heard singing under your breath.
You love soccer. One of the few interests that was not sparked by your big brother. Although, now he wants to play too.
You are starting to correct all the sweet little Nolanisms like wanting to go to Chickalay (chick-fil-a) or looking for your toy ga-grilla (gorilla). Guess that is part of growing up but I want to remember your sweet voice saying things your own way.
We celebrate on your birthday with Spiderman, pizza, cake and family. It was simple and quiet but just perfect for you. We continued celebrating the next day with a trip to the Dallas Zoo. You had a great time and enjoyed the view from daddy's shoulders most of the day. When you ventured down, you had a blast with your best bud, Asher! It was a sweet day and such a treat to have all of the Jones family join us in celebrating you.
You are sweet, spunky, wildly stubborn and there aren't words for how much daddy, G, Evan and I love you! We couldn't love you more and we will never love you less, Nolan. Happy 3rd birthday!
You are 3! It is almost as hard to hold up three fingers as it is to describe your dynamic personality at three years old.
Your emotions are very close to the surface. You certainly wear your heart on your sleeve, but you also keep your frustration and anger there too. You are so quick to tell everyone that you love "I love you" for no reason at all. You tell me when I bend down to help you tie a shoe, get dressed, dry you off after a bath or just give you a drink. It often comes with a sweet kiss attached. I over hear you telling your brother "I love you, bubba." during the middle of a Lego building session or super hero rescue. You ask me in the car if you can give me hug as soon as we get home. Nolan, you are as sweet as they come!
Snuggling is among your favorite things to do and by snuggling I mean trying to get a close as physically possible to daddy or mommy. You will push your head up into our necks so that every part of you is against us. It is so sweet and terribly uncomfortable, but we absolutely love it.
You ADORE your brothers, both of them. You and G are the best of friends and anything he loves you love. Together you two love your baby. You are proud of him and quietly (because you aren't really comfortable talking to strangers) show him off in public.
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| this picture speaks perfectly to the way you feel about G |
But just as quick as you are to love, you are super quick to a fit. You regularly get overly upset about decisions that you made yourself, like what cup to drink out of and where to sit at the table. We have been working for a year and a half on communicating your desires before the meltdown screaming tantrum and we are making progress...slowly.
You have these faint freckles that scatter across your nose and melt your momma's heart.
You are fiercely attached to your dad. You would love nothing more than to be on his shoulders all day long. Some of your biggest fits come when you are told you can't be on daddy's shoulder because he needs to do something like take a shower. If it were up to you, you would just stay put through the shower and all.
You make random observations about the world around you and blurt them out at the funniest times. For example, you regularly observe the entire families eye color or remind us that you are sitting in a chair or have on pants.
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| you picked out our spoons to match our eyes |
You love soccer. One of the few interests that was not sparked by your big brother. Although, now he wants to play too.
You are starting to correct all the sweet little Nolanisms like wanting to go to Chickalay (chick-fil-a) or looking for your toy ga-grilla (gorilla). Guess that is part of growing up but I want to remember your sweet voice saying things your own way.
We celebrate on your birthday with Spiderman, pizza, cake and family. It was simple and quiet but just perfect for you. We continued celebrating the next day with a trip to the Dallas Zoo. You had a great time and enjoyed the view from daddy's shoulders most of the day. When you ventured down, you had a blast with your best bud, Asher! It was a sweet day and such a treat to have all of the Jones family join us in celebrating you.
You are sweet, spunky, wildly stubborn and there aren't words for how much daddy, G, Evan and I love you! We couldn't love you more and we will never love you less, Nolan. Happy 3rd birthday!
