{"id":3015,"date":"2011-07-12T22:29:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T02:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2011-07-12T22:29:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T02:29:57","slug":"3-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/3-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Years Old!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Anna,<\/p>\n

Today you turned 3 years old!\u00a0 I’ve been calling you my three-year-old for a few weeks now, because, well, you’ve been acting 3.\u00a0 That is to say, you’re going through a completely age-appropriate stage where you are testing limits, making a bid for independence, and generally trying to make me crazy.\u00a0 When you’re not trying to drive me up a wall, you are literally climbing walls and looking for ways to hurt yourself while adding to my (thankfully still small) collection of stray gray hairs.<\/p>\n

Luckily, you’re cute.<\/p>\n

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Anna in the Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We spent the day doing pretty ordinary things: swimming lessons, library, piano lessons.\u00a0 You got to watch a couple episodes of your current favorite TV show, Phineas and Ferb.\u00a0 And when Daddy got home, we went out to dinner at El Jimador, where you were serenaded while wearing a very (very<\/em>) large sombrero – and got to eat yummy fried ice cream for dessert.<\/p>\n

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Not your average birthday hat...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then came the presents…a name sign for your door, to match your sister’s.\u00a0 A superhero cape of your very own.\u00a0 A couple of books.\u00a0 You were so happy with these things, and while Daddy was getting your last surprise ready, you said, “Thank you Mommy for all the presents!”<\/p>\n

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Oooh, what's in the envelope?!?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Daddy's Little Palindrome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Her superpower: reading upside down!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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What's the surprise???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But we did have one last surprise.\u00a0 I found a gently used little bike, complete with Dora stickers and a purple backpack bike “basket”, that’s just your size.\u00a0 One of those things you’ve been trying to do when finding new ways to scare me half to death is climb on your sister’s way-too-big bike – using the training wheels as a step up, naturally.\u00a0 This will be (at least slightly) safer.\u00a0 You haven’t quite figured out how to pedal it, but you’ve got the whole rest of the summer to learn!<\/p>\n

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Little Girl, Little Bike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Proud and helpful big sister Carolyn!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Who needs to pedal? This bike is sister-powered!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I still can’t quite believe you turned three today.\u00a0 I know I’m guilty of thinking of you as my “baby”, when clearly you are growing up and turning into a big little person in your own right.\u00a0 The fact is, you will always be my baby, but I am enjoying so much watching you grow and learn, and I’m looking forward to seeing the great big girl you will become someday.<\/p>\n

Love, Mommy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Anna, Today you turned 3 years old!\u00a0 I’ve been calling you my three-year-old for a few weeks now, because, well, you’ve been acting 3.\u00a0 That is to say, you’re going through a completely age-appropriate stage where you are testing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anna","category-anna-monthly-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}