Zane: Three Years
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 03:37PM 
Zane,
I am in shock right now. You are three!!! This year has flown by even faster than your first two years and it scares me to think about how fast you'll be at age four.
You are truly one of the most creative kids I know. Your love for music has stuck around and everyday you want to listen to music, play music and be in a band. Whether it's the guitar, drums or whatever you make into drums you're constantly finding a way to make music. This would be the crazy reason we gave you drums for your birthday, because we want to see you do what you love.

The way that you talk to us has changed so much. Not only do you repeat everything, you also seem to have a sense of humor. You come up with things to say, look at us and then tell us that we're silly! You also have a way of repeating the discipline wording we use with you. Your favorite is to say back to me, "No Mommy, you stop doing that!" Ugh...this phrase gets you in time out a lot. When you get all worked up and start crying you yell "I'm JUST CRYING!" and then when you finally calm down you ask us to wipe your cry away. This still makes me laugh after every tantrum. It's like you know we need a break in that moment.
You are a huge hit at your preschool. You've made best friends with one of your classmates and your teachers adore you. You great them with a huge smile each time we drop you off and your teacher says your enthusiastic like that all day.

I love that you play differently with Daddy and I. You and Daddy wrestle, play music, read and wrestle some more. You and I run around the house trying find a new object to learn about, stand outside and catch snow in our gloves and talk about it and snuggle and read. You love both types of play and it makes me smile when you ask one of us to do what you know we love to do with you.

You have also discovered the things that annoy us! Like blowing bubbles into your milk and yelling "WHAT???" when we ask you something. You want to eat yogurt with sprinkles every minute of the day and we have to limit your intake of it. You actually ate a salad with sprinkles on it but you ate the whole thing. Gross! I think we watched way too much Elf during Christmas time.You also want to read the same book over and over and over again! While we know this is good for you I would love to read something more than the 10 Friendly Fish or Harold and the Purple Crayon. You know both books by heart and correct us if we try to read them fast.

I think you are starting to pick up on what Daddy and I do for a living. When I'm leaving for a session with all of my camera gear you'll ask me if I'm going to take pictures. You walk around and will pretend to take photos of things around the house.
Zane, you are just amazing. We might complain about the tantrums and we for sure complain A LOT about the potty training, but you continue to reel us into you even more as you become so comfortable in your own skin. I love that you don't think twice about singing out loud, really loud, or about running without the thought of harm. That you say hi to everyone you see and smile at everyone who passes. I don't want you to lose that yet I know as you get older some of those things will fade as the world tries to teach you to conform to what they say is normal. I'm here to tell you that normal isn't the best thing, be yourself and continue to live like you can bring joy to everyone.
We love you Zane. Welcome to the world of three.
Momma & Daddy
Here's a little slideshow of Zane's last year which of course is set to his favorite Tyler Bender Band song.
Maya |
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