I realized I haven't been measuring, weighing, or tracking the kids systematically. We don't have well checks except once a year now, so the boys are growing without any kind of statistical record. :) I have noticed as the arms and legs of their clothing get shorter and shorter. Shoes are growing smaller as well.
(I'm very glad Xander got new pajamas for Christmas from Grandma Lucy. The two nights before Christmas Eve, he was reduced to wearing the same play shorts and large hand-me-down Bakugan pajama top both nights.)
Nick is 38 inches tall today. He weighs exactly 30 pounds. I wonder how that compares to Xander at this age. I just looked through his baby book and I don't think I wrote down his three-year-old growth statistics.
Nick has a large vocabulary and loves to say his own made-up words anyway. "Ay-bay" is his favorite for-all-occasions nonsense word. He pretends to read books to himself. It is rare that he wants someone else to read the books to him...except for Xander reading Xander's books. Nick can pronounce all of the Star Wars characters' names pretty precisely, but he says "restauromp" and "gazberries" and "Dander." His "s" sound is still through his nose.
Nick loves preschool (one hour a week). His teacher calls everyone there "friends" so he has started to use the term for most children: Pointing to kids on Christmas cards, he says, "Oh, those are friends." In the course of the last four months, he has learned his directions (such as up, down, across, below, behind, etc.), the sounds all the letters make, which words to point to as he's pretending to read, days of the week and months of the year and seasons with some degree of knowledge, how to share in front of a group, how to take turns in a group, how to build pretty well with different types of blocks without help, and how to sing many many many songs. He was born knowing how to do that "oh, aren't I cute?" grin that all younger siblings seem to know.
We have been doing independent playtime less and less and sibling playtime more and more. This is a rough current schedule:
7:00 get up to lay on the couch, go potty, or get me out of bed
7:30 breakfast
8:00 often we get him dressed and ready at this time
8:30 second breakfast and sibling playtime, or leave for preschool
9:30 more sibling playtime or an errand or a chore
10:30 independent playtime or library story time
11:30 free play
12:00 lunch
12:30 preschool basket or outside
1:00 free play, reading
2:30 nap
4:00 snack or playground group or TV time (Wild Kratts)
5:00 free play, pre-dinner chores
6:00 family dinner
7:00 family time, free play
7:30 bath
8:00 Night Cards (getting ready for bed)
8:30 lullaby, lights out
I say no to lots of activities, so it came as sort of a surprise to me that we go out just about every day of the week. Monday is preschool, Tuesday we sometimes go to drugstores to buy good deals, Wednesday we do grocery shopping and then library story time, Thursday we have a playground group, and Friday we either go on a nature walk or to a kids' science group. Saturdays we almost always do a fun family outing. Sundays I often go to church.
On a Christmas-related note, this has been an amazing holiday season for Nick. He loves Santa and snowmen. His favorite Christmas song is Carol of the Bells, which he likes to call "Song About the Scary Halloween Decorations." (I think Halloween is still his favorite holiday.)
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