Three years ago today, Dawson made a surprise entrance into the world. Mike has found parallels in each child's personality with their birth. Dawson you charged into this world so quickly the doctor barely had time to make an appearance. This fits your personality to a tee, you charge into new experiences with nary a thought or second of fear. For example, we went to visit the PPG fountains this summer in Pittsburgh. Carter and Ava hung back momentarily before tentatively venturing into the fountains. You charged headfirst into the water and never looked back!
My favorite picture of me and my little guy
So much changes between two and three years old. Vocabulary explosion? check. Refining those gross motor skills? check. Beginning to use scissors, draw human figures and write letters? check. You love to rhyme although still not 100% you will do words like deer/engineer. That's a pretty good rhyme for a three year old! I have heard you count to twenty and today you were making ab patterns with beads while we were making bracelets.
You are my charmer. You know how to work people to get exactly what you want, and even though I know this is exactly what is happening, I adore the sweet smiles and looks that you give me. When you wrap your little arms around my neck and squeeze me tight, my heart just explodes.
Your favorites? Trains, Trains, TRAINS. Although you have other interests like construction equipment, fire trucks, garbage trucks and dinosaurs to a smaller extent, TRAINS are always number one. It can be borderline obsessive, all you want to do is play trains, watch trains or talk about trains.
Your favorite foods are milk, pizza, any kind of desert, grapes, carrots, broccoli, and spaghetti. Your favorite books are Freight Train by Donald Crews, any non-fiction book about construction equipment, Polar Express, and Fire! by Gail Gibbons. I'm not a fan, but you also love any Thomas the Train book as well.
CURIOUS! There's no other way to put it, you are so very curious. We have a model train (luckily from a garage sale) that you play with daily. You are constantly working on dismantling all the pieces on it. It's not being destructive, you just really want to figure out how it works. Yesterday Daddy glued the funnel back onto the train and within ten minutes you had removed that funnel again. The train table is unfortunately a constant mess. We put it together and you dismantle. Daddy and I finally got sick of trying to put it back together. You are also very curious about technology. You love playing Toca Boca on Bob-Bob's I-pad and have always been interested in the computer and our cell phones. Unfortunately you have a tendency to love our technology a little too roughly which has resulted in the need for a new cell phone and computer.
The Questions you ask me!!!! They can be challenging to say the least. Mom, what is that machine called? Why does it have that attachment? What is it used for? Buddy I really have no idea, I guess we'll have to look it up. You want to know exactly how each and every part works on every train/truck/piece of heavy equipment. I'm underprepared to answer these questions to say the least because I've just never had much interest! So, we are learning together.
Thanks Bob Bob for the great picture of Dawson charming his Meme when we went to the farm.
Happy, Happy Birthday to my fabulous three year old. I love your sweetness, your spiciness, your laughs, your giggles, your smiles, your frowns. Daddy and I love you to the moon and back!
