A little about Harper

This girl is the apple of my eye. She is growing up so fast. I just need to note how much we love her and how perfect she is for our family. She is so loving and sweet, so patient and funny. She can be very, very serious, but is also so smiley, content and happy. She is mischievous and so much fun. She is just beginning to blow kisses and it melts my heart.

Sage at 3

Sage

Spirited- I read several parenting books this past year in attempt to learn how to better deal with her strong willed personality. "The books" classify her as "spirited." 

Funny- She can always make us laugh 

Smart- she has shown a great interest in learning. She loves to use scissors and cut and also likes to practice writing. She knows most of her uppercase letters and can count to 15ish. She knows her colors and most of her shapes. She always asks if I can be her teacher and if she can do her school work. 

Silly- It doesn't get much sillier than Sage girl. She is so goofy and will do anything to get a laugh and if you do laugh, she will be sure to do it over and over and over again.

Dancer- We have to have dance parties multiple times a day. She loves music and loves dancing .

Caring & Thoughtful- She cares about people and cares about their feelings. She often asks if I am happy or if I am sad and includes people in her prayers. For example, just tonight she prayed for her papa to drive safe to church because when we had faced timed him earlier he was on his way to give someone a blessing.

Sympathetic/Sensitive to others- I do not think she would make a good doctor or nurse. She gets way too sad and concerned if anyone gets hurt. She talked about her papa's knee surgery for months and her grandma's hip too. 

Jumping, Energetic, Loud, Hyper, 

Helper- always wants to help cook dinner or bake, helps with Harper by getting her diapers and gets her jammies

likes to "exercise"- She is always jumping around and when I ask her to stop she always says she is doing her exercise.

Loves baby dolls, Imaginative

Friendly, Early bird, 

Stubborn, Crafts and painting, Playdough, Daniel Tiger, Super Y, 

Parks, Independent, pretends to be shy until she warms up, mommy's girl, 

sweet sister- greets her every morning by saying, "good morning sweetheart!" and calls her bugaboo. 

Loves her friends and cousins- talks about her cousin Kaylee at least 5 times a day and is always looking out the window to see if her friends downstairs are home. 

Hello, We had a Party!

Sage changed her mind on what kind of party she wanted just about every day. Once the invites were made I told her we had to stick with Hello Kitty and swimming and boy is she glad we did! She had a blast. It was a very hectic morning with helping a friend from Spain get situated, but it all worked out and everyone had a lot of fun.

Her actual birthday!

Sage had a special birthday. Saturday night we set up her big girl bed and surprised her with it before bed. She sure was happy. Taylor and his dad have been working on a headboard for it for the last month. It just needs to be stained and then we will add it to the bed. The morning of her birthday she woke up calling out for me and when I went in and told her it was her birthday she yelled, "I'm three! I'm three! I'm three!" over and over again. She was greeted with balloons and as tradition we sang to her with a candle in a donut for breakfast. She opened up a few presents, one which included new paints, chalk and dry erase markers for an easel. She spent the morning painting and drawing. At church her nursery leaders brought cookies and sang to her. She sure felt special. After naps, both sets of grandparents came for her birthday dinner. (We wish Grandpa Davey lived closer) We had one of her favorites. Pancakes, berries and whipped cream. We put on music and she performed for us. We also watched a video that Taylor and I had put together of her first 3 years and then opened presents. It was such a nice evening celebrating her!