Celia: She turned 3!

Celia turned 3 three weeks ago. A little behind as a mom, but here's my tribute to Celia now:

Celia is still great. She's hilarious and creative. She's always playing with characters from movies that show up to our house or imaginary friends (always named something like Hahn or Hashie-Hahn). She remembers everything she learns and is a great help with Sabrina. She loves Sabrina so much. When she hears Sabrina wake up, she gets super excited, stops everything she's doing, and runs in there yelling: "It's Sabrina! I want to see her!" She loves to hold her hand.

When Celia turned 3, diapers "didn't fit" her anymore. We had 2 days of accidents and now she's totally potty trained (pull-ups during naps and at night). It's helped with her fear of pooping, but she still has total breakdowns before she'll poop. We're praying this continues to improve...

Celia is a reader. She always has been. She can memorize any book after me reading it two times. We watched some old videos of her as a baby/toddler and found it hilarious that she's exactly the same except now she uses words to tell her stories. She's always talking about something.

Celia still takes an afternoon nap around 2 and sleeps for 1.5-2 hours usually. She went through a phase of only sleeping about half time time, but now she sleeps everyday. And Saturdays have been odd for her. Last Saturday, she went down for her nap at 4PM and didn't wake up until 8:30 the next morning. Yesterday, she took a 5 hour nap. Silly girl.

She reasons very well. Which makes disciplining really difficult because she try to reason her way out of it. But the pro to this is that she thinks things through. She had an animal birthday party. I asked her what kind of party she wanted. I figured she would say "princess" because she's been to two of those. Instead she said: "I want a camel party because I already had a ladybug party and a princess party" (I had to broaden her horizons to "all animals" - more on her party later).

Celia, you're great. I hope your 3s turn out to be as pleasant as your 2s. You're silly. As she would reply: "No, I'm great!" We love you.