Happy 3rd Birthday Rylee

Somebody is three years old today!!! 

Real life guys, she's lucky I even made a cake!
It had everything she requested, pink and purple frosting,
sprinkles, Sofia, and I even tossed in some marshmallows.

So here's a blog post all about Rylee and the past year.

Rylee's Favorites
TV Shows: Star Wars, Sofia the First, Octonauts

Movies: Home ("this is my best movie Mommy"), Mulan( "Wan-moon"), The Little Mermaid, original Star Wars movies

Food: Chick-fil-a, hotdogs, fruit, and applesauce pouches

Color: "Purple. And Pink. Not Green."

Books: Paddington Bear, Fancy Nancy, Annie and the Wild Animals, and Mouse Count

Outfit: She would wear her pink Elsa shirt and grey star skirt/pink tutu with her princess shoes every day if I let her.

Places to Go: The zoo and the beach

Movies we've watched at the theatre: Inside Out, Peanuts, and the Good Dinosaur

Favorite Sayings: 

"My PopPop brings me donuts, for every time he brings me donuts."

"Jennifer, you're my best friend." 

"You're so cute baby, you're so cute!"(while squishing Callum's cheeks). 

 "Travis and Linda are getting married! On a boat! And there's going to be cake, and meat, and a dance party!"

-"I don't like Kylo Ren, do you like Kylo Ren. I don't, he's scary."

-"In Star Wars, there's a freaky little robot(she means "droid") and a MONSTER!"

-"I have a wedgie." 

-"I'm going to destroy your amulet!"(pretending to be Princess Ivy from Sofia the First) 

-"That's really freaky looking." 

Firsts:

Moving into our 

First Haircut!

First Baseball game

First Rollerskating

First scooter

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Biggest Slide!

First time holding baby brother

Holidays With Rylee:

Easter 2015

Thanksgiving and our gratitude tree

Opening Christmas Presents

Ringing in the New Year

Mardis Gras Parade

Valentine's Day

A Little About Rylee: She loves spinning in circles, blowing raspberries at her brother, reading books, playing outside, anything tiny or little ("Oh look! It's a tiny baby rock!" etc), and eating ice cream.

She has a wonderful imagination and is always hard at play, acting out stories and having adventures. She still loves to be snuggled, and has a hard time sleeping through the night.

She can sing her ABCs, count to 10, stand on one foot, hop, skip, and twirl. She loves dancing and having dance parties.

She tries to sneak marshmallows and sprinkles from the pantry on a regular basis, and is a bit of a clutter queen(must be a hereditary thing?). She loves her friends and they're all her "best friend." She adores her gizzilion aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents.

The last couple months have been full of changes(a new baby, baby being sick and in the hospital, me going back to work after being off for weeks, Ryan being gone for a month, moving to Austin and a new house) and she's adapted beautifully.

She decided it was time to pottytrain the Sunday before we moved! It would've been easier to have told her we had to wait till we were done moving, but I wasn't sure when the next chance would come up, so we went for it! And she did amazing! We went and bought Star Wars "panties" today. They're actually boy briefs, but the kid was dead set on getting Darth Vader and Chewbacca panties. Unfortunately, Princess Leia was not included in the pack.

She is the sweetest big sister and is always looking out for baby brother.

She is also a total goofball:

My cousin Haley made her her own colorguard flag!

Making a huge mess

cracking up with Aunt Linda

Hiking in her fairy wings

She loves sleeping in my shirts, just like I did at her age
with my dad's shirts.

She picked the outfit

The sheet over her head is her "wedding dress." She's getting "married" to Ryan.

Rylee gave Callum her "wedding dress." He's now a princess.

She is sweet, loving, funny, audacious, and amazing. Everyday, I strive to become more loving, patient, and kind for my daughter. I have a lot to work on, but I think I'm getting there and that we're raising a pretty spectacular person.

Happy third birthday, sweet girl. We're so glad to have you in our lives.