3 years of Georgie

How in the world did we get from this tiny, precious baby...

 to this silly, playful, talkative, beautiful girl?

Our amazing Georgie girl turned 3 last week and she is quite the queen of the house (excuse me, princess - she always corrects me if I call her Queen Georgie). She talks and talks all the day long, until she decides she is sad/frustrated/temporarily deaf and ignores all questions and comments directed to her. She is also very skilled at rolling her eyes, pouting, and glaring. Three-nager, anyone?

We love hearing Georgie's funny phrases and wild stories/songs, which she shares constantly. She weaves everything into each other - real life and TV shows and book plots and songs - so her animals get names from the scriptures as they run away from dinosaurs at the zoo in the Umi Car to find Cinderella. She is proficient at talking now, but she still has a few funny quirks; for example, instead of "forget" she says "get-for" as in, "Oops, I get-for my shoes!" She is my little parrot and everything I say, good or bad, gets repeated back to me: "Sweetie" and "Here's an idea" and "Let's make a deal" and "You're not listening to me!" (She hears that a lot lately.) Mostly, she is so much fun to talk to!

Georgie's favorite toys are her kitchen things: play food, dishes, utensils, and pretend appliances are her go-to every day. Her other favorite toys are the little people and animal figurines we're accumulated. She also loves dressing up from her shoes to her hats and putting things in bags (usually the play food and/or figurines). She loves reading and art time, especially the homemade play dough I just introduced her to.

Georgie is becoming less of a picky eater, mostly because I can tell her that if she doesn't try something, she won't get a treat (she'll do almost anything for candy). Her latest new favorite is kiwi. Interestingly, she does not love bread or rolls in any form, not even muffins or cupcakes, though she will eat bread with peanut butter sometimes.

Georgie is still very very sensitive to emotion. Getting excited and genuinely thrilled about something (for example, "This is my favorite part of the movie!") is the number one way to get her to dance around in excitement. Yelling at her or even just raising your voice is the number one way to make her cry. She's very tender and sweet, and she is learning to watch out for her little sister and take care of her (though there is still plenty of hitting/kicking/pushing going on).  

She has grasped the concept of death and we talk about it almost daily. Literally two or three times a day, Georgie asks me, "You remember Grandma Great and Grandpa Great pass away? And Daddy's Grammy? And Gumps?" We talk about how they are living with Heavenly Father now and sometimes she starts to cry: "I don't want to live there! I want to stay here!" She's definitely processing some things. She also gets VERY concerned about "owies" and every little scratch gets noticed. Bleeding super upsets her, and she will both fight tooth and nail to avoid getting a band-aid put on and then fight tooth and nail when you try to take it off. 

Georgie takes a nap maybe once a week now, but she still gets about two hours of quiet time while Rosie naps in the afternoons. She is nowhere near potty trained because she doesn't want to be and I'm not willing to make it an issue yet. Maybe next month? She loves to go outside, loves nursery, loves to say "Hi Temple!" every time we drive past it, loves to go to Nana's house, loves to watch shows, loves to help me in the kitchen, and loves to do all sorts of things she knows she shouldn't. In spite of not listening and testing her boundaries a lot lately, she really is a wonderfully sweet and good little girl who we only just keep up with. We love this Georgie girl of ours and love every bit of who she is becoming. Here to another busy year!