Isabella's 3.25 yr update

Isabella turned 3 1/4 year old on Nov 6th (again, slow to update our blog!). We had her in for her 3 year well check up at the doctor mid October. She weighed in at 41 lbs and was 40". She is in the 95% for both her height & weight... so a big girl. :)

Many days Isabella amazes us with her intelligence... it is so hard to remember all the great things she comes up with! But she tries out new words all the time- the other day she came to me and said, "Mommy, I'm sorry I frustrated you." Awwww!

She asks questions all the time & many are hard to answer! How do you explain to a three year old what happens to you when you die? These are the questions I get when we're driving down the road! And explaining things just brings about more hard to answer questions.

Isabella is a very opinionated little girl and will tell you all about it. We hear almost daily, "I'm not going to..." or "if you don't let me do this, I'll..." One thing she says is that she is going to run away. (thanks Lil Critter & the Runaway Bunny!) One night, she says this while getting ready for bed. Mike walks her to the front door, opens it & says, "see ya!" Now it's a pretty chilly night & she had yet to get her socks on. Mike goes to close the door & she asks, "but when will I see you again?" We tell her when she is ready to come inside, she can knock on the door. Well after shutting the door it takes about 2 seconds before she is knocking. So I guess she really didn't want to run away after all. A couple weeks after this she tells me she wants to run away but will come back to eat. ;) We have our challenges with Isabella but there is a lot of comic relief!

In the picture above where Isabella has flowers on her forehead is another good example of how opinionated she is. We went to a local food picnic (which was very cold!) & Isabella wanted flowers painted on her face. She came up with this all on her own & didn't want what all the other kids were getting. The lady asked her what her favorite color was & she said blue (really??). So the lady painted blue flowers on her face then showed them to her in the mirror. I could see she wasn't happy & Isabella started to complain as I got her down from the chair & we said our thank yous. As soon as we were out the door, tears started flowing & Isabella was saying how she didn't like her flowers. She had wanted a large flower all over her face- not a bunch of little ones on her forehead. :( Poor girl.

Isabella loves to play games like candy land and enjoys imaginative play.  She said the other day she wished she could go inside the snow globe with the snowman. :)  She has fun entertaining her brother... for a few minutes at a time, and he enjoys being entertained by her.  She is a girl that is always on the go and always wants to go somewhere.  Nearly every morning she asks, "where are we going today?"  And if we're not going anywhere, she isn't too happy about it!

We are looking forward to Christmas... Isabella is excited about all our Christmas time traditions and so are we!