Last month (oof- wish I was more on top of this!) we celebrated Zayden's 3rd birthday. I feel like we're starting to shift into a new stage of parenthood-- the one with no babies around. Yes. My baby is no longer a baby at all. He's very independent. He's fearless, he's silly and funny. He's loving and affectionate. He's stubborn- but the times he's stubborn are usually inopportune ones. He's my little mover and shaker-- he can always be found dancing to a good beat. He's sweet and just a little on the small side for his age, but who knows he could sprout up at any time.
His 3 year stats are as follows:
Weight: 29.5lbs (23%)
Height: 36" tall (13%)
Zee loves to help out (on his terms) with cooking and cleaning.
His favorite chore is vacuuming and he's actually quite thorough when he does it.
It can be hard to be the littlest one-- often in the shadow of older siblings, but Zayden finds his own ways to stand out. He's definitely into puzzles as of late. Has a little obsession with the Little Mermaid movie/ and or book (mostly due to Ursula and all the music- I think). He likes to play sports with dad or his brothers. He loves superheroes and has quite the imagination while playing with them. My favorite thing about Zayden right now is when he walks over to me and says very sweetly "My love you". He's been saying My instead of I for a while now and I've tried to correct him, however I find that there's a tiny part of me that loves that he says it wrong. The other thing he says after I respond with "I love you too" is a follow up from him with "Me too!"
Zayden loves nursery and for now is the oldest one in there (and has another year left). He likes to sing songs and I was surprised to find out that he knows Follow the Prophet, or at least the chorus.
Zee is at the age where he didn't particularly care what we did for his party, but did request strawberries on his cake. Since his birthday fell around March madness playoffs we sort of went with a vintage sports theme. He was quite happy about the hot dogs and chips and popcorn...
Since I had such a small request from him for a cake I decided to go with strawberry and cake batter ice cream cake topped with whipped cream and layered on a graham cracker crust.
We learned that holding three fingers is a little tricky, but sticking you tongue out definitely helps.
Zayden was spoiled by our family and close friends.
He got new superheroes, water balloons, clothes, a cape and mask, puzzles, farm animals, and lots of other stuff.
I'm know Zee loves when we get to see his little cousin Cash.
I'm also pretty sure Cash was eyeing all the things he wanted to get his hands on, but couldn't. ha ha!
All in all, we are so blessed to have this little 3 year old stud in our family.
It just wouldn't be complete without our third little musketeer.
Happy Birthday our little Zayden Jace!
