It can’t be! Our “Precious” has turned THREE! Wasn’t she just a baby???
10/6/2007- 3 1/2 weeks old.
1/13/2009- 17 months old.
Savannah at three-
As your Pap Pap says- you have so much “ZIP”!!! Oh my, you are so funny- you keep us all in stitches.
-Pap Pap’s favorite story on you: He was here visiting for several days this past spring. He was sitting next to you at the table while we ate dinner. Teasingly, he put his finger on your plate and started to drag it towards him- pretending he was going to take it. Now you like food- any & all food and are just a bit possessive about your personal space at the table. So Pap Pap starts to steal your plate and you let out a “HEY!”. Pap Pap lets go and waits a minute and then tries to steal it again- You say “HEEEEY!!!!!!” . Then Pap Pap went after it a third time and shouted “HEEEEEYYYYYYY!” long & loud! You were really warning him- hands off my food! We have laughed and laughed about this over the past few months.
-You’ve come a long way in the last year. On your second birthday you were still a relatively new & unsteady walker. You didn’t walk until 21 months old. You were not talking much and, in fact, had speech therapy all last year- finally graduating from it this May. What a difference a year makes! Now you are RUNNING everywhere- going as fast as you can to keep up with the big kids. And talking? You have a LOT to say now! Daddy and I often call you “the little informer” because you are quick to rat out your big brother & sister. (Not that they don’t do the same to you!)
-Last winter, (November or December I think) you moved out of the nursery and into Mary’s room! You are still sleeping in a crib- mostly for containment! Also- I am a bit worried about you getting up & wandering at night- the stairs are near your bedroom door and I’m a little afraid you might take a fall so for now I am keeping you in the crib. I anticipate you will be out of the crib and into the bunkbed with Mary sometime soon. You love sleeping in your big girl room and it is such a pleasure to Daddy & I to hear you and Mary up late talking away. I hope all three of you girls will be close as you grow to adulthood! We have set you & Mary’s room up as a little girl’s paradise- we moved the wooden kitchen and refrigerator up there along with all the play food. We put the table and chair set in the middle of the room- you girls have plenty of tea parties at that little table! The doll house is in your room now as well as the wooden doll cradle I got for my 5th birthday when I was a little girl and a dolly white wicker bassinette like the one Lyra sleeps in. The desk that I got for my 12th birthday (with the shell on the drawer) in in the room with a CD player on it for listening to books on tape and your wooden cosmetic set. It’s just the perfect little girls room!
-You still love your “raffi” and carry him everywhere with you- either clutching him in your first or, for some odd reason, you often bite him and carry him in your mouth. Raffi has lost his stuffing and is thoroughly dingy from being carried everywhere but you don’t care- you love your Raffi.
-All of a sudden you just look older- you’ve lost that baby/toddler look! Your blondilocks have really grown- your hair is starting to get long. Another change we’ve noticed is your eyes! All of our kids have had blue eyes and you did too for the first two years. Slowly over the last year your eyes have changed color- you know have beautiful GREEN eyes, just like your Uncle Mikey! (and had you been a boy you would have been named Michael Edward after Uncle Mikey and Pap Pap) Your hair is an absolute nest in the morning- Daddy has taken to teasingly calling you “Phyllis Diller” in the morning. 
-Miscellaneous Stuff About You- You love Dora the Explorer. I’ve never been a fan of this kind of thing but you are so cute about it we’ve let it slide. The mosquitos love you. All three of you big kids can be outside- Mary & Nathan won’t hardly have a bite on them but you’ll be covered. I’ve counted as many as 20 bites on you after just a few minutes of being outside. And they turn into large, red, welts- it’s awful. Bug spray doesn’t seem to do anything. At least the AfterBite helps. You must have sweet meat. This is so funny to your Dad and I- You Love to Sing THEME SONGS! You sing the song to Hong Kong Phooey (a 1960′s cartoon we got on Netflix), SpiderMan and Scooby Doo (all the old versions from the 1960′s and 1970′s.) It is so, so funny to hear you wandering about the house singing “spiderman, spiderman, does whatever a spider can, spins a web, any size….”
-We’ve had a potty training miracle! After perfectly awful experiences with Mary and Nathan I was just dreading potty training you and kept putting it off. Around the middle of July you came to me one day and said you wanted to go pee pee in the potty. Now you’ve said this before and done nothing but I thought there was no harm to letting you try again. And from that moment forward you were potty trained! You did it completely yourself with no help from me- it was amazing! We put you in underwear and you were dry all day, naptime and nighttime from that moment forward. You’ve had two little pee accidents- once when I couldn’t hear you calling me at naptime and another time at a playground. It is amazing and such a blessing!
-Little Miss Priss- you hate, hate, HATE to be dirty. This spring you kids were playing outside after a rainstorm. You guys were riding the wagon down the little hill at the front of the house. The wagon tipped over at the bottom of the hill, dumping you into a mud puddle. You came running up to the house, arms spread wide open, mud and dirt dripping everywhere, so HORRIFIED you were hysterical to the point of almost speechlessness. I got you cleaned up and for months afterwards you told everyone “Fall down sticky mud, fall down sticky mud, mommy clean me”. You don’t particularly like to play in the sprinklers either since the water splashing up on you causes dirt & grass to stick to your legs and arms. You were not happy when we were painting one day because you got paint on your arm. You must wash your hands immediately after eating. I wonder if this means you will be an excellent house keeper when you have a home of your own?
-Speaking of Little Miss Priss- you love your twirly dresses and your jewelry. MOST days you are decked out in at least 1-2 necklaces, 7 or 8 bracelets, your binoculars, sunglasses if we are going somewhere, hairbows, pocketbooks, etc. You like to be fully accessorized for any occasion. We so love the pictures we had taken of you in July in the pink dress because they are so perfectly YOU at three! The pink twirly dress, the jewelry, pocketbook, hairbow & raffi. I know we will always look at these pictures and remember how wonderfully they capture the essence of you right now. In addition to the million other little nicknames we have for you, Daddy often calls you “Little Miss Got Rocks” because of your love of jewelry.
Savannah- You bring so much JOY to our family- We just love our precious girl!
