Mika at 3 Years

Weight: 31.5 lbs.
Height:37"
Clothing size: 3T/4T
Shoe size: 8
Favorite shows: Curious George, Garfield
Favorite book: The Bellybutton Book by Sandra Boynton

I may have gone a little overboard with her birthday outfit...

Favorite things she says:
chickmunk- chapstick
gwirl- girl
polka dox- polka dots
bruver- brother
ama-on- Amazon
pecause- because
What I did today? (We talk about what they did at bedtime each night.)
It's 100:45! (Because Jackson is always talking about time, she made up one.)

"Are you my mommy? Are you sure?"
"Yes, I gave birth to you."
"Well, Opa wuv birf and Daddy wuv birf and Mommy wuv birf" etc.
So I think she thinks birth is a present or something.
And then she asks Paul, "Are you my daddy?"
Paul: Yes.
Mika: Are you suuure?
Paul: I hope so.
Me: *big eyeroll*

She also figured out how to click her tongue a few months ago and now likes to do it a lot when talking.

Last day of being two *sniff*

Personality:
She is generally a really happy-go-lucky type of person. She can be a real drama queen, though. I can't differentiate between her cries. Screaming because she fell down and bloodied her knees sounds like screaming from someone saying, "Please don't do that." She is very sensitive and dissolves in tears if you say anything remotely negative. I was the same way when I was little.
Mika, like many girls, has great interpersonal intelligence. She is very in tune with people's emotions and how she should interact with them. Even when she was barely past her first birthday, she would notice if I felt sad and talk to me in a nice low voice and pat my back. She is very social and loves talking to strangers.

She also likes making my life as hard as possible when doing fun activities. 

Sleep:
I nixed afternoon naps because she wouldn't fall asleep until 10 or 11 p.m. That especially worried me because I'm a night owl and I've been one for as long as I can remember. I don't want her to be like me, I want her body to fall asleep at normal times. She usually falls asleep between 7:30 and 8 and sleeps for about 12 hours.

Potty Training:
I started training the day she turned two and a half. She was mostly day trained a month later. Another month and she was mostly trained for both day and night, but with a few accidents a week when she woke up. She hasn't had an accident since two weeks before her birthday.

She went to a Daddy-Daughter dance and had a blast. She talks 

about going "dancin in a pwetty dress" all the time.

Food:
This girl LOVES eating. She should compete in toddler eating contests. I can't believe she doesn't look like a sumo wrestler. She will eat anything, even any veggie I give her. She especially loves chicken, berries, fruit, brussels sprouts, and asparagus. Sometimes she will sit there and eat a pound of berries or strawberries or asparagus in addition to a chicken quarter or the like.

Clothes:
She can dress herself. The clothes might get put on backwards and/or inside out- but hey, I don't care. It's nice to be able to send her upstairs to go get dressed without having to go with her.

When she first started dressing herself all the time, she would give bows.

Miscellaneous stuff:

• I don't really sit down and "teach" her like I did/do with Jackson because she's not really interested in that stuff. Jackson was/is intensely interested in math, science, and literacy activities. Mika just wants to dance to music or bop around the house playing with dolls. Which is perfectly fine with me, I'm not going to push anything on her.
• She is obsessed with Hello Kitty. She'll say things like, "Helicopter! I love helicopters! I love a Hello Kitty helicopter!" She wants to go to a Hello Kitty preschool. I printed out some Hello Kitty preschool materials (puzzles, matching games, etc.) so that when I'm working with Jackson and Mika demands "homework" she has something to do. She also told me she wants our house to be a Hello Kitty house.
• She looooooves babies. She will go up to them and modify her speech to baby talk and her facial expressions to be very exaggerated. I have lost her in stores only to find her stalking moms with babies.
• She loves helping me with housework. She especially loves vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, and washing dishes. If only this enthusiasm would last another fifteen years.
• She is a stereotypical girl and loves dresses, shoes, handbags, hair bows, and anything pink. She loves taking care of baby dolls.

She refused to put any color but pink in her basket.