Maxwell at 3 Years

Weight: 30 lbs. 4 oz. (50th percentile)
Height: 37.4" (50th percentile)
Clothing size- 3T
Shoe size- 9

My favorite words:
bus- buhsh
yellow- lello

ice- eyesh
cup- bup
water- wah wah
water bottle- wah bow
rainbow- bay boh
train track- rain atch
Mickey- Mih-me
witch- itch
boot- boop

playground- pay nown
And my favorite word- he calls himself Match

He was in speech therapy for a year, but finally caught up to where he's supposed to be. He has a large vocabulary (I stopped keeping track of words he knows at about 2 1/2) and he consistently talks in three- and four-word sentences. He also asks questions and can almost always use his words to say what he is trying to communicate. 

He loves counting. Counting to 10= none, doo, ree, four, i, itch, eigh, nine, en. He always skips 7. He counts all the time and sometimes gets it right, but if we're counting he might point to the same items multiple times and skip other items, but he's getting the point that you point to items and count.

He's ALWAYS tattling. "JJ do it!" "Mimi do it!" "Daddy do it!" (He can't say Jackson and Mika, so it's JJ and Mimi.) He is such a drama queen. If we get on to him about anything, he puts on this big pouty face, looks down, and makes little sounds like he's going to cry.

He says "ee" (three) when you ask him how old he is. Then when we say, "You're not three! How old are you?" he says "oo" (two).

When we play Uno he likes to run around yelling, "UNO! UNO! UNO!" He tries to grab cards and throw them around.

He LOVES rainbows. He is always pointing them out (in the sky, in books, on clothes, etc) and saying "bayboh!"

Max's rainbow drawing

Favorites:

Songs- alphabet song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Old McDonald Had a Farm, and the Titipo theme song

TV shows- anything with nursery rhymes, Cocomelon, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Titipo and other shows with trains

Books-
Brown Bear Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
The Berenstain Bears On the Moon
Freight Train
10 Timid Ghosts

Toys- he basically plays with trucks and trains all day. Pretty much anything with wheels. He also enjoys puzzles like shape sorters and things to nest. He loves play-doh. He also really enjoys riding his balance bike.

Favorite places- zoo, playgrounds, pools

Potty Training-as of his third birthday, potty training was not going well. He has a really stubborn personality and could almost never be persuaded to sit on the potty. 

Chores- he's pretty good about bringing his dishes to the sink, putting his clothes in the hamper, putting his shoes away, and helping me clean up toys. Although to be honest, at the end of the day I'm usually too tired and overwhelmed to ask him to help me clean, but the times I do, he will sing the clean up song and help. (We sing, "Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere. Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share." He sings, "Be bup, be bup" over and over because he can't say the real words.)

Other random stuff:

He is always trying to keep up with Jackson and Mika and do everything they do.

He's really silly and is always trying to make jokes or silly faces to get us to laugh. 

He's so destructive. He is constantly breaking things, sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose. He also thinks it's so funny to get in the way. When he hears us transferring laundry into the dryer, he'll come running so he can throw the clothes on the floor or block the dryer with his body so we can't put in the clothes. He still loves messing with the dishwasher when we're trying to load it. He's constantly trying to break apart the Lego creations Jackson makes. When I play board games with the big kids, Max comes through like a tornado and tries to throw the pieces everywhere. I can't leave stacks of folded laundry anywhere for long or he'll come over and throw everything on the floor. (This is the one thing I will begrudgingly admit has been good for me, as it's forced me into the habit of putting laundry away almost immediately.)

He fusses for me to paint his toenails if he sees me or Mika doing ours. He likes us to use red or blue. He also asks Mika to put makeup on him if he sees her putting on makeup.