Jane is three!

Happy Birthday to Jane!

In the midst of all the Christmas crazy, we paused to pull out a birthday crown and blow out some candles. We are saving birthday gifts for her half birthday because the marginal utility of a gift received the day after Christmas is rather low. Besides, at three years old, Jane's only birthday requirement is cake. Easy! We also fixed Jane's favorite dinner: PASTA.

We cannot believe that she is already three years old, especially when we look at Ouisey and realize how much Jane has grown and learned since she was that tiny. Here are some pics that show Jane on her past birthdays... my how much they change each year!

Two years

One year

Zero years

One of Jane's favorite activities right now is hanging things around the house. Anything with a handle or string is likely to be found hanging on her dresser drawer knob, or the back door knob, etc. The ornaments from our Christmas tree were in constant rotation around the house...

Jane loves sorting and organizing things so much that when she discovered the easel she got for Christmas, she spent the first half hour just moving the crayons and chalk around to different compartments. I guess she would have been just as happy with a tackle box.

Jane has been a loyal companion on hundreds of Kroger runs in her three years. The stickers are genius. She gets so excited, even though the graphic has not changed since I was a kid. She has started asking for stickers at the check out line of every store now, which makes the employees feel really guilty if it is not a sticker distributing establishment. The guy at Home Depot ended up giving her a giant barcode sticker off of some kind of garden item.

Note: stickers hurt when peeled off of face skin

Jane continues to ham it up for the camera... anything but a smile. She also picked out this outfit. Please note the socks and sandals.

So, in this picture she is actually trying to smile. She walked into the nursery where I was sitting with Ouisey and said, "Mommy, look, I'm smiling. Take a picture."

One of my favorite things about Jane at three years old is all the funny things she says. Just listening to the way she views the world is so entertaining. Here are some highlights:


Jane (after reading a touch-n-feel book that said T-rex's have sticky tongues): What's he got a sticky tongue from?
Mommy: I don't know.
Jane: I think he ate some tape.


Jane: I'm just getting a rubber band for something... (looks around to see what she might need a rubber band for)... for my shopping cart. So it doesn't blow away.


Mommy: Did you go to the bank today?
Jane: No
Mommy: Why not?
Jane: Because we didn't buy any money for you.


Jane: You put all the gum together and that's how you make gum. You mix pink gum and "lello" gum and red gum and that's how you make blue gum.


Jane: My hair is so long. I think I'm going to need a haircut soon... maybe when I'm nine... or seventy-eight.


Jane (after opening our blinds a little bit): I'll just leave them like that for now, said Jane the big girl.


We love you, big girl Jane!