10 things you may not know about MY three year old

1.  He says blue is his favorite color but if there is something bright yellow he picks it EVERY TIME.

2.  He loathes taking naps, but always requires one so as not to turn into a whiny, demon child about six pm.  We are at about 3.5/7 for weekly napping.

3.  He loves to play doctor, and his diagnostic tool of choice is to take your “fleaflex” and hit your leg with a tiny blue plastic hammer.

4.  His favored dinosaur is a tyrannosaurus rex and he will quickly point out to you they are carnivores who eat meat and they lived in the cretaceous period.  If I want him to eat meat I tell him it is carrion and he is a T-rex.

5.  He takes his shoes off inside without exception, a problem when he first started school.

6.  He never enjoys fireworks, bounce houses, hibachi restaurants, or sprinklers–BUT says he likes all four.  As soon as he is in the vicinity of any of them?  HATE.

7.  His favorite ice cream concoction?  Swiss chocolate from Marble Slab with “smarshmellows”, Oreo bits, and a cherry on top in a cone.  (mine is Swiss chocolate with marshmallows, walnuts, and hot fudge in a cone bowl)

8.  While he rarely has potty related accidents, it is like pulling teeth trying to get him to go.  Things that work? Peeing on fruit loops, turning off the lights and shining a flash light on the toilet, sitting on the floor in front of him and reading a book, racing with daddy, pretending he is a train and letting off steam, pretending he is a race car and changing his oil.  Things that NEVER work? Reasoning with him, pleading, begging, threatening, crying, bribing.

9.  He wants to read everything and gets irritated he can’t do it by himself.  (yet) We average about 12 books a day–often times some more than once.  (NO MORE MATER AND THE GHOST LIGHT!! AGGH!)

10.  He is not easy.  In fact being his Mama is kind of exhausting, but never boring, and so much fun–and he always saves his best hugs for me.

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