Music

Was busy cleaning the bathroom when Declan popped his head in the room and said "Mommy. Can I play you a song?"

I stopped everything, "yes!"

I follow the little man into our spare room where he starts to play with the guitar strings. He picks a bit, then looks up at me for approval. Next he sat down so I could place the guitar on his lap. Declan continues to play with the strings while he keeps glancing at me. It wasn't long before he asked for Daddy to join us so he could do a song for both of us. ❤️

Our Declan is becoming quite the helper too. This morning we had to go to Home Depot for a couple things. At the Self checkout Declan opened the bag, scanned all four items and placed them in the bag and finally took my card out from the machine once we were done. Just another reason why 3 is awesome. Now he's my sidekick.

I Love All the Parts

He's three.

He's testing us, he's bossy and demanding. He doesn't listen.

His emotions are diverse and will change in an instant. He has a huge vocabulary for three yet he blabbers on nonsense just because.

He gets mad at me for giving him exactly what he asked for.

I love all of this.

He gets up early in the morning. He delays bedtime as long as he can. He doesn't want to wear the pirate shorts to bed.

He will NOT try using the toilet.

He asks me how my day was when I get in from work.

He says I'm his best girl.

He needs a hug to go with the kiss.

He will sit on my lap for a brief time to watch something with me on TV.

He has the best memory. If you've said it, done it, gone there, seen something, he knows.

Where have you seen fish as pets before? "Gramma and Poppa's house."

I love all of it. 

They'll Be Lifelong Friends

Every time they see each other it's about 30 minutes before they fully warm up to each other. Declan just wants all

Chelsey's toys is just wondering where the Lego is.

Declan did cry a little when it was time for us to go home. He was ok once he knew we'll see them again in two weeks.

He's his own little person...

But he's also huge.

Weighed him today.

He is 40lbs.

Chelsey's House

Toy Box Blowup

Had a great day with Declan. He was in a good mood and we were having fun. I promise him we'd do something fun today so when he got up I announced we'd try a new park this morning. Now in the time between us discussing it and actually being ready to go Declan got out enough toys to cover the entire TV room. This was when I told Declan we could go to the park as soon as he put his toys away. He didn't want to. He told me to put them away myself. I simply stuck to my word, sat down on the couch and told him we could go once he'd cleaned up his toys.

He is stubborn. Declan tried his usual tactic of crying. I didn't budge. That's when he stopped crying just enough to say "you could give me something to make me feel better" and he pointed at monkey. 

He's smart. However...I got him his monkey and waited him out.

We went to the park about 30 minutes later.

Joker

"Knock, knock. Who's there? Declan. Ha ha ha ha ha."

I don't get it but he's just being introduced to the world of Knock, Knock jokes thanks to the SpongeBob movie.

So I tried.

"Knock, knock."

"Knock, knock."

"No. You says who's there."

"Knock, knock."

"Knock, knock."

"Ok. Knock, knock. Who's there. Banana."

"NO. Not banana. Doors not the right place for a banana mess. No."

To be continued:

Being Three

I just love when there's really nothing we need to do and Declan and I can just hang out. This morning was like that. Sure I had to be at work for 1pm but this morning was just tossing around a beach ball, rains, RC car, books, minion movies and even some cuddle time. Fantastic.

Little guy also covered my in stickers.

Really just a relaxing no pressure kid of morning and we had fun. Love him.