All about G3

"Interview" with G3:

Favorite color: pink
Favorite number: 1
Favorite letter: D
Best friends: "You" - Mommy
Favorite toy: A baby
Favorite movie: Shrek
Favorite show: Yo Gabba Gabba
Favorite food: "Pa-stuff"
Favorite thing to do: "Making paint" aka painting
Favorite drink: juice

G3, based on chart up to 3-years:

*Imitates adults and playmates
*Spontaneously shows affection for familiar playmates
*Can take turns in games
*Understands concept of "mine" and "his/hers"
*Expresses affection openly
*Makes mechanical toys work
*Turns rotating handles
*Matches an object in her hand or room to a picture in a book
*Plays make-believe with dolls, animals, and people
*Completes puzzles with three to four pieces
*Understands the concept of "two"
*Follows a two- or three-part command
*Recognizes and identifies almost all common objects and pictures
*Understands most sentences
*Understands places in space ("on," "in," "under")
*Uses 4 to 5 word sentences
*Can say name, age, and sex
*Uses pronouns (I, you, me, we, they) and some plurals (cars, dogs, cats)
*Strangers can understand most of her words
*Climbs well
*Walks up and down stairs, alternating feet
*Kicks ball
*Runs easily (we know she can run, but she rarely really does)
*Bends over easily without falling
*Makes up-and-down, side-to-side, and circular lines with pencil or crayon
*Turns book pages on at a time
*Screws and unscrews jar lids (and the like)

G3 talks. She actually does talk quite a bit. It just doesn't seem like it when also listening to G1 and G2. Unless she is excited about something and then I think she talks more than anyone.

G3 is working on potty training. Most days she wears "big girl" underwear and has very few to no accidents. We even went to Iowa and she wore her "big girl" underwear and did awesome!

G3 really wants to be going to school with G1. The other day when we dropped him off she had a full on temper-tantrum at the school because we had to leave. I feel so bad for her. :-(

G3 is always anxious to help me out, unless that involves picking things up off the floor.

If we are not home it is very hard to calm G3 down when upset. If we are home she just needs to spend a couple minutes in her room (with her "Happy") and then she is fine.

G3 can open doors, but doesn't do so very often unless told to.

She continues to like doing her own thing, although she has been playing with the others more lately.

G3 loves all things twins. She gets excited when we point out other sets of twins and seems to be drawn to anything twin-related.

We are so incredibly blessed to have G3 in our family.

G2 and G3 have really been conversing with each other a lot lately. I love how "grown-up" their conversations are getting. They are so concerned about each other too. It is so amazing to see the connection they have. Although, neither one will claim to be the other's twin. We try to convince them of it but they tell us no and then tell us that someone else is their twin.