We absolutely love and adore you but oh man you are not an easy baby. You whine A LOT (possibly due to teething but not sure), insist on crawling everywhere- stores are a huge no go, you absolutely despise the car, are a picky eater, are extremely determined, throw back arching tantrums already, and bite from time to time. Somehow through all of that though, you are still sweet. Still tame. Still absolutely adorable. Still the biggest cuddle bug. Still the biggest Mama's boy. And we love you all the same!! You can say Mama and Dada, can crawl insanely fast haha, take 2-3 steps before you get scared, looooooove being outside, love to be held, and are beautifully snuggly- cuddling up into my shoulder with your arms wiggled in between your body and mine so you feel extra close. Weekends we do 1 nap and weekdays we do 2 haha probably will transition you to 1 all the time in June when Ro is out of school. You sleep so dang good at night though and literally never wake up. Your schedule right now is wake up between 7-7:30, nap from 10-12:30 (I have to wake you up most days), second nap 3:30-5 (woken up the large majority of the time), and in bed at 8:30 for the night. You absolutely adore your sister and you both just laugh/giggle and play constantly. It's the most heart warming thing to see. You love to be held and you really like being the center of attention. When you don't seem to be hurting/teething/whining, you are just the sweetest little guy and so content and your snuggles absolutely melt me. It is SO dang hard to have 2 children, work, be the YW's, president, and make sure you both feel loved but I am trying. I feel I often come up short but I am trying with all I've got. You both are more than worth it!! I love you Zaney-boy, "buggey!" We will get through this hard phase and I know it will be so worth it!!
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THREE!!! I can't believe you're 3 but it also has felt like you have been 2 for a super long time haha. You can be the sweetest of sweet and kiss our faces off telling us how much you love us and then you can be super sensitive and get upset if you feel like you disappointed us. It absolutely breaks us so we have been working on this a lot to improve our home. If we talk super softly and kindly to you when you are having a hard time/tantrum it REALLY helps and almost instantly calms you down. We try so hard so that we are always your safe place. It is our goal that you will feel loved and safe that you can tell us anything and be your truest self with us.
You have such a strong will to do good and you love to be rewarded and told you are doing a good job. You really thrive from this. When we focus on the good, it truly gets better and you behave so well. We can reason with you pretty good; you have very advanced thinking and really understand what we are saying if we tell you why or how we shouldn't be doing something. You started school this past year and you have truly loved it; I hesitated for awhile becuase your behavipr did seem to get a little worse but could've been an age thing too. You freeze up at school around adults but thrive great with your friends. You love Victoria and Fallon the most. You also started a legit dance class this month and its all you talk about! You wear your dance shoes daily, keep asking for the next ballet class (only once a week), and have done a few ballet YouTube videos as well. You are a great eater- sometimes picky and hate anything spicy, love to brush your teeth on your own, love mickey/minnie mouse as that's what we did for your party and you were in heaven, are a great sleeper, still nap great, and ask us every night if we will sleep with you. You've now started to ask for brother to sleep with you haha. You are such a good big sister and a truly amazing help to me (your Mom). You bring him toys or food to keep him happy, pick him up if he's doing something he shouldn't, bring him to me if he's upset, bring things to me like a daiper and wipes to help out etc. You are seriously such a good helper. You love him 90% of the time which is a huge improvement from when we first brought him home. You had a really hard time adjusting and sharing attention and sometimes still copy what he does when he receives attention instead of you. But now you giggle and play with him all day long- it's truly the best thing to hear you both laugh together. You are not good at sharing though haha- not one bit! But you both will learn :) Oh our sweet and smiley Zane!! Your smile is truly infectious, you will look at us smiling and wait for us to look back at you and smile to you haha its the cutest thing. You are a total people person and love to make people smile, stare in awe of others- especially little kids, and I feel like are going to be one of those extroverts that is fueled by being around other people. You are insanely determined- it kind of scares your parents hahaha but mostly I think it will be an incredible trait. You do things your own way, will go/say/accomplish whatever you set your mind to. You are crawling like crazy and started since 8 months old. You climb stairs like nothing, go over and under things like no big deal, and are super super active/wild/wiggly. Church is basically not very fun for you haha. You just love to be down on the ground crawling OR outside. Outside is your favorite. You are absolutely enthralled by your sister and she has absolutely loooooved playing with you lately. She constantly asks us to put you down so she can play with you. You love to be held kind of a lot haha, but especially when teething or if you accidentally had dairy. Dairy still seems to very much affect you, but not as much if I have a little, I just have a threshold of how much dairy you are able to consume from my breastmilk. You can't have any straight up. Good thing the world has soooooo many dairy free subbstitutes these days. You are gorgeous; everyone comments on your breathtakingly piercing blue eycs. You haven't lost any hair ever so now its starting to curl around your ears and neck. You have 7.5 teeth and sleep wonderfully. Your schedule right now and for the past couple months has been 6:30-6:45 wake up, nap 10-12:20/12:30 (most days I have to wake you up to grab Ro from school), then 2nd nap 2:30/2:45 for 1 hour. Bedtime at 8-8:15pm. We have tried to give you a wide variety of foods and replicate what we did with Ro since she isn't picky still, but it is veryyyy hard with having to not feed you any dairy in the slightest. You are happy go lucky and love doing your own thing, but are extra happy with Rovi around to play with you. That is my go to if you are fussy- to have sister help me haha. You HATE diaper changes, love your Mama, say Mama still all day long (no other words), snuggle sometimes especially when super tired, love your schedule, and don't like being in the car longer than 20 minutes. You are an amazing baby and incredible son for me. You have changed how I feel about having boys and I pray that you will remain sweet and happy. I love you my sweet precious baby boy; there is nothing better than having a baby on my hip or crawling around in oour home. You truly light up my world!
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