{"id":2362,"date":"2013-12-18T07:57:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T12:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2016-01-18T20:45:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T01:45:24","slug":"best-three-year-old-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/18\/best-three-year-old-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Three Year Old, Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not a fan of mommy wars and all the comparing kids and trying to one up each other but I might start one with my next statement: my 3 year old is better than yours!\u00a0 It has nothing to do with what she knows or what she can do or anything against your little one, Sugarplum just happens to be the funniest, coolest, best 3 year old I\u2019ve ever known!<\/p>\n

I have to admit, I\u2019ve never been a big fan of three year olds.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always felt the terrible twos had nothing on the threes!\u00a0 As a teacher, there were very few three year olds I really adored (when they were three).\u00a0 And even Honeybun was not my favorite during her three year old year.<\/p>\n

But Sugarplum has turned into quite the funny kid.\u00a0 Not only does she say really humorous things, but she makes the silliest yet sweetest little faces and is just so much fun to be around and I\u2019m really enjoying the time we have together in the mornings while Honeybun is at school and we can have one-on-one conversations and just enjoy each other\u2019s company.\u00a0 She makes me laugh every single day and the best part is most of the time she isn\u2019t even trying to be funny, she is just so darn cute!<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>But perhaps the best part of Sugarplum is how sweet she is. \u00a0She loves a good hug or snuggle and is so caring and gentle with her baby brother. \u00a0She is also very compassionate, always worried if someone else is upset and even though she is three, she is still tiny (only 27 pounds!) and likes to be carried around like a baby and I like folding her little body into tiny little packages and carrying her around.<\/p>\n

She is also in a point of accumulating vast knowledge and an understanding of the world around her and it is so interesting to me to hear about the connections she is making and how she sees the world.\u00a0 A few of my favorite moments for the past few months with Sugarplum:<\/p>\n

I got a coupon for free panties at Victoria\u2019s Secret.\u00a0 I told her we were going to go shopping at the mall the next day to get me some free underwear and she got all concerned explaining \u201cbut will they fit you?\u00a0 Mommy, I think you\u2019re too big for a free<\/i> underwear\u201d (holding up 3 fingers).\u00a0 We got the underwear and she\u2019s still confused about how I needed a \u201cfree\u201d underwear and it\u2019s come up multiple times.<\/p>\n

Sugarplum wasn\u2019t feeling well a few weeks ago and was curled up in my lap when she gently stroked my face and said \u201cI don\u2019t want an old mommy.\u201d\u00a0 I was confused by what she meant so asked if she wanted a different mommy and she said \u201cno, I want you but I don\u2019t want you to die.\u201d\u00a0 We often talk about how people die when they are old and\/or very sick so she was worried about me dying when I\u2019m old.<\/p>\n

Hitler came up in breakfast conversation (how you ask?\u00a0 Talking about Veteran\u2019 day led to Honeybun questioning why her great-grandpa went to war which led to discussing the places we visited in Germany and Hitler).\u00a0 Honeybun asked if Hitler was killed in the war and I explained he killed himself which led Sugarplum to ask if he had a hole in him.\u00a0 Not sure exactly what she meant by her question but technically, yes, yes he did have a hole in him.<\/p>\n

We often tease the girls about having things they aren\u2019t allowed to have like beer, wine and coffee and they\u2019re both really good about saying \u201cno, I can\u2019t have that!\u201d\u00a0 But one time while visiting Hubby\u2019s family for\u00a0 Thanksgiving, hubby offered her a beer but after her usual refusal she paused and asked then very sweetly \u201cbut is it good?\u201d<\/p>\n

The kids and I are big time Denver Bronco fans but sadly hubby roots for the Patriots.\u00a0 The morning the two teams played, the girls put on their Broncos shirts and Sugarplum ran up to hubby, pumped her fists in the air and yelled \u201cGO BRONCOS!\u201d\u00a0 (Luckily hubby\u2019s a good sport and we lost anyways\u2026I don\u2019t want to talk about it!)<\/p>\n

One of my favorite meals\/snacks growing up was melted cheese on a tortilla and it has become a favorite of Sugarplum\u2019s as well (my mom call\u2019s it a Mexican pizza, I simply call it a cheesy tortilla).\u00a0 She declared one Friday \u201cEvery Friday I want to have a cheesy tortilla for lunch.\u201d\u00a0 I obliged that day and a few weeks later we were on our way home after errands and she asked me what day it was.\u00a0 I told her it was Monday and she replied \u201cI don\u2019t want cheesy tortilla every Friday anymore.\u00a0 Now I want cheesy tortilla every Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not a fan of mommy wars and all the comparing kids and trying to one up each other but I might start one with my next statement: my 3 year old is better than yours!\u00a0 It has nothing to do with what she knows or what she can do or anything against your little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10024,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}