Audra's 3rd Birthday!

 Happy 3rd Birthday to our sweet, baby Audra!

We celebrated three years by having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese with our immediate family (due to Covid still being a factor with other family getting together with us).  We played games and the kids exchanged their game tickets for giant lollipops and toys.  We then came home to open presents, eat pizza, and have some Frozen themed cake.  Some presents received were money and a puppy playhouse from Aunt Cindy and family, Play-doh and shapes from Xavier, a Peppa Pig play house from Shelby, some pennies for her piggy bank, unicorn jewelry box, new shoes, and a mermaid tail to name a few. 

At Audra's 3 year appointment, we discussed with Dr. Jen that Audra needed to get rid of the night time pacifier (so we stopped using it that night).  It only took 3 nights before she completely stopped asking for it.  We also discussed kicking up potty training.  Audra has been introduced to the Elmo musical potty, but she's not really used it.  She sits on it with her pants or diaper on.  We started really using that potty the following week (more on that in a separate post).  And finally, we discussed her diet needed to change since she was eating so much peanut butter, sometimes for lunch and dinner.  Going forward she's only allowed one serving of peanut butter a day, and she has to eat more variety of fruits and meat.  She eats Dino nuggets and fish sticks, but she doesn't really eat the foods we eat, so we have to start making her eat our dinners.  She does great with milk, 1 cup at breakfast and 1 cup at dinner, but we need to start having her eat a serving of yogurt or cheese each day.  We also had to start giving her a Flinstone's chewable vitamin.  We started mixing a crushed up vitamin in applesauce for her.

 Audra's 3rd Birthday stats:

Height:  36 inches

Weight:  36 pounds (at 40 pounds, she can get out of her carseat and use a booster chair!)

Favorite Food:  peanut butter crackers, cheese crackers, strawberries, pears, popcorn, Pirate's Booty, Veggie straws

Least Favorite Food:  anything green, any meat we eat, most new things (haha)

Favorite Activities: jumping on the trampoline, going on walks and stroller rides, playing with Jasper, reading books in Mommy's bed, art class, gymnastics, play-doh

Least Favorite Activities: going down for nap, leaving the house unless going to art class or gymnastics class, trying new food

Signature Move:  pooping in her diaper and then sticking her booty out, saying "na, na-na, na, na" while showing us what she did.

Audra's favorite books at the moment are mostly ones that I grew up with.  We like to read:

Caps For Sale (she loves saying "Caps! Caps for sale! 50 cents a cap!")

Imogene's Antler's

Imogene Comes Back!

Clifford's 1st Valentine's Day and other baby Clifford books (she likes him as a little puppy)

Little Critter books

King Bidgood's in the Bathtub

Our little Audra, the sweetest, smartest 3 year old we know.  We wish you the best 3rd year and can't wait to see you grow and learn new things!