The Allen Family: 3! (A little late, but better than never)

Haylie turned 3 last month!! I can't believe it! She is just the cutest, sweetest, sassiest girl ever. Here are some funny things she does now that (can) annoy the heck out of me but I'll undoubtedly look back on and miss. Not anytime soon though.

-Her voice. It's very sweet unless she's yelling. Or whining. Or crying. Then it gets into octaves only dogs can hear.
-Her sass. She is so good at turning my own words around on me. And she puts her chubby little hands on her hips almost all the time when she talks. Adorable.
-Her need to be heard. She's at the stage where she has absolutely no patience. She needs you to listen to her. Right now. So she'll do things like not even saying things in a normal voice but going straight to yelling. Or she'll turn your face so you're nose to nose with her so she has your undivided attention. The other day she was outside with a bunch of kids and she stood in the middle of the circle waving her arms yelling "guys, listen to me!!".
-Her heart. She is so loving. She tells me so many times a day that she loves me. It makes me feel guilty when I'm upset about something and I'm about to reprimand her and she comes up, grabs my face and says, "Mom, I love you". Melt my heart.
-Her eyes. All of my kids have beautiful eyes. But how she uses them to express things is awesome. She will tell some great stories and the best part is her facial expressions.
-Her stubbornness. Man this girl is stubborn. It's great because a lot of the time when she doesn't want to do something she just pretends like she can't hear you.
-Her inability to walk on flat ground. This summer she has gotten more bumps and bruises than I have ever seen on a kid. It's amazing how she cannot walk across a room without falling or running into something. On my birthday last week she fell down The Loveridges back stairs. Nothing tripped her. She just can't put one foot in front of the other. And I tend to ask her to not run because I know it will end in her eating it.
-Potty training. Well, the lack of it I guess. This is also where the stubbornness comes in. She just won't do it. She could if she wanted to. She knows when she's "going" and makes me change her right after but she won't do it on the potty. Whatever.
-Her hair. She has perfect little ringlets right now and I love them. I love how if I leave it down by the end of the day is it crazy. She is in a phase right now where she doesn't want me doing her hair so most of the time she looks like a ragamuffin. Oh well.

We didn't really do anything on her birthday because Brandon was working and I have been ridiculously stressed out. It just wasn't worth it to stretch my sanity any more to throw her a party that she didn't care about and won't remember. So I took the kids to Cocoa Bean and we had cupcakes. Then on the Saturday after we went to Seven Peaks and then to McDonalds after. Which is pretty much a perfect day to a 3 year old.