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Celebrating at school
Everyone wanted to help Holt open his gifts this morning. Pierce had a bit of hard time with it not being his birthday today. However, he did tell us tonight that Holt told him he could put his presents in his cabinet so they would stay 'safe.'
Our breakfast at the pancake house. Holt ate ALL of these chocolate chip pancakes, my last pancake and then told me he was hungry when we got home and had a cereal bar. Only to be followed with pizza at Chuck E. Cheese and 5 tacos for dinner and then cake and icecream. The boy can eat!

Holt turns three today! Oh how we love this boy. He has become such a big boy lately. He dropped his paci, without even so much as a cry. This one took us by total shock, I thought it was going to be a long drawn out battle and he just did it and to my surprise is still taking naps! He also shocked me when we were doing Valentines for school and Pierce was writing out his friends names and his name on his and Holt says “Mommy, I want to write my name.” I was reluctant to hand over the pen thinking he might scribble over his friends names..and what does he do, he writes his name, I couldn’t even believe it. With Pierce I probably sat down with him and showed him how to do this but I have never even taught Holt. So where I use to think they really didn’t learn anything in preschool, not so true with a second child.
He also has started to love to snuggle with me and will randomly come up and hug and kiss me and say, “Love you mommy.” He never was a snuggler so this has melted my heart, I can’t get enough of hugs. He also comes up and says “rub noses mommy.”
His language seems to improve by the day. Even to the point of me wondering, are you really only three? As the other night I was getting our potatoes out of the oven and just about dropped the pan. I gasped and Holt asked what happened. So I tell him I almost dropped all the potatoes. And his response was, “That was not cool Mom.” He also has just about the sweetest and most convincing “Please Mom” I’ve ever heard when he wants something. And a “sorry mom” that can’t help me from forgiving him. And the one saying that cracks us up lately is “gotta go peep,” not pee peep or pee or number #1, but Peep!
When we decided to have a third and afterwards I always felt a little bad for Holt, thinking he would be a middle child and had to follow Pierce and then a sweet baby girl behind him. However, he has nothing to worry about, he has captured our hearts and everyone who meets him and is such a blessing to our family. We love you buddy!! Happy 3rd Birthday!

Look how much he has grown up in three years!
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