Three Years Old

Karston is three years old now! My mother joined us for dinner, and for a few presents. Karston definitely understands presents this time!

Shortly after Cale was born, I filled out a survey about Karston's language skills, so it's very obvious to me how much he has learned, vocabulary and sentence structure, just in the past few months. Just in the past two weeks, Karston has switched from saying Mimi to saying Mary (too bad; I think we all liked Mimi). He has also started saying please, thank you, and sorry frequently. I planned to start my campaign for manners in about 6 months since I thought that was developmentally appropriate, but I sure don't mind if he picks it up now!

One of his early birthday presents was a pair of safety scissors. Oh my, does he love cutting paper! No wonder his preschool teachers were impressed with his fine motor skills! Another early present was a belt. He's been fixated on putting on Daddy's belt, usually on Daddy. So when he asked, Hey, where's my belt?, he got another early present. When he got sprayed by the hose recently, he wasn't worried that he and his clothes were wet. He was deeply concerned that his belt was wet! Luckily that was easy to fix.