Quinnie Blue at 3 . . .

• drives his Fisher Price Little People Zoo train around the house loaded with his horses, Will's bunnies, and the airport cab driver as the engineer.
• asks for his "animals" immediately entering the family room in the morning.
• loves to swing.
• asks often to go to Target to "buy more animals" - must buy stock in Schleich!
• tells stories of a boy named Noah.
• greets other Dierbergs customers with a loud repetitive "Hello!" shouted from the driver's seat of the rocketship cart.
• fears doctors, dentists, and haircuts.
• adores his big brother.
• digs, fills, pours, and dumps sand.
• yells "Welcome to Circus Flora!" and begins performing "tricks" - somesaults, tumbling, jumping.
• gallops through life.
• chooses "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" as his bedtime story 5 out of 7 nights a week.
• talks about driving a bulldozer.
• tucks his screwdriver into the waistband of his underwear.
• uses his shovel to dig holes in the yard to "build a foundation."
• taught himself to use the potty.
• asks, "Sir, do you need anything to be fixed?"
• wears Will's pink Cardinals hat backwards and "work gloves."
• tells us "Don't bother me. I am going poop."
• requests the song "Good Dog Blue" on repeat.
• imagines anything and everything is some sort of construction equipment . . . my arm becomes an "excabator" and a straw is a "big crane."
• asks repeatedly, "why he wearing a helmet?" when watching the Cardinals game.
• drags out bedtime for what feels like an eternity.
• rides his "steel two wheeler" with training wheels.
• greets all of the neighbors.
• pretends to be the newspaper delivery man by rolling up little scraps of paper, running through the house, and throwing them while yelling, "Newspaper!"
• is perfecting the art of working out problems and compromising with his older brother. "Will, I know a plan! How about . . ."
• requests to see the elk and bison at Lone Elk anytime we are in the vicinity of 44 & 141.
• loves the color yellow, but likes to wear his "chocolate brown" or "naby blue" shirts.
• snuggles, kisses, and hugs spontaneously.
• started planning his Goldilocks & the 3 Bears themed birthday party 4 months ago.
• picks up and holds our pet mice Mortimer and Ralph.
• digs for worms.
• looks forward to his first Cardinals game.
• announces grouchily "I am ready to get up!" immediately after waking.
• negotiates with me. "Mommy! PLEEEEASE! Mom-my! Mom-my!"
• waits for the pitched ball to hit the ground before taking a swing.
• refuses help much of the time.
• is persistent.
• dreams about monsters in the attic.
• wishes he could climb up and see our attic.
• names many of his toy horses including the large stuffed one from Circus Flora "Nipples."
• is super polite.
• recalls an event from the past asking, "Remember that?"
• is truly my sunshine!
• might be growing older, but he will ALWAYS be my baby.