Kamri is 3!

Kamri turned three last week. No huge party but she did have a fun day including ice cream and cupcakes with her friend Audrey. She has been looking forward to her birthday and since Lyla's due date was May 15th I would tell her that her birthday was around the time the baby would be born. A little confusing when the baby is born 6 weeks early! So the morning of her birthday I woke Kamri up saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! and she didn't believe me at first that it was FINALLY here! The whole week before she would practice holding up three fingers and would get so excited when she would count 1, 2, 3 fingers and then show them to me. "Look mom, free!"

A little (turned into a lot) about Kamri:
She hates having her hair done and likes to dress herself. For a few weeks she would choose crazy mixes of clothes or not want to wear pants (like her lovely ensemble in the photo below, she was helping Bracken do yard work) but currently all she wants to wear are dresses. Luckily she has plenty of cute summer ones to keep her content.

She loves, loves, loves to tease her dad. (probably because he loves to tease her). Every morning when Bracken is leaving for school she asks him where he is going, he replies "the moon" then she tilts her head, smiles, laughing "Noooo, you going to school!" Then he asks for a kiss and she refuses to give him one unless he begs sufficiently.

She loves her siblings. She follows Hayes around and tries to do everything he does. They play so well together. She gives Lyla kisses whenever she is within reach, sometimes to the point of smothering....

She loves to sit and write, she concentrates so hard, hold the pencil the correct way, and writes lines and lines of her own little symbols. Sometimes she'll fill whole pages wtih it. Looks like angry terrorist writing or reformed egyptian or something...

Kamri lives in a musical, I used to think that musicals were unrealistic but not for Kamri. She will sing and narrate what she is playing or just sing random melodies in the car. Sometimes it is an actual song she has learned, mostly it is just random things about a book, or the car next to us, or what she wants for lunch, etc. Funny line from one of her "songs" last week was "Jesus loves Jasmine and PIRATES!"

She will sit and 'read' books to herself for long amounts of time. Most of the time she is talking so fast I can't understand the stories she makes up but sometimes I catch a gem. She was looking at Cinderella and the page where the step sisters rip apart Cindrella's dress Kamri narrated 'Don't rip my dress or I'll shoot you! Cinderella said' (Yep she has a brother!)

She also loves to dance, I have soo many videos of her dancing while I was laying on the couch on bedrest. She was my entertainment:



She also loves princesses, lip gloss, nail polish, Strawberry Shortcake, granola bars, Dora, the color pink, rice, playing dress up, Ratatouille (the movie), cereal, Inspector Gadget, going to nursery, having friends over to play, swimming, fajitas, adding 'ie' to the end of any word. Right now the most common is Lylie.

Kamri has a contagious excitement for life. She smiles, laughs and gets so excited for things you can't help but smile and be happy back. I believe it will be a strength that will help those around her throughout her life. I can't come up with the words to describe how grateful I am to be her mother and to enjoy her sparkly eyed smiles every day. She can be stubborn, throw massive tantrums, and demand breakfast at 6am every morning, but the laughter and smiles she brings into our home make it all worth it!