34 Month Old Jenaleigh Kate

My sweet, crazy, fun loving, dramatic Jenaleigh… You are almost THREE years old. And what a grown-up girl you are!

Size: We haven’t been to the doctor recently, so I’m not sure. But, I do know that her pants are all getting too short and the arms of her shirts are also short. She now wears a 3T or even a 4T in some clothes!

Foods She <3’s

• Apples, RASPBERRIES (a new fav), any berries, bananas, grapes
• “Bunny Grahams”
• Ice Cream Sandwiches (which I give her a TINY bit of as a reward on special days)
• Noodles of any sorts, chicken, the standard kids food.
• Raisins
• Jambalaya

Songs She Likes to Sing

• Any song from “Sofia the First” — we have a CD in our van that she requests to listen to almost every time we go anywhere!
• Jesus Loves the Little Children
• I’ve Got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy Down in My Heart
• No, Not One
• And… she’s recently started singing along during church (when she puts her mind to it). I’m amazed at the songs she knows!

She Loves to Play

• “David and Goliath” — Mommy, you be the giant, and I’ll be Goliath and KNOCK you down!
• “Puppets” — she’ll take 3 beanie babies and divide them up between us 3 and we’ll speak in high squeaky voices — one of the puppets usually ends up “ating” us (yes, not eating, but ATING)
• Puzzles. She can do a 34 piece puzzle almost all by herself.
• Her imagination and ability to act and play pretend has really blossomed in the past few months, and I LOVE IT!
• Outside. The weather has been crazy here, but we’ve been able to go outside some, and she can’t get enough.
• Hide ‘N Seek. She even tries to get adults to play it with her at church before services (we’ve tried to discourage that, for now, but it’s still sweet).
• Acting. She mimics everything she sees on TV (good thing we don’t have cable or satellite and mainly use Netflix or Amazon Prime!)

Prayers: We’ve been more diligent about praying with her each night before bedtime and it’s amazing the things she’ll pray for.

• “Baby Sister Enoch” — (Enoch happens to be her cousin. Who is a boy.)
• She prays for family members by name.
• One night she prayed, “Dear God, help me to grow up to be a Christian. And help me to walk and quack like a duck”. Aye, aye, aye!
• Another night… “Dear God, please help me to express myself.”
• She’s pretty good about saying the prayer before we eat, although sometimes she’ll say, “You do it, Daddy.”

She’s been going through a really really sweet period in her life, and I count her (and Hayden) as some of my biggest blessings in life. Our upcoming move may cause a few tantrums, but she’s been saying “When we move to Sweetwater, we can…” a lot lately, so maybe she’s ready. I know she’ll miss her Bible class teacher and friends, her music class, library time, and being close to Gigi, Papa, and Richard. But, she’ll make new friends easily, and she’ll have her Mommy, Daddy, and Hayden! 🙂 I love you sweet little girl!