Andelynn turns THREE!

This last Saturday, my baby girl turned three years old! However, if you ask her how old she is, she will tell you she is 5. She is such a captivating little person; people tell me all the time that they can't seem to take their eyes off her.

I thought I would take a moment to share a little bit about Miss Andi-Pandi's personality.

She has the biggest imagination & spends a lot of her day pretending to be someone or something else, or acting out her favorite movies & shows. And, when she is in this mode, that we call Andi-land, she is very hard to distract or deter. So, if she is pretending to be a kitty cat & Dawson comes up & irritates her, she remains in character and just squalls at him with an annoyed squall. We think she is destined to be an actress, or some 'right-brained' profession.

She is VERY high maintenance & her middle name should have been Drama!

She has the greatest laugh, that deep down giggly laugh, that I have ever heard.

She is the pickiest eater anyone has EVER seen & she is known to fast for days at a time. She is a vegetarian who gags at the sight of meat, but she also doesn't eat vegetables...some vegetarian hu? She doesn't eat fruit either. What does she eat? Very little. Thank God for pediasure!

She HATES strangers & up until recently, she used to hit anyone who tried to talk to her or touch her that she didn't know. I have been apologizing to everyone for two years now for this behavior. Hopefully, we are finally past this phase.

(SIDE NOTE for those who don't know this: According to her pediatrician, she falls into the category of 'Sensory Disorder' which explains a lot of her quirkiness...the trouble eating, dealing with strangers & strange environments...etc. It isn't severe enough to require intervention, but Andi still has to learn how to overcome these obsticles. Her pediatrician thinks that by the time she starts kindergarten, she will have out grown the disorder/ be able to function normally.)

She LOVES anything girly. If it sparkles, she loves it. She loves all the princesses, Aerial, Tinkerbell, Dora & Mickey Mouse. She declares everything to be 'BEAUTIFUL' or 'SO PWETTY' or 'SO SPARKLE.'

She loves her 'Bubba', when he is being nice to her of course, and follows him around the house copying his every move. It is so cute to watch her mimicking him. Of course, it isn't very cute to watch her mimick his bad behavior. I love the sound of the two of them gigling together!

She makes goofy silly faces all the time...she constantly has us cracking up.

She has the sweetest little voice you have ever heard. No matter what she is saying, she adds a dramatic high pitched crescendo...like everything is so exciting to talk about. It is so cute! She has so many cute sayings, but my favorite is when she introduces herself...she says "Hola, My Andewynn."

I took her 3 year old pictures at the camp across the street from our house. Here are a few more pics of our beautiful 'baby' girl! Happy Birthday Andelynn!