Birthday Boy

Happy 3rd birthday to my handsome little Joseph!  I can't believe that he is already three.  It amazes me every birthday because I can't believe how quickly the years fly by.  Days are long, but the years are short.

Joseph has such a personality.  He is strong-willed and passionate.  He knows what he wants and he doesn't care what anyone else thinks.  Which clearly at his age is a good and bad thing.  Mostly bad when it comes to learning to share and be respectful of others, but we are working on that.

Even though it gets annoying some nights, I always want to remember how he begs that I put him to bed every night.  He always wants me to rub his head.  He doesn't have any desire to rock or be cuddled before bedtime, he just wants to get in bed, have his head rubbed and go to sleep.

He has such a strong personality that really emerged in his second year of life, I am a little scared and excited to see what his third year will bring.  It would be nice if he decided to mellow out a little bit.  

He is still not much of an eater.  He asked for pancakes and sausage for his birthday dinner.  That's one meal he likes.  Other then that it is usually peanut butter and honey sandwiches, veggie corn dogs, veggie sausages, broccoli, cauliflower and smoothies.  I guess it's not too unhealthy, but it just isn't much variety.

Also, in the last two weeks he has decided he is ready to be potty trained.  However, he will not wear underwear.  He wants to wear a pull up, but he always has a dry one.  He even has a dry overnight diaper in the morning.  The only thing we haven't concurred is going poop in the potty all the time.  That's why I think he wants to continue to wear a pull up.  Then he doesn't have to worry about going in the toilet.  Oh well.  Baby steps.

I can't wait to see what this year will bring for him.