Arbor – 3 Years Old

I love documenting Arbor’s, our third daughter, development and milestones. Here is everything you want to know about Arbor at 3 Years Old.

Arbor – 3 Year Old Stats (36 Months Old)

Height: 3 ft 3 in (89th percentile)
Weight: 36 lbs (89th percentile)
Diapers: Size 5 Pampers Swaddlers
Shoes: Size 9/10
Clothes: Arbor wears mostly 4T clothes
Teeth: Arbor has 20 teeth (one chipped in the front from a tumble 2 summers ago)

Wakes up: 6:30/7am
No Nap
Goes to Bed: 7:30/8pm
Bedtime songs: “You Are My Sunshine,” “You Better Watch Out,” “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
Sleeps With: Fur Christmas blanket (like her big sisters’), tiny Annabelle pillow, Grinch hooded blanket, every stuffed animal she owns, a book, all of her pacifiers

All About Our 3 Year Old (36 Months Old)

Arbor is one of a kind. Everyone who meets Arbor wants to spend time around her. She is so talkative, so curious, and will tell you she loves you if she really does. I record my favorite things she says in my Notes app so I never forget some of the silliness. Arbor is very observant for a three year old and notices many details most toddlers would not catch. For example, she doesn’t understand why Pete the Cat doesn’t have a mouth in his cartoon but can still talk. She is always listening to conversations around her (sometimes ones she isn’t supposed to hear) and asking for more details.

Arbor loves to play with everyone in the family for different reasons. I think she has a favorite game for each of us and I truly love to watch her interact with her sisters and Daddy. She likes to ‘fouse’ with her Daddy, which means rough house and wrestle. Annabelle is a rough house player too, she will give her camel rides or fly her like an airplane. Ailey teaches Arbor the most about imaginative play with figurines/babies. Ailey shows her how to give them voices and to make up storylines for their playtime. Arbor looks up to her sisters and loves “Abis” and “Aiya” so much – but also will tell them to go away if she isn’t in the mood.

Arbor says I am her “best Mommy” and comes to me for 99% of her needs. I love how much she loves me but she admittedly says she is obsessed with me (not joking). I know she won’t want to be around me like this forever so I often let her boss me around. We snuggle a lot.

Arbor is determined and doesn’t take No for an answer. She loves popsicles and will ask to have one later if she knows she can’t have one in the moment. Most days she likes to pick out her own clothes and wear her hair free and messy. We are struggling with potty training because she doesn’t understand “how” to go to the bathroom. She also doesn’t want to not wear a diaper anymore – she says underwear are gross. Arbor wants to go to preschool, but is also scared to go – we know this because she knows to go to preschool you have to be potty trained. Potty trained = big girl and Arbor wants to be “a little girl forever.”

More About Arbor at 3 Years Old

Things She Says: I secretly hope she has a lisp for many years because the way her tongue hits her teeth, which jut out from her pacifier, is just so cute. Arbor talks all day nonstop, especially if you are on the phone/trying to talk to someone else/or in the car. Arbor calls people her “neighbors” when they are more like a friend than stranger (thanks to Daniel Tiger). Refers to certain things as cute: “Oh Almart delivery? That’s so cute.” Almart = Walmart. She says “hers” instead of her or she. “Hers is gonna throw up!” If you call her a nickname and she isn’t in the mood, she replies, “No I is AH-BER.” Ahber = Arbor.

Favorite Things: Popsicles, going on dates to Chik-fil-A, Bitty Baby kitchen and her sisters’ AG kitchen, singing (she memorizes songs quickly), shopping cart, coloring, reading books in her crib, cooking with Mom in the kitchen, Toniebox, setting up the Bluey house, fisher price big bus and little bus, painting/crafts, building a house with magnatiles for her friends, fishing and glow pals in the bathtub, going to Costco for pizza/lemonade/hot dog, the produce store lollipops and deli american cheese, makeup, riding her bike, going to the playground to play Captain of the Ship, running on the tennis court, kicking a soccer ball, fousing, watching t.v. (shows change)

Things Arbor Does Not Like: trying new food – everything is EW YUCK, tomato sauce, mashed potatoes, meatballs, loud noises, bugs, aquaphor after the bath but also wants it when her skin is dry, washing her hair

Three Year Old’s Favorite Things: Check out Arbor’s Amazon Shop .

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