Favorite foods: "egg on toast" made by Daddy for breakfast, quesadillas, hamburger quiche, Chick-fil-A, Moes, Cheetoh puffs.
Favorite activities: being outside, reading books, playing pretend (usually school), watching tv, playing games on the computer (new "privilege" in the last month), sending "messages" or playing games on Mama's phone, making up songs, watching people
Favorite TV shows: Clifford, Super Why, Sesame Street, Cat in the Hat
Although Willow is doing many typical strong-willed 3-yr-old behaviors, like trying to be in charge, throwing fits, bedtime battles, etc., she is truly a sweet little girl. She absolutely loves her little brother and melts our hearts when she says, "I love you. I hope you have sweet dreams," to him at bedtime in her sweetest little voice and gives him a kiss. She doesn't like when he fusses and she can be super helpful too. While we were trick-or-treating, a friend of hers and her big sister were bickering about who got to ring the doorbell. In her sweetest, most sincere voice Willow said, "Actually, Carson, you can have a turn at the next house, ok?" I love to hear who she asks to pray for at night, especially when she'll bring up someone we were praying for a few months prior (Mckenzie's grandma, baby Tucker).
Willow is soaking up everything she's taught in Preschool. She knows her letters, sounds, shapes, how to write her name, how to count objects, and can count aloud to 49. She loves to ask and be asked what the first letter of words are. I love that it's a game to her to figure it out by repeating the beginning sound (t-t-table starts with T!!!).
Since moving to our new house, Willow has taken up the hobby of tree climbing. She's become more adventurous in jumping off (while supervised of course) and has ventured to a tree a few houses down that has good foot-holds a bit higher up (inspired by the 6-yr old girl that lives there).
She's not too good about being sneaky (thankfully) and isn't good at lying yet. Recently she'd been coloring then wandered off. When she walked around the corner a few minutes later she was smiling a guilty smile. When I asked her what she was doing, of course she said "Nothing" with a big grin on her face. In tracking back to where she'd come from I saw multiple green lines around the living room (mostly frustrating since we're renting this house!). Thankfully they came off easily with a Magic Eraser (the "magic" made it a bit too easy for her and didn't seem like much of a consequence...lesson learned on my part). Another day Willow had been playing in the playroom while Chris worked. He noticed that she was holding a permanent marker and asked her, "What have you been doing with that?" When he started walking in to the playroom and she very sincerely said, "Dada, I want you to stop walking." =) She'd drawn on her Elmo doll's eyes and apparently didn't want to get caught!
Willow Libby keeps us on our toes, but we can't imagine life without her!
