Ansley Turns Three

My oldest daughter turned THREE today. She is her mother’s daughter, that’s for sure. As she was sitting there with me this morning, I tried to take a few moments to just stare at how much she’s grown up. She turned to me and said, “I love you” out of the blue. My heart melts.

Let’s take a look back at memorable Ansley moments.

• Coming downstairs BY HERSELF in the middle of the night to sleep in her parents room.
• Calling her dad the “Grumpy Old Troll” from the show Dora.
• Calling her mother “crazy” in conversation with dad.
• Counting to ten in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Laotion.
• Recognizing only the letters A, B, O, Y, Z. Funny, now that I spell it out…I’m thinking we’re in some serious trouble.
• Whining. Lots of it.
• Negotiation skills. Must be genetic or something.
• Hitting her head on a table, and getting a bruise the size of a golf ball.
• Watching Dora ALMOST every single day.
• Her face morphing into something very similar to mine. Scary.
• Her stubbornness starting to show. A combination of mine and Ryan’s. Scary.
• First dance class where she learned how to tumble.
• Her love of helping us with Aubrey’s diaper.
• Weird fascination with everything poop.

One day when you are reading this, Ansley, I want you to know that I love you so very much. You are so very smart, inquisitive, and beautiful. I also want you to know that most of the time, I do try to freeze time because I know these are fleeting moments, but you girls get into your whining spells or drag out an evening in tantrums, I’ll admit that I may skip four pages at a time when I’m reading you your night time books. And then I feel guilty about cutting our time short. When I’m at work, I miss you guys so much – so I force myself to go to the gym during lunch and secretly watch videos of you guys dancing with dad – it always puts me in a good mood. You guys are probably the only reason why I go to the gym 🙂

She’s growing up way too fast. Love this girl. Happy Birthday, Ansley Belle.

Photo Credit: Lark Photography

For those that missed the videos that we had of her, here she is at 6 months old:

Here she is at one years old for an awesome cake smash:

Video Credit: AleaLovely

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