Weston is 3!!!

As every parent says, "I just dont know where the time has gone." In many ways these last three years have flown by, my life before kids seems very distant, yet at the same time it has been a long road to get to this point. My little guy has turned three. He sure is a treasure to us. When we recently took him to get pictures I hesitated at choosing my favorite because I thought it looked too much like his 2 year picture, then I pulled it up and boy oh boy has he grown and changed in the last year. He now weighs in at 35 pounds and it just over three feet tall, he'll pass me up before I know it. In the last year his vocabulary has exploded. He started speech services just before his second birthday and had one word, "yeah." Now he has too many words to count. He still gets speech services, but instead of his toddler, one on one therapies, he is now a big boy who goes to preschool! And he seems to love it, he even takes the bus home from school. He also gets 18 hours of in home behavioral therapy a week, which I can already see making a difference. Im not going to lie, it can be hard, but its paying off, in the last couple weeks alone we have seen his imagination take off. It seems like every hour he is coming to us playing a new character... "Im Peter Pan, Mickey Mouse, Dinosaur," etc. Brielle gets jealous of all the playtime attention he gets from the therapy, but its also hard work for him, they push him so that we will see the growth. In recent months he has also given up sleeping with a pacifier. Occasionally he tells me he's sad without it, but he seems to have adjusted well to it. He also seems to be mastering potty training, after nine months of hard work we are seeing the payoff. Another big boy step, he is learning to dress and undress himself, and has really stepped up in the last week with a token system we've set up where he earns minutes of his favorite tv show by doing these things on his own. Speaking of favorites, here are some of his currently: Chuggington, anything trains, corn dogs, fruit snacks, grandparents, running around, hide and seek, tea parties, pretending, going to Ethan's house, reading comic books with Daddy, riding the bus, going to the cabin, fountains, and being a big boy. We are thankful to God for the blessing He has given us in this little boy.