Abigail is Three Years Old...Where does the time go?

Okay, so last night I couldn't really fall asleep.  In fact, most every night I have a hard time falling asleep because I get a little sad.  Sad for my Abigail.  During the day when I get to see her sweet face and play with her, she brings me at ease.  However, it is the night time when I get emotional about her.  The thing is my beautiful baby girl is starting to realize that some things are harder for her than others, such as walking long distances, climbing upstairs and going downstairs (needs assistance), and getting up from the floor seems to be something very challenging for her that use to not be so hard for her to do.  It breaks my heart when she struggles to get up from sitting on the floor and she will look at me and say, "Mommy, it is just really hard."   I don't want this blog post to be so depressing, so I am sorry it has started out that way.  I guess this is just how I am feeling and posting about it really does help cope.  

Abigail is meeting all of her other milestones perfectly. She is now three years old!  I cannot believe that my baby girl is 3 already!   She is completely potty trained and continues to work on dressing herself.  It takes her longer than other kiddos but she is able to do it. :-)  Her vocabularly is absolutely amazing and she is the most social little girl I have ever known.  When we go grocery shopping or anywhere out in public Abigail always has a huge smile and says hello to EVERYONE!  She is the type of child who attracts even the grumpiest of people at the grocery store....she always makes them smile.  Our little angel. 

She loves her music class at Gymboree and clearly loves to sing...all of the time.  She will sit in her car seat most days and just sing anything. :-)  

She has moved up twice in her swim lesson classes.  She was in the mommmy and me class, then moved to the Aquatots class and now she is in the Starfish class.  This little girl is on the verge of swimming.  We are so proud of her.  The water is the best place for her.  She is able to do things in the water that she cannot do on dry land such as getting up from sitting with ease, climbing up the steps in the pool, etc.  Abigail can spend (and has spent) 5 hours in the pool without ever coming out, except to use the restroom.  She is our little fish baby girl and we will definitely have to invest in putting in a pool one day.  She is definitely deserving and worth it. :-)

She is able to actually draw stick figure people with every detail added to the faces, including earrings and rings on the little people's fingers.  She is mastery how to manipulate scissors independently and just needs assistance to hold and thread the paper through the scissors as she cuts.  She loves anything arts and crafts and always requests to engage in these activities.  Her imagination is unbelievable.  She loves to play house with her baby dolls.  However, we believe that her all time favorite thing is to pretend to be "Doctor Abigail".  We got her a doctor's kit (her check up bag) and she constantly using it appropriately to make sure mommy and daddy and all of her baby dolls are feeling well.  One day I stubbed my toe on the couch or something and Abigail immediately said, "Oh no mommy!  I need to go get my check up bag"....and she did!  I was all better in no time with Doctor Abigail on the case.  :-)

Abigail is so excited to start back at school this fall, although mommy is going to miss her terrible while at work.  She loves being with her friends so I am excited for her.  While she goes to school we will still continue gymboree and swimming.  I feel like I have just been rambling on but I wanted to give an update since I have not been very good about posting.  I need to check back in soon so that I don't just go on and on and on.