*The Johnson Family*: To my sweet 3 year old...

My precious 3 year old, I cannot begin to tell you how thankful I am that God gave me you. Me and your daddy love you more than the air we breathe. You have been the light of our lives since you came into this world. I didn’t know a love like this was possible until I had a child. You have been rowdy since day one. Literally, the nurses wheeled you back into my room and said you were trying to lift your head and crawl out of your bassinet. What newborn does that, haha! You didn’t sleep a lot and you still don’t. You are afraid you will miss something. You are always raring to go, go, go! I have to MAKE you slow down. You are FULL of energy and life and I wouldn’t have it any other way! Your personality is so awesome, everyone loves you and you love everyone. You are shy at first to new people but warm up pretty quick and have people laughing. You are hilarious! I laugh at something you do or say every day. You are the sweetest most ornery little boy. You love your momma but are starting to be a daddy’s boy. You like to talk about “boy” stuff like hunting, fishing, trucks, tractors, etc. You love to play with hotwheels, trucks, tractors, and toy guns. You are ALL boy! You love to play games on my phone and your LeapPad. It really makes you learn and I love it. You have been drawing letters on some games and then brought home school work that showed me you really learned from it. You drew the letter C. So amazing! You still only go to school 2 days a week but you learn so much and I am so glad you get to go and have fun with friends. You say you don’t like it but I know you have fun from what the teachers tell me and how you act at the end of the day. They say you are a ham at school too. You love to be outside doing anything, you love animals even though they don’t like you sometimes lol, tough love! You love all your family sooo much. Kikki and Nanny took you to the county fair last week and you told me on the way to school this morning it was the “most awesome fair because they had rides and ducks, and goats” =) You are all the way potty trained as of this summer. No more diapers even at bed time. I was up late doing homework one night and you had got up, half asleep, and standing at the potty going all on your own. I was shocked you woke up. You are such a BIG BOY! Makes my heart so happy that you are growing and learning. You talk so clearly and so big, like an adult. I love having conversations with you. Some words you get backwards though and I love them, for now I’ll let you say them that way. Examples are; Lasterday (yesterday), Chucky Larms (Lucky Charms), Bamatoes (tomatoes), Sunderday (Sunday). I looooove it when you say these words, it makes me laugh. This year you were so excited for your birthday party and told me you wanted to have it at the park. So that’s what we did. It worked out perfect since I was SOOO busy with school and I didn’t have to do a whole lot. You wanted a “hotwheels birthday party”. It was a lot of fun and here are some pictures from your 3^rd birthday. Thank you to all of our friends and family who came to celebrate! Jake is truly blessed, and we are so grateful!