What's Jessa Up To?: A Jessa Update...

Hmm, so November was the last time I posted something on here? Wow! I am more overdue for an update than I thought! Jessa is doing great and getting ready for her third birthday. It's hard to believe she is almost three. She has quite the vocabulary and apparently knows how to use it because she chatters nonstop! She is constantly on the go and you never know what her imagination will come up with or what she's going to say about something. Sometimes she sounds so grown up.

Sorry to say we are still working on potty training. She's always had trouble with irregularity and just when we were doing good with the potty it flared up again. She wanted nothing to do with it. The doctor had us put her back on medicine to get her regulated and now that she's getting better with that issue she's starting to show interest in the potty again. Someday (hopefully very soon) this task will conquered!

Our daycare provider constantly says Jessa is ahead in a lot of areas for her age. She can say her ABC's, can count to ten with no problems, and is getting pretty good at counting to twenty by herself. She knows all her colors and shapes, and recognizes letters and numbers. She knows her full name and can spell her first name. She's getting better at coloring inside lines and is getting pretty good at drawing things like smiley faces, letters, and numbers. She has learned a lot at the daycare, including interaction and sharing with other kids.

She really is a blast! It's hard to imagine what life was like without her.

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Jessa wanted her own Christmas tree this year, so we got her a little one. It just got taken down about a week ago.

We got Jessa a blowup mattress/sleeping bag for our Thanksgiving trip to Branson. She kinda liked it.

We got Jessa an IXL to keep her occupied on the way to/from Branson. This is the BEST thing we've bought her and I totally recommend it for anyone with a young child. It's a digital reader, drawing pad, tracing pad for letters/numbers, has games, and you can download music and pictures onto it. She loves it and amazed us with how fast she learned how to use it.

Silver Dollar City in Branson. Fun, fun, fun!

She was really into seeing Santa this year. Gave him a high-five, pulled on his beard, and told him what she wanted for Christmas. Check out the third picture for her excitement after her visit with him.