The Sessler's: Jude

What a fun, full, adventurous, and joyful month we had!! This boy had the BEST time experiencing and learning about Christmas this year. Now that he is at an age to begin to understand, he jumped in head first. The excitement and awe that he had for everything was the greatest joy. Not to mention at the beginning of the month this little guy turned 3!!! I can't even understand how he is already three, but we are loving this age. Yes, he is still very strong-willed, opinionated, and a very smart boy which makes it difficult at times, his maturity and growth has been such a fun adventure! He keeps us on our toes whether we are laughing or pulling our hair out!!! We love him more that words could ever express and wouldn't change a thing. Our goal is with the Lord as our guide to nurture these hard attributes into traits that will take him far in life.
-Jude is currently in such a lovey stage. He tells all of us that he loves us multiple times and day, gives hugs and kisses freely, is so concerned that sister is always ok, and the cutest is getting all of his stuffed animals in bed with him and then grabbing each of their hands to hold while he is sleeping.
-We are now 100% in the "Why" phase! Like I said before, although it can be hard to always come up with an answer (or multiple answers), I love that he is interested and learning!
-We must have to go through the motions of having Jude say he is sorry, then telling him that we love him and forgive him often because when he does something now he'll automatically say, "I'm sorry, I forgive you." I guess we need to work on what those actually mean now!!
-Lately when Jude has been asking for things that maybe we don't want him to have (candy, juice, chapstick (long-story), daddy's cologne, etc.) and we tell him we don't have any or no, he'll say "I know you do, I know." Then lets say a few days later he sees or stumbles upon one of these things he'll look at us and say, "See I knew you had it, I knew it!." (He's getting to smart for our little "games")
-The other day we were riding in the car and Daddy asked Jude to not eat his boogers, and he replied, "I have to, I'm hungry!"
-When we are in the car lately Jude likes to pretend that we are chasing the other cars. Recently we were doing this and he broke out into this whole conversation, "Mommy, don't smoosh your car on that other car because it will break your car and then start a fire and burn you. Then you'll have to go to the doctor and that would be bad. Let's just chase their red lights instead." Hummm ok bud, thanks for looking out for me!