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Our Remy, today you turn three years old! Happy third lap around the sun our gorgeous boy. We have watched you grow for three years and are constantly in awe of you. Your creativity and imagination have grown as has your capacity for empathy. Watching you explore and learn has been the greatest gift. It has been our job to encourage and direct you and that job brings us nothing but happiness. You have learnt so many things this past year including riding your pedal bike without training wheels, starting the process of swimming without mum or dad in the pool with you, how to count to 14, using the toilet and so much more!

You loved daycare so much with Colleen that you started going two days a week. You've made new friends including Amaya, Bailey and Audrey and are lucky enough to still have Livvy hanging out with you both days. We love that you're learning so much through play both indoors and out and Colleen is so supportive of what you're interested in at different times. It's hard to get you to come home with us most days, you'd rather keep playing at daycare. You are loving swimming at the moment too and are almost ready to swim by yourself. You were getting frustrated at times before we stopped lessons for a few months because of corona virus but since you started back you have been so good with listening and following instructions.

You still love books but have also been interested in puzzles and obstacle courses around the house. Your favourite thing to do at the moment is wrestle with Dad on the lounge room floor. We just have to remind you sometimes not to wrestle other children at the playground. You are super inquisitive and at times we play around and call you Mr Nosey because of the amount of questions you ask. We'll encourage you to keep doing it because you learn so much more wanting to know more about the world.

You now have 20 little teeth with one more coming through and have had your first trip to the dentist. You've grown so much, weighing in at 14.5kg and measuring 92cm tall! You have the most terrific memory and we love when you reminisce about adventures we have been on, it reinforces to us how our time together impacts you. You talk so much and are a pretty confident little man, not like your Mum was as a child. You are super friendly and often say hello to people who walk past you when you ride your bike. We are so proud of how you have mastered your pedal bike too, you were riding without training wheels but 2 and 3/4 and people often comment on how amazing you are on your bike. You are getting better at brushing yourself off now when you crash and jumping back on the bike to keep riding. The next step to master is the breaks. You have done a great job with toilet training. You can use the toilet pretty independently and wear big boy undies during the day.

We went on a family holiday to Adelaide and Melbourne last December. You got to go on the big boat and were a superstar traveller in the car making it from Melbourne to Adelaide in one day! We visited the Adelaide Zoo where we got baby and daddy monkey. We went to some cool playgrounds on our way back to Melbourne where you had a sleep over with baby Nash and Courtnee and Toby while Mum and Dad went to the Elton John concert. We also spent some time with your cousin Evie and Uncle Kris and Aunty Bianca. I'm pretty sure you managed an ice cream most days we were away!

We went on a few camping trips and recently went to Cradle Mountain for the weekend as our last little getaway before your baby brother Freddie arrived. You love telling people how we saw Mount Roland on the way there and we were amazed you managed to walk most of the the way around Dove Lake yourself. Other highlights of yours were the shuttle bus in to Dove Lake, watching the bird steal Mum's sandwich and staying at the hotel.

You became a big brother last week and have adjusted so well. We think you knew in the lead up to Freddie's arrival that your world was about to be turned upside down. You have been so helpful and love giving your baby brother koala cuddles. You also want to pick out a special bunny for Freddie to keep him safe the way your special Mothy bunny keeps you safe. It's beautiful to see how gentle you are and we can see that you love Freddie so much already.

Your favourite things are Mothy (always), LEGO, making racing cars and riding your bike. You like to take five friends with you to bed most nights (if not more). Your best friends are Mothy, Pen(guin), Sloth, Dinosaur and Turtle Burger. Every night you go to bed we talk about your day (and Mums and Dads day too). You climb in and say 'tell me about my day'. You told me off last week because I asked you about your day on the way home from daycare. You said 'thought we were going to talk about my day when Dad gets home, when I go to bed'. You can be quite direct with your demands and sometimes need to be reminded to use your manners but you are for the most part pretty good. Your favourite foods at the moment are tiger toast, porridge, spring rolls and cake. Your favourite movie is Turbo which is about a speed obsessed snail with an unusual dream to become the worlds greatest racer. You also like watching Ninja Turtles. When we ask you what you want to be when you grow up you say a nurse (just like Mum). You like going out for dinner specifically going to the pub for tea.

You have recently had a fear of spiders but we have worked through that with going to the museum to look at spiders and a huntsman came to say hello to you at daycare. The universe must have known that you needed a friendly spider experience. You were super brave and let him climb on your back! Another couple of times you have been super brave were when you got your flu needle and didn't even cry! And when you climbed up the netting at Riverbend Park and went down the steep slide all by yourself! You are our little risk taker but you learn so much about yourself and your limits by doing so which is why we think you have such great confidence.

You are perfect Remy Joe, every moment we spend with you is a moment we'll treasure forever because time is going way too fast and you are growing up way too quickly! You continue to amaze us with your humour, kindness and vibrant personality. We are and always will be utterly obsessed with you. We love you more than anything, right up to the moon and back.

Love from Mum and Dad

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