Look Whoo Turned Two

On September 13th, our little girl turned two!! Brian and I took the day off to spend it with her. We decided to take her to the aquarium by our house. These are some pics from our adventure. She had a lot of fun!

On September 14th we had her party. Your invited.....

The cake

The decorations

Some of the guests...

This was the second attempt at blowing out the candles. The first time we sang happy birthday she wanted nothing to do with the cake. She was just too excited about having her cousins over so all she wanted to do was play :)

The presents....She liked the wrapping paper almost more than her presents!!

She got a new baby, complete with a crib, rocking horse, and bottles. Brooklyn absolutely loves babies (real or plastic). She is so nurturing and loves to wrap her babies and/or stuffed animals up in her blankies.

She also got a kitchen, a car, books, a picnic set, and a doll house. So now the question is what is Santa going to bring for Christmas?!

We love this litte girl more than life itself and feel so blessed to have her!

Happy Birthday to our Brooklyn girl!

4th of July Weekend

We had quite the full weekend.....We started out with the Stadium of Fire.

We saw the Jets fly over.

Brooklyn wore some ear muffs almost the entire show because it was so loud. Good thing we brought them :)

Oh how she loves her "Tretra" a.k.a. Trevor!!

The performers at this years show were David Archuleta and...

Brad Paisley. He put on an amazing show!! This was the first time I had ever seen him in concert.

The little B fell asleep during the last part of the fireworks. The poor girl was so tired by the end.

We stayed up at Stein Erickson for the weekend, as is our tradition every year with Brian's family, and also spent some time on the rides in Park City. We went on the alpine slide and Brooklyn even got to ride!! 

She loved the carousel! This little girl is fearless. She will ride on any ride even if she is all by herself.

Brooklyn and Baylor did a little mini golf while the rest of us went on the coaster and zip line.

We also spent some time by the pool. Look at our little beach babe sporting her tankini.

These two love to play with one another :)

I always look forward to the annual Stein BBQ. It is always so delicious and this year was no exception. My favorite part was the tomato bar!

This silly girl wanted her picture taken and will say "cheese" to the camera. So Papa got this cute picture of her. When she looked at the camera to see herself she said "oh cute Brooklyn," like she says about anyone she sees in the camera.

With Dada and Papa

She loves her Grammy and Papa.

Monday we spent the day at Lagoon, so we got to ride on puff the magic dragon.

The little miss went on the octopus with grandma

and Bulgy the whale a few times.

This was by far her favorite ride....the boats. She was actually a little short to go on the ride but they let her on anyway. She had no problem going on all by herself. She ended up going on it 3 times!!

Silly Girl

The little miss likes to put on her on shoes these days and will sometimes even wear our shoes around the house. One day she picked out her pink rain boots to wear to go play outside in 100 degree weather. So I snapped a few pics on my phone.

What a silly girl :)

Our Beautiful Girl - 21 months

So I am going to try to catch up on all of the blogging I have not been doing lately so there might be quite a few posts coming. I thought I would start out with Brooklyn's recent pictures. I found this calendar photo contest through a friend and entered a picture of B. Lets be honest, I entered for the free pics and she ended up being chosen for the shoot. The photographer is Melanie Schramm and a few other people were involved in the shoot including another photographer, stylist, makeup artist, and seamstress. The clothes were specifically made for each kid. The calendar will be sold throughout the country by walmart and a couple of other stores. Brooklyn will be in the month of april. The shoot was a little challenging considering there were six babies all under the age of 2.

These are some of the pictures that were not chosen for the calendar so we get the copyrights.

She was being such a ham on this couch. She was dancing for everyone there and got all of the parents to clap for her.

Some recent updates about this precious girl.....

- We got rid of the binki about a month and a half ago (she only struggled for a couple of days) :)

- She is starting to talk in sentences and tells me constantly what is going on around her. These are some recent things that I can think of that she has said lately "see there's a birdie," "look mama, a horse," and "two pink shoes."

- She knows almost all of her colors and the ABCs to G. 

- She loves to copycat things we say.

- Sometimes she will call Brian and I, mommy and daddy instead of mama and dada and I love it!!

- She loves to be outside all day long and the only way I can get her to come in, is to bribe her. (Yes I know I am already starting good habits)

- She still loves mickey mouse clubhouse and elmo.

- She really likes to pretend play. (ex. acting like she is drinking or eating and then will say "nummy nummy")

- She loves getting her toe nails painted and will ask for "more paint."

- Everything has become "I do." So it takes a little longer to do the simple things :)

Eggstatic

To celebrate Easter, Brooklyn got to experience her first easter egg hunt! We went to Brian's parents neighborhood since his mom was partly in charge of it. We had a blast!!

Her Daddy showed her how to put the eggs in her basket and then she went off on her own to grab as many as her little hands could hold on to.

I was suprised at how well her and her cousin Baylor did. Their baskets were full!!

 
She turned in her eggs for a balloon and candy.

The Easter Bunny showed up and Brooklyn did not want to have him/her hold her for a picture but she felt ok about giving him/her a "five" :)

Love these two

B and I had matching bunny noses and whiskers painted on our faces :)

On Sunday, the Easter Bunny came to our house but of course left more for Brooklyn. In her basket, she had some books, an Elmo movie, a bunny, toys, eggs, and lots of chocolate.

To her surprise, she got a little hoop (like the one she loves so much at grandma's house) and one of her favorite games.

You can see how much she wanted me to take a picture of her in her Easter dress before we went to church.

At both of her grandparents houses there were a few more toys. 

To put this holiday in Brooklyn terms, "hop, hop, hop" :)

Pajama Monster

BEWARE!!!

She feeds on excess energy and bounces off the walls with silliness right before bedtime.

She will chase you and wants to be chased.

Fueled by an endless supply of giggles, she begs for tickles.

She'll gobbles up books and ravages through toys.

She conceals herself

then suddenly without notice, appears again just so you know she's got her eyes on you.

Sometime she utters a scary "Boo!!"

But when the MONSTER tuckers out she always falls fast asleep :)

Miss Independent

The little miss started Nursery this last Sunday. (She could have gone the week earlier but I did not want any of the other kids to be exposed to croup.) It is pretty pathetic but it made me a little sad. I feel like she is not old enough to be anywhere on her own. I saw a glimpse of what it is going to feel like on her first day of school. I got a picture of her on our way out the door.

Our ward has enough kids to have two nurseries. I think there is roughly 12 in the younger class.

I would say she did pretty well at sharing. She is use to being around other kids a few days a week when she gets watched by my mom with some of her cousins and when she goes to the neighbors house she plays with one or two other kids. These are some of her new friends: Savannah, Beckham, Maddie, Eli, Max, and Harlie. Atleast those are some of the names I remembered.

Such a big girl  :)