Pokeballs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2OIGJR12w

Boyfriends and Bloody Noses (no correlation)

Brielle has an active imagination. She likes to tell me all about her big sister, or brother, or someone else who doesn't exist. Here's one of her recent stories.

"I have a big sister named Friend and a boyfriend named Boyfriend."
--You have a boyfriend named Boyfriend? Well that's convenient.
"No it's cool. And I say, 'Boyfriend!' And we run and jump together. And then we do 'Ring Around the Rosies' and my big sister and boyfriend so that with me and it's so much fun!"

Brynna has her own crazy moments. She gave herself a bloody nose by picking her nose with too sharp of fingernails.


Yes I took a picture first before helping her. :)

Deep Questions with Brielle: Part One

I recently sat down with Brielle and asked her some thought provoking questions. She's 4. The first 2 questions I asked and the wrote down what I remembered her saying. I tried to keep up but she talks a lot. I got smart and recorded her answered for the last three. Here we go.

What is love?
When you kiss your mom and dad and you say goodnight.

What does chocolate taste like?
It tastes like a Nutty Buddy Butter Bar (From a Monsters Vs. Aliens short). It tastes like a chocolate carrot (from same short). And it feels good. (Yes it does, Brielle. Yes. It. Does.)

What makes you smile?
Uh....Crying. When I cry and then when I was a little baby and I was crying and then I calm down and then I make me smile when I was a little baby. --When you calm down that makes you smile?-- When I was a little baby and I cry and smile when I was a little baby. --What else makes you smile?-- From saying "mom thank you for making dinner" and then that makes me smile.

What is your greatest strength?
About my muscles!!!

What makes you special?
Uh My mom and dad make me kiss. --Make you kiss? That makes you special?-- Yeah. --You like giving mom and dad kisses?-- Yeah. --What else makes you special?-- Uh my mom makes me dinner. --And you feel special when mom makes you dinner?-- Yeah. (We were eating dinner while we did this.)

Caught!

I caught B on top of the changing table when she was supposed to be taking a nap. She is adventurous and that scares me a little bit.







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Playing with Water

It's going to be a beautiful and warm week this week so I thought I'd take B and myself outside for some sun and fun. I think she appreciated the change up since the past few months I've been having a lot of morning sickness and not wanting to leave the comfort of our home much. Now at 21 weeks and finally feeling normal again, we ventured outside and had a lot of fun playing in the water and exploring our backyard.

I filled up one big bowl with cold water and brought it outside with another big empty bowl, measuring cups, measuring spoons, funnels, and a sponge. I tried to show her how to transfer water from one bowl to the other using the sponge or cups, but she just wanted to scoop up water and throw it. And drink it. It's so cold and yummy!

She had to explore the backyard. Then we had to do a wardrobe change because it is very hot out and her clothes were soaked from all the water throwing.

Make sure you take breaks and hydrate while you explore. It's tough work.

She loved squeezing the sponge and then popping the air bubbles it left in the water. And, of course, more drinking! Who knew you could drink from a sponge?

What a fun day! This is definitely an activity to do again. She spent a good 45 minutes playing and keeping herself entertained.

Help! Our Puppets Need Names!

For Christmas, B got 8 animal hand puppets and we love saying all the animal sounds (we can't say the horse sound yet) and singing Old McDonald.  But mostly, we love throwing them over our shoulder after mommy sets up a decent looking picture.

We have been trying to come up with names for them since Christmas and we have named all but 2. 

The momma cow is Cora. The progressive daddy horse is Joe.  He's progressive because he adopted baby monkey Roscoe.  The momma sheep is Mary.  The momma pig is Helga and baby pig is piglet. But poor baby cow and baby sheep need names too.  We need your help. 

What should we name these 2? Also, if anyone has any advice for how to rotate a picture on the blog that would be great, too, because I cannot get this picture to show up as landscape.  Grr...computers.

Birthday

So I suck at writing on a daily basis.  I clearly set myself up for failure by trying to write and post pictures for 31 days in a row. 

B's birthday was wonderful.  I'll try to get the pictures up on Sunday.  My favorite part was watching her eat the cake.  She sat in her chair at the table and I plopped a piece down on the table in front of her.  She played with the frosting for a while before she realized that it was something to eat.  Once she took her first bite, there was no stopping her.  She loved it. 

The day has gone by so fast.  Just like the first year of her life.  It is actually 10:09 pm right now, 2 minutes after she was born a year ago.  I remember everything about that day.  If there's one thing I am proud of as a mom, it is that I haven't taken a single day with her for granted.  I have enjoyed and loved having her in my life and I am grateful for the many days to come.