More Quotes from the Brookler

In the last few days that the weather has been nice, we have been going on walks while Jason is at work. We've gone to the park, a local party store, the library, and McDonald's. Today Brooklyn got it in her head that she wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese. I told her we couldn't because Daddy had the car. She asked, "Can we go in the stroller?" Unfortunately, it's a long walk to Orem.

It's been stormy today with a period of hail that was pretty spooky. Brooklyn was rattled by the sound of the hail hitting the house. After it was over, she looked out the front door and said, "There's someone out there, Mom. He's gonna take me." What?!?! I don't know where she got that from. It scared ME!! I told her that nobody was going to take her and she would be with me forever. She said that was okay.

At library story time they assign the kids "homework." They are supposed to memorize a poem and come recite it the next week for a treat. I've always disregarded that because my kids are too young. Well yesterday Brooklyn saw the kids getting suckers and she really wanted one. I told her she had to say the poem (Little Boy Blue) to the lady. I said the poem to her about three times and she headed off to wait in line. There were a few other kids ahead of her and she watched them recite the poem. When it was her turn, she said "Little Boy Blue, come blow your trumpet." I thought it was adorable that she figured out that that's what a horn is! The librarian helped her with the rest, but she only had to say the first few words of each line and Brooklyn could usually finish it. What a little smartypants!!

Brooklyn sure knows how to get the attention she craves. Last night as she was getting tucked into bed she said, "Mom, I hurt my (pause as she thinks) um, leg." Me: "Oh, no!" Her: "Can you kiss it better?" I oblige. "Mom, now I need ice on it!" A hypochondriac in the making.

Whenever Brooklyn sees us take out a treat, she instantly becomes famished. Instead of just asking for some of what we have, she starts saying "Mom, I'm hungry... I'm so hungry, Mommy." If you ask her what she wants to eat she'll think real hard and then say, "Um... just some candy, little bit." She always asks for a "little bit" when she knows she's pushing her luck.

The other day I got a shirt out for Brooklyn that she had never worn before, so it still had the tags on it. She started freaking out before I put it on saying, "Mommy, the tag! The tag! You have to cut it off!" So I cut it off and put the shirt on her. Then, she picked up the tag, studied it, and said, "Nine million dollars." She must have really liked that shirt.

Visitors

Jimmie and Jill came up to Utah to attend General Conference last weekend, along with JR, his friend Robbie, JT, Jessica, and Jennifer. They spent a night with us. They arrived after the second session of Saturday conference. The guys went to Priesthood session while we girls dyed eggs. Afterward, we met JR's lady friend and her sister when they came to pick up JR, JT, and Robbie for an evening of Provotian antics. The rest of us just hung out and talked. The next morning the kids opened Easter gifts, we all had breakfast, and then they hit the road for AZ. It was a quick visit, but we enjoyed it very much.

This weekend my parents came. We went to the mall, to the Thanksgiving Point farm, and out to eat three times... causing me to gain a pound despite the fact that we are currently part of a Biggest Loser competition. I could say much more about this trip but I will start crying. I miss them so much and can't wait until we (hopefully) live closer. So that brief summary will have to suffice for now. Their camera takes better pictures than ours, so they were the designated photographers. Enjoy.

Riding a stick pony at Thanksgiving Point


Love it when the sisters play nice


The definition of a sly grin

After a hay ride at Thanksgiving Point Farm.

Papi with the girlies.


Nana and Addy before Addy's bath
(What am I supposed to do with that hair?!)

Playin'

Katy sent some of Lucy's clothes for Brooklyn. She was busting out of her 3T stuff, but I couldn't bring myself to buy warm stuff right now when she'll probably be out of 4T by next winter. It's been so nice to have coats and shirts that she can actually move her arms in!!


Dress-up clothes too!

What a nice surprise!


She was so tired... so much going on!


Sleeping Beauty... check out that little curl sticking up over her hood. Adorable.


We forgot a stroller and had to prop her up in one of the rentals at the mall. It made me laugh every time I looked at her.


Ready to go


I've got an idea...


Always eating the hands


You can see her hemangioma in this one.


My beautiful baby

A Couple More

Today I turned on some music to get myself excited about cleaning the house. An upbeat song came on and Brooklyn started dancing around. Then she shouted, "Shake your bootie!! Shake your bootie, Super Readers!" So I started dancing too. She checked out my moves for a minute and then commented, "You're dangerous!" It was pretty much hilarious.

Brooklyn can say her own prayers now. I tell her to pray and she just goes off saying "Heavenly Father, thank you my toys, thank you my mommy, thank you my blankets, thank you my potty...." and on and on. But lately she's started to get a little irreverent about it so I've tried to go back to telling her what to say. I say, "Thank thee for my bed, help me to be good..." and she says after me "Thank thee for her bed, help her to be good..." I'm torn between thinking she's totally smart for knowing how to change the pronoun and being frustrated that she's not doing it right.

Quotes to Remember

Lehi STINKS today. It smells very strongly of manure outside. I got Brooklyn out of the car to walk into the grocery store and said, "Wow. It smells like... poop." She replied, "No, Mommy, I'm dry!"

Today at Walgreen's I asked the lady at the cosmetics counter if she had any extra coupons for Garnier products. She pulled out a stack of coupon pads and started going through them. One of them accidentally fell out of her hand and hit (lightly) Brooklyn in the face. Brooklyn was totally fine, maybe a little surprised, but the lady felt really bad and was going crazy with the apologies. Then she said, "Here, let me give you a little purse since I'm so sorry." She gave Brooklyn one of the little "free gift" makeup bags you get when you buy perfume. So Brooklyn was playing with that and at our next stop she proudly showed it to me again. I said, "Yeah, that lady was so nice to give you that little purse!" Brooklyn just scowled and said, "She bonked my nose."

The other day, Brooklyn and I were talking about family relationships like she's my daughter and Addy's sister, I'm their mommy, etc. Then I said, "Brooklyn, did you know Nana is my mommy?" She replied, "Yeah! And she's your best friend!"

Yesterday I was in the kitchen and Addy was taking a nap on my bed. When she woke up, she started crying. By the time I got back to my room, Brooklyn was already there trying to give Addy her binky. She turned to me and said, "She doesn't want it, Mommy. She just wants to be held."

In the store today, Brooklyn ran off to the bulk bins. I knew that was dangerous, so I was calling at her to come back. She wouldn't come. So I started going towards her and she quickly grabbed some candy and put it in her mouth. I said, "Brooklyn! You don't take candy from the store! That's stealing." She said, "I'm hungry, Mommy." I said, "Even when we're hungry, we don't take things that aren't ours." She just looked at me, shrugged, and said, "But I'm hungry." Oh boy...

Pinhead

I took Addy to the doctor's this morning for her 4 month check-up. She is 24.5 inches long (51%), weighs 14 lbs 12 oz (75%) and her head measures 39.5 cm (10%). What is it with my babies having abnormally tiny heads?? Brooklyn's percentages at this age were the same but with the height and weight reversed. Addy is a chunker. Dr. Wise looked at her hemangioma, which is significantly larger than the last time he looked at it, and said that with how fast it is growing it might end up splitting the skin. Ouch and gross. I really hope that doesn't happen.

Addy still wakes up to eat every 3-4 hours at night. The doctor said that being as big as she is, she doesn't need to eat that often. So when she wakes up crying and it hasn't been at least 6 hours since her last feeding, I'm supposed to just go calm her down but not feed her. Eventually she will learn to sleep for longer periods of time. I think I will wait a couple of weeks on that one because Jimmie and Jill's family is coming this weekend and my parents are coming next weekend. We don't want to keep them up all night with a crying baby. Speaking of Jimmie, today in the car I told Brooklyn that her cousins and her Uncle Jimmie and Aunt Jill were coming to see her and she said, "Uncle Jimmie's too big to come in my room. Only my cousins." Not sure where that came from, but I was amused.

I feel like I should say something humorous or dishonest in honor of April Fool's Day. I'm not very good at that. Mother Nature, on the other hand, is a pro. It's been snowing all morning. You thought Spring was coming? HA! April Fool's!! Gosh I want to get out of Utah...

Almost 4 Months

I thought it was time for another comparison picture, so I took a picture of Addy at the same age as I had one of Brooklyn (exactly 2 days before they turn/turned 4 months old), in the same outfit. Of course, I also tried to get them with the same expression, but you know how that goes...

What do you think?

First Ponytail

I think I like her curls better.