Quiet Book!

Brynne is loud by nature (thanks Chris :) ) and likes to talk a LOT! It has become quite difficult to keep her contained and quiet during church, so I decided to make a quiet book! There are tons of cute quiet book ideas on Pinterest!

 

The cover, it's not exactly what I wanted, but it'll do for now!

 

 

Count the watermelon seeds, I love watermelons!

 

 

 

The shapes matching page may have some changes soon. I put magnets in the shapes and on the page of the book so they would stay put, but it makes the shapes pretty heavy. It is causing some of them to come off the ribbon, as you can tell if you look close enough at the heart :) I may take all the magnets out and just let her lay them on the right spot.



 

 

Mr. Potato Head, all the body parts are stored in the suitcase.

 

Mrs. Potato Head

 

 

 

Brynne's usual take on the Potato Head, she always puts the shoes and mouths upside down and everything scrunched up at the top!

 

 

 

 

The little chick, pig, and cow are little finger puppets that stick down in the brown pocket. I need a better picture for the peek a boo mittens, but keep forgetting to print one!

 

 

Match the socks

 

 

 

Pull the socks out of the dryer and match them on the other page. They are also held in place with small magnets.

 

 

The flowers go in/out of the vase. And you can put the (fake) coins in the piggy bank. The coins are stored in the little velcro pocket at the bottom.

 

 

Back cover, I plan to write something in the circle, just not sure what yet! I'm thinking my initials.



Overall it was not a hard project, just time consuming! But it doesn't help that we went to TN for 5 weeks when I was half way done and then didn't pull the sewing machine out for 4+ weeks after we got home! I finished it just in time for church this past Sunday. She was not completely quiet, but definitely more quiet than usual so I call it a success!

Brynne is 2!

Today we celebrated Brynne's second birthday (again!)! We had a family birthday a couple of weeks ago while we were in TN and when we got back Allyson (our preacher's daughter) wanted to see Brynne on her birthday, so Amy, Allyson, and Lauren came up for lunch and cupcakes!

Here's the birthday girl!

 

Opening presents in TN.

 

 

Brooke waiting ever so patiently, haha!

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday to you!

 

 

Cupcake time gone wrong... She grabbed the candles and everyone freaked, so she did too. Never would touch the cupcake after that :(

 

 

 

These are just a few of our attempts at a picture this morning, she was NOT interested!

 

 

Between several Christmases in TN and her birthday in TN, Brynne became very accustomed to presents and points them out everywhere. She saw this one that Allyson and Lauren brought and talked about all during lunch. This was her face when I told her it was hers and she could open it, so cute!

 

 

YAY books!

 

 

Her present from us was a play kitchen and shopping cart. They were both a hit!

 

 

 

 

Sampling what she cooked up!

 

 

Cupcake time! We skipped the candles this time!

 

 

Happy birthday Brynne!! We love you and can't believe you are TWO!

Dishes, Dishes

Brynne loves to do the dishes! She asks to do it multiple times a day! Almost every night after dinner we set her up at the sink and let her go to town! Funniest part is she actually washes them!!

Washing the cup with the brush, haha! Apparently she has seen us do this just a few times!

This is from the first time I let her do it.



Washing:



And rinsing, again I think she's seen this a few times!



Hopefully by starting this tradition, she will just keep doing it once she's a teenager, HA!



Gymnastics!

Chris and I have always said our kids would need gymnastics because there is a good chance they will be tall and uncoordinated, so Brynne is taking gymnastics. There have been a couple of days where she didn't seem too interested, but I think she likes it overall.

They have several different rotations set up, but it's mostly just everyone doing what the kid wants to do. Here is Brynne jumping on one of the trampolines.



Crawling through a tunnel:



She can't actually hold herself up on the bar, but she likes to sway back and forth and say swing, swing.





Probably the most favorite part of class for all the kids is getting to go into the "big" gym! This is where all normal sized (instead of toddler sized) stuff is. There is also a giant slide. Brynne always wants to go down, but will never actually do it once she gets up there. I went down with her once and she went down once, but since then she won't do it.



I have always wondered how gymnasts learned to do their crazy tricks without hurting themselves all the time. Well here is how, this is a pit with foam blocks that is under the uneven bars. If they fall, they have a super soft landing!



Here she is at home practicing her somersaults. She is getting really good at them! She is also much closer to being able to jump. I guess the class is paying off!

Race Recap!

Naturally race day was the coldest day we had up to then! It was really cold, overcast, and it even flurried for a few minutes! We debated on whether we should go or not because Brynne was getting over a cold, but she seemed mostly better so we went. We bundled her up really well.

Ready to race!

Warm up time!



Off to the starting line...

And their off!

Crossing the finish line... In last place!

But she still got a medal!

Chris would probably want me to point out that at least one or two of the kids that finished in front of them ended up being carried by their parent! Brynne may have come in last, but at least she finished! She did pretty good considering how cold it was, but she was done after the medal and I can't blame her! Hopefully next year it will be a little warmer!

21 Months and an Early Christmas!

Brynne is 21 months old today!! She seems so much older than she did at 18 months! Granny and Grandaddy got her a chair for Christmas. Since we will be in TN for Christmas and I have had the chair for a month or longer, I went ahead and gave it to her today while we were video chatting with Granny. She was SO excited about it!! It makes me excited for Christmas (even though I haven't gotten her anything yet)!

Brynne was sick a few weeks ago and when I took her to the doctor she was 30 lbs 4-5 oz and 34 inches. I took her this Monday for an incredibly annoying, only at night cough and she was 30 lbs 12 oz. We didn't do length because she HATES being weighed and measured, so we just used the one from the time before!

 

I just moved her up to size six diapers this week! Six is as big as they go, so if she outgrows these we'll have to either potty train or move to Depends, haha!

 

 

Her vocabulary has really taken off too. At 18 months she was barely saying ten words, now she's got 50+! Now we just have to work on pronunciation because even I have a hard time figuring out what she's trying to say sometimes! Other people probably wouldn't be able to understand even half of those!

Brynne still LOOOOOVES books, but she has finally started to like coloring! I contribute it to Sunday School, we have been in the 2-K class for quite sometime and we usually have a coloring sheet at some point. There is another little girl in the class that is 2.5, but she and Brynne are the exact same size (ha!) and Brynne saw her coloring and started doing it too!

 

She is also learning shapes and puzzles. She has a shape sorter and I can tell her which shape to get (heart, circle, square, triangle, cross, star) and will usually put it in the correct spot. With puzzles she will put the piece on the right spot, but not necessarily turn it so that it will fit in the spot. I know she can do it, but if she thinks you are trying to teach her something, she doesn't want to do it! I remember someone else that was the EXACT same way.... JADE!!

 

{One small problem with the chair :)}

 

 She has started telling us every time she poops! I am NOT ready for potty training!! Unless something crazy happens, I don't plan on even thinking about it until we get back after Christmas at the earliest.

 

I can't believe in three months we will have a two year old!!!