Brooklyn Update - Summer Wrap Up

I cannot belive how much this little girl has changed just since her last update. She is officlly a talker, and we love it. Some of my favorites our:

"Where we going?" - When we are driving anywhere

"I pooped!" - Whenever she toots

"I love you much more." - After you tell her I love you

"Hold on" - When we call her name

"Singing in the shower" - When she's taking a bath

I made her a chore chart to hopefully get her excited to brush her teeth and go potty on her own. She loves it and I love when she says chore chart, but we still have not actually gone in the potty and sometimes we have to hold her down to brush her teeth.

She does NOT like to wear clothes. If you come over she will most likely have a diaper on and only a diaper. If she does have clothes on and has to go #2, she will kindly ask you to help her take her clothes off, because she likes to poop with no clothes and in the corner. Thanks for the warning Brookie. :)

 

Potty training has been a battle. She thinks that if she sits on the potty and flush then she has gone potty. She gets excited and washes her hands and yells "I go potty". I don't want to make her feel bad, so I will say "you sat on the potty, yay!" 

Even though I am ready for summer to be over, I am happy that she has had such a fun summer. I just can't wait for fall. Then we can go out in the middle of the day and water will not be required. But of course she loved swimming and water parks.

I did this little comparison on my instagram account. I can't belive how much she has grown!

Swimming is a must in the summer, even if it's in a small pool in your backyard.

 A couple weeks ago we went school shopping with the girls. Emma and Lindsay are starting 6th grade! Wow, they are going to rock. Towards the end of the shopping day, the girls had had it at Kohls. So they found an area with chairs and rested.

Nice Brookie!

                   But even though they found fun chairs to sit in, Brookie was done before we left.

We painted her toes the other day, and she wanted to put her dress shoes on. She loved it.

Finally we broke down and got her some fish. Well let's just say I broke down, Dave has been wanting to get her some awhile. She loves them, we got her a neon pink and yellow one. She has named them Spongebob and Patrick. Haha

Notice no shirt!

First Library Card.

Dave and I had tried to take Brooklyn to the library back in October to see how she would do. She was kind of a terror and we thought she's not quite ready. Well I decided to give it another try, and she loved it. She was so well behaved and LOVED looking at all the books. She even found a Peppa Pig book all by herself. She screamed when she found it. I had to remind her to whisper. She was so cute, we got her first library card and checked out 9 books. It seems like a lot but that night she sat and listened to almost all of them. This is also a big deal for me because before when I would try to read her one of her books, she would get bored and turn the pages on her own.

Independence Day 2013: Brooklyn and Allie Edition.

I was going through my pictures from the 4th of July and I realized 98% of the pictures are just Brooklyn and Allie......oops but they are so cute and they like to hang out with me.

It was so hot the morning of the 4th, we just had a lazy morning before going to the splash pad. When we got to the splash pad clouds were just starting to come in and it was so nice.

Brooklyn makes the bikini/swim diaper combo look good!

Here are the other 2% of pictures, Nate Nate and Carter.

 

When we left the park we all when to Bubba's house for a BBQ. Then the girls took a bath, ate some watermelon, jumped on the trampoline, and watched TV in Emma's room. By this time, there was a breeze and more clouds, so nice. I couldn't ask for better weather on this Independence Day.

  

Okay, at times it was more than just a "breeze".

Once it was almost dark we went to the high school by our house to watch the city fireworks. We thought we would be able to see the fireworks from there. We did see them, but there were some trees blocking the others. I was kinda of bummed, but Brooklyn loved it no matter what. 

Brooklyn was so tired when we got home but Ash and I really wanted her to try some sparklers before she went to bed. She loved them until she got burned, it was so sad. She went from so happy to crying in pain in 2 seconds. I felt bad that her night ended like that, but thankfully it was better by morning. Here are some pics pre burn. :(

Penelope and her family are in Iowa for the summer. Kristin sent us pictures of their fun day, we sure do miss them. We are so grateful for FaceTime.