Overheard at Our House

Brandon is in Kylers bedroom getting clothes for him while he is in the bath.
Brandon: "Marci, why is the carpet soaking wet in here?"
Marci: "I dont know, i haven't been in there" :)
***Marci's thought, "oh crap, Kyler just got undressed and took his diaper off in there without me"
I walk into the bathroom where Kyler is having a blast with his animals in the tub
Marci: "Kyler, did you pee in your room"
Kyler: without skipping a beat, and not even looking up from his playing, "yup, i did"
Marci: "Kyler! That is not ok. Not ok at all."
Kyler: looking up at me so sweetly "Its ok mom, you take care of it"

3/4 of a year old!!

***pictures to come, our main computer is sick...well dead and that is the only way i can take pictures off my camera right now. So pictures to come on this one. :(

Oh sweet Brooklyn stop it, stop getting so grown up! I know i say this a lot, but really what parent is keen on the idea of how fast kids grow? Me and Brandon want to know why the growing up process has to be so fast and the decline of age can drag on for many a decades? Seriously.

Our little lady is a beauty and is everything stubborn, moody, giggly, adorable, fun, spoiled, and BIG!

Her 9 month stats are:
weight: 20.8 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87%
head circumference 17.8 inch. . . . . 85%
Height(length)30 inches. . . . . . . . . .99%

Holy smokes yes that says she is in the 99%tile for height!! She is almost off the charts! Oh sweety, your big brother is going to hate that you tower over him, and you are going to rub it in his face, i am sure of it. :)

Our little Brooklyn is:
- on the verge of taking crawling seriously. She scoots around, takes a couple of "crawls" and then decides that scooting is much more efficient lately so she will drop that tummy back down and scoot. It cracks me up, cause she can crawl. She just doesn't want to yet.
- She loves LOVES loves to stand. This little table and her are best buds. She loves it.
- She got weaned from mommys milk to bottle during the day this month. I still breastfeed at night and mornings, I feel extreme guilt for weaning her before 12 months....i always intended to be strong, but with daycare all day its hard to keep her focused and me modest, so i gave up. Guilt. She fought the change like no other. It broke my heart. Daddy was her main man for 2 days while we made the change. Now, she almost prefers the bottle. She gets super excited when i am fixing it up, waving her hands up and down and almost jumping up and down if she could! :)
- She isn't easy to feed. She boycotted baby food. I can occasionally get her to take yogurt or cottage cheese, oatmeal, and applesauce, but lets be honest you get it spit in your face or she will not crack her mouth open for nothing. NOTHING. Stinker! :) She doesn't want to be tricked into eating smooth delicious healthy baby food. Nope she wants to stick with chocking hazard chunks she can feed herself. And even then, She wont eat veggies very well. Which if you know Kyler, is a strange thing for me (Kyler is a self proclaimed vegetarian i swear! :)  Her favorites to eat are: bread, crackers, baby Cheetos (Gerber kind) and yogurt chips (again Gerber). Besides those she gobbles hotdogs, chicken nuggets, pancakes, eggs, ham, and cheese. She loves to suck on celery and cucumbers (the only two veggies she really eats)
- She is still limited to a "ba ba ba baaaa" jabbering. Mommy and daddy are working feverishly to get her to say "mamama" or "dadadada" but she just giggles at our attempts and answers back with "ba ba ba ba"
- mommy is working with her to clap, wave, and fun things like that. She just smiles at me and never attempts to copy me. She is stubborn i tell you.
- She loves her big brother. Never really seems to mind being attacked and rolled around on the floor with him. She is beginning to give dirty looks to that same big brother who feels the need to take any ANY toy she finds away from her. Bugs mommy, and is really starting to bug her to. :)
- She loves bath time.
- she is sometimes hard to get to laugh, but if you happen to sneeze, or play sneeze with her...oh my she will giggle giggle and giggle for you. I will try and catch it on camera sometime and share. It cracks us up. Kyler even knows to do it to really make her laugh. 
- she has found the kitchen. Oh my. :) she love the Tupperware drawer, lid drawer and place mats, tablecloths drawer. She is great at pulling everything out of them. She is even super tough when she slams her chubby fingers in the drawer. She just groans and opens the drawer back up to get her fingers out.
- she still loves paper and has quiet efficiently ruined all the coloring books all the other kids leave out when they are done. If she is having a hard time, i just give her paper and she is a happy little meadow lark.

Overall we adore this little girl. She adores her daddy. She is a daddys girl through and through. She just smiles from ear to ear when she sees him come home from work, and when she is upset, he can calm her down faster than i can. He can also get her back to sleep in no time flat, where me and her butt heads until i finally give up and put her in her crib to cry it out until daddy saves her. :)

Happy Valentines Daddy

My attempt to take a nice picture for daddy for Valentines Day from his wifey and kiddos. I was slightly rushed, we were going to be late for church and i was doing this all myself, pushing timer, and running to the kids, gathering them and smiling...not to bad concerning what we had to do to get it. :)

Valentines Day

Yes now more than a month later i am showing you our Valentines day.(I'm tricky and still labeled this in Feb even though it is now the 21st of March)

I want to make each Holiday fun. Its just an excuse to have a little fun with my own kiddos and other peoples too. I sometimes wish i was more on the ball and planned in advance so i would have all the materials to do what i really want and not just slide by the seat of my pants, but all in all they always have fun either way and i love seeing their faces.
-all pictures are not edited :( Still no Photoshop back on this computer, so enjoy my raw photography skills

Breakfast with one of our daycare friends

Brooklyn climbed over the tractor to get to her balloon, it soo cracked me up.

Brookie loves balloons

Colored with a good friend

Blurry but seriously can you see how much she loves balloons!!

"look Brookie i can see you!!" Impossible to get a cute picture of the two of them and two balloons so this one is the best

This is the only one with them both looking at me

pink heart pancakes with jam

Bed head baby girl on Valentines day

Heart Pizzas for Lunch

Cute cute Jaelie mixing up what will become pink heart muffins

Family Pictures

Guess what i just relaized i never blogged my family pictures we had taken this fall.
The kids were horrible. Hence the no-smile-in-any-picture-unless-daddy-tickles problem. But I want to blog them just so they are here.
We had a local photographer take them. She did awesome. I just wish the kids would have cooperated. Both had fallen asleep on the way out to where we had them taken, so you can imagine they were not super happy when we woke them up, took them out in the cold without jackets, and tried to make them smile. :) Cruel parenting. Next time, i will plan things better. I take full responsibility for their bad attitudes.

oh how i wish they would have been good for this one...beautiful.

This is my favorite. Ky always puts his arm around his "sissser"

only smile of the night out of Kyler

We even tried to get him on a pony to make him happy. Didnt work....he wanted the big horse.

I  love this guy millions of much. we have been married almost 5 years.