Random

* Brynn was being quiet in her carseat (completely NOT NORMAL for her) and I caught her with her finger in her nose. I said "What do you think you're doing?!" in a joking voice and she said "Boogers in my nose Mommy... boogers tuck (stuck) in my nose"!!

* Brynn had her fingernails and big toenails painted for the first time ever on Sunday morning by Lindy. She only had her big toenails painted because she wouldn't sit still for the rest of them to get painted. She thinks it's the coolest thing EVER. She walks around holding her fingers all spread out saying "My neels (nails)." "Linny dude it my neels Mommy!" "Pitty neels!!" (Pretty nails!!)

* My mom came out to visit at the beginning of the year and it just happened to be lightning like crazy outside. There was a HUGE burst of lightning on one side of us and mom completely didn't see it, she was looking the other way. So, one of our on going jokes is that mom can't see things that are really obvious and right in front of her face. Tonight Brynn and Chad were walking inside from the garage, Chad saw a gecko and wanted to show it to Brynn. He tried to show her where it was and she kept looking everywhere except for where the gecko was. Just like Ammie!! :)

* Examples of her vocabulary:
Chicken - kickin
Grapes - bapes
Chocolate milk - cocky muck or chocky muck
White (or regular) milk - Reega muck
Elephant - elephanent
Alligator - Aldeegator

* She blames Brady at daycare for EVERYTHING. If she has a scratch on her arm, she says "Brady dude it". If her shirt is dirty, "Brady dude it". If she fell and hurt her knee at home, "Brady dude it".

* She still calls gum "dum".

* Potty training was going really well until this weekend, I don't know what happened but she's not into it at all now and throws a fit when we make her try to go.

* Her favorite book is the "Poop Book" from Lindy

* She thinks she can get out of doing anything, like getting a bath or going to bed, if she tells us she has to go potty. BUT SHE WON'T GO!!

* She loves babies. She got a baby and a stroller from Gramma and Ana for her birthday and she thinks they are SO COOL. She runs around the house with the stroller and loves to run into things, especially the dogs. We can't find the baby's clothes anywhere, she's been naked for a month.

* She loves iced tea.

* She tells the dogs "HUSH GUYS!!" when they're outside barking.

* She also says "BACK UP! BACK UP! when the dogs are in her way.

* She always wants the dogs to come and see her. She says "Jetta, a meer" (Jetta, come here!) a lot. Jetta's a sucker and usually listens. :)

* She LOVES to talk on the phone. Actually, she loves to "pretend" to talk on the phone. She'll grab my phone, or the house phone, and say "Ha whoa? Yeah. Ammie Hi-Yo. Bye bye." Translation: Hello? Yeah. Ammie is in Ohio. Bye bye.

I have to admit, I've been horrible about taking pictures lately. Mostly, it's because Brynn doesn't want to have her picture taken. She always looks away from the camera or says "Mommy, no tamra"!! Sorry kid, get used to it... you'll love me for it later!!

Brynn's 2 Year Pictures

Love JC Penney's... we got 8 5x7's, a free 8x10 and all of her pictures online. Want to know how much all of that cost us? $20. Awesome.

Here are a few of our favorites (in no particular order):















Janny, didn't you get her the pink dress??

Big Girl Bed

Over the weekend I found a smokin' deal on a toddler bed for Brynn on Craigslist.com. Her crib converts to a toddler bed but she didn't like that at all, so we decided to try out a toddler bed that looks completely different from her crib.

She saw it when I brought it home yesterday and was all excited. We left it in the garage last night and wanted her to get excited about it instead of trying to force it on her. Well, it worked.

We keep calling it her "big girl bed" or the "cool bed" and she just thinks it is the most awesome thing ever. We always walk out through the garage in the morning when we leave, so she saw it this morning and started freaking out and saying "my bed mommy, my bed!!" and then sat on it for a minute before we left for the day. Then after dinner, we were going on a walk to the mailbox and she got really excited again. She almost cried when we walked in the house because she couldn't see it anymore. So, we decided it was time.

She helped us clean it off and put all of her blankets (all 15,000 of them) on the bed, along with her pillow (she calls it a "poo-dough") and her bears. Then, she decided that she didn't want anything on the bed and threw all of it off. Then, she put everything back on... and took it back off... etc. Whatever, it kept her busy. :) Then, we told her to sit on the bed so we could take some pictures and she smacked her cheek on the side of it. She was a tough girl though, no tears were shed.

Here are some pictures of Brynn in her new "cool bed".

"Oh my gosh, this is SO COOL!!"



"I just totally whacked my cheek on my new bed but I'm a tough girl"



"I LOVE IT!!"

So Proud

Brynn calls it a "beeper" (sweeper) - NOT A VACUUM, like her Daddy.

And yes, I labeled this post as a milestone. I'm so proud!!!

Using Her Words

Some of our favorites and the ones that she says the most:

If you tell Brynn to say "Brynn", she says "Bean".

Brenda = BA-DA!
GGMA = G.......G.......Mommy? or G.......G.......Mamamamama
Bri = Bee
Ana = Ana
Jami = Amy
Luke = Luke or Luk-ah
Matt = Matt
Mimi = Mimi or Mimimimimimimi
Lindy = Lee-dee

Allie = AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH (and yes, Allie responds to that...she LOVES Brynn!!)
Mel = Mellie
Spike = Ssspk

Balloon = Boon or boona
Shoes = Shoes
Socks = Ox
Phone = Fock (we've REALLY been trying to get her to say it correctly!!)
Purse = Purse or Pursy
Book = Booooook or Booooooka

She'll try to repeat anything we say so we really have to watch ourselves now!!

Bun

I took these a few weeks ago... I was SO excited, I put her hair up in a little bun-type-thing! It only lasted for about 3.7 seconds before I had to put barrettes in it to keep it from falling down, but we tried!!

POTAAAY Time!!

Sam requested the fun potty story from a couple nights ago that I haven't had a chance to post yet... so here it is (with a few details that you probably didn't want).

About two months ago, we bought Brynn a potty. We hadn't done much with it until last week when Gramma was here. One day, she and Chad finally got it out of the box and decided to let Brynn give it a try. Apparently she sat on it and that was that.

Story # 1
Well, two nights ago, I was getting ready to give Brynn a bath and decided that we might as well try it again. Well, she sat on her little potty and I actually had to go too so I sat down to go too. She FREAKED out and started yelling, so I stood her up because I thought she was scared. Once she stood up, she was fine. She actually walked out of the bathroom, said hi to her Daddy and came back in a second later. She walked right over to me, smiled, and all of a sudden I noticed that my pant leg started moving a little bit and then it felt really warm. SHE PEED ON THE FLOOR AND GOT IT ALL OVER MY PANTS AND MY LEG!! Thanks kiddo.

Story # 2
Tonight she used her potty for the first time!! YAY BRYNN!! What a big girl!! (Chad must have had a feeling that she was going to do it because he just happened to take her picture while she was sitting there tonight!! Like the angry face??)



Brynn, you continue to amaze us!!

17 Months

I'm really late on this update, I'll blame it on the holidays. Brynn, you turned 17 months old on Christmas Eve. On that big day, Daddy and I were up late wrapping some of your presents from us and re-wrapping the ones that the dogs got into.

You are walking like crazy (YAY!!). You don't like to hold our hand anymore while you're walking because you like to do it on your own. The only time you get scared is when you have to go over the step that takes you to the garage, it's a little awkward and you just don't quite have the hang of it yet. You still fall over when you lose your balance but you just get right back up.

You are climbing on lots of things now too. This scares me a little. You can get up on the couch by yourself and sit like a big girl with Daddy and I. You also like to climb Aunt Jenn and Uncle TJ's steps. On Christmas, we caught you on step # 5. You lost your balance and we let you kind of tumble down a few of them so that you might get a little freaked out. Well, it worked until tonight when you and I went back over there and you saw like 10 other kids flying up and down them. You decided that you wanted to do it too. You did really good but it still scared me.

You LOVE food. I don't know where you get that from? (Wink, wink) You'll try anything that Daddy or I are eating.

You LOVE to dance. You also like to lip sync to songs. Aunt Lindy got you the Barenaked Ladies "Snacktime" cd for Christmas and your favorite song is 7-8-9. You sing "8-9". Tonight at Aunt Jenn and Uncle TJ's house, you had fun dancing to TJ and his friends play their guitars (Mommy did too!).

You love to carry around your Barbie cell phone and purse that you got for Christmas. We do have a problem with the phone though. For a LONG time, you called phones by their name. Well, for some reason, now you call them "foks". When you say it, sometimes it sounds like a bad word. Mommy, Daddy and Gramma have all tried millions of times to get you to say phoNe but you won't listen to us.

You call Auntie Bri "BEE". Gramma has been here visiting since the day after Christmas and you won't even attempt to say "Gramma". We're still working on that one. We also try to get you to say GGMa and GGPa but that hasn't caught on very well either. You say "GG Mama" and point to me or just "GG". ;o)

Your favorite word is "bye". For some reason, you've been adding an "a" on the end of a lot of your words lately, so now you say "bye-a".

Grammie and Grampie bought us a webcam for Christmas, ours is all hooked up and ready to go, so we should be able to use it soon. I don't know how well you're going to sit still for it, but it will be fun to try!! Who knows, you might like watching the screen.

You still love Abby Cadabby but now you really like Minnie Mouse and Elmo ("Mo") too.

You like to try to put your clothes and shoes on yourself... you're doing pretty well with the shoes but we're still working on the clothes. You try to put your pants on your arms and your shirts on your feet. ;o)

You are quite the sleeper. Several times in the last two weeks, you've slept in past 10am. Ahhh...

Brynn, your Daddy and I are having SO MUCH fun spending time with you, you are the best little girl ever. We love you!!