We celebrated Brooklyn's birthday a couple of weeks ago, I cannot believe she is already 2!! It makes me so sad to think of how fast she is growing, but I love all the new things she does and to see how she is developing so I guess it's kind of a lose, lose situation!! But, I love her soooo much!! She is very smart and quite obedient for being just 2 years old. She know "the rules" and mostly sticks to them, which suprises me sometimes! She is very good at cleaning up after herself (Shawn says my OCD is wearing off on her, but I'm not so sure that's a bad thing!), She loves to sing songs, draw pictures, and play, play, play! For her birthday this year we decided to keep it very low key. When she got up in the morning she opened presents from Shawn and I. Then we went and watched Ryan's soccer game and went to lunch at McDonald's. It was her first time playing in the playland and she thankfully was not too fond of it!! We then came home and rested for a bit and then met for pizza, cake, and ice cream at the park. We only invited Shawn's sisters and parents, and my sisters, brother, and parents. We all had a great time and it was much less stressful!!!
The birthday present tower! oh so excited!!
The loot!!!
Shawn's sister got married the next weekend. The wedding was beautiful and the weather was great. Congratulations Kari & Cody we love you guys and wish you the best!!
(Cody is determined Brooklyn will like him!!)
We learned about listening and obeying in nursery on sunday. These ears should help with the listening part!!! Love Them!
Shawn got a helicopter magazine in the mail the other day. Brooklyn had to stop and look at it on the way inside. I'm not sure if she was looking for her dad or just looking??
She is too funny and way too smart!! Just now she got her stool and got some batteries out of the tool drawer cuz she couldn't get her cash register to work and thought it was out of batteries!!! It really scares me with how smart she is! In other milestone news, we have been binkie-free for the last three weeks!!!! I had been thinking that it was about time to get rid of them, but wasn't quite sure how to go about it and I wasn't fully commited yet. Since she was little she has never been allowed to have her binkie unless she is going to sleep, if we're traveling, or if she was crying unconsolably. I refused to have "one of those children" that walk around with their binkie all day and you can't understand what they say because it's in their mouth (hopefully I'm not offending anyone, I'm not meaning to!). For some reason I've just always found it so annoying! So, the other night at dinner she was throwing a fit because she didn't want to eat, well then she saw her binkie and started crying harder cuz she wanted it... annoying. So, I told her if she didn't stop crying it was going in the garbage. She didn't stop, so there it went, straight into the can! She eventually calmed down and I figured she'd throw a fit at bedtime for her binkie and I'd have to go get one of her others. But, bedtime came, she asked where he binkie was, I reminded her that it was in the garbage and that was the end! I could not believe it!!! I was astonished to say the least! I am glad it went so well because I wasn't even really planning on keeping it from her but when she accepted it so easily I thought heck why not?!!! She has asked for it a couple of time since, but once she's reminded of what happened and that babies need binkies not big girls she carries on like it's no big deal!!! Hopefully potty training will be as easy!! (and hopefully soon!)
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4 comments:
I loved the update! Happy Birthday! (She's such a CUTE little girl!!)
I'm totally impressed with the pacifier story. I wish it were just that easy every time. I'm fixin' to take Sage's away so I'm interested to see how it goes. I don't think it's going to go over too well. I just might try something like what you did. Thanks for the idea :)
Thanks for the post!
Sounds like a lot is going on there! Brooklyn is so cute! Glad you guys are doing good! By the way we sold our house! It should close the end of this month!
Wow she is growing up fast. She's so dang cute. I don't blame you about McDonald's, it just screams germ fest to me. I did about the same thing with the binkie with my first (Austin) and I too was amazed he just accepted that it was in the trash. Josh didn't have one, Mariah was a bit harder and then we still have Blake to go through. Loved the post. :)
Were you responsible for the ears in nursery? They were the cutest! I hope you had fun on your little cuties birthday, it does seem like she was just born. Funny how fast time goes.
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