A bowl full of cherries...

The kiddos and I went cherry pickin' yesterday.  Well, mostly just Brynn seeing as I had to chase her around and Evan was in the baby carrier strapped to me!  :)  It was hot but we had fun and got some yummy cherries and we didn't stay very long.  Evan so badly wanted down, but last I checked sticks and dirt weren't too easy on soft little knees.

 Picking with Nana

"Gook, I found one Mommy!"

"Want some?"

 Sampling her findings!  :)

Checking for the pit

{She may have swallowed some before she figured it out!  Oops!}

 

 Evan trying so hard to reach some cherries!

"Mmmmmm!" 

 "I dun, Mommy."

Sticks
Do you see her cherry juice goatee?

Evan claps

If you can't see the video, click here.

And then, why not a picture of Evan eating spaghetti?  Such a mess, but he likes it and afterward we just make a beeline for the bathtub!

Phone pics

Because I don't always have the camera near by.

Playing on Aunt Debbie's iPad...I think she might know how to use it better than she does  ;)

 Shop till you drop

Making silly faces at lunch!

Jumpin' at gym class

Cute little guy!

 Taking baby for a stroll around the neighborhood

Taking Rocky for a walk

Aunt Stace painted her toes "purpo"

Happy Little Guy!

I made sweet potatoes and I think he liked them...gobbled them all up! 

Cheese!

And he still hates tummy time!

A little catch up...

in pictures!

First bath together! It only lasted a minute or so because Evan started screaming. {I think Brynn was trying to make him laugh, but scared him instead.}

Making funny faces!

Finding things to snack on! {He liked it...ate the whole thing lightning fast!}

Trying avocado...liked it much better than the cereal.

Playing and being silly in the bath!

Nothing really new or exciting to report over here. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

First bite!

Evan had his first taste of food yesterday and I'm not sure he was all that thrilled!  I suppose I don't blame him though, bland baby cereal doesn't sound all that appetizing to me either.  He did well though!

 Not so sure about it.

Let's try some more....

Ummm...no thanks!

At least Dad is funny!

And we're done.

We'll keep trucking along and adding more foods along the way.

18 months old

How is it even possible that Brynn is a year and 1/2 old today? I know I say it every month, but the time is going by so fast! She isn't a baby anymore, she's a toddler. ::sniff sniff::

She is like a little sponge...learning new things so quickly! She is up to about 50 words and learning new ones everyday. She can point out a bunch of objects and animals in books and knows a bunch of animals sounds.  She also knows almost all of her body parts!

She LOVES her brother and loves to try and help out with him. She is a typical girl and loves talking on the phone with her grandmas {Maw Maw and Nana} or her aunts! She loves having us read to her or reading to herself {as evidenced in the previous entry}. She LOVES to be outside!! She still loves her baby and has picked up on the things we do with Evan. She wanted her baby to wear a diaper, she takes a wipe and tries to change her, she puts her in the swing and bouncy seat, puts her on the play mat for tummy time and rocks her in her arms while saying "shhh"...it's pretty cute! She is obsessed with shoes...yours, mine, hers...it doesn't matter. She loves the water, playing in the pool or her bubble bath! She loves milk {no problems getting her to drink enough during the day} and any kind of fruit. She loves to dance and has some pretty stellar dance moves. She loves Rocky and has so much fun chasing, playing, and kissing him. She likes trying to imitate our actions and words {Scott has to watch what he says now ;) }.

She is working on some new teeth {bottom molars}, but has eight that are all the way through. The molars seem to be bothering her more, so we have had some fussy days and nights.

We have a pediatrician appointment later this week so we will get to see how big she is then. On our home scale she about 22 pounds. Overall she is a happy, silly little girl who is growing, learning, exploring and loving!

Playing outside and popsicles

We enjoyed the beautiful weather this weekend and hung outside for a bit! Brynn had her first popsicle and I don't think she was so sure about it. Maybe it was the wrong flavor or brain freeze?! After she finished (or maybe we finished) the popsicle, we played around with the ball, leaves and Rocky. Brynn loved chasing Rocky and Rocky loved chasing the ball!

Okay...not so bad

Not so sure

Still not sold on it

Leaves are so cool

Rocky playing ball

"What?"

Hope everyone took some time to enjoy the wonderful weather this weekend!

It's tiring being a toddler

The other day Brynn had woken up a little later than normal, so lunch was a little later as well. She was chowing down and I was picking up around the house and I realized she was really quiet. I looked over and the girl was SLEEPING! The funny part was she would wake up, keep her eyes closed and shovel more food into her mouth. Sleep eating...who would have thought.

I cleaned her up and brought her upstairs for a nap, but before I did that I of course had to snap a picture! It was just too funny not to. Enjoy!

A is for avocado...

AND apparently awful! Brynn had some pureed avocado and really didn't like it. I'm not sure if it is a texture thing or if she just has to get used to it, but after 4 days we decided to move on. We moved on to sweet potatoes and I'm not so sure she likes those either, but she seems to be doing better with them. We'll keep pushing through because at this rate she isn't going to like anything if we don't. Hopefully she will come around to sweet potatoes the same way she did with the cereal.

She is loving her cereal though!! She can not get enough of it fast enough and gobbles it all up. We have actually had to make more for her every night.