Saturday, May 14, 2011

11 weeks old

It's been busy around our house lately! I started back to work two days a week a couple of weeks ago. Bristol has been at her grandparents' house and did well on day one, but has not done well with the bottle since then, which is stressful for everyone. It seems like there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done that needs to be done! After surviving my first outing alone with all three kids, we are now pretty mobile. We go to the children's museum, library and park in some combination every day that I'm home with them. We have a number of awesome parks really close to our house and have enjoyed exploring our new little town. Here's a family picture from Mother's Day and you can see the beautiful necklace that Brayden made me! Brinley made handprint art for me, both projects done at school.




 This is Bristol's preferred method of self-soothing. Unlike the older two, she rarely takes a binky. She sticks tow fingers in her mouth and holds one had with the other. So cute!
 Rocking out with the Wii



 We love our neighborhood! We have this great cul-de-sac on our end where the kids can play and ride bikes and the other end is also a cul-de-sac. We recently met more neighbors, including our next door neighbors with a baby a week older than Bristol.


Our greatest success lately has been with Brinley and potty training. She's been dabbling with it forever it seems and it's safe to say that she is potty trained now! She is even out of Pull Ups at night and hasn't had any night accidents. This, of course, after we just bought a case of Pull Ups at Costco instead of the usual small pack at a time.

Easter...Part 2

We postponed our family Easter celebration this year a few weeks until Grandpa was feeling better. We celebrated it and Mother's Day with brunch at Bob Evans, an egg hunt at Nana & Grandpa's, grilling dinner at our house and ice cream from JJ's. What a great day!


 Bristol's first picture with the Bunny...we take one of the kids with it each year.

 Brayden's bunny pictures....2006
 2007
 2008
 2009
 
2010
 
Brinley's bunny pictures....2008
 2009
 2010

10 weeks


 This was at 2 weeks....and now 10 weeks!
 
Relay for Life

100th post! (Just another day)

Just another day at our house. I think Brinley may be the football star in our family...!

 A favorite game: Tackle Daddy!
 The magic sink. As soon as it is clean and empty, it magically refills with dirty dishes.
 We are loving a backyard we can run around barefoot in and it's definitely every-day-bath-required weather lately.
 Dirty faces all around, eating dinner outside, looking forward to a fun summer!
 Fashion Show

Brayden Kyle

This is my favorite little boy in the whole world! He acts like a total grown up one minute, then like a 2 year old the next. He is a handful at times, but so sweet and kind. Love you, Brayden!
Found him sleeping in the chair in the room he shares with Brinley!
The rest of these pics were taken by Brayden:
 Birdhouse he built with Daddy & painted, has birds living in it!
 Our favorite dinner spot: the back deck

 The mailman

9 weeks old


 Awards night t church for AWANA: