Whole Bunch of Stuff

I thought I would do a blog entry about what the kids are into lately to give an idea of what a day in our life looks like. Starting off with Brielle...she is currently in this phase where she wants to change her clothes every 5 seconds of the day and switch from princess dress (which in our house...EVERY dress is a princess dress) to ballerina back to princess, so I thought I would just take a picture of what she wore in a single day. Out of her pj's, Brielle first asked for her ladybug costume from LAST halloween (not this past one...the one before!) So on it goes... (also...Brielle is also into just saying the word cheese for the camera...no smile... just a very emphatic cheese expression...so pardon the facial expressions...and the bed head...which is a very common hairdo for us over here!)
So then out of the ladybug costume...then into a ladybug dress

...then onto the ever popular trend of a summer tank top paired with a pair of winter tights...

...and then the very trendy navy spring dress paired with a black pair of tights (with Minnie Mouse on them of course!)

...apparently she didn't think the dress matched the tights so off with that one and on with this one. Whew...this one looks so much better! :) We can already tell Brielle has such good fashion sense!

I must admit before having kids I vowed I would never let my child have Disney characters on their clothes or shoes, I would make them wear clothes that matched, and they would without a doubt never have light up shoes. Well...the other day we went out in public with a hot pink sweatshirt and jeans tucked INTO red Christmas socks while wearing Dora light up shoes and a Dora backpack...needless to say I have classified "what you wear in public" as a very small battle to fight...there are so many battles in a day that it just isn't worth it! Brielle you wear what you want girl...as long as it gets us out the door on time I am fine with it!

Brielle just loves her Dad. Last weekend we had enough snow that Chad could take her outside and build a snowman and go sledding...she loved it! (And yes, that is Dora the Explorer on her jacket...what can I say?!)

Brielle is really starting to get an imagination and play pretend which is so fun to watch and also be a part of. I must admit I was a little concerned that she might have accounting written all over her future as she was naming her pet dogs such creative names as: "Brown dog", "Fire Truck Dog" and "Piper's Dog" She loves Dora and anything princess and loves to dance. She is such a sweet little thing to her brother. She always loves on him and smothers him and tries to include him in things we're doing as best as she can.

Bryce is 7 1/2 months old and can officially be labeled a crawler! Its like something finally clicked and he realized by crawling he can go anywhere he wants to! Our lives as parents just got a little busier! Bryce has always been such a smiley thing and he's always ready to flash it whenever we enter the room...just warms our hearts! He adores Brielle...so much so that whenever I carry him into Brielle's room in the morning he gets so squirmy because he wants to get down and lay and play next to her. He is always trying to be where she is. He is still not the greatest sleeper and gets up at least once during the night...which we're working on and hopefully will have figured out soon!

Bryce is also going to be our climber. he is always pulling himself up onto things and try to get up on things. Brielle was not like this at all, so I am going to have my hands full!

Here are just some pics of the 2 of them together. I just love watching them interact together and see glimpses of what kind of relationship the two of them can have as they get older. Bryce is so lucky to have a big sister like Brielle. She has not shown one ounce of jealousy whenever I need to take my attention away from her to focus on him. She just loves on him and is always throwing unexpected hugs and kisses his way.

In other news...Chad's mom came across an old T-shirt that Chad wore when he was a little tike and they were RD's in Durfee Hall so we just had to take a picture of it. Oh, how I love that shirt with his jean diaper!

Chad's parents came out this past weekend. Brielle was counting down the days until they came and was so excited for them to come. She had so much fun and played so hard that on Monday after her cartoon was over she said "Mommy its nap time!" and walked right upstairs to her room. If only every day could be that easy for nap time! We loved having them out too...to catch up on things and hang out...and not to mention extra hands with the kids and a night out with just the two of us!