Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Friday, April 6, 2012

Happy Birthday Brynn!

Look at how big I am!

Brynn's birthday festivities are complete!  Friday, March 16th was B's actual birthday and we celebrated with potato pancakes.  Nana was in town to celebrate too so we had a mini celebration for Brynn, with Nana, Aunt Stephanie, Uncle Scott, Henry, Aunt Lo and Uncle Bryan, Gaga and Papa.  (Its much easier to make potato pancakes for a crowd then for a few:)  We sang Happy Birthday and she enjoyed a cupcake the neighbor brought over since Brynn and her dog share a birthday.  (Their dogs are like family.)  She got good and messy.  Here's a tip: don't feed your baby something with chocolate frosting because after a while it doesn't look like chocolate. (sorry for the mental image!)
I think I like this!


After she got cleaned up it was bedtime.  The next day was supposed to be busy with pictures and cake making.  I say supposed to because Brynn came down with the stomach bug.  She slept almost ALL DAY Saturday.  She was not feeling well.  Poor baby.  So we made the decision to postpone the party a week.  That was tough because it meant that Nana wasn't going to be able to be at the big party since she had to fly out on Tuesday.  (We took lots of pictures though for you!)

This Sunday rolled around and we stepped into high gear to make the party happen.  It was a rainbow themed party because her birthday is the day before St. Patrick's Day so rainbows made sense to me.  I rainbow-ed it up!  Rainbow streamers, rainbow cupcakes, rainbow sprinkled pretzels, candy dots...the whole shebang!  I may have went a wee bit overboard.
Rainbow fruit tray--The strawberries were gone first.

Chocolate covered pretzels

Candy dots

Brynn's Watch Me Grow Banner


 



 Brynn was a little out of sorts at first because  she had some molars growing in but after a bit of Tylenol she was ready for the party.  Although she was super attached to her mama.  Fortunately she went with her Aunt Kim for a little bit so we could get dinner going.

She did a great job opening presents.  She is very thankful to everyone for all of her presents!
I kept trying to wear all of my clothes right away!


Hmmm what's this?

My bear from Grandpa.

Belle Baby doll from Aunt Kim and Uncle Jason, Lukas and Kyle

Her diaper cover.

I can do this myself! 
After presents we had cake.  She didn't get too messy either.  She may have been caked out who knows but either way it was cute!
Thanks for reading,
Katie

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Brynn's Birthday Photo Shoot

Well this was the first and the last photo shoot we did not take Claire to.  Mark and I agree we need little Claire to help Brynn when she's scared or doesn't want to smile.  Claire can always get a smile out of Brynn.  Our little miss B was out of sorts at her pictures.  She wanted Mommy and Daddy and a snuggle -- she did not want her picture taken.  Today I discovered why:  Her 1 year molars are coming in.  On the top and bottom of her left side.  They are so very swollen.  No wonder she wanted extra snuggles.  Having said that we did get some cute pics and here they are:








Why am I on here?


This is not fun!  
What do you want me to do with this?




Mmmm now I'm having fun!








My hands are dirty!

Birthday Sneak Peak

This is good!

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Brynn ...

loves to sleep this way! Dupa up in the air.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Friday, March 2, 2012

Daddy and his girls!


So I think Mark is a good dad.  He loves his little girls and they love him.  Little B gets so excited when she hears his voice after work that she starts flapping her arms and grunting to see him.  She practically catapults herself to him as soon as she's able to.  Clairsie girl goes running to him to when he gets home.  She loves to watch Mark play "Blurry Mario" on the Wii.  (Mark downloaded Super Mario 3 to the Wii and let me just say-graphics have really improved over the last twenty years.) 

Blurry Mario
She also loves to play pirates with daddy.  (Gotta love the Playmobil-No really you have to love Playmobil in our house)  Last night Claire had the show and tell bag and Daddy helped her do her homework.  (There was art involved so I was out)  They wrote the three mystery clues so her classmates could guess what was in the bag and then Mark drew the picture of her object so Claire could color it in.  They did a pretty good job.  Claire likes to draw with Daddy.

Drawing with Daddy last February.  Pre-Brynn.