Brooklyn: 1 year 3 months

Brooklyn goes a mile a minute. She loves the tv show Sofia the First. She would probably sit in front of the tv for hours watching it if I would let her. I guess we have let her watch Princess Sofia too much because when she has her bottle in the morning she wants to lay on the couch and watch it!

Curtis has a duck pond game from when he was younger. The pond spins in circles and you set the ducks on it and they go around and around. Brooklyn loves turning it on and watching the ducks spin. If they get stuck and bunched up she will pick one up and set it on an open space so it can keep spinning, she is such a smart girl.

Brooklyn is really starting to copy words that we say and they sound so cute. At church she saw a picture of Christ and said 'Jesus'. My heart could burst!

Anytime Brooklyn hears music she stops what she's doing and starts dancing. She will stomp her, shake her head and her booty. It's so cute!

Brooklyn loves to say "night-night!" That is actually how she will say goodbye now. She also smacks her lios and blows kisses.

Brooklyn has an old razor flip phone that she carries around everywhere and "talks" into it. The back falls off sometimes and she will bring it to me all worried fpr me to put it back on.

Brooklyn loves to help with laundry. She will sit at the washer and dryer and taje one oiece of ckothing at a time from the hamper to the washer or the washer to the dryer. She is so smart. Brooklyn also loves to help while folding clothes by dragging them all over the floor.

Brooklyn started going to nursery a few weeks ago and she loves it! Technically she isn't old enough to go yet because she isn't 18 months, but she doesn't cry at all and the nursery leaders said she does awesome so they let her keep going! She has a hard time sitting for 3 hours at church so nursery has been so good for her. All she wants to do is play and eat snacks! Haha!

We were eating dinner last Sunday and all of a sudden Brooklyn goes 'yeah baby!!' Don't know who taught her to say that but it was hilarious!

Brooklyn had her 15 month check up and shots on February 15.  She weighs 25.4 lbs and is 31 inches tall. That is 75% for both! 

January '17 in Review

So Curtis got a job as a substitute para at Kamiakin High School in December. Just last week he got a permanent subbing position until the spot was filled. Well they filled that spot yesterday, Feb. 1st, and Curtis now has a full time job! We are so excited!! Having this job will help him with his student teaching next year, hopefully a paid student teaching position! But with this job comes insurance benefits and I am so grateful for that! Our Heavenly Father really knows our desires and needs. I have been without insurance since 2012. We were on medicaid while I was pregnant with Brooklyn. But this means dental (woo-hoo!), vision/(so grateful, I hate paying full price for exams, contacts and glasses) and health insurance! This has been such a blessing especially since we have a baby!

I am still being a stay at home mom and absolutely love spending my days with sweet Brooklyn! Even when she hits or pinches.. if anyone has any tips on how to get her to stop doing that I would love them! We got a gym membership a month ago and I have really enjoyed getting out of the house everyday and exercising! It has been so good for me!

Last week we were able to get a babysitter and go to the temple. A goal we have this year is to attend the templenat least once a month. It was so great to spend an hour or so in the Lord's house doing His work. I always feel such peace and receive answers to prayers while in the temple. I am so excited for this goal this year and hope we go more than just once a month!

A couple weeks ago we were able to go to Leavenworth, WA. It is a little German themed type of town. We went on a horse drawn sleigh ride, watched beautiful ice sculptures be made, visit all of the cute little shops and spend time together as a family. It was such a fun day!

Curtis is still chugging along on his school work. His semester ends the end of February and he will have 24 credits in 6 months completed! We are so proud of him and all of his hard work!

Overall, I think this is shaping up to be a pretty good year!

Brooklyn: 1 year 2 months

14 MONTHS!?! I just cant believe it. Oh my goodness I can't believe the personality that Brooklyn has. Brooklyn has 7 teeth (5 on top, 2 on bottom) and while she was cutting her top left molar she was taking 3-4 hour naps 2x a day for about 3 days! And we had no idea why she was sleeping so much, now we do haha! Brooklyn was so fun at Christmas and the looks on her face while she was unwrapping her gifts was the best part. Brooklyn is tall and has been leaning out a lot because she is so active. There is a gymnastics place here that does open gym M-F for an hour and a half each day. We have gone a few times and Brooklyn absolutely loves it!! We will definitely be going a couple times each week. we have also been going to Story Time at the library late!y every Friday morning and both Brooklyn and I love it. It is hard socializing and making friends as a stay at home mom, but I am starting to get out of my shell and do more mommy and me activities with Brooklyn!
Brooklyn got a castle tent for her birthday and her favorite thing is to make Curtis get in it, if he tries to crawl out she pushes him back in and the cycle continues. it is so funny! I take in all the snuggles I can get these days because Brooklyn will only sleep in her crib. She is getting attached to her own room and bed. Brooklyn still takes 2 naps a day, although some days she will take one long one instead of two. Brooklyn has a very good night time routine and loves her bath, story and family prayer. Brooklyn loves to be the center of attention and facetiming Nana and Papa. It's hard being far away and we're so thankful for technology to keep us connected.
Brooklyn only has her pacifier while she sleeps, although we are going to try and kick that habit in the next couple months!
Brooklyn said 'french fries' today and it was the cutest little thing ever!
I love this little girl so much and could give her 1000 kisses a day! She can be shaking her head and so sassy and turn around and be giving you kisses 30 seconds later. When Brooklyn is tired she is the most emotional girl I've ever seen!
Brooklyn loves books. Brooklyn loves all of the new toys she got for Christmas. She sure got spoiled by everyone that loves her. She got a rocking elephant, a shopping cart, a picnic basket, books, bows, a dollhouse, tennis shoes and some new outfits!
Sometimes as I'm playing with Brooklyn I still can't believe that I am a mom, let alone a mom to a toddler. Life is crazy and unexpected but it has been so much fun with Brooklyn in our family.

First pig tails!!

Brooklyn got into the garbage and thought it was so fun! At least it was just salad and not gross stuff!

This girl knows how to work her little computer better than I do!

We got our very own "Rhinestone Cowgirl" 

This is how Brooklyn holds the phone while FaceTiming.