18 Months

My little girl is growing up too fast! It used to seem like it would be forever till she was in nursery (I never was excited for her to go, I always loved having her with me) and now the time has come, which is sort of a good thing becasue she could use a little eperience in the "sharing" department. She is so full of energy and loves exploring new things. Although she likes to test her limits she is usually good at minding us when we tell her not to do something. She has already started throwing tantrums, but they usually happen because she is tired. It has been fun to watch her copy cat our actions or repeat words that we say. She is a total Mommas girl and is just like I was to my mom when I was little, her shadow. We just love her to pieces and even though she can be a little monster (when she cries for 3 1/2 hours on the way to Moab) she is the best thing that has ever happened to us!

Also, I thought I'd add on here that Brooklyn got her last vaccination until kindergarten today 5/2/12...yea!!
Here are her percentages for 18 months:
Ht: 88%
Wt: 5%
H.C.: 50%

Sob Story

This past week I have felt like I am walking up an escalator that is going down. No matter how much I do I feel like I accomplished nothing. For example, I cleaned out our closet that has a filing cabinet in it. I moved everything inside of it downstairs into a bigger filing cabinet and organized all the papers and threw away lots! That took me all afternoon and when I went back up to the closet I realized that that big job that I had just done hardly got me any closer to a clean closet. Another example, I was getting our camping menu/shopping list ready. I had everything written out according to meals and what I needed to get at the store. As I was thinking about where I was going to grocery shop I found myself gettting stressed out. I needed to go to one store for the meat one store for produce, and one store where I could get alot of stuff for a lot less than most stores (I'm weird like that)... that's three stores I have to wander through to get what I need plus I have a 17 mon old that I have to get home in time for a nap or in time to make dinner, so I become STRESSED OUT. I try so hard to be an organized person, but I think I spend more time thinking about how to be organized than I do actually being organized.

So, until I figure out how to be "Super Woman" I guess I'll just keep taking little time outs every now and then to keep from making myself go insane.

Thank your for reading my sob story! Sometimes a girls just got to vent :)

Park Day

We got to go to to the park with Kara, Kara's little girl Payten and Kara's Sister Melissa. Brooklyn and Payten are 3 months apart and are so cute together. Brooklyn has been afraid to go down slides until she saw payten do it. Now she goes down all by herself! Thanks Payten!

We haven't seen them for a while so it was so good to get together and let the girls play!

Brooklyn + Grandmas & Grandpas = FUN

Brooklyn stayed at Brett's parents house from Friday night to Wednesday evening then went to my parents until Sunday afternoon.

When we dropped her off, she was totally oblivious as to what was going on and could have cared less that we were about to walk out the door and probably was wondering why her mom was acting so crazy. haha

While she was there she had fun playing with Millie and swinging, Mark said she wanted to go out and swing every chance she got.

My parents picked her up after a long trip home from Fiji, which they said was an absolute blast!! I was afraid that they would be too tired to watch her, but said they were looking forward to it almost like another vacation. This little girl is sooo lucky to have two sets of grandparents who love and adore her so much!

While she was at my parents she had fun spending time outside looking at the horses, going for lots of stroller rides, and, of coarse, going to the park.

Our flight got in to SLC at 10am and my parent's church is at 11:00 so we decided to go home and take a nap and unpack a little bit. When we got up there my mom caught us before we walked in cause she wanted to film Brooklyn's reaction. I was totally fine until I saw her then started crying again...I know I'm a crazy psycho mom! I don't know if it's cause she looked so different or if it's cause she just stood there and staired at us like "who are you?". It was so good to hold her again and I swear she got taller and her hair grew longer during the week that we were gone.

My sweet family fed us dinner, since we had no food in our house, then Brooklyn and I went with them to my cousin's birthday party. Brett was too tired and wanted to go home and relax before he had to work the next day.

She loved the cake and ice cream