December 2010

Brooklyn had her Christmas dance recital. She looked so cute and danced so great! Her cousin Emily is in her class too and they are such good friends and they both love to dance. Grandma Frew....Great Grandma Frew...Jaxon wanted in on the posing...Brooklyn and Mom...

The whole fam...

November 2010

This catching up business takes forever!! November brought the sale of Troy's boat. We stored it in our garage for him because he and Jameson always went together. The kids mostly thought it was ours so when the day came that Troy sold it Jaxon (and Jameson) were very sad to see it go. The first snowman of the year....
Jaxon got two free Jazz tickets because he played Junior Jazz. He even made a sign to cheer them on! And our preschool class had a Thanksgiving feast!

Brooklyn is 3!

Our little "Dee Dee" is 3! I can't believe how sweet this little girl is. She was so excited for her birthday to come and when it finally came she kept telling us that she "got bigger". We celebrated on her actual birthday (Sunday, 24th) with just our family. She woke up early and before church she opened her gifts from us. She is so fun to buy for now! Jaxon had bought her something one night when he was out with Jameson and he was so excited to give it to her. Here she is posing with her gifts. And here she is with the gift Jaxon picked out for her. It might be a little too old for her but Jaxon was sure excited to give it to her. After church (and naps) we had cake and ice cream and sang "Happy Birthday" to her. Monday night we had her extended family party. We had planned for this for the week and Brooklyn was pretty excited. Here is her invitation. (back)

I actually attempted a cake again (against my better judgement!), and I guess it turned out ok. She liked it and that's all that matters! She picked out the Barbie and everything.

The kids helped me throughout the week with making all of the decorations (or at least watched me make them) so they were pretty excited.

She had a fun few days and already acts so much older that I can't believe it! Brooklyn is very kind and shares SOOO good with her brothers (especially Gabe). She is very good at cleaning things and when it's time to clean up she is the BEST at picking up toys. She still loves her "yellow" which doesn't resemble anything near a blanket but I will be sad when she doesn't need it anymore. She fights sleep more than anyone I know (except her Dad!) and is almost always the last one to bed and the first one awake. She is so smart and is good at many things including puzzles which she could play for hours. I can almost always find her packing around a purse stuffed with little dolls, toys, blankets and trinkets. She loves Dora, Tinkerbell, Princesses, Grandmas, Grandpas, dollys, her yellow and anything with sugar in it! (wonder where she got that from?) It is so nice to have another girl in the house and she loves to remind the boys about things that "only the girls" are doing. She loves to get dressed up and be girly but can definitely hold her own with the boys as well.

She is so sweet and we love our Brooky so much!

Just Because...

Brooklyn Strikes Again...

Well, it's late but I'm on a roll with everything that has been going on lately. Today, when I went upstairs to get Brooklyn up from her "nap" this is what I found. I didn't even say anything to her, and when I walked in the room and saw it she just started crying. I still don't know where she got the dry erase marker from. It took Jameson a long time to get it off because it wouldn't come off with just normal cleaner so he had to go buy the Expo dry erase spray. Every time we would try to wipe it off it was taking off a layer of the paint with it but we finally got if off. These pictures don't give her marker job justice-she had it EVERYWHERE. Jaxon took care of the books, toys, and stool that she also wrote on. When I gave her a bath she even had it all over her stomach and she had especially concentrated on her belly button...that part was kind of cute!

Our little Dee Dee

Brooklyn's birthday was on Saturday, the 24th and she turned 2!!! I can't believe she's two already..time flies!! I had an idea of what I wanted for her birthday along with the toys that I had held over for her from Christmas (don't January birthday's get gypped?). Jameson is always up for a home improvement project and he always does such a great job so I knew I didn't need to worry. We decided to paint and put bead board up in her room. She has been climbing out of her crib for some time now so I figured that it might be a good idea to get her a "big girl bed" anyway. So, we (well, Jameson) got it all done in time for her birthday. It looks great!!

We had to get a picture of her climbing just to remember it...

I think it turned out really cute and you gotta love all of my old bedroom furniture she's using!

She loved pushing around her dolly in her new shopping cart.She loves Dora but these boots were the only Dora thing she got from us other than....this professional looking cake ;) I tried, I really did. Jameson said it looked like a Simpsons character!! It kinda does but she liked it and knew who it was so, that's all that matters right??

We played pin the tail on the donkey too...

We're so thankful to have little Brooklyn in our family! She has such a cute personality and is so sweet to everyone she meets. She also has a little tough side to her too but I guess that's from living with two brothers. We love our little Brooky!!

Playing trucks with Jaxon while wearing her tutu.

Busy Brooklyn

So I decided to take pictures of everything that Brooklyn got into in one day. I keep trying to figure out why I am so worn out from her-well, this explains it.

Here she is after she took the stuffing out of the new pillow I put in her bed. My fault-I didn't have a pillowcase for it yet.

This happens almost daily-the wet wipes-and usually she does the toilet paper too but I didn't get a picture of that. Here she helped herself into Jaxon's chair and into the candy that I thought was safely on the middle of the table.

No explanation needed-I guess she was hungry.

And last but not least-she pulls out every DVD- this time she decided to put them in Gabe's hamper.

We love our little Brooky!! (She looks pretty innocent here!)