Have I mentioned our computer is still being dumb and won't let me upload pictures? Grrr....
Bronwyn is a sweet and busy 4 year old. Her most popular game right now is being a mom, with a doll shoved up her shirt because she's going to have a baby. She loves to pack a diaper bag with bottles and toys for her baby. She is a hard worker and best loves to organize things. She totally reminds me of myself.
She and Aftyn have recently moved back into a room together thanks to Bronwyn peeling paint off of my beautifully painted bunk beds, so now she and Aftyn will sleep in our newer purchased off craigslist bunkbeds that have no beautiful paint to peel. Bronwyn likes this because Aftyn gets to have music to fall asleep to each night, so now she does too. Bronwyn wants to grow up as fast as Aftyn and do all the big girl things she can do and she is waiting impatiently for the time when she can do them by herself. LOL Like going to school, or picking up the baby off the couch instead of just holding him on her lap. Bronwyn definitely struggles the most with not being allowed the same privileges as Aftyn.
Bronwyn is the child most able to just play by herself in a space. She loves to go outside in the backyard and dig in the dirt, play some pretend game with sticks, or anything else. She finds friends everywhere we go and gives her heart very easily. She is so my child. She is so sweetly sincere in her intentions. She loves to do nice things for other people because that is how she shows love. She will help me do cleaning around the house with hardly any complaints but equally as likely to do something naughty as well.
Recently because of her peeling the paint from her bunkbed, she lost her Halloween privileges, something that broke her heart and made mine sad too. But she plucked herself right up when given the job of handing out the candy, and she loved being able to be in charge of it and getting to be her own boss. She tends to thrive in situations where she is given a job that she completely understands how to do, with clear boundaries and knows what is expected of her.
She also wants to boss people around and when pushed can be very sassy with adults, something we're trying so hard to teach her is wrong and that she needs to show people love by word and deed. Bronwyn has a tough time because she has such a fun and playful personality, that people want to play with her and don't understand that if you give her an inch she'll take a mile. She tends to do better when playing with adults if they lay out the boundaries and rules for her first so she knows what is okay to do and what isn't and then she can have fun while knowing she is following the rules as well and won't get into trouble for something she didn't know she shouldn't do. Such as being sassy, jumping on people and hurting them, playing too rough. It seems self explanatory, but she thinks people want to play with her and that means she can do whatever seems fun to her without thinking of how it affects other people. In those situations when she's just playing and doesn't stop to think out the consequences of her actions and people get hurt because of her, it truly makes her feel so sad because she didn't know she shouldn't do something. I understand her personality so well because that was me as a child. I thought everyone loved me and so I could do whatever and people would still love me. Ha ha ha!!
She truly has the best of intentions and the biggest heart. She loves to love people. If you are ever sick, Bronwyn is the one who will come and tell you a story to help you go to sleep. She is a girl who loves to sing, and dance, and color and play. She is such an important part of our family and I can't imagine life without her!
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