Bronwyn's First Official Day of Nursery

Oh our little girly. She wants so much to be a big girl like Aftyn. She can take off her own pants and diaper. She takes off her own shoes and socks. Takes off her own coat. Wields a spoon over her cereal in the morning like a 2 year old. She just craves independence and big-kiddedness.   :)

Today Reed dropped her off at Nursery, stayed for 2 minutes and then left to go to Sunday school. Her teachers said she fussed for a little bit and then toddled off and played with all the other kids. When I went to pick her up, she was sitting at the big table with all the other kids eating her animal crackers, kicking her little feet happily under her chair. When she saw me, she didn't even cry, she just got a big smile on her face and quickly got down off her chair to come to me. You could tell she felt like such a big girl.
(Mind you, last week Reed stayed with her for the first hour to get her used to nursery and then had to leave for the 2nd hour. She cried when he left and then cried when I stuck my head in to grab something and cried when I came to pick her up later. So don't think she never cried. I am just impressed with how quickly she's decided to like nursery!)

I asked her a few times today if she had so much fun playing with toys at the church with her friends and each time she gave me a little smile as if she was busy thinking and remembering it all again. Oh she makes me laugh! She is the youngest one in our nursery with no other kids her age coming in for a few months but she doesn't seem to mind that. She has already sought out the only other little girl in there and likes to play and interact with her in AND out of nursery. She is such a social little thing.

And just because this post needs a picture, here you go:

Where has my baby gone?

Your Friday Funnies

It should be illegal to look this cute. Outfit provided by Grandma Bishop who clearly had some insight into how dang cute this little bubble shirt would look on this girly.

Here are a few of the funny shenanigans of our girls lately.
 *** warning warning warning - bathroom things are discussed in the next paragraph !!! ****
  Bronwyn is getting prepped for potty training starting next week. In preparation, we bought her her own little potty chair. She loves it and is so excited about it. Even Aftyn is excited about it for her! :)  Just to warm her up to the idea of using it I ask her on occasion if she needs to go potty to which she nods her head enthusiastically and we toddle off so she can sit excitedly for about a minute and pretend to go potty. She hasn't gone yet, but that doesn't mean she won't. Anyhoo, the funny came in yesterday as she sat excitedly kicking her heels on the chair as she sat there, and then looked up equally excited at the toilet. paper. The TOILET PAPER?!? Who gets excited about that????  Evidently the answer to that is Bronwyn. I asked her " Do you want toilet paper?" to which she nodded VERY enthusiastically with a big smile on her face. Oh she makes me laugh. After popping off the toilet a few times and then peering in to see that she hadn't gone potty, we didn't have to utilize the toilet paper, so I guess she still has that to look forward to. Ha!! And she didn't even throw a fit or anything about it, thank heavens, so from watching Aftyn she must know you have to go potty before you get to use it. :)  Sorry if this is tmi.

Both of these pictures are of Aftyn being a cat, her favorite animal to act out.

Grinning like a cheshire cat. :)

Aftyn likes to be a cat lately, or any animal that she may recently have seen on Kratts Animal Adventures. She loves that show, which surprises me but I'm glad she has such an interest in those kinds of things. She really likes to learn about them. Besides trying to act out a few animals, she is constantly asking me crazy animal questions like "do dogs talk mommy?" and "do monkeys wear hats?" and other such silly questions. She asks these questions with just a hint of silliness so I know she already knows the answers but maybe she doesn't since she's asking me the question? Only her little brain knows.

Bronwyn has been a little smoocher lately. She has really good kissy lips. Here's what she looks like when she plants one on you frequently throughout the day.

And for your viewing pleasure what with Halloween behind us and all, here's what happens when you yell "Chocolate!" at my house with two girls totally enthralled with a movie.

Seriously, this is genuinely her reaction!  Is that not the funniest thing ever?!? (Those are her excited faces.  :))




 And if you need to hear a little something to make you laugh, here's a little Smothers Brothers skit that always makes me laugh.  It's about chocolate.

Baby It's Cold

 As I was bathing Bronwyn this morning, I saw a haze in front of my eyes and just thought something must be wrong with my vision. Until I sat back on my heels to watch her play. Then I noticed she had STEAM coming off of her hair! Our bathroom has no heat vents whatsoever so if we don't leave the bathroom door open once it becomes cold, it gets downright chilly in there and it doesn't help that we have a metal tub. Once I noticed the steam, I started noticing MORE steam. Poor kid. Good thing I made her bath water nice and warm to counteract the cold metal tub.

Our Beautiful Fall Drive

Here are some pictures of our fun little jaunt through New Hampshire and Vermont a few weeks ago. We were driving to a section of Vermont called The Third Kingdom, evidently well known for it's beautiful foliage in the fall. We managed to capture a few pictures of all the beautiful trees as we drove.

We finally managed to find some REAL mountains! We were pretty close to the Canada border at this point.

A real mountain! Haven't seen one of those for awhile!

We stopped at a Maple Syrup Museum and Reed evidently felt this tidbit of information worthy of a picture. Lucky you!

Yes, friends that is a maple syrup sucker in the shape of a maple leaf I am holding in my hand. In case you can't tell. :)  It was yummy!!

These are other views of the farm we parked next to. This little valley was so green and had so many beautiful trees!

Bronwyn and Daddy making horse noises, which is why Reed has such a funny expression.

It was such a fun trip and I would totally do it again, maybe drive a different route next time and go earlier so we could catch more colors from the leaves on the trees. It was beautiful and a fun little memory.

Halloween: A Couple Videos

Aftyn and her prince

Here's Bronwyn in her costume, doing her cheerleader thing.

And Aftyn being a princess, with a curtsy even!

Trunk Or Treat

Our BSU cheerleader and our princess (at her request)

Just so you can see how different or similar our two girlies look, here's Aftyn at the same age when SHE was a BSU cheerleader. Bronwyn got really into it, and would shake her pompoms and say "Rah rah rah rah!".  :) See where on Aftyn the skirt hits above her knee and on Bronwyn it's at or below her knee.  And I love how they're wearing the same shoes. :D

Dark Clouds Rolling In

Here's what our sky has looked like all day - no rain just lots of clouds

Dark  clouds are overtaking the sky . . . . I think we're getting rained on tonight