Pony-tail

Well, we finally have enough hair to make a partial pony-tail! Yeah!

Gigi and Pops

Every Saturday we eat dinner at Gigi and Pop's. Here are a few pictures of our evening!

Feeding Fish...

Or at least trying to feed the fish!

Then, A little gardening. We need to tell Gigi, that gardening will be easier if she uses Big people tools and not Dora the Explorer tools!

 Brooklyn, you may need to trade tools with Gigi! Oh, and PLEASE be careful of your toes!

Baby Bump ALERT!!!! Getting closer!

A fun evening in the yard!

Fashionista

Brooklyn is definitely going to be a fashionista!

A crazy-eclectic sticker fashionista!

By the way.... She dressed herself!

Uncle Bobby

Having fun playing with Uncle Bobby!

Summer Off

For the first part of the summer I went to school and taught summer school at the same time! Oh Boy, super hectic! But now, I am able to spend much needed quality time with Brooklyn!

Favorite Movie: Bolt - We watch it five times a day!
2nd Favorite Movie: Toy Story Movies

Favorite Foods: Bananas  (Naeh-yas), Chips (Pips), Cheerios  (o's), Grapes (B-apes)

Favorite Drink: Apple Juice  (Ahh-Buice)

Favorite Book: Jesus Loves Me  (Jesus)
2nd Favorite Book: Collection of Toy Story Stories

Last night we were reading Toy Story Book, and she pointed out every single character without prompting: Rex (Rexxx-eee), Slinky Dog (Sinky), Bulls-eye (Buu-s-eye), Woody (Buddy), Buzz, Lots-oh (Wots-oh), Jessie (Yee-haw or Wessie), Aliens (A-we-ins), Prospector (pr-os-setor)

Favorite Stuffed Animal: Minnie Mouse  (Minn-ee)
Favorite Toy: Buzz action figure

Family Names
My Mom - Gigi
My Dad -  Pops
Bobby - Bobby
Linda - (Da or Da-da)
Mark - (Ma-ch)
Harley Ryan - (Ha-we Why-an)
Bella - (Bay-yah)

Richard's Mom - Nana (Nah-ya)
Richard's Dad - Papaw
Vanessa - (ne-ssa)
Carissa - (Key-ssa)
Gavin - (wabin)
Ethan - (E-tin)
Devin - (Duwa-bin)

Brooklyn - (Book-in or Bruw-kin)

Current Vocabulary
She can mock any work, sometimes it sounds pretty funny! Now she is starting to put together simple sentences and phrases! We were in the car listening to the radio, and she started to repeat some of the words that she knew. It is amazing how much she is learning!

I Love You - (Ahh-Bu)
I Love You, Very much - (Ahh-Bu, very mu-cchh)

Funny Words she says now:
Dress - (Du-wess)
Orange - (Or-nggge)
Yellow - (Ye-whuo)
Red - (Whed)
Blue - (B-ue)
Chicken - (Ch-wick-in)
Frog - (Fra-augg)
Lotion - (Dough-tion, Ocean) * She is a lotion freak, if she sees it...she has to have it!
Soap - (So-pah) She really emphasizes the p!
Gross - (Gue-woss)
Please - (P-weeze)
Thank you - (Tank you)
Fruit - (Fru-p)
Numbers - (One, Tr-ue, Te-wee, Fore, Six, Eight, Nine, Ten) Obviously, we still need to work on saying all the numbers!

True Water Baby

We had Richard's parents over for dinner and while dinner was sweating it out in the oven, we were sweating out in the back yard watching Brooklyn play in the water!

We had a nice evening watching Broklyn play and good fellowship with our parents.

4th of July

On July 4th, we had burgers and sweet potato fries at Mark and Linda's house.

Brooklyn then had he first taste of delicious hot smores!

 She had to have a bite of every one's!!

What a smore freak! She was covered in melted chocolate and sticky marshmallows.

After dinner and desert, we went to watch the fireworks. We weren't brave enough to deal with the traffic in Pearland, so we watched the fireworks from a field about a mile away!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!!!