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!!!

Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day as well as my dad and grandpa's birthday!

We had an excellent brisket and jalepeno bread!

What a sweet moment- Brooklyn and her daddy!

On Sunday, we celebrated Father's Day at Richard's parent's house! We ended up having brisket and corn on the cobb! Amazing!

Richard decided that Brooklyn need to have 50 little hair clips and once her daddy put them on, she wasn't taking them off!

To our Father's and Grandpa: Thank you for being such great dad's. Thank you for bein loving and showing us how to raise a family in a Godly manner!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

Crane's Water Party

On Sunday. we went to Mike and Heather Crane's coming home party. They had a big water slide in the backyard for all the kids to play in. Brooklyn and Jackson both get in the pool and promptly go under the water. So, Richard being a good sport decides to get into the pool in his clothes!

Somewhere in all the fun, Brooklyn wants to slide down like the big kids. Richard starts to take her up the stairs and slips. He falls down about 3/4 of the way up and takes out several small children on his way down. Luckily he didn't hurt anyone! So he tries again!

Brooklyn had so much fun that they went down the slide a few more times.

Here are a few pictures of the Crane's:

Mike and 3rd son - Mason

2nd Son - Judah

1st son - Caleb

Heather with 4th (and final son?) - Issac Thank you, to the Crane's for inviting us to your party! We had a lot of fun! Brooklyn was so worn out that she slept the entire way home and then an additional 3 hours when we got home! (Sweet!!!)

Happy Birthday

For Brooklyn's 2nd Birthday, we went to the Houston Zoo. As soon as we pulled up to the parking lot, we realized it was going to be a crazy day! There were so many buses and the parking lot was almost completely filled.

We decided to start indoors. We stopped by the aquarium and saw Nemo, Marlin, and Dorie.

Then we walked around to the snake, small mammals and then African Exhibit.

Brooklyn got to play tribal drums. She enjoyed making music!

We then rounded the corner and saw the chimps and the giraffes.

Then sleeping Jonathan the Lion.

The new exhibit also has two new baby elephants.

We decided to take photos and this is what we got...

Eyes closed....

and squirming!

Our little girl is growing up! It is amazing how fast time is flying by. It feels like just yesterday we brought her home from the hospital and now she is two. I am afraid to blink again....

Never the less, this is our little girl! What a cutie!!!

Happy Birthday, Brooklyn!

Love, Mommy and Daddy!