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Big Sister!!

BRYNN... Our smiley, loving, friendly, caring 3 year old.  Brynn as a 3 year old is a wonderful little girl.  She has her days or her occasional tantrums, but overall she is a very nice girl with the best of intentions.  She is very caring for others to the point of crying when her dad told her he was sick, or wanting to give her money she won at the superbowl game to the other kids to help them (the salvation army bucket outside of Macy's).

Brynn is an excellent talker.  She only has a few hold ups on some things.  Like underwear is underwears, mine is mines, forget is got for, 

She is an excellent big sister.  She loves her little sister a little too much at times, but enjoys being able to "watch" her for us.  Watching means calling for us if Cailin happens to crawl off the blanket, or like yesterday I was outside in the dog area cleaning up and I had her tell me when she heard Cailin crying when she woke up from her nap.  She loves having these little responsibilities.

Brynn is a self proclaimed vegetarian who doesn't eat salad.  Brynn used the be the best eater when she was younger, but her pickiness as a two and so far three year old are still there.  She won't eat meat, salad, or anything that looks unusual.  She will even refuse to eat a hotdish/casserole if she can see the meat in it.  We have started to make her try to eat the meat or eat the little pieces in her hotdishes/casseroles, but this comes with lots of drama and gagging on the meat.  She does occasionally mention she will eat salad (she really wants to eat it at "two cheeses".  (Two cheeses is Olive Garden, so nicknamed because they add the parmesan cheese to her mac and cheese at the table, hence two cheeses.)

Underwater world!

Trip to the mall to spend her money at American Girl

Riding in the car with her new American doll!  Thank you Weikle Family!!!

Her drawing of a snowman on her magna doodle.

Family picture at Cailin's baptism.  Her pink party dress was picked out all by herself...

The end of the cookie making.  She loved the flour

Trying to get Cailin interested in my phone...

She wanted this picture taken

She loves her Ella.  And yes she really fell asleep this way

Being videotaped... She or her ball may make it on a future commercial

Watching her ball roll down the lane

The bowling alley even has shoes now for her size!

Building a fort for Cailin. PS Cailin is under there at the time

 Taken the night before Brynn turned 3. 

Always fashionable, headband with the PJs

Matt's last picture with the 2 year old.

This says it all!!!!

Real FOOD!!!

 We made it to 6 months before giving Cailin any baby food!  She really did not show any interest until the week before she turned 6 months, and in reality we held off an extra week because she has been so sick we wanted to make sure we were on the mend before we added anything else to the little thing.  (I will post about her being sick in another post later).  So here is the pictures from the first feeding and a week later.  I can't seem to get the video to post, so I will try again some other time.

Our little chef preparing the food..

 She loves playing with the spoons, and this is before feeding

  Sunday night... We love our peas!  We have had rice cereal, sweet potatoes and peas so far...

So good, we want to lick the jar clean!

Trouble with our Hat!!

I heard cries of anger when I was in the kitchen last evening and I walked to Cailin and discovered this... No wonder she was mad!

A quick recovery!!!

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Bring on the snow

The videos are somehow posted side by side.. I wanted them in the order they happened, but I guess you all can just click for yourselves. The first video actually the second one in the post, or the one where Brynn is standing. These are videos from Brynn's first time out playing in the snow this year. Brynn loved it and now continuously asks us to play in the snow.

Cailin 3 months

I thought I would do a little month by month update of the little one... but since I haven't got it accomplished yet, I guess I will start at 3 months. Cailin still fits into 0-3 months clothing, but I believe she will be outgrowing them soon. I do put her in some of her 3-6 month clothing, especially her new outfits just because it is fun to add some more variety to her wardrobe. I know Brynn was out of 0-3 months by the time she reached this age, this is so far supporting my theory that Cailin will be smaller than Brynn (at least weight wise). Let's see... Cailin is cooing a lot, she has rolled over from her tummy to her back (very rare, but it has happened on a few occasions.), she enjoys tummy time and is not fussy at all on her tummy, and she sleeps very well at night, giving me a 6-7 hour stretch at some point during the night (one night she even slept 10 hours).

Cailin does not enjoy taking bottles, unlike her sister. Matt had the first run with her when I went back to work on nights last week. The first night she slept almost the whole night and cried and cried and only took an ounce when she woke up at 6 am. Then the second night she took 3 ounces with a big fight before bed and then Matt says at 3am she took 3 ounces like a champ. Our daycare lady had the next fight with her this past Monday. Cailin fought until about noon before she finally accepted that Jane was her food source and she needed to take the bottle if she wanted anything in her tummy. She says after she figured that out it was good.

The other thing I wanted to say about her is she is a good communicator. She will let you know if she doesn't like something with her coos, and if you don't listen she will turn beat red and scream! Then when you do what she wants she will smile at you. Our daycare lady realized how right I was when I said she's a good communicator. She said she had never seen a girl turn so purple while crying and then one second later when Jane did what Cailin wanted she smiled at her.

Cailin loves to smile and is very ticklish on her tummy... I can hardly wait to hear her laugh. Here are some pictures of her at her 3 month photo shoot (by me..)

I have 2 month pictures by this monkey that I will post when I get them downloaded onto the computer. I could not find our other camera this morning.

This is the chaos I was working with..

And I posted this because this is the outfit she came home from the hospital in, and I have a picture of her up here on it as well at that time. This is one of the 0-3 month outfits I was talking about and I figure this is one of the last times she will be wearing it.