baby sister, cooking, and coloring

What takes up all of our days:

Being 38 weeks pregnant and huge

Coloring on anything and everything she can.  She is so deliberate when holding that pen.

And cooking.  She is OBSESSED with cooking.  If I am standing anywhere near one of our counters, she immediately freaks out and thinks that I am cooking without her, upon which she runs over to the table and scoots a chair over to help stir

Catching Up

Catching up on pictures while I can.  I'm 38 weeks today, and we are anxiously awaiting miss Ellie's arrival.  Trying to soak up and enjoy as much time one-on-one with Brennan while I can as things will change very soon.  I do love my time with her, she is so fun.  BUT, we CANNOT wait to have little sister here.      

Had so much fun when the Lacina cousins visited!  None of my pictures turned out awesome, but I'm okay with that because I think the blurs just show how very busy they were and how much Brennan loved being around them.

Brennan and Daddy are the best of playmates

Spending an afternoon at Petsmart looking at all of the animals there.  

Fish! 

Honing her coloring skills.  

Color!

Besties.

Blowing a kiss to mommy

Cuddling with daddy

Singing Rock-A-Bye Baby

Weird tendency she has developed: she ALWAYS has her fingers crossed, on both hands.  While she eats, while she plays, while she lounges, her fingers are always crossed

Snuggles after a Sunday nap

Things I love about my 21 month old

We REALLY like to play with the camera on my computer.  These are a few pictures from earlier today.  As I scrolled through our photo session, I realized the hundreds upon hundreds of pictures and videos I had of me and Brennan playing as we wasted time with the camera.  Prepare yourself for a future post of picture upon picture of Brennan from the viewpoint of the computer.  

* Pronounces puppy, her most cherished item in this world, 'poppie'
* She said 'whoa' and 'what?!' in the right context.  For example, if she is running and stumbles, she looks up and goes: "Whoa!"  Or, if she has playdoh and sticks it on her thumb she'll say: "What?!"  Sometimes, she'll even add in a "What?!  Thas Cayzy." (That's crazy).  (it's really cute).
* We like to have dance parties to country music
* She likes to dance in general (and spin) and dances when she gets very excited about something
* She sometimes says "Thank you", but more often just says "Hmm hmmm" but with the right inflection in her voice so you know she is saying thank you
* Has started to call me "Sawah."  Normally when she wakes up, she calls out "Mooommmmmyyyyy", but recently it has been "Sawah!  Morning!  Sawah!"

She really likes to climb up on the rocking chair and read, eat, or just rock.  Just LOOK at those pigtails.  

Christmas 2012

This first picture isn't necessarily from Christmas, just lately.  In order to prepare for the upcoming changing dynamics in our house I found a little baby for Brennan to carry around.  She will pick her up, put her on her shoulder, and go Shh Shh Shh, just like I taught her to. 

Brennan's first experience meeting Santa didn't necessarily go as smoothy as I imagined it going...

Running away from Santa

Crying and clinging to me in fear when I tried to take her closer to him...

Bless that little face 

We were able to spend a few fun days with the Sandifer crew and spent our first day going out to Aunt Janice's ranch.  It was fun for Brennan to see real, live horses and to climb around on the hay stacks with daddy

Her tea pot from Nana and Papa was quite the hit

Christmas morning

This tea pot brings out the cutest pretend play in this little one 

First (of many) tea parties with Daddy

After Christmas we made our way to the mountains to spend a Hughes Christmas in Frisco.  First activity was going to the sledding hill and playing in the snow

Followed by some cousin love and wrestling!

Our month in pictures

In the past month, we:

Revisited our YL stomping grounds of Crooked Creek to spend a weekend while Lane worked as Camp Director.  Brennan stole the hearts of all of the high school girls.

Played with snow for the real first time in her life.  Brennan screamed "Noooo!" in delight (meaning 'snow').

Went to 'Club' with Daddy and 500 high schoolers.  Danced in the back to the music, spinning and clapping her hands.

Continued working on her plan to have Daddy completely wrapped around her finger

Love it here!  The belly grows... 

She was completely exhausted from such a fun weekend on the way home

Decorated the house for Christmas

Got sick and had a lot of water (which she calls "Watee"), shows, and cuddle time

Spent days and days in this position.  Sweet, sweet girl. 

Visited the West Point Chapel

Walked on Wall Street and captured the ever growing belly

And even made it over to the Rockefeller tree, along with probably half a million other people on the same night

Took a final round of Christmas photos as a family of three! 

What a fun month!

EE II EE II OOOOHHHHH

This is us working on animal sounds.  It's been long enough since my last post that pictures wouldn't do her justice.  Enjoy her cute little voice and adorable little face.