little things...

Today after I got done cooking dinner I glanced over at Jade's notebook, there was a sketch of a little town. It included walmart, texaco, kent's, a parking lot, etc. It made me think back to when I was a kid, I miss the fascination of drawing a town, drawing a doll, drawing my dream house, drawing my dream wedding dress. Those were the best days :)

Last night Tessa was being such a hoot! She has figured out that if she hits Brooklyn she is covered as long as she kisses her immediately after. So funny, but sad. She has also figured out that she doesn't need to turn around backwards to go down the stairs, she has discovered the front butt slide. It's kind of scary but she hangs on to the banister just in case so it's not too bad.

Brooklyn is spelling her entire name B-R-O-O-K-L-Y-N. No help necessary. She has been asking how to spell her last name now, but hasn't quite figured it out. She is also enjoying using scissors. This past Sunday she said "mom, I want to make a Sponge Bob" the supplies she needed were paper, crayons, pencil, and scissors. I think it turned out pretty good. I'll post a picture later.

Brooklyn is 4!!

 Brooklyn Marie turned 4 on Monday! It was quite the day. We took Tessa to daycare and headed out for a day of fun in Logan. We went shopping at the mall and played in the play center for about an hour while we waited to get her ears pierced. We went to Claire's at 1pm to start filling out the paperwork and picking out the earrings she wanted. When she looked at the panel of choices it took about 2 seconds for her to pick hello kitty and there was no changing her mind. She was excited, then nervous, then sad, then excited, then happy. It made me a little nervous but all in all went really well.

When we got home we went and got her an ice cream cone at Maverick then grabbed Tessa and headed to get balloons, Hello Kitty balloons of course. Then we made her a strawberry flavored cake with vanilla frosting. She picked mint chocolate chip ice cream to go with it. Her choices for dinner included chicken nuggets (which she usually won't eat), rice, green beans, and at the last minute she decided she wanted fries with it too. Silly girl.

Love her to pieces and I don't know what I would do without her in my life. Love you Brooklyn Marie!

 

Here she is all dressed up in her hello kitty gear and her new high heels.

This girl loves her cousins.

Blowing out her candle!

 

 One of hers gifts from her Grandma De and Grandpa James

Her Outfit from Esi, Elliot, and Rach

Loves her cousin :)

Shades she got from Esi

Growing up!

 

 

Crazy faces

Me and my Brooklyn :-*

Brooklyn Marie & Tessa James

Face Paint

 Brooklyn has really wanted her face painted every since the Health Fair in June. My good friend (and co-worker) Sean asked his daughter Carrigan if she would be up to it. Brooklyn was so excited when I told her that we were headed to Brigham to get her face painted. Carrigan was so sweet with Brooklyn and let her choose what she wanted. She chose hello kitty in a tutu with a wand.

Friends...

Punkins...

Brooklyn and Esi had a blast carving pumpkins with Grandma, Grandpa, Jade, Jamie, Me, Rachel, and Jamie's friend. Brooklyn was very concerned and made sure that Tessa had a pumpkin, she wanted it to say Tessa but settled for the letter "T". Brooklyn's said her pumpkin was a vampire pumpkin :)

Halloween...

We Started the spooky holiday with the merchant trick or treat uptown this year. Brooklyn had a ton of fun gong with her Aunt Jade and friend Braydon with Grandma De. Tessa and I stayed home and napped and got laundry done. 

 

The original plan was to have the girls be witches this year, we even got Brooklyn a hat to match her orange and black witch costume. Then Aunt Amanda took the girls shopping for princess costumes. They turned out pretty cute being Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. 

 Brooklyn and Esi 

We didn't get a picture of Mr. E because he was napping. :(

We started Halloween night at Grandma De's getting ready and having dinner. Then we met with all the cousins at Grandma Pam's. We headed around Sandalwood just like the olden days, no trunk-or-treats for us! It was slightly difficult having Elliot and Tessa because they couldn't walk and we forgot strollers. Thank goodness for Grandma De, Aunt Tracy, and Aunt Stef for switching off with me and Rach; those babies are heavy! After we went through Sandalwood we headed to Grandma Berniece's and then home to Elwood to trick-or-treat with Jamie and her friend Aspen. All in all it was a great night and we are still munching on candy almost a week later!