She loves anything that has to do with music, and will start dancing, or bouncing around almost immediately. She loves when I pick her up and dance, twirl, and spin with her, and she'll just laugh the entire time. She's become a pro at finger foods and loves feeding herself. She learned how to drink out of Brooklynn's water bottles with the straws, and the girl can down a bottle of water. She doesn't say any words yet, but she can communicate very well by squawking or screaming, or hitting her tray. She will also start laughing with joy when she gets what she wants. She's determined and tries to be independent. She's started climbing up on Brooklynn's chairs and bed, she can climb the stairs, and she'll climb up on my step that I use to workout. She isn't walking quite yet, but she crawls around at lightning speed.
She HATES anything on her feet. I seriously can not keep socks or shoes on that child's feet to save my life. If I put them on before we leave, she has them off before we get to wherever it is we're going. If I put them on when we get there, she yanks them off in the store or wherever we are. I have all but given up. It's starting to get chilly now and I think people think I'm a bad mom because my kid doesn't have socks or shoes on. ha ha!
She's learned to fight back when Brooklynn takes something she's playing with. Sometimes it takes everything in me not to laugh when I see her start whacking Brooklynn after Brooklynn has aggravated her. Growing up with a little sister, I know that there are many more years of "fighting" and aggravation ahead. On the flip side, I wouldn't trade having my sister for anything in the world. I'm so grateful for Tiffany, and I hope that Brooklynn and Madison can have that kind of close relationship throughout their lives.
She is STILL, at one year of age, waking up in the night for a bottle. I swear, if she weren't just in the 50th percentile, I wouldn't wake up with her in the night. Thankfully though, she will scream till I go in her room, she will pick up her blanket and pull it out with her when I pick her up, and then she'll drink her bottle while I change her diaper, and then I can put her right back in her crib and she will go right back to sleep. Sometimes thinking that it's been OVER A YEAR since I have gotten 7-8 hours of sleep without having to wake up in the night, is just about enough to drive me bonkers. It's a good thing she's cute!
She has a shy streak to her, and it's so funny to watch her bury her little face in my chest when strangers or people from church come up and talk to her.
She easily switched to cows milk, and has loved eating eggs, cheese, yogurt, and a bunch of other foods. She loves avocados, garlic bread, pasta, chicken, bananas, and I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of. Besides fighting me on the issue of socks and shoes, she also fights me on wearing a bib. I have to use the heavier plastic ones, and she'll wear it for a bit before ripping it off and throwing it on the floor. She'll start throwing her food on the floor when she's had enough, and that's how I know she's done. If she doesn't like something, she'll also just drop it off the side of her high chair onto the floor. She's down to one nap a day, and she'll take a good 1 to 2 hour nap, just depending on the day. Before, she was just taking two short 30 minute naps. At least this way I get a little bit of a break from kids because I can put them both down for naps around the same time. Madison has been pretty clingy lately too. She starts crying as soon as we walk in to the gym daycare center. She hates when I leave her with anyone. Hopefully this is just a phase, because if I don't work out I am a little bit on edge. So far I have just let her cry it out, so that I can get that time in, and so she can learn that I'm not leaving her for good. I'll always be there to pick her up.
Brooklynn has reached a huge milestone in her life. She is potty trained!!! Woot Woot!! I really have dreaded the thought of potty training, since she was a newborn. Thankfully, it really ended up being so much easier and less messy than I imagined. Luckily she caught on really quickly, and has a minimal number of accidents. Brittany R. Griffin emailed me "How to fully potty train in 3 days" and I followed that pretty much, with the exception of offering rewards when she went potty. We camped at home for one full day, and I let her have flavored vitamin water and watch movies and she was just in heaven. It got her to have to use the restroom frequently, and gave her some practice. Julie had given me two of Millie's little potties, and Brooklynn did so much better with those than on the big potty. We ventured out to Hobby Lobby on the second day, and as long as I made her go potty before we left, she did great! The instruction said to go cold turkey at night also, and not use pull-ups, because they can be a crutch to the child and the parent. I decided to just buy a couple mattress covers and new sheets, and if I had to change sheets every night until she got it, I would. Fortunately I think she has only had 1 or 2 accidents. It's so nice to not have to change her diapers anymore. As long as I remember to have her use the potty before we leave the house to run errands, or do whatever, she is usually totally fine. We haven't really had a "I HAVE TO USE THE BATHROOM NOW" type of moment when we have been out in public, so I'm thankful for that. She did great when we flew to Utah for Thanksgiving too, and didn't have any accidents while we were there. Turns out I was terrified of it for no reason!
Brooklynn does great when we go to the gym, and she usually looks forward to spending time with other kids, and most of the time she's camped in front of the tv watching a movie when I go pick her up after my workout. I'm thankful I don't have to deal with two crying children when I drop them off.
She still loves going to nursery, and she loves going to her friend, Evan's house. I really think she will love going to preschool next year.
She loves for me to put her down at night. Our routine is we say family prayers, and then I take her upstairs and she says her personal prayer, and then I will rock her and sing her 3 songs, and then I lay her in her bed, and she'll fall asleep on her own. For the longest time I have sung her the same 3 songs every night because that's what she chooses. "5 little Ducks", "Speckled Frogs" and "Popcorn Popping". She knows every single one of them and sings right along with me.
She is still taking naps, thankfully. For those I usually rock her and sing to her until she falls asleep in my arms, and then I lay her in her bed. If I try to let her fall asleep on her own it doesn't happen. She'll just lay there and sing to herself and then get up and play with all of her stuffed animals. At least this way she is getting the rest her body needs so that she's happy and not a grump, and I am still getting some peace and quiet to myself during the day.
Brooklynn has always been, and continues to be a great eater. She doesn't snack a whole lot, maybe one small snack between breakfast and lunch, and sometimes something between lunch and dinner. But she usually eats whatever I make, and she's not super picky. She doesn't really love rice or macaroni and cheese. She's not a fan of cottage cheese or tomatoes. She will eat almost any fruit though, and she will try most vegetables. Her favorite by far though is canned green beans. She LOVES greek yogurt and that's what she chooses almost every day for breakfast. She always has to have jam on her toast, and it has to be the strawberry freezer jam that I learned to make from my grandma. Surprisingly she loves Tuna and Crackers, and she'll eat Salmon and cooked shrimp. She chooses to say the prayer before meals more often than not, and she loves helping with getting things out for lunch or dinner. She also wants to put her own condiments or salt and pepper on.
She loves reading still and will choose several books every night after scriptures for either Joe or me to read to her.
I feel like she's growing up so quickly. Sometimes I look back at pictures and can't believe how much she has grown and changed in such a short amount of time. She still loves going to the park any chance she can get, she loves the zoo, or the Children's Museum, and feeding the ducks. Her favorite show right now is still Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and her favorite movie is Frozen. She also loves Cinderella and Tangled.
She loves going in and getting in the crib with Madison in the morning after she wakes up, and she's always helping with getting wipes or diapers for us to change Madison, or helping with picking out Madison's clothes, and telling me what Madison would like to eat. ha ha!
I made the mistake of telling her she had a braid like Elsa and Anna from FROZEN one day when I braided her hair, and now EVERY day she asks for "A let It Go braid." It's not worth the meltdown and an argument to me, so that's pretty much what her hairstyle is every day. If a braid makes her day, then I'm fine with her having the same hairstyle every day. She gets excited over new clothes or shoes, and will say "OOOOH that's so pretty! Thank you! Thank you!" She gets herself dressed on her own now, and she buckles herself in her carseat, she gets her own bibs on, and grabs her own silverware. She helps with unloading the dishwasher, and tries to help with folding the laundry sometimes. She loves helping me clean the toilets when I clean bathrooms. She loves sprinting the AJAX in, and then helping me use the toilet brush. She'll help refill the toilet paper basket that I keep next to the toilet also.
Brooklynn has reached a huge milestone in her life. She is potty trained!!! Woot Woot!! I really have dreaded the thought of potty training, since she was a newborn. Thankfully, it really ended up being so much easier and less messy than I imagined. Luckily she caught on really quickly, and has a minimal number of accidents. Brittany R. Griffin emailed me "How to fully potty train in 3 days" and I followed that pretty much, with the exception of offering rewards when she went potty. We camped at home for one full day, and I let her have flavored vitamin water and watch movies and she was just in heaven. It got her to have to use the restroom frequently, and gave her some practice. Julie had given me two of Millie's little potties, and Brooklynn did so much better with those than on the big potty. We ventured out to Hobby Lobby on the second day, and as long as I made her go potty before we left, she did great! The instruction said to go cold turkey at night also, and not use pull-ups, because they can be a crutch to the child and the parent. I decided to just buy a couple mattress covers and new sheets, and if I had to change sheets every night until she got it, I would. Fortunately I think she has only had 1 or 2 accidents. It's so nice to not have to change her diapers anymore. As long as I remember to have her use the potty before we leave the house to run errands, or do whatever, she is usually totally fine. We haven't really had a "I HAVE TO USE THE BATHROOM NOW" type of moment when we have been out in public, so I'm thankful for that. She did great when we flew to Utah for Thanksgiving too, and didn't have any accidents while we were there. Turns out I was terrified of it for no reason!
Brooklynn does great when we go to the gym, and she usually looks forward to spending time with other kids, and most of the time she's camped in front of the tv watching a movie when I go pick her up after my workout. I'm thankful I don't have to deal with two crying children when I drop them off.
She still loves going to nursery, and she loves going to her friend, Evan's house. I really think she will love going to preschool next year.
She loves for me to put her down at night. Our routine is we say family prayers, and then I take her upstairs and she says her personal prayer, and then I will rock her and sing her 3 songs, and then I lay her in her bed, and she'll fall asleep on her own. For the longest time I have sung her the same 3 songs every night because that's what she chooses. "5 little Ducks", "Speckled Frogs" and "Popcorn Popping". She knows every single one of them and sings right along with me.
She is still taking naps, thankfully. For those I usually rock her and sing to her until she falls asleep in my arms, and then I lay her in her bed. If I try to let her fall asleep on her own it doesn't happen. She'll just lay there and sing to herself and then get up and play with all of her stuffed animals. At least this way she is getting the rest her body needs so that she's happy and not a grump, and I am still getting some peace and quiet to myself during the day.
Brooklynn has always been, and continues to be a great eater. She doesn't snack a whole lot, maybe one small snack between breakfast and lunch, and sometimes something between lunch and dinner. But she usually eats whatever I make, and she's not super picky. She doesn't really love rice or macaroni and cheese. She's not a fan of cottage cheese or tomatoes. She will eat almost any fruit though, and she will try most vegetables. Her favorite by far though is canned green beans. She LOVES greek yogurt and that's what she chooses almost every day for breakfast. She always has to have jam on her toast, and it has to be the strawberry freezer jam that I learned to make from my grandma. Surprisingly she loves Tuna and Crackers, and she'll eat Salmon and cooked shrimp. She chooses to say the prayer before meals more often than not, and she loves helping with getting things out for lunch or dinner. She also wants to put her own condiments or salt and pepper on.
She loves reading still and will choose several books every night after scriptures for either Joe or me to read to her.
I feel like she's growing up so quickly. Sometimes I look back at pictures and can't believe how much she has grown and changed in such a short amount of time. She still loves going to the park any chance she can get, she loves the zoo, or the Children's Museum, and feeding the ducks. Her favorite show right now is still Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and her favorite movie is Frozen. She also loves Cinderella and Tangled.
She loves going in and getting in the crib with Madison in the morning after she wakes up, and she's always helping with getting wipes or diapers for us to change Madison, or helping with picking out Madison's clothes, and telling me what Madison would like to eat. ha ha!
I made the mistake of telling her she had a braid like Elsa and Anna from FROZEN one day when I braided her hair, and now EVERY day she asks for "A let It Go braid." It's not worth the meltdown and an argument to me, so that's pretty much what her hairstyle is every day. If a braid makes her day, then I'm fine with her having the same hairstyle every day. She gets excited over new clothes or shoes, and will say "OOOOH that's so pretty! Thank you! Thank you!" She gets herself dressed on her own now, and she buckles herself in her carseat, she gets her own bibs on, and grabs her own silverware. She helps with unloading the dishwasher, and tries to help with folding the laundry sometimes. She loves helping me clean the toilets when I clean bathrooms. She loves sprinting the AJAX in, and then helping me use the toilet brush. She'll help refill the toilet paper basket that I keep next to the toilet also.
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