Miss Pretty Princess!

Bryn sure acts like a "pretty princess". She loves dresses, to twirl and dance in them. She loves purses, phones, (loud) princess high heel shoes, her Minnie Mouse pajama dress, earrings, nail polish, you name it, she loves it! I have even walked into my room and she is rubbing Darrin's dresser saying it was "Sooo pretty!" She also has her little girly voice to go with it! A lot of times when she is talking to us, she will also tilt her head to one side or go back and forth! It is pretty funny!
It is fun to watch Bryn learn new things. She can sing her ABC's, she can count to 14, she knows most of her colors (red is mainly the last color she has a hard time with. She even knows black, brown, and white before red!!) Bryn still isn't 100% potty trained but we are still working on it and most days, she does really good! We finally bought her pull-ups(which are her new underwear for now,just in case she has an accident) but she loves them and rarely has an accident now.

As some of you may know, we had a scary incident with Bryn last month. On August 23rd, Bryn started to get a fever in the evening. I took her temperature and it was 102.5, high but not extreme high. I gave her tylenol and we sat on the couch watching a show on the computer. About 15 minutes after giving her meds, I looked over at her on the couch and her eyes were rolling up into her head. So I started saying her name and then I noticed she was turning blue. Scariest moment of my life. I hurried and put her on the floor, called 911, starting breathing in her mouth, yelled for Isaac to go grab the neighbor, and tried keeping Jordyn from going out the front door! It was crazy! She finally stopped turning blue when the neighbors showed up but she was still really pale and very out of it. We kept trying to get her to focus on us and keeping her awake till the paramedics came. (When you are in a scary situations like this one, it seems like the paramedics take forever to get there. They didn't come fast enough! That is how I felt!) She was doing better but the guys thought we should still get her checked in the ER so the neighbor drove us to Darrin's hospital where Darrin met us at the ER. They gave her an IV to get fluids in her and gave her meds for her fever. They figured it was some sort of febrile seizure. It was a long night but Bryn was sure a trooper. She barely cried when getting the IV put in her. And of course, she loved that they wrapped it in pink! She was very cute with all the doctors and nurses helping us. It was the scariest night of my life. When she was blue, lying on the floor not responding to me, I thought, "We can't lose our Bryn." It was very sad. I didn't know what was happening to her. I have never been around or seen someone have a seizure and thought someone always shook when they had a seizure. I see now why people are right when they say it is good not to panic when calling 911, but man is it sure hard not to panic when something like this happens. Thank goodness Bryn is perfectly fine now, we just have to watch her if she gets a fever of at least 100 degrees and start giving her meds.
(Sorry that was a long story, I wanted to tell the whole story because I am also putting this in her book.)

Bryn is such a happy little girl(except when fighting with her brother, which she can pinch pretty hard!) Bryn is also a good big sister(except when she is bugging Jordyn! haha She has her moments!) Bryn was eating breakfast this morning and of course, there was Jordyn trying to get food from her. So Bryn would take a bite of her food and then give Jordyn a bite. It was sweet!




I was thinking earlier today at how fast Bryn is growing up. It is kind of sad. She is at such a cute age.
Darrin will always ask Bryn, "Who's baby are you?" And Bryn will always reply, "Daddy's baby!"
We love our pretty girl Bryn!

My 3 Crazy Kids!!

I haven't written about my kids for awhile so I thought I should while I have time so I can remember things about them at this age and print it off and put it in their books!!

Isaac--5 yrs old.

He is our smart little cookie! He has been reading books for over a year and amazes us with how much he knows and how much he memorizes stuff that we don't even remember. The other day, we were in the parking lot walking towards Walmart. Out of the blue Isaac says, "Save Money, Live Better, Walmart!" (I actually just had to ask him what the saying was again so I could type it on here!!) There were no signs around that said that saying or anything. He just had remembered it from a tv commercial!
He has been skiing 4 times this winter and loves every minute of it. He even follows Darrin and goes through the trees and down black diamond hills! (I don't even like to go down black diamonds!) He is in swimming lessons right now during the winter to get some of his extra energy out! During the whole lesson he never stops hopping up and down because of excitement. He also doesn't like to get his ears wet but he is doing better with each lesson. In the warm weather, he enjoys riding his bmx bike on the street, at skateparks, or on bmx tracks. He loves his nerf guns. He loves lying on the floor with his dad and just wrestling away. He is a very active boy just like his mom and dad. We enjoy playing board games with Isaac. He loves to play Life and Monopoly. He says that when he gets older he is going to be a doctor, police officer and a fireman. And says that he will be a doctor on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. A policeman on Tuesday, and a fireman on Thursday. He also says he will make $100,000 as a doctor! (because that is how much a doctor's salary is in the game Life!)
He is a very kind, loving boy! He is the one that if you or someone is sad, he will be wiping the tears away or trying to make you laugh. I remember last year I was really sick one day with an extreme migraine. I was pretty much just lying on the bathroom floor. He came and sat next to me on the floor and just started rubbing my head and telling me it would be ok.
He is the best brother in the world and sure takes care of his little sisters!! Yes, he can bug them at times but he always makes sure they are ok. He loves to make them laugh and tries to do funny stuff when they are sad. The other day, he was playing and talking with Jordyn and turned to me and said, "Me and Jordyn are best buds!"
He has a few obsessions!! One, transformers of course! But his newest obsession....STARCRAFT! This boy loves Starcraft! Darrin is playing right now while Isaac is watching and Isaac is just squealing when something exciting is happening and giving advice on what Darrin should do. He is always asking when he can play or when we will play. He is only 5 and he can play better than me! He sure knows how to work a computer!
We sure love our boy!!


Bryn--2 yrs old

Bryn is such a character! She will make some of the funniest faces or noises that make me just start laughing! I will be talking to her and she will just close her eyes most of the way, tilt her head from side to side and make funny faces and noises with her lips! Where did she get that from? It is hilarious to see, at least I think so! When ever she sees a candle she gets excited and starts singing/saying "Happy Birthday" even if it is a scented candle we have on the stove! She has learned to use the word "because" very well when we ask her a question like, Why did you pinch Isaac? and her reply..."Because."
Some of her favorite things are Mickey and Minnie Mouse! She has both a Mickey and a Minnie that she sleeps with. She also loves babies, dresses, riding on the bike with mom or dad, princess', talking on anything that looks like a phone, and her Aunt Courtney!! Oh I almost forgot to add her obsession to SHOES!! This little girl loves her shoes, any shoes! She will always be walking around the house with shoes too big for her. When we go downstairs to get her out of her room from her nap, she will have her shoe drawers open and trying on all the shoes.
She is always wanting us to turn on our ipod and says "dance". She has the cutest little dance moves ever!
Lately, she has been our accident child!! I keep saying Bryn needs to wear a helmet. I think she might have gotten this from me!! haha
She loves her baby sister Jordyn (Jordy)! She will get excited and yell stuff to me when she sees Jordyn do something. A few examples, Jordyn will be some where and be slobbering and Bryn will yell to me, "Jordyn spit up!" or another one that can drive me crazy, Jordyn will be asleep either in her carseat or her swing and if Bryn is around and sees Jordyn either peek out of an eye or make the slightest move, bryn will yell, "Jordyn wake up!" and of course it will actually wake Jordyn up!
She loves to play hide and go seek around the house.
She will say some of the cutest things like, one time she was on the toilet and I was wearing some soft pajamas when I went in to help her. She started rubbing my pants and saying, "Gorgeous!" She loves saying that our hair is pretty. She loves getting a brush and brushing my hair (more like putting knots in it!)
She is a true girl and we love it!!!


Jordyn--4 months

Jordyn is the best baby ever! I thought Bryn was a really good baby but Jordyn has topped that! She is such a happy baby!! She will always smile or laugh at you. She thinks Isaac is so funny and will always laugh at him! She is very ticklish on her rib cage. She will always put a smile on your face.
She is a really good sleeper! She has been sleeping through the night since she was 5 weeks old! Thank you Jordyn! She puts herself to sleep so that I don't have to rock her.
I have never seen so much drool come from a babies mouth!! haha She is the slobber master in our family!! She sure loves sucking on her hands! (More than a binky) Her two fingers between her pointer finger and pinky finger on her left hand are her favorite! That is what she sucks on the most!
She loves her swing. Mostly all of her naps during the day are in her swing, unless we are out and about and she falls asleep in her car seat. She never takes naps in her crib.
Isaac loves it when she "talks" to him! Bryn is always trying to copy the things that Jordyn is doing whether lying on her tummy or "talking" like Jordyn!
She sure brings a lot of happiness to our home!
Even with all the slobber, she is the cutest baby!! I can't get enough of her!!

Our Cute Little Bryn!!!

Here is Bryn the day that she was blessed. She was so beautiful in her dress!


Here is a full shot of Bryn and her dress. Lovely girl!!!


I was folding towels on the floor and Bryn fell asleep on them.


Every night, I put Bryn under her blankets and every morning when I go to get her, this is how she looks. Her blankets are always in the same spot that I put them but she is always in different directions.

Our Little Girl....

On Feb. 12th, my water broke and at 6:06pm we finally had her!!!!

Bryn- 7lbs. 11oz. 21 inches long.

Here are some photos...

Isaac has been the best brother ever! When he came into the room, he climbed up onto the bed with me, looked at her and said, "Her Coot (Cute)!!"

We are so glad he has taken this extremely well.

Our first family picture!!!

Isaac found the latex gloves and would put them on before holding Bryn!! It was really cute!

Almost Over...

I finally got a picture taken of my big belly!
This picture was taken with only 3 weeks left till
the due date! Yes, we are getting closer!!

It's a Girl!!!

Well, we just found out that Isaac is going to have a little sister!
We are so excited! After the ultrasound, darrin was looking at these pictures and said, "ahhh, what am I going to do with a girl?"
The more I think about having a girl, the more I can't wait.