Here's Brooke having an important meeting with her stuffed animals! You know it's serious business when Cookie is in attendance!
Also, at family home evening Monica and I got out our computers to look at the calendar and stuff, so Brooke needed to get her computer out so she could check her calendar too!
Little Winry crossed 4 months (technically it was last week, but the 4 month pictures were taken this past week)! She's a super smiley baby! And she loves to be held, loves to stand, and is starting to like peek-a-boo!
We've also started having her sit up some. She can't sit on her own, but we put her in the high chair and let her play with spoons during dinner some times. Monica has also been helping her sit up and trying to get her to laugh lately, resulting in this picture.
Brooke started potty training this past week, and she's doing fantastic! She started Tuesday, and we got rid of all her diapers so there was no going back this time. We told her the first day she went without an accident she'd get a special surprise. That day happened to be Tuesday (no accidents her first day!), so the next day Monica took her to Target to pick out any toy she wanted. She was pretty fond of a Care Bear at first, until she saw this! (Yes, Jelly is laying in there)
She just LOVES to give her stuffed animals naps in their pack and play. She puts them in, gives them some little blankets, puts in a bottle so they wont get hungry, and adds a pacifier and these little bears that Velcro to the swing for stuffed animals! Someone always sleeps in there next to her crib every night, and in the morning she'll tell us how they slept. So far everyone has slept great!
On Thursday Monica captured this magic moment, and words just cant do it justice, you'll have to watch.
On Friday we had a fire in the back yard and roasted hot dogs for dinner and had s'mores for dessert! We all had a great time in the back yard, and we were evening thinking about sleeping in the tent out there, but it got too late and we still hadn't set up the tent.
Saturday morning Brooke woke up and hadn't had an accident in her pull-up the night before! We're just knocking out mile stones left and right! As a reward she got to go to Chick-fil-a for lunch! She was so excited all morning.
The only thing she could have possibly been more excited for was to go swimming in her pool in the back yard! She watched me out the back window all morning as I mowed the lawn and inflated the pool to get it ready. We spent all morning out there and had a blast! The water was pretty cold at first, but when it's 90+ degrees out it feels great pretty quickly!
Winry laid on a towel in the shade nearby and had lots of fun with toys while we swam! She also wore sunglasses for a while as you already saw.
Saturday afternoon one of Monica's old roommates came to stay with use for a few days with her family. In typical fashion we managed to get no pictures with them... I hope the drive home was safe for you guys, and I want you to know that Brooke was "calling" Izzy all day today on her phone.
Winry has recently started to realize the utility of her feet. She has started to grab her feet, but more often she uses her feet to grab toys! She's always got something between her toes when she's laying in the play mat these days.
This morning we enjoyed my day off by piling on top of dad and cuddling this morning. This isn't very typical for Brooke unless it's the middle of the night, so I was grateful to get to spend some time together! Brooke was even putting her arm around Winry and hugging her the entire time.
This morning when it was time to get ready to go Brooke took it upon her self to get her hair ready. The first step is obviously to get your hair wet before you brush it, so spray the spray bottle she did. Unfortunately as you may have noticed the bottle is pointing over her head, and with every squeeze she was getting something else wet behind her!
Once we were ready for the day we headed to a nearby park for a ward activity. We were getting together to do some kite flying. Brooke had a lot of fun running around with her Moana kite, and I had a lot of fun chasing her and throwing it back up into the air. There was some wind, but unfortunately it was breezy off and on, so it was pretty hard to keep the kite in the air.
To celebrate Memorial Day today we got out our ice cream maker. Sadly, this is the first time we've ever used it. I joked with Monica that we've made homemade twinkies in our corn dog maker, but never made ice cream before! Well, we fixed that issue today. We actually made frozen yogurt, and it was really good!
This past week at church I was teaching a lesson on faith, and during the lesson I was bearing my testimony about the Atonement, and about Jesus Christ's gospel, and how he has paid the price for us to return to live with God, and that if we will follow His commandments, repent, and strive to live as He did we can return to live with Him and our Heavenly Father. While I was bearing my testimony I felt the spirit so strongly in the room bearing witness to the truth of what I was saying. It was an amazing experience, and I could see as I looked around the room that others were feeling what I was feeling too. I am so grateful for my Savior. I am grateful for the Atonement, and that through it we can be cleansed from our imperfections, healed from our transgressions, and brought back to the path of eternal life. I am so grateful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to be a member of His church. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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