5 Months!

Time is sure flying by around here - Easton turned 5 months old on the 6th! This little boy sure loves to suck on his fists and fingers. We also found out that he likes popcorn - yes we're waiting until he's 6 months for solid foods, but I guess he had different plans because the other night he reached into the popcorn bowl I was holding, grabbed a handful and shoved it into his mouth!! He's sure quick! He also likes popsicles - Brenna likes to share them with him when we're not looking:)

He loves taking baths, and laughing. He's about 18 pounds and we've just had to switch him to size 3 diapers. The crazy thing is Brenna wears size 4's! He's still NOT sleeping through the night - some nights I swear he's up once an hour. I'd love to try letting him "cry it out" but Brenna isn't sleeping well either and she usually wakes up when he does. Yeah, we're a little tired - it's a good thing he's so sweet!

These last two videos are kind of old, but Blogger is just now letting me upload them

Oh DEER!

 The night before we went camping, Tyson and Brenna decided to go to Sam's for some stuff we needed for the trip. A few minutes after they left, I got a call from a pretty shaken Tyson asking me to come get Brenna because they just got hit by a deer! Yes, he said the deer hit them. The crazy thing is they were in the middle of town! He thinks the deer tried to jump over the car - poor thing REALLY overestimated his ability! Tyson's window was open, and he said he instinctly ducked and said he could see feet and antlers out of the corner of his eye. There was glass from the mirror EVERYWHERE! It landed on the floor on the front passenger side. There was also deer hair all over too, and I even found some underneath Easton's car seat base - I'm SO glad they're ok.

My poor car was a little dented, but...

 thanks to Tyson and his Dad, about $30 and a little muscle, it now looks pretty good huh?!

A few days later, I asked Brenna what happened to the car, she excitingly went off for a good ten minutes about the deer and how the car now has "owies"! She knows exactly what happened - it's a good thing she thought it was neat!

Camping...

 We went camping last weekend for (probably) the last time of the season...

We're looking forward to next summer already!!!

More birthday fun...

 We celebrated some more at Tyson's parents on Sunday since some of his family weren't able to make it on Thursday.

 Her favorite part was taking all the stickers off of this box!

 Brenna and Easton had fun hanging out together later that evening - I love it when she wants to hold him and how they laugh together...

and I love how it always ends like this:)

ZOO!!!

 We took the kids to the ZOO last Saturday as part of Brenna's birthday celebration. She loved it! Easton wasn't to impressed.

 Brenna's favorites were the giraffes and the tigers. She also really liked the train that we were to cheap to let her ride:)

 Brenna went crazy in the gift shop - she wanted to hug everything!

On the ride home, Brenna studied the zoo map - I think she was planning her next trip!

We have a TWO year old!

 Brenna turned TWO on the 23rd! (I don't know why it's called the "terrible two's" it should be called the "terrible 1 1/2's") She's still as sweet as can be, but boy you don't want to get on her bad side or catch her while she's sleepy because BOY DOES THIS KID HAVE A TEMPER!! Yep, the tantrums are still in full force, especially in the nursery at church.

I think the paper they gave me at the Dr.'s office pretty much sums her up. "Is always in motion, tires easily, runs & climbs, may have trouble settling down at bedtime, gets upset and impatient easily, shows anger by crying or striking out, gets frustrated when not understood, wants own way, may assert self by saying "no",goes back to acting like a baby at times, is upset when daily routine changes, has sharp mood changes, likes to imitate others, enjoys playing among, not with, other children, does not share, may not eat well, claims everything is "mine", may scratch, hit, bite, and push other children, cannot be reasoned with much of the time, etc.etc. etc. It really made me laugh because they pretty much described our little Brenna bug.

BUT she's SO much more! She says Thank You ALL the time, she loves to snuggle and give hugs and kisses and "bonk heads" with you. Her "Lambie", blanket and pacifier still go everywhere she does (we're trying to work on the pacifier thing). She dances automatically when she hears any music, loves to jump and play with her stuffed animals. She loves to play in the dirt and thankfully she LOVES bubbles and taking baths:) She LOVES Elmo, Curious George, Arthur, Super Why, Word World and Dinosaur Train. She would live on strawberries, grapes, ice, Popsicles, popcorn and candy if we let her! She LOVES her baby Easton. We are SO blessed to be her parents - she's (usually) such a joy to be around. I LOVE how the tiniest things are so exciting to her and seemingly ordinary things can become magical in her big beautiful blue eyes. We sure love her and are so happy she's ours! Happy Birthday Brenna!

We celebrated that night with family and had Elmo cake of course.

This girl LOVES her jammies - so she celebrated by wearing them almost all day:)

 Easton wasn't to impressed with the party - he got pretty bored:)

 I wanted a cute "mother/daughter" picture - she didn't.

 This was after everyone left - I think she had a good day!

Thanks for the gifts everyone! She LOVES them.