Week review

Brynn being my model for my new headband flower:

Here's a pic from the aquarium two weekends ago I forgot to post:

This week the playing between Brynn and Caleb has continued to progress. Caleb can really get Brynn to laugh by playing peekabo. He continues to crawl with her and she loves it. They also "talk" back and forth, especially at meal time. Caleb loves to imitate her noises. Some of Brynn's noises these days are: "ehssss" (just like the letter S), "Yeah, yeah, yeah." The latter is so funny because she will say it after I ask a question. I will even egg her on by asking her if she wants something and I will say, "Yeah, yeah?" She will then repeat the words.

So much this last week!

Here's the skirt I made for Brynn's 1 year pictures. I can't believe that's just a month away!

We found out this week that Brynn is old enough to steady herself on the scooter. She loved it. Caleb even enjoyed pushing her around.


And...Brynn is now crawling, no scooting. Just started about 4 days ago. It is so cute to see her explore and it is even more cute to see Caleb wanting to crawl around with her. If I pick her up, Caleb will tell me to put her down so he can crawl with her. They like to weave around the dining room table and chairs especially.

• Another thing about crawling, is that Caleb knows Brynn can't have small things. If he sees her get something small, he finds joy in ripping it out of her hands and saying, "No, Brynn!" It's good to have another lookout but it sure startles Brynn. Once this week Caleb put something small in front of Brynn and as she went for it he pulled it away, "No, Brynn!" He did that about 3 more times after that before we stopped him.
• Last Sunday at church during sacrament meeting, Caleb did something he knew he shouldn't and we asked if he wanted a time out. He looked at us and said, "Time out in nursery?" Tricky boy! He loves nursery and he thought he just might be able to let us take him there early. Sorry Caleb you have to wait until after sacrament meeting!
• Speaking of nursery, Caleb came home today and sang us the whole song of Book of Mormon Stories. He even said, "I will sing Book of Mormon Stories." He did all the actions and everything. That is the first song we've ever heard him sing all the way through on his own! He truly is turning from a toddler to a little boy.
• Scottie from next door came over and Caleb brought out his bean bag chair. He jumped from the couch to the chair then told Scottie to do it. Scottie would say, "Ok," do it, then go back to playing. Caleb would jump, then ask Scottie to jump. They took turns for a while. It was really cute. Caleb even told me at one point, "We taking turns Mommy."
• Caleb knows, for the most part, what is right a wrong. This is one quality I am so happy he has. When he knows he is making a wrong choice he hesitates to think about whether he wants to do it or not. Some kids just do it without caring, that is not Caleb. Also, he doesn't mind time outs (which are hands on the wall for 20 seconds) but at the same time he doesn't want them because it shows he's done something wrong. I love this about Caleb.
• Brynn does not like strangers anymore. She was good up until about 2 months ago. This week she started a thing where, if I'm holding her and a stranger gets too close to her, or starts to talk to her she nestles her head into my (or Derrick's, or Grandma's) shoulder and then pats her hands around me. It's like she's saying, "I'm quite comfortable here. Don't give me to that person."
  

Tonight at Bedtime...

Caleb was making Brynn laugh with the Mini Mouse doll. It was the cutest thing to hear Brynn laughing so hard:

Caleb Stories and Jenna Birthday

Caleb stories:

• We were reading ABC books. At the letter P, Caleb says, "P is for pee pee." He couldn't stop saying that and laughing through the rest of the letters. Potty jokes already!
• Before Caleb takes a bath we have him sit on the potty. One time this week he looked really excited and said, "I go pee pee." I looked in and didn't see anything but he was convinced he went. He was so excited I said, "Good job Caleb" and put him in the bath. After the bath I gave him a piece of licorice (our reward for going) and he was so proud. He even let Brynn suck on the end of it for a minute.
• Two Sundays ago Caleb came home from church with a coloring book he made saying, "Jesus created the earth." It had pictures of things on the earth. I asked Caleb, "Did Jesus create the earth?" Caleb responded yes. I asked what Jesus created on the earth. Caleb said, "Animals. Zebra. Elephant." It was so cute to see him learning the gospel!
  

Last Sunday James and Jenna came over and we celebrated Jenna's 20th birthday!

Caleb is a Funny Boy

• Caleb likes to color pictures and put them on the fridge. A few days ago he stapled a post-it note and stuck it to the fridge. I guess it was art to him.

• When we tell Caleb it is time for bed he says, "It not time Cabib go to bed yet."
• Yesterday I asked Brynn if she liked going to Grandma's house. Caleb looks over at me and says, "Bwynn can't talk Mommy."
• This is a sweet one: as Derrick and I were leaving Caleb's room Caleb said, "Mommy, give me a kiss. Silly." I had given him a kiss, earlier than right before we left the room. He must have forgotten that and thought it was silly that I would have forgotten to remember the last part of bedtime routine.
  

Crawling...well, scooting

These videos aren't great but Brynn is scooting all around the floor. She attempts to crawl but lands back on her tummy like this:

Here's the end of one of her scoots. She moves one leg up and pushes herself. It is exactly what Caleb did:

We also gave Caleb a hair cut today:

Dinosaur Museum

We had a blast at the Museum of Ancient Life. There was lots to do. Brynn was even able to get out and play in an area with plastic dinosaurs kids could play with.

There was a neat part with running water and sand...

...Caleb tried to collect all the trees and build them up in the sand.

There was also a sandpit with paint brushes so the kids could brush away the sand to find "fossils." So cute! Caleb loved that too.

Brynn was patient in the stroller while we did all the things for Caleb.


We will definitely be going back there again!

Bubbles!

A friend's facebook status was something like: Pinterest turned me from a boring mom to a fun mom. I totally agree with that statement. That same friend linked to this fun activity (we didn't do the paint part though). Caleb had a blast. He sat there for at least 20 minutes.

Even when he was done blowing bubbles he found other ways to stay busy with it. Like pretend the bubbles were food and he would mix up "pancakes" and give them to me. He also did this while singing Give Said the Little Stream:

Videos from this Week

Here's Caleb and Brynn talking. Caleb is obviously going down to Brynn's level. He likes to make the sounds she does.

Here's Caleb leading some music he was singing: