Brynna is 2!

Brynna turned two a couple of weeks ago and although I am a horrible blogger, I felt like I should document it here since I know myself well enough to know I won't document it anywhere else!

I know I say this everytime I do an update on her but she is so much fun! She is just so darn cute and she has such a fun personality to go along with her extreme cuteness. :) She does tend to have a little bit of a stubborn streak and for some reason likes to have things her way but she is also really sweet and loving too. Sometimes when she is sitting with me on the couch she will reach up and put her little arm around my neck and just sit like that. She also pats everybody on the back anytime they pick her up. She is very friendly and anytime we are out in public she will tell random people "hiiii."

She has started talking a lot more in the last couple of months. She is starting to put a few words together now, such as "Daddy, where ball go?" and similiar stuff like that. She still calls me, "Mom" or "Bom", as she does pretty much every adult female that she knows. Kara used to be the only special one (Rara) but the last couple of times she has been Mom as well. She does know her babysitters name (Sissy, aka Missy) and she will say Braylee (reelee), which makes Braylee VERY happy. She sometimes says Brax and Brecca but they sound similiar to a lot of other words and are a little hard to distinguish. I still really think she is capable of saying more that she does but like I mentioned earlier, she has a stubborn streak that I think is coming into play.

She is still a good eater, although she is so busy now that I think it is sometimes too hard to take the time to stop and eat. She loves being outside (she says, "side") and we have to keep the back door locked at all times or she will try to escape. She likes to swing and be on the trampoline with the big kids. Out at Dave and Julia's she even climbed the rock wall all by herself to get up to the playhouse and go down the slide. She likes to be right in the middle of everything the big kids are going.

She is IN LOVE with her new baby cousin, Ian, and takes very good care of him. He must have a blanket on him at all times and a toy to play with or we can rest assured that Brynna will be tracking one down. Anytime we see Kara, Matt, or the boys, the first thing out of her mouth is, "Where Ian?" Sometimes she will even ask Nate or I that when they are not even around. Ian is getting a little older now and will smile at her and coo so I know she is loving that. It won't be long and they will be running around together causing trouble like the big kids are!

Sleep is not her friend at this point. She will go to sleep just fine. She will even go willingly into her own crib and lay right down and sleep for a couple of hours but sound sleep doesn't last much longer than that. She usually wakes up about 12:30 or 1:00am and I end up putting her in our bed and then she is restless the rest of the night. I think she would be better if she had her own room and maybe I wouldn't hear her and go to her rescue so quickly but honestly, I just want to put her in bed with me so I can go back to sleep. I think hope is on the horizon though because she did sleep all night in her own bed 3/7 nights this past week so I am keeping my fingers crossed. If sleepless nights are the worst thing I have to deal with at this point though, I consider myself very lucky.

This morning she got a peppermint from Braylee's candy stash and she kept saying it was hot. Finally, she took it out of her mouth and blew on it. For some reason, it didn't seem to help. :)