Similarities

 Do you see any similarities?

walker

It has been way to long sense I have last posted and my little man is now a walker.

He started walking on July 29th and is cruising everywhere. 

He is also talking a little more and says mom dog and ball. 

He is a very good thrower and loves to destroy and throw everything is sight. 

He continues to be a picky eater which has caused him to drop off his own growth curve that was already below 0 percent. Scrambled eggs, rice, and yogurt and of course his milk are his stables. 

He is much more exasperating then Brielle and at time I'm not sure I'll ever be ready to have more kids. He is however a sweet boy who loves to shows loves by head butting you and rolling around on the floor with you, usually over your head. But he has the most pitiful cry and still melts my heart with those dark brown eyes looking up at me through those long thick lashes. 

He has quite the little locks right now that curl and flip out everywhere. Dave is ready for me to cut it but I don't know if those baby curls will ever come back :(

 Brielle loves to wear everyone's shoes.

She attended Nursery today for the whole two hours and did great. It will be so nice not to have to wrestle both of them all three hours. She loves to be big and interacted with bigger kids. She doesn't seem to notice she is the youngest and smallest.

Brielle is my little talker and says more and more all the time and putting things together. My favorite is still probably "here you go". She constantly points to think telling me their name or asking for their name. She amazes me with how many words she can remember and not just regurgitate. One a good day she can tell me the name of several body parts by herself and if I ask where is you ? she gets them right most of the time. we are currently working on knees, shoulders, neck, and chin, she is hit or miss with this but really like the neck and to squeeze hers and mommy and daddy's.

She loves to be mommy's helper and is especially good at watering my pots.

 This is a regular accurance and we have started time out for hitting and shoving each other.

 Playing with daddy

words and diapers

So for the first time I heard Brielle call me mommy. I happened to ask Brielle what my name was and she said mommy. I love being a mom :)

I told the doctor today that Brielle could spontaneously say 10 words and then I got home and started counting and its more.

I wanted to list all the words I can think off she has said

 thank you, here you go, night night, bye bye, eye, mommy, milk, please, Elmo, drink, hi, book, moo, owl, ou, ha oh, no, bird, car, pick up, wow, boot, dad,
 

 On Our trip back from Yellow Stone we all of the sudden had a diaper fly at us from the back seat. We looked back and the kids were having a diaper through party.

On that vein I think I changed 6 diapers before noon the other day! crazy I know.

Discovery Gateway

Brielle is saying so many new words

apple, banana, bear, hot, Keiton, more, bath, tree, monkey is still a favorite, pepper 

 The kids loved this place and it made me want to be able to give them a awesome playhouse and a water stream like the one below (I think this was Brielle's favorite part.)

Kitchen progress

 Counter tops ready for concrete

Set of drawer fronts lined up. There is still a few things to fix but it's turning out better then we thought.

Summer Fun

Karlsven family reunion

 Four of July outfits :)

 Old Faithful

 Everyone LOVED four wheeling including all the babies and Grandpa.

 Grandma's so-mores helper

 We got lots of loves from cousin Weston.

 Double trouble.