Sisterly bonds

I love the bond that Brylee and Cerly are forming at such a young age. After baths tonight I was sitting back and watching them play. Brylee told Cerly she loved her and then held her hand. It was precious...Cerly adores Brylee so much :)

I love that they will have each other because I get to experience that every day as an adult with my sister. It is a true blessing. Earlier today I started to feel very sick and Audra just happened to stop by. I was laying on the couch and before I knew it I woke up to the girls laughing. I had fallen asleep (which never happens) and Audra had taken the girls to the playroom so that I could rest. It was very thoughtful and I needed it so much....I think my body was just done. (Morning sickness is hitting at weird times right now.) Yes, my writing is slower, and it may be for a while, but this is just a season :)

So today I am thankful for sisterly bonds....couldn't do life without them!

(I love their hands here)

She loves control!

A friend of mine gave me a super fun birthday gift that Brylee is LOVING. She gave me a little remote that we can push to take pictures....instead of having to set the timer, run to your place, and sweat like crazy by the time you get to the third picture. It is awesome for sure.

The other day I told Brylee we could have a photo shoot for fun and she could be in charge of the remote. She was all about it and all we got out of her was smiles!! The only thing is that you can see the black remote in every picture haha...we haven't figured out how to hide it just yet. For now we are having a blast with it....

You can see that she loves controlling it! (we all like being in control though, right?) Probably most of us if we are honest. The more control that she got with the remote, the less control I had of them! They were having a blast and I was trying to survive it!

We are enjoying being home right now. Week 6 and morning sickness has hit some. Nothing impossible but it has hit. So for now we are staying home and just hanging out with the girls!

Girls, girls, girls...I love me some girls!

Wordless Wednesday

Making asthma a little more fun!

The days are ok around here but the nights are long with asthma. We had a rough one last night with Brylee so tonight I decided to make treatment time a little more fun for her! And she loved it. We decided to paint toes during her treatment and she did so much better :)

And we had Dora on...so it was close to perfect for her.

I am ready for this weather to even out so all this non-sense will pass. She stays very tired after these long nights....

Hopefully it gets better soon so we don't have to go back and forth to the doctor and pharmacy. That gets exhausting after a few visits in 2-3 weeks.

Brylee did feel good a few days ago and she was the one giving Brandon a check-up. She loves all her "doctor stuff" and she plays with it constantly!!!

Rainy Saturday Fun!

On Saturday it rained all day long. It was so cold, Brandon was at work, and we were getting so bored being stuck in the house!!! Audra and Ross surprised us for some rainy day fun!!

Brylee wanted to worship, as usual. But this time she used Ross as her "stage!" It was so awesome! She is going to be the best worship leader ever one day!

Then Audra gave them rides in the laundry basket...

I love this one...

And then we used all the blocks to see if we could make them all stand at once and we did! Brylee was so proud!! Thanks Audra and Ross for making our rainy day a fun one!

No time to blog!

So my blogging is slacking right now, it drives me crazy when I can't post each day. We just spent the last 5 hours going through 2 huge storage buildings. We took out everything that we are not taking to the new house and we are having a big garage sale. Our entire garage is filled so we are going to have a huge sale! I feel like once this is done then we can finally settle down and relax through the summer.

I put this on facebook but I wanted to put it on here too. The last two items in storage were the pink and blue bumbo baby chairs! I told Brandon we needed to pick one to keep and get rid of the other one. (I still have no idea why we even have the blue one?!) I said we should keep the pink and he said we should keep both....just in case! (even though he is guessing girl this round)

After reading through the facebook comments, we kept both. Only because 2 people said it might be twins ha! Oh my heart would stop if I heard those words...at least for a moment.

So anyway, we have the pink and blue....for now :) Of to moving more stuff....what a circus our life is!

I love the weekend!

I love the weekend!!!!

Super lazy and easy week we just had. Those weeks are nice since it has been a while since we had one of those. I slept a lot, like a whole lot, and that was good. I could be asleep at 8 every night if I listened to my body. I did have a sonogram on Thursday but I was still a little too early to do much. She is bringing me back in soon to see the heart beat, take measurements and give me an exact due date. I am very anxious for that appointment, I will definitely post details once that happens. But for now, we wait. Pregnancy is all about waiting in so many ways, isn't it?! I do much much better once we are rolling and we know if it's a girl or boy because then I can focus my attention on the nursery. I think I might have 10 kids just so I can keep putting together a new nursery :) Definitely my favorite.

But that is just about the highlight of our week. Everyone enjoy the weekend, I know we will!

Middle child?!

I think that Miss Cerly Grace already knows that she is going to be the "middle child" very soon....

....because she is becoming quite the fireball!!!!! She is shocking me every second and I catch myself shaking my head and wondering where my quite, cuddly little baby has gone. She is still as sweet as can be, and she is very much a momma's girl, but she has not been afraid to come out of her shell.

She is walking everywhere, and she walks around like she is the president....it's like she knows she is something special. She is a climber. She climbs everything and I never know where I am going to find her if I try to escape to the bathroom for 60 seconds. She has become a screamer. Not a crier at all, but when she wants your attention she just screams out....and that wears me out! She is stepping up the competition for attention (against Brylee) and I think she just might be winning.

I guess she was tired of laying low around here. She took it up a notch just in time.....right when her mommy was in full exhaustion mode!

Ready or not....Cerly has arrived and life around here has definitely changed!

I hope I can survive this. I know I can, but when my head hits the pillow at night I wonder how I made it! This is life and life is good :)

Look at her taking off with my phone...and yes, she already tries to talk on it like she knows what she is doing. I have always heard to watch out for the middle child....I wonder if she is just getting started early! I love my little fireball!

She can write her name :)

I remember thinking about "girl names" when we were trying to name Brylee. We had our list, we would add and take away names, but yet Brylee would always be at the top. We loved her name more than any other name that we could find during those months leading up to actually naming her.

Everyone thinks about different things when they are naming a child. I thought about how the name would sound when other people said it. I thought about how pretty it would look when I wrote it. I thought about how it might be different so that not many other girls would share her name in her kindergarten class. I thought about how it sounded with her middle name. Those are the kind of things that I thought about.

And of course I wrote it out a million times before we decided. You know how we (us girls) did when we were in junior high sitting in class? Or was that just me. I would write out all my favorite girl names and I would write them over and over....just because I wished that one day I would actually get to do it for real!

The day that we came home from the doctor after being told that Brylee was a girl, and not a boy, I remember sitting at our kitchen table with Brandon. We had a sheet of paper and a pen. We knew we liked the name Brylee but we didn't know how to spell it. So we wrote....

Briley

Bryley

Bryleigh

Brylie

And then we wrote....Brylee. And we knew it was perfect for our little girl.

Yesterday I watched Brylee sit on the kitchen floor and write her name....all by herself! And it brought back all of these memories of naming her.....I love when that happens.

I am so proud of you Brylee June!