Boys will be boys

Like my previous post mentioned, my little sister is here from Raleigh visiting us for a few days with her son Nathan, who is the same age as Joshua. They have had so much fun playing together, and with Brooklyn. Their favorite things to do are laugh at Brooklyn and, like boys do, wrestling with each other. :)

It looks to me like Joshua started it. ;)

"King of the blanket"!   Boys will be boys.

Spoiled Rotten

Anty Shanty (my baby sister, Shantel) is visiting us and Brooklyn has loved every moment of it.  The day before she arrived, Brooklyn told me, "Anty Shanty is coming to Brooklyn's house. Anty Shanty loves Brooklyn." Well, she's right... Anty Shanty did come to Brooklyn's house to play, and she absolutely loves Brooklyn to the point of spoiling her.

Riding the carousel

Eating her ice cream cone (with sprinkles, of course).

Thanks Anty Shanty!!

Siblings

Brooklyn and Josh are such great siblings. They love eating, sleeping and playing with each other. At times Brooklyn will not eat her food until Josh is sitting on the table, too. She also begs me to lay Josh down in her bed with her during nap time and she'll close her eyes and tell Josh to take a nap, too. Brooklyn especially loves playing with Joshy and making him laugh, and he laughs at her so easily. 

He just likes sitting this way on his bouncy chair, now.

Painting Nails

Brooklyn has developed some girly habits lately. Maybe it's because there is little testosterone in the house now that Matt has been gone and Josh is the only one contributing any manliness to the house. We (yes, Josh, too) have been playing dressup, dancing the waltz, playing with our hair (yes, we put bows on Josh's head, too), and today we painted our toenails and fingernails. I painted Brooklyn's and she painted mine. She did a pretty good job, too, especially considering she is only 2. She begged me to paint Josh's nails, too, but that would have crossed the line with Matt. :)


This is Josh's favorite thing to do right now. He is always doing this. In the mornings he usually doesn't cry or anything, he just does this... it's how I know he's awake. It's so cute!



Making new friends

One of the great things about being a mom of such a social butterfly is that I don't have to go out and make friends on my own. Brooklyn does that for the both of us. She has made such good friends, and luckily these little friends have awesome moms, too, and these friends and their moms just love Brooklyn so much that they will come and play with both of us. In fact, this one (Lilly) and her mom (Bethany) are coming over tomorrow to go swimming with us. :) Hooray for playmates and playdates!

Brooklyn and Lilly playing at Wannamaker Park playground

Joshua watching Brooklyn cool off on the sprinkler pad after some playground fun. He can't wait till he's big enough to play out there, too.

Brooklyn having some sprinkler fun again (every Wednesday, actually). Now that school is back in session, she is usually the only kid out there playing in the water.  

Poofy Dress

We watched the Cinderella musical on TV today and Brooklyn wanted to dance and wear a poofy dress... so she put on her poofy dress and we danced like they did at the ball.  This has to be one of the girliest things she ever done. :)