Almost There!
We have almost made it! For those of you wondering if we have chosen a name, the answer is no. I have officially given that responsibility to Josh. I have spent way too much time trying to pick the perfect name, but just can’t decide. We have a list of names we like, but every time I think I have chosen one I change my mind. I am going to quit worrying about it and I’ll let Josh surprise me with her name when she is born. So good luck to Josh and hopefully he chooses wisely!
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Posted by Cindy on November 5th, 2009 filed in Cindy, Josh, Sienna1 Comment »
Halloween 2009
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bout a week before Halloween, I was feeling a little sad. Normally Halloween is one of the biggest holidays of the year at our house, but due to constant sickness between Josh and Brooke throughout the month of October and me being 8 months pregnant, there just wasn’t much Halloween excitement here.
Luckily the last week of October made up for it, and we actually had a really good Halloween this year. We may not have done as much as we normally would do, but I also don’t feel like we really missed out on anything either.
We started off with a Halloween party with my family. Unfortunately Josh was still sick, so he missed this one, but Brooke and I had a blast. The kids came all dressed in their costumes, my Mom cooked her amazing Chili, and we let the kids decorate pumpkins with stickers, markers and pipe cleaner.
* I love that Tinkerbell is bigger then the Pirates!
Next was Brooke’s Halloween Carnival at her school. Have I said before how much I love her preschool, because I do! They had all sorts of cute little games and activities set up for the kids, where they could win either prizes or candy. They had doughnuts and rootbeer for the whole family. Brooke came home with a huge bag of goodies that she carried around for days.
Then, we had trick-or-treating at Josh’s office. I love that he works for a company that is so family oriented.
Finally, Halloween arrived and she had her first actual door-to-door trick-or-treating adventure. Josh only took her to maybe fifteen houses, but she is addicted. The only way we could get her to come home was by promising to take her trick-or-treating to her grandparents!
The fun is now over, but she is constantly carrying her candy around trying to share it with everyone, not really eating any of it herself (I am sure this will change next year). Every now and then she brings me her pumpkin bucket and says “Trick-or-treat” hoping I just might put some candy in there!
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Posted by Cindy on November 5th, 2009 filed in Brooklynn, Cindy, Family, Holidays, JoshComment now »
The 80’s Are Back!
Apparently Brooke was born in the wrong decade. The inner 80’s girl inside her has broken lose this last week. She has become obsessed with socks and how many socks she can wear at one time. She’ll wear one or two pairs on her hands, and as many on her feet as she can make fit. It definitely as been entertaining as we go out, because of the different looks and comments that we get. But she is happy and thinks it looks great, and that’s what matters!
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Brad Paisley
Last Saturday night, Josh and I went to the Brad Paisley concert. This was our Mother’s Day/Father’s Day gift to each other, that we have been waiting ALL summer for, and it finally came. Josh and I are both huge Brad Paisley fans and have wanted to see him in concert for years! Jimmie Wayne opened the show, next was Dierks Bentley, and finally Brad Paisley. Really, how could you ask for a better concert? Somehow, Josh is amazing and scored us awesome seats. We were about 15 rows away from the stage at The USANA Amphitheater. We were so close I could see Dierks Bentley spitting while he sang (seriously)!
It rained on us for a little bit, but it seems that Josh and I don’t go to concerts anymore unless it is going to rain on us. I think the rain made the concert even better!
Here is us all excited, waiting for the show to start.
*Notice the nice mountain man look Josh is going for!
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This was one of my favorite concerts I have ever been to. It was a great gift and I am so glad we decided to do it!
Posted by Cindy on September 25th, 2009 filed in Cindy, Josh1 Comment »
Preschool
Last Thursday, Brooke had her first day of preschool. Her preschool is a very casual preschool that only goes once a week for an hour and a half, which is probably the perfect amount of time for a two year old.
As we were getting ready that morning, I convinced her to let me take a few pictures of her. The first one she insisted on holding her airplane.
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Then I finally convinced her to do a traditional school picture with her backpack.
I was a little concerned at how she was going to handle this new adventure. She started the morning out a little moody, and 10 minutes before walking out the door, we had a severe meltdown because she could not find her “Marty” (a toy zebra). Luckily we were able to find “Marty”, along with all the other toys she insisted on taking in her backpack (it’s a good thing the backpack is more of an accessory then a necessity in preschool).
When we found her class room, she hung onto my leg for maybe 30 seconds until she spotted the toys, and then she forgot I was even there. I was able to sneak away and have the most wonderful hour and a half of complete freedom all to my self. It was wonderful, I think I am really going to enjoy this preschool thing, at least until the baby comes and ends my alone time.
When it was finally time to pick her up, I thought for sure it would be the same as nursery. As soon as she see’s us, she runs to us, gives us a great big hug, grabs a hand, and off we go. This time I walk in the room, she looks up, runs half way to me, pauses, turns around, and starts saying “I don’t want to go home” and then the flood works began. The teachers just looked at me in shock, and I am thinking great they probably think I am a horrible mom that Brooke is scared of. I finally convinced her we needed to go. She pouted the whole way to the car and for the next 30 minutes because she wanted to go back to school.
I just hope in 10 years, she’ll love school as much as she does now!
Posted by Cindy on September 25th, 2009 filed in Brooklynn1 Comment »
Your Life Would Suck Without This
For the last several months Josh as been working on this awesome project at work. It is an iPhone App for Kelly Clarkson. The app challenges your singing abilities by asking you to sing along with Kelly Clarkson on songs from her latest album, All I Ever Wanted, and sing them right. This game monitors both the pitch and timing of your singing. If you sing well enough, you might even win the chance to sing with Kelly’s band during the soundcheck at an upcoming show, and go to a special meet & greet with Kelly!
It has been one of those projects that he has not been able to talk about until now. We just got the official word that it was approved and launched today.
Here is a link to Josh’s blog if you are interested in more details.
Or if you just want to see this extemely awesome project, click here!
Posted by Cindy on August 29th, 2009 filed in JoshComment now »
Help Us Name Our Baby!
Actually, you really don’t get to name our baby, but we do want your opinion. In the poll listed on the side are a few names that we are possibly considering. Josh and I are struggling agreeing on any. I won’t tell you which ones he likes or which ones I like, we simply want to know which ones you like! If you have any REAL suggestions for us that are not listed in the poll, please leave a comment.
Posted by Cindy on August 12th, 2009 filed in Sienna5 Comments »
Little Gym
For the last six months, Brooke has been taking a gymnastics class at the Little Gym. Today was her last day, so I thought I would post some pictures.
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Here she is playing on the “mountain” with her little friend Spencer.
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Her she is during bubble time. I wish I had taken my video camera, but I didn’t. So I need you all to just imagine a high pithed “girly” scream to fully appreciate this picture! She loves the bubbles.
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Here she is with Ms. Lila doing a version of a front hand spring.
We are sad to be done with gymnastics for now, but luckily we can still participate in the “Parent Survival Nights” so Brooke can still go play once in awhile, and Josh and I can go play without her. Yay for us!!!!
We are taking at least this next semester off, just to make things less complicated when we have the baby and also because she will be starting preschool once a week and possibly a singing class once a week as well. So hopefully she will like those as much as she loved gymnastics!
Posted by Cindy on August 11th, 2009 filed in BrooklynnComment now »
This Is What Happens When You Wake Up Too Early!
This is how Josh and I found Brooke this morning.
She has a morning routine of loading either her shopping cart or her doll stroller full of the toys she wants to play with that morning. Then she pushes them over to her door, where there normally is a gate up (we just took it down before the picture was taken). Then she waits for us to open her gate and let her out to play. Normally this all happens after we are up and have gone in her room and woken her up.
Apparently sometime last night she woke up thinking it was morning, did her routine, then fell asleep waiting for us to let her out. We have no idea what time she did all of this, but I definitely am glad we have the gate, because who knows where we might find her if we didn’t.
Posted by Cindy on August 11th, 2009 filed in Brooklynn1 Comment »
Cozy Coupe
Josh and I finally joined every other parent in America and bought Brooklynn a Cozy Coupe. It was just in time too, because Brooklynn has started to gain a reputation as what I call “The Cozy Coupe Bandit.”
Whenever we go for walks around the neighborhood, Brooklynn would search all the neighbors yards for a car. As soon as she spotted one she was gone. Whenever we were hanging out with friends or at neighborhood parties, she would find an empty Cozy Coupe and park her little bum in there until Josh or I pulled her out, usually kicking and screaming. If there were no empty cars, you would see her lurking close by an unexpecting victim, waiting for them to get out of their car. The second they stepped out of the car to grab another toy, or put something in the trunk, Brooke was already in the front seat. This resulted in the other children crying, because Brooke stole their car, and either Josh or I prying Brooke from the car, while she screamed “No, no, my car.”
So I have been searching Craig’s List, and yard sales all summer long. You would think with so many Cozy Coupe’s out there, someone would be trying to sell theirs, but no such luck! So finally Josh and I gave in and took her to Toys R Us to pick one out.
At the store we kept telling her she was getting a new car, one that was her very own. We would ask her which car she wanted and she would just point to all the cars and say “Yes, yes!” Not realizing that toddlers don’t understand that toys come in boxes and you really don’t buy the displays, she was devistated when we put a huge box in the cart instead of the car.
When we got home we put her to bed and Josh stayed up way too late putting it together so Brooke could have it first thing in the morning.
She has only had it for one day, but has spent the majority of the day in the car. It hasn’t left the house yet, but it has been on a tour of every room on our main floor, except the bathrooms, she tried to take it in there, but that’s where I drew the line! She has also had her own version of a drive-in. She parked the car in front of the TV, while she sat in the car and watched her movie.
Oh yes, and I forgot to mention, because Josh ended up picking out the car, he insisted on getting her “The Fire and Rescue” edition. So now I get to listen to a little siren go off every 5 minutes, but she loves it and that’s what matters!
Posted by Cindy on July 24th, 2009 filed in Brooklynn2 Comments »
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