Sam, Brooke, & Brylee: July 2010

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Cutest Thing Ever

Ok, so I'm in the middle of packing, but had to quick blog to tell you about the cutest thing Brylee did today. (Oh, and I'm NOT going to get caught up on all my other blogs before heading up north... lol, so my goal has been pushed back to the end of August =) ).
I had Brylee's suitcase laying open on the floor packed with most of her clothes and walked out of the room for less than a minute to grab dirty clothes. I come back in and she has pulled out half of her neatly folded clothes and piled them on the floor... I look at her and she starts clapping and smiling thinking she did a good job. I say "No, no, no..." and she looks at me, quits clapping, and grabs one of her dresses and puts it back in the suitcase. Then she starts crying (it really hurts her feelings when I tell her "no, no.") So I immediately pick her up, tell her it's ok...and set her back down about 20 seconds later. I have to leave the room again for a minute to load the washer. I come back in the room, and I couldn't believe it. She had picked all of her clothes up off of the floor and put them back in the suitcase!!! =) I come back in, and she was sitting by her suitcase smiling at me.
What a little sweetheart!

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Waterfront Park...LOVE IT!

I know since I'm so behind in blogging I should just lump April 2010 all together. But seriously, we had so much fun at the Waterfront Park, I think this deserves its own entry! =) If you ever go to Louisville, this place should be a must on your travel itinerary. In the picture on the left, Sam and Brylee are in our little "bike pedal jeep" along the Ohio.

10 1/2 months old ... Brylee's first experience with bubbles

Sam, Our personal bubble machine

LOVE this picture

Great view of the Ohio River

Louisville Bats Slugger Field... we didn't have time to go to another game before we left

Art

Some condos Sam and I saw featured on HGTV's show "House Hunters"

Time for a workout

How cute does Brylee look seat belted into the front

Our little tour guide

Abraham Lincoln folks

Brylee after putting her little toes in the Ohio River for the first time =)

The Bunny Hop ~ Easter 2010

Back to my "behind the times" blogging...I promised I would be caught up by Swiss Days, and since we're leaving tomorrow, that means a LOT of blogging today! Gotta love packing breaks!

April was our very last month living in LOUISVILLE! Kind of crazy it was already time to pack up! Sam's company was paying for movers to move us, but I decided to start packing our "fragile" things early. Obviously, Brylee was our first item to be boxed up! Haha =) She was thrilled about it.

(and why is everything on this blog to the left side???... I have no idea!)

Best package I've ever received! =)

Our last trip to Berne, IN before the move back to Tennessee.... Brylee loving her Easter Chick present from Grandma and Grandpa

Ring the King.... Pizza King tops the list of fave pizzas - a must for a Berne visit

Kind of Brylee's first easter egg hunt ever...she was too young to participate, and we obviously were having warmer weather in Louisville than they were in Berne. Bad packing decisions made by me!

After the park Easter Egg hunt, playing with Grandpa Jack

Family photo =)

My mom ALWAYS got us a new dress for Easter... even in college. Here is Brylee's 1st Easter dress! I think she looks adorable =)

Jackson loves playing with babies

Family Easter Egg hunt at my parents house... Brylee found a bunch of eggs =)

Easter Egg hunting cousins!

Friday, July 23, 2010

Brylee Reese is 14 Months Old!

My sweet little girl is 14 months old today, and I think the blog is an easy way to keep track of her monthly updates (I was using her baby book, but it only goes up to 12 months). So when she asks me someday when she started ____ (walking, talking, reading, etc...), I can tell her! =)

Also, have you ever noticed that the older a mom gets, the earlier they tell other people their child started doing something? Seriously, one of my neighbors in Louisville told me she had her daughter potty-trained at 10 months and her son trained at 13 months (yes, you read that correctly). Another person told me their child was talking in complete sentences at 1 year of age. Now I'm not saying I'm doubting the authenticity of these statements, but... well ok, I guess I am =). Anyways, with my updates, we'll have no tall tales about Brylee when I'm a grandparent... haha. So no, 25 years from now I won't be telling anyone she read "Gone with the Wind" and wrote a 20 page report by a year and a half! =)

Just to forewarn, if you're not a close relative, this blog entry will be a BORING one for you... so you may want to check out now. I know I think Brylee's Faves and current Accomplishments are super exciting, but I realize the average reader may not =).

Brylee's 14 Current Faves:

Ducky is still number one, closely followed by giraffe and monkey
Crawling up the stairs and then having me hold her hands to let her "hop" back down the steps (she could go up & down all day long if I would let her)
Seeing daddy when he gets home from work (It's amazing how much their relationship has grown now that Sam has a more family friendly work schedule -- we LOVE having him at home!)
Peaches, Strawberries, Cherries, Mandarin Oranges... she eats fruit at every single meal
Graham Crackers, Mum-mums, and fishie crackers are her favorite non-fruit snack
Baby swings at the park -- she can pitch a good fit if I take her out of the swing before she's ready
Racing down the hallway (w/ daddy chasing Brylee and mommy.. the "I'm gonna get you" game) and tackling daddy when he hides under the covers (those are her two fav evening activities)
She loves the songs on her Baby Can Read video
Opening cabinets (kitchen & bathroom) and pulling everything out of them (yes, we're a little behind on the baby proofing)
Standing in front of the dryer and helping me pull out the clean clothes to fold (haha, I call her my little supervisor). And then she likes grabbing the underwear and swimsuit bottoms to wear as necklaces around her neck... what a goofball! =) She gets furious when I take them off of her too!
Pushing around her stroller or walker
Trips to the grocery store/Wal-mart, etc... she LOVES waving and smiling at people... my little social butterfly, lol
Getting into my wallet and pulling out every single gift card, credit card, debit card, etc... (we're going to be in trouble once she actually knows how to use them =) )
Unrolling the toilet paper

Brylee's little baby (ok, fine - toddler) accomplishments

She now can point to her nose, and sometimes my nose and Sam's nose
"Arms up" and she'll put her arms up
Clapping... which is so cute, b/c she knows to clap for herself when she does good
She stands up and tries to dance on the Dance Dance Revolution mat for the Wii ... wonder who she watches play that game? =)
Walking (when she feels like it), but as of last Saturday she started consistently taking 3 to 10 steps at a time when she attempts it
Standing - no problems just standing there, even on hard surfaces =)
Waves "hi" and "bye" still... but it's so cute b/c she waves backwards (she folds her hand in and out towards herself)
Clicking her tongue or buzzing her lips.. haha, she likes being copied or copying you when you make those sounds w/ your mouth
Turning on the tv - seriously this little thing is a pro with the remote

As for everything else, she loves seeing animals and watching ducks. Lol, but when we fed ducks last weekend, Brylee must have been hungry b/c she kept putting the bread in HER mouth instead of dropping it in the water. Brylee usually goes to bed sometime between 7:45 and 9:30 p.m. waking up between 7 and 8:30 a.m. She's a good little sleeper usually, except for when her excema is bothering her. If she wakes up itching, it's a sure thing, that she's going to get to sleep with mommy and daddy the rest of the night (which usually happens about once a week). We LOVE our little 14 month old so much, and can't believe how fast the first year and 2 months have FLOWN by!

Thursday, July 22, 2010

March 2010... My Birthday Month

Ok, so lets continue with my "way behind the times" blog posting! =) Lol, I can only get so much done during a Brylee naptime, but I promise we'll be at July updates SOON! My goal is to be all caught up before we leave next week for Berne, so I'm trying hard to make that happen. Anyways, March 1 is my birthday (only a couple more years till 3-0 aghhh!). This year, we decided that since our time in Louisville, KY was limited, we were going to continue on the KY Bourbon trail and do a tour. Being my birthday weekend, I got to pick... so Four Roses Distillery (the Italian villa one) is where we ended up! In the picture above, the seat was all wet with snow, so we couldn't try out the Four Roses swing.

Italy folks

We are noticing a trend... shocking, I know... but every single Bourbon place we toured has the big fermenter barrels

And some of the stuff is actually mixed in buildings that look like this!

Taste test

On our way home we stopped at Wild Turkey and checked out the gift shop... it was close by and our goal was to complete the whole Bourbon trail before moving from the Ville

Neither Brylee or I was ready for this picture... story time! Check out the little rose on her shirt, I picked that outfit out for our Four Roses tour

Brylee's first time swinging

Watching Baby Can Read... check out the box of Goldfish on the couch

At my sister Steph's in Madison... my family came down from northeast Indiana to visit the triplets. Brylee LOVES playing with my necklace (I only wear non-breakable, cheap ones now!)