January 21, 2018

  This is a very good thing.  She has never liked baby food.  I can probably count on my hand the number of times that she willingly ate it.  If she can learn to feed herself and sleep through the night, life will be good.

  And to prove I have other children...

  Sydney acting silly before her solo performance at festival.  I got to listen to her and she did lovely.  She's got a strong voice for such a little thing.  And she's bendy:

  

January 14, 2018

The Brynnie Blog continues...

  In my mind, there is nothing cuter than a baby in just a onesie.  Brynn is especially goofy when stripped down to her onesie at the end of the day.

Surprise baby selfies on my phone is something I never had with my other kids.

A grumpy baby, tired of waiting for kids to get out of piano lessons.

  For Christmas Sydney got a projector for her phone.  She puts on movie nights in her room.  She's the hostess with the mostest.

  It's a good thing the new baby gate is scheduled to arrive on Tuesday.  Especially since when she's tired of climbing, she sits on the step backwards and leans back to get down.  Luckily someone has always been there to catch her.

January 7, 2018

 We've lived here for seven and a half years and I think we've used this fireplace twice.  The first time we had the gas turned up too high so when we lit it a big ball of fire burst out.  Understandably, when I suggested Jeff light a fire tonight the kids were nervous.  Obviously they overcame that.  It's quite cozy.

  After the kids played some strange game with all these plastic cups, I made them wash them.  I'm pretty sure Bailey did all the work.  She discovered she loves washing dishes.

 When I first started this blog is 2012, Bailey was just turning one year old.  I joked that it was my "Bailey Blog" because 75% of the photos were of her.  I'm afraid that I've now turned this into the "Brynnie Blog."

Enjoying her first french fry

My life is so glamorous.

  The only thing worse than going to Walmart while hungry is going to Sam's Club.  More choices, bigger portions.

 This cute girl was dancing to the Tangled soundtrack.  Obviously she's Rapunzel.

December 31, 2017

Yay Christmas!

Glad Jeff was home to put this one together.

  Playing laser tag on a hover board.  The future is here.

  It wouldn't be Christmas without No Redeeming Qualities Jello.

  We got Brynn a babysitter and sneaked away to watch The Greatest Showman.  It was a hit.  The kids have been playing the soundtrack on Alexa non-stop.

   Erik's new slack line.  It's about as close as we'll get to a Ninja Warrior course in our backyard.

  A good way to get a baby to stay in one spot is to put her on the grass.  She won't touch it with her bare hands.

  A few weeks ago Bailey's teacher told her about the big Christmas tree in the town square.  Bailey asked me to take her to see it, but I had no idea where the town square is.  Amarillo's not that quaint.  I drove Sydney to a trampoline park this week and we came upon this big tree.  The trampoline park is in a new retail development called Town Square.  Duh.  Bailey and I spent a frigid night walking around and under this huge Christmas tree.

Happy New Year from this blurry, hairy panda.