MEASLE THE WEASEL

That is what I have been calling you the past week, or at least since Wednesday, when I FINALLY figured out what your relentless fever was from- THE MEASLES!  My poor baby girl!  Your MMR shot you received a week before your fever apparently gave you a bad reaction and you came down with a minor case of measles!

You had this fever and were so sad and wouldn't eat (except bagels and lots and lots of bottles of 'appa joo').  After four days your fever seemed to be subsiding (prior to that I was sure it was a UTI) and on day 5 I took off your clothes to get you in the bath and you were COVERED in red splotches.  I knew right away what it was ad wasn't too freaked out, I knew the virus was ending when the rash comes forth, so whew!  You were a trooper!

The "weasel" part of your nickname has been earned by your incomparable behavior!  Brynnly Kathleen, you are like nothing I have experienced before, it is both entertaining and frightening!!
As I have discussed this with your dad, I have come to the conclusion that you are just being raised so different from your siblings because A) you're the youngest of four, which means you have not only lots of siblings to learn from and contend with, but they are older and showing you things they never saw- like how to pull the tall bar stool to the counter and climb on the counter to get FRUIT SNACKS!  Yes my dear, that is the newest skill you have developed! 
 B) you are so much closer in age to Baylor than any of the other 3 are to each other and that has set up a pit fall, in that your closest older sibling, instead of being an incredible helper and prime example setter, he pushes, hits, pinches, screams at, and all round roughs you up.  That being your example, you are quite a bit more feisty, whinny, and aggressive, not by nature but by product of your environment.

Although you two can also be the BEST of FRIENDS!  You LOOOOVE Baylor.  He is sooo much fun!  This is you 2 looking at the garbage truck. He hasn't figured out just how COOL you are, but when he does, man you two will be unstoppable!  Right now a favorite game you two play is running/chasing.  You love following him around and anytime he gives you attention you are in heaven!  The sweetest thing he did the other night was say, "come on binny" and you two went in his room (gasp!  he never wants you in there) and you guys read books together...a.k.a pulled all the books off the shelf and looked through them, which since it was such an act of goodwill on his part, I didn't even mind.
That all being said, you are still one SWEET little lady.  You are a bit of a magpie, collecting multiple babies and purses and piling them into a stroller which you push around all while wearing sunglasses.  You LOVE dressing up, particularly in your sisters' laundry.  I believe yesterday you went out in public wearing one of Lauren's shirts over your clothes, with the neck going across your chest like an evening gown and the sleeve just dangling as an accessory.  You put on shoes constantly, yours, mine, everyone's, you are a shoe girl!  You are not very messy, well you are, but you don't like to be.  Your EVERY SINGLE DAY breakfast is "cocos" and "mil" Cocoa Krispies with milk.  You love drinking the milk out of the bowl, you also inadvertently spill 50% of the milk and krispies every time and are covered by the time you're full.  Your saving grace, bibs.  You LIKE wearing "bibbies".  Thank goodness!  Grandma sent us this cup, it use to be mine.  You likes it!! Could you be any cuter!?!?

You also very much enjoy wearing your hood when you put your jacket on.  I taught you to say hood which you say perfectly and with so much "oo" sound.  It cracks me up!  You say it about 12 times in a row and walk around all stiff cause you loose your peripheral vision when it is on.  HA!!!

You talk sooooo much, my favorite unexpected word right now is "me-mes" for excuse me.

You are so full of energy, life, personality, expression!  Sometimes you wear me out, mostly because Im your favorite person and you like a good dose of Mama in just about every other minute of your day, but baby girl that is the BEST way to get exhausted- being loved on from my best girl, yeah, I'll take that ANY DAY!  

I love you Brynners, my little weasel. Just be safe, ok?  {kisses, kisses, kisses}

a little tid bit

i love when i ask you (or tell you) to do something and you don't want to you do this "way too old to be doing this" thing where you drop your shoulders and put your head back and even sometimes roll your eyes.  man you are too big for your britches and yet it fits you 110%, you just are ahead of your time.  But when I hold you OR ehem.. nurse you in the middle of the night, you still feel and seem like such a baby.  Im soaking you up and appreciating every minute of your little amazing too big self!

18 months

you are wonderful.
you are soooo full of life and happiness.
you LOVE to dance and be busy- you climb up on us whenever anyone is on the computer, you pretty much climb up everywhere.

you like to look for "bugs" in between your toes.
you laugh and hold your boobies and belly button when you're naked.
you know all your body parts.
you like running around naked.

you are smart and independent!
you KNOW what you like and what you want.
you are loving and forgiving and obedient, even though sometimes you don't want to do what i ask, you most often do it.

you're gorgeous and delightful.

you are FUNNY and happy.

you are the light of my life and i am so thankful for you.

you're just going to get bigger and bigger, but for now i am milking every ounce of baby left in you.  you have been a WONDERFUL baby, filling my arms and life with MORE baby goodness and precious happiness than i ever thought possible and i have been grateful for you every single day of your life.  i LOVE you.

December To Remember

Hey Brynners!

Im playing catch up a little bit- December was BUSY and FUN and YOU contributed MUCH to those things.  You are the baby of our family- we ALL dote on you and ADORE you, especially these girls...

You always have so much fun with your sisters, it is just the coolest thing to watch.  You LOVE them and love their attention and try so much to emulate them.  They teach you a lot and you soak it up.

We went ICE SKATING!  YOU LOVED IT!  Too bad it is HARD to skate with a baby in your arms, it totally throws our balance off so THANK you Dad, cause I held you for about 30 second, wobbled about 2 inches from the side and freaked out and handed you back, MUCH to your displeasure!!   
You're such an adventurous girl, I think next year you will have a lot more fun.  At least you won't have to be stuck walking around with this kid nipping at your heals... you two are so funny!!!  Really it is VERY neat to have you Bs so close in age, you can almost do the same things and be best buddies- if you WANTED to!!!

You didn't register "Christmas" too much this year, you just went along with the flow.  You are ALWAYS someone to hang out with and we all just love having you around.  You are happy and full of excitement and just dripping with cuteness!!!  When you are near there are guaranteed smiles!  You melt my heart with your sweetness.

You have GROWN up A LOT in the last month.
Yous can be so naughty!!!
 I LOVE this picture!

I saw you doing this and just let you do it (Im such a good mom like that- totally up for free expression!).  You get into the junk drawer ALL. THE. TIME!  You can't see into it, you just reach up and pull out what ever your grabby little fingers and grasp- it is actually very funny and clever, but also annoying because you end up doing stuff like this....

but look how PROUD you are of your work!  It is infectious the way you love the little things in life and just make everything FUN.  Life would be so boring and plain without YOU!

Grandma came for a visit and man o man have you become a "Grandma-Girl"!  You LOVE Grandma, it is pretty special.  She has just fallen in love with you too!!!

Not that any kids needs a reason to get presents, and you certainly weren't aware why we were opening gifts, but you sure understood one thing- this is awesome!  You were sooooo into it!  :)

YOU LOVE CLOTHES!!! This is one of the funniest things about you, you are sooooo little to be into clothes, but it just goes to show what a FABULOUS little girl you are!  You are truly one in a million and I am sooooo thankful you are OURS!  You want your new clothes put on right away and you go right up to people and pose like, "look at me".  You also LOVE being fancy!!  I LOVE IT!

SISTERS!!!  Lauren got her ears pierced and you three were all in girl heaven looking at earrings- too precious!!!

Christmas Eve- The highlight of our Christmas celebrating was doing a Nativity and you got to be a sheep...

It may look like an Easter Bunny costume, but trust me, you were a sheep.  TOO FUNNY!  You are just adorable.

You are a climber- nothing crazy, just if there is a bench to climb up and be bigger you are ALL OVER it!  You often walk around the house carrying a Princess stool, its crazy funny.  You like being part of the action for sure!  You climb up on the kitchen chairs, onto the table and have even figured out, out of sheer determination, how to grab hold and hoist yourself onto the couch.  YOU'RE AMAZING!  You face here is what I get when I tell you to smile while I am taking a picture- silly girl!!!

Christmas morning you were the first one up!  We hung out until the big kids woke up.  LOVE your crazy hair!!!  Won't be long and we'll be curling it!!  You'll love that!

OH MY GOSH!  COULD YOU BE ANY MORE AWESOME!?!?!

This by far the most hilarious moment Christmas morning!!  I KNEW you'd rock this Princess Purse Set.  You crack me up!

MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING GIRL!  I LOVE YOU OH SO VERY VERY MUCH!  MY HEART COULD BURST WITH THE JOY AND LOVE YOU GIVE ME!!!! XOXOXOXO

You are talking!

You say "EH-MO!" constantly.

You say "Eh-mo" for Elmo, and just about anything Sesame Street.

When we get into our neighborhood and head home you start desperately saying "eh-mo, eh-mo!" as if you want to get in the door and immediately watch that little red guy. It is pretty funny.

I have taught you to say "Ernie" (ehn-nee) and Julia taught you "Oscar" (you growl real deep and go os-ka), but you mostly still just say, "Eh-mo" when looking at a Sesame book or see a dvd cover.

You are SMART! Holy mackerel! You point to all the right things in a book. You want to know words for everything, you point and kind of make a sound that resembles the words, "what dat". You sign a lot of things and communicate really well.

Tonight I heard you say, "heddo booboo", when we were about to nurse.

uh-oh!

I scream, YOU scream.....

THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! I knew to take your shirt off when I gave you your first ice cream cone, and boy was that a good call!check out your baby fuzz head! your new hair that is slowly growing in is the best! you are so cute when you wake up and it is all sticking up or after a bath. you're precious!

You love love love sweets, and ice cream is quickly becoming a TOP FAVORITE!

This next series of shots are my favorites of you. Look how you tried to start licking the ice cream off your chest!! You are soooooo FUNNY! We love you, you make us laugh. And you are just so CUTE!

BABY MAMA

You're pretty much the cutest lil girl in the whole world!

You are starting to like to play with babies.

You are such a girly-girl and it is AWESOME.

You are so fun to watch. Every day I just look at you and take you in and am soooooo soooooo tahnkful you are here! You are a miracle and you are unique and you are YOU! I just LOVE YOU! I love everything about you, and some times some days your sweet uniqueness, your little personality is shining through, and you are INCREDIBLE. ADORABLE. WONDERFUL.

This cracked me up, you carrying this baby upside down. This baby wrapped up in your big blankie was a little too big for you. HA!