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Brynn:

She loves puppets, reading stories, playing outside, saying “Hi” to her refection of the baby in the car mirror.

She yells "Amen!" after prayers and when she wants to sing the Amen song. It is loud.

She pats her legs or taps her feet to music.

She is learning all her body parts.

New words: Nice, Mess, Again, Splash, Hat, Bubble, Crash, Stuck, Bink (pacifier)
and she asks for “help!”

She walks around all day with books, handing them to people in hopes they will read to her.

She loves to play “I’m gunna get you.” She can barely stand the anticipation.

We bought her babies for her birthday because we saw how she loves the model baby at music class, yet she is not that interested in the ones at home. Tonight we saw she is still obsessed with the one at music class. She was playing ring around the rosie with it by holding its arms. She still continues to only want to play with Brayden’s baby at home. I have figured the trick is that she wants the eyes to open and close and to be larger in size.

She likes to stand on things. Today she figured out how to stand on a shoebox. We find her on the hearth sometimes...she wants to be so independents, so we have to keep an eye out.

She plays peek-a-boo on her own.

She loves to blow kisses and is quite the huggy-bug, especially with Mommy. She pats Brayden on the back and tells him he’s nice. She gives the sloppiest open mouth kisses. She even slipped Auntie Jen the tongue on Sunday.

Brynn is into sitting on Mommys lap. The funny part is that she backs up to my knees when I am on the floor and sits down.

She loves repetitive play. She is very social and interactive.

She still tries to suck her food from her spoon instead of opening up. And she gets to a point in the meal when she drops all her food on the floor, even if she will want it again.

At Babs’ house on New Years Day, we were all reading up on our astrological signs for the day of our birth. The book said Brayden is destined to be a Writer and Brynn is destined to be a Jounalist.

Brayden stories:

“I like my teachers. I like school, but my tummy wants to stay home with Mommy.”

Brayden says he wants to grow his hair long so he can “Rock out!”

“I dreamed crashbox, (a show I told him is too old for him) I was old enough to see it and I loved it! It was a cool dream!”

The things he is picking up from church:
In a prayer recently he said that he is sad Jesus died. Then at church he asked if the cross up front was Jesus’ cross. He asked were Jesus lives now so I told him in heaven and in his heart.

“Thank you for sending me all my people. Thank you for Mommy, Daddy and Brynnie. Thank you for bringing Jesus back to life. Amen”

He had to got potty and Daddy sat him down, but he wanted to stand up. He was mad about sitting and showed his upset by folding his arms and yelling, “Scrumptious!” He is playing with a lot of big words right now. It is funny what he comes up with. At the store he was upset with me and said, “I’m feeling scrumptious with you!” He was pretending to be detective tonight and said, “I am a protective.”

For Christmas, Brayden finally got the Bat Cave he has “been wanting all his life.”

He loves Boz the Bear movies and the game Hi-Ho Cherry-o, the stuffed dog Grams Overly gave him (named Bolt), his Power Ranger gloves, and of course his Bat Cave. Today he’s all about his new Autobot Transformer, yesterday it was the Batmobile, three weeks ago it was his green power ranger, but he always comes back to Wall-E and Eva robots. They seem to be true favorites. Whenever he has two of the same character (such as 2 Wall-Es and 2 Batmans) he names the big one daddy and the little one Brayden. He’s very into Daddy these days, always saying “I love my Dad” and wanting Daddy to be home. He actually shows his appreciation and love for everyone right now. He is always telling Mommy he loves her and saying how he loves his sister Brynn, too.

He is beginning to feel scared of things that he used to enjoy, like "spookies" and Santa. He always asks if there is going to be a bad guy in movies and is starting to say he doesn’t like fighting.

He and Brynn both like the blow up bounce jumper in the basement and falling down on purpose together. Although Brynn did bite him for the first time when he was wrestling too rough and he didn’t listen to her whines to get off.

He laughs a lot (and it is infectious!). I love the big belly laughs. He seems to really get jokes and funny sayings in speech. He laughs out loud at his TV shows and his sister.

He is very protective of Brynn. One of his friends was jumping in the jumper with him and Brynn wanted in. He warned “be careful of my sister Brynnie, don’t run into her.”

He is quite the perfectionist and gets frustrated easily.

He is noticing the difference in boys’ and girls’ toys and he comments on how he and his daddy are the same.

If he had the choice, he would probably never take a bath or shower.