Family Fun Day

Last week Dave had all of Friday off, so we decided to make it a whole day event. First we went and bought Brinlee some more sippys. She got some very cute princess ones. Then we went to the mall to let her play on the Dino playground, but it was really crowded, so instead we decided to go look at the cute new spring clothes. After that we went home and took a nap and then we decided to go to Chuck E Cheese that night. Brinlee really loved it. Me on the other hand had some major anxiety with all the noise and children everywhere :) She loved to push all the buttons on the games, but she hated the rides though.
She won like 67 tickets! Here she is with her prizes, a microphone that she loves, and a laffy taffy

I couldn't post without showing you one of her cheesy smiles :) Gotta love them

Bye Bye Na Na

I had big plans to get rid of Brinlee's na na (bottle, I don't know why she calls it that but she does) right after her first birthday but a day or two after she broke out in horrible cold sores and the last thing I wanted to do was take it away while she was so sick. Then after she finally recovered from that it went from getting a new tooth, to a cold, getting a new tooth, and getting a cold. And I personally didn't want anymore grumpiness on top of it. Then the past few weeks I have been trying to get up the motivation to do it. I felt crazy because deep down I didn't want her to give them up. They were the last thing keeping her a baby and I felt like giving them up would mean that I would have to finally accept that she is a little girl now. (I don't even know how I am going to handle my youngest growing up if I had such a hard time with my first :)) But on Wednesday I went to do some work for my sister and left Brinlee with Dave. When I got home, there she was drinking her sippy with milk getting ready for a nap. He had done it for me. I am so grateful that he did. She is doing great with them. She throws a little fit sometimes about it, but we haven't gave into it yet so I think officially the bottles are gone.

Family Fun Day

Now that Dave has the afternoons off, we have had some time to spend together as a family. So we have decided to make Wednesdays are Family Fun Day, where we can spend the whole time he is off doing something fun as a family. This week we took Brinlee to McDonald's for her first ice cream cone. She has been doing so good at walking we figured she needed a treat.

First she didn't really like how cold the ice cream was.

Then she liked it better when she used her fingers

Then she wanted to dip a fry in it.

But when it got down to the cone she loved it! She ate the rest all by herself.