Juice Drinker?

Libby has never been one to like drinking juice. She's always wanted milk or water but never juice. Well, her preschool takes pictures of the kids at various activities throughout the year and we saw this picture where she clearly has a juice box sitting in front of her.



So we asked her about this juice box without showing her the picture.

Mike: Libby, do you drink juice at school?
Libby: No
Mike: We saw a picture of you with a juice box.
Total silence for about 30 seconds
Libby: I need to see it.

She didn't deny the juice box issue again but didn't say that she drank them either. Then I asked her teacher about it and she does in fact drink juice at school and even asks for seconds of juice at snack time. I just can't believe it. It feels like she's leading a double life at school. :)

Preschool Field Trip

Libby's school went on a field trip to a dairy farm today. Libby told me when I picked her up that they got to flush a really big toilet and that when the cows mooed it was really loud. You can see that she thought it was too much in the picture below. She's on the right side of the picture covering her ears!




She's never far from her friend Piper or her favorite teacher Carlee. Carlee just loves Libby and Libby talks about her all the time.

The farm had only the mommy and baby cows. Libby asked where the daddy cows were and they told her they live at another farm. She then said, "They are at work."

Little and Big

I needed to get a picture of Libby wearing her "Big Sister" shirt and Brynn wearing the "Little Sister" shirt before Brynn outgrows hers. The one picture, Libby looks really really cute but her knees are in the way of her shirt.





Libby has learned to spell her name and we've noticed that sometimes when we spell things we don't want her to know about she then will say them! Last week I told Mike I might take Libby to the m-a-l-l (I have to spell it because she LOVES it there!) and she said, "I want to go to the mall!" WHAT!?! She's 3! We're supposed to be able to use that trick for at least another year or 2! Great, now we have to get more creative. Another night I asked him to take her u-p to p-l-a-y and she said she wanted to go upstairs to play with her toys. I just can't believe it.





Brynn's still just being a cutie. I think she's growing like crazy. She seems so much heavier to me lately. She's starting to fit into some of her bigger clothes which is good because we have a TON of summer stuff in the next size up. She's smiling a lot more and "talking" too.

Big Smiles

Brynn can hold her head up really well now so we pulled out Libby's old Bumbo seat to see how she would do in it. She was able to sit in it pretty well. Libby can't be left out of pictures so here she is "helping".


Brynn is also smiling a lot more and I was able to catch a few today! Believe it or not, but this is a HAPPY girl!

Brynn's 2 Month Check

I forgot to talk about Brynn's checkup in yesterday's post. We went to the doctor for the 2 month check and Brynn is up to 10 lbs which is the 50th percentile and 22 inches which is the 55th percentile. So, she's just an average girl. The good thing is that 12 days before when we left the hospital she weighted 9 lbs 1 oz. and the doctor said she'd like to see her at least at 9.5 lbs for the 2 month check. So she gained 15 ounces in 12 days. I couldn't believe it. She was eating like crazy but I didn't think she'd gained THAT much.

Chicago Trip

Mike had a conference in Chicago last week and the girls and I tagged along. It was nice to get out of town a little bit. We did a little bit of everything. We went to Wrigleyville and walked around Wrigley Field. The Cubs were out of town but Rascal Flatts was doing a sound check for a concert that night so we got to hear them practice while we walked around.






Sleepy little girl

We went to the Chicago Children's Museum one night and Libby got to play.





She caught a fish! (Not a live one.)

Here's Brynn after rolling over yet again. She's getting to be pretty good at it.

Also, while we were in Chicago - Cago as Libby called it - Libby started spelling her name! What a BIG girl we have!!

Rollin'

Brynn has been smiling more and more on cue but we've yet to get a picture of it. She can also roll over. Last night she did it once and I thought it was a fluke but then she did it again. She's 2 months old - Libby didn't roll until 5 months.




Libby encouraged Brynn to roll!


Hey Dad!

Sick Brynn

For those of you who don't know, Brynn had to go to the hospital this week. We went to the doctor on Monday and she didn't like how Brynn looked and wanted to keep her to watch her a few nights. It turned out to be a virus but it was scary anyway. We stayed 2 nights and she seems to be a lot better now. Libby said one really funny thing when got to the hospital - "I'm going to get another new baby sister!!" Um... no...


Brynn's IV in her head


and making faces at Daddy.

We've also taken Libby to a science place in town - think St. Louis Science Center but not nearly as big or cool and not free but not a 2 hour drive... We went one day last week and saw that Curious George was going to be there today so I took Libby to see him and we went with her friend Jude and Piper too. It was really fun.

Libby the Explorer

Libby has been playing "Dora" non-stop lately. She wants to act out the show Dora the Explorer. I'm usually assigned to be Dora, she is usually Dora's sidekick Boots, Mike is usually the bad guy - Swiper the Fox. Even Brynn and Earl get assigned minor roles. She will decide what kind of trip we are going on and then we're off around the house to get wherever it is she wanted to go. We've been trying to get to a waterfall for days now.