Milestones

It seems like nothing and a lot of things have been happening all at the same time around here. I know that doesn’t make sense, but it’s how I feel.  What I mean is nothing "big" has happened. No vacations, births, graduations, visitors to the house...nothing is going on. BUT on the other hand, SO much has happened with the girls in the past few weeks!

#1: Hayden is potty trained!!! She is doing AWESOME and rarely even pees in her pull up at night (we usually put her to bed in underwear). I can’t believe how great she has done for such a young girl! Of course now it annoys me even more that we can’t seem to get rid of the binky. I mean really?! You can pee on the potty and hold it ALL night, but can’t manage to survive without a binky? I dunno, it just seems a little silly to me.

#2: Bryar is mobile.  I wouldn’t really call it crawling yet (more like an army crawl/scoot) but she is SUPER close to real life crawling and can get anywhere she wants to (and she gets there fast!).

#3: Bryar waves. On purpose. As in not just flapping her arms around, but actually smiling and WAVING to say hi.  It makes me happy :)

 

#4: Bryar claps! Man she’s done a lot of stuff lately! She pretty much seems to be big into the imitating these days, which is making is easier to teach her to do things and I love it!

#5: Hayden has learned how to jump. As in off both feet at the same time. Doesn’t seem that exciting, I know, but it’s a developmental milestone and has brought with it a lot of fun, laughs and a little terror, because she now jumps off EVERYTHING. Side tables, bar height chairs, couches, you name it and she is climbing up to jump off.  I’m convinced that she is going to be in the x-games some day because she is such a crazy girl! And slightly fearless. Which in turn scares me to death.

I can’t believe how much the girls are growing up!

On that note, Hayden went to her first official movie! (Technically she’s been to a few, but this was the first one where she was actually supposed to be watching as opposed to snoozing in her baby carseat.) The big feature?! TOY STORY 3! We loved it so much! We saw it in 3D, partly because I think 3D movies are fun but mostly because I wanted to get pictures of Hayden with the ridiculous glasses on!  She did pretty dang good for a first movie experience, except for the part where she choked on sierra mist and proceeded to puke up pop for a bit…that was a rough patch! She also decided she had to pee with 10 minutes left in the movie, but hey, when a 20 month old's gotta go she’s gotta go! She seemed to love the whole movie experience and it was fun for Ben and I to take her out on a little date by herself (Bry stayed with grandma Leffler). 

P.S. I know I said Hayden is probably going to be in the x-games someday, but if that doesn't work out then perhaps gymnastics will be a back up plan: