bri baby

its been awhile since i have bragged/updated on my little girl.

she is almost a year! can you believe it?!?

we seriously cannot.

remember when she was born and she looked like this?

cute as a button.

december 17, 2010

 now she is basically a grown-up.

check it out.

enjoying her snacks with her cheesy grin.

 she drinks out of a straw now and everything.

she is an awesome little eater and thinks she needs to be enjoying whatever we are having.

this is why my house is always messy.

 my girl knows exactly where her toys are and thinks they need to be spread out for her to have access to them all the times.

she will have had nothing to do with them for an hour but as soon as i start to put them away she has to get them back out.

cheesy grin.

sometimes when i tell her to smile she gives me the funniest faces. 

she cracks us up so much!!

ps...i made that bag. its my new diaperbag and i love it so much and am super proud of it. 

hence the picture. 

it is not unusual at our house to walk around with a little brielle attached to our leg.

 she wants to know everything that we are doing and really wants to help.

and she really loves her daddy.

you should see her light up when he comes home from work.

and you should also see her daddy light up when she lights up. 

its my favorite part of the day. :)

she loves emptying things. LOVES IT!

 she empties everything in our house. 

her drawers, our drawers, kitchen drawers, bathroom drawers, the dishwasher, the diaper bag, her toy bin, the list goes on and on.

this keeps her occupied for most of the day.

also she loves kneeling and squatting right now and i love that!

she loves getting herself in precarious situations.

 she is always getting stuck somewhere. 

usually because she is trying to get somewhere she is not supposed to be.

and she is also always shutting herself in rooms. haha.

she loves opening and closing doors, but gets really cranky when she closes it all the way and cant open it again. frustrating, right?

bahahahahahah!

 emptying another drawer.

she makes her mom and dad laugh alot.

filling up a drawer. these clothes all used to be in a basket waiting to get folded and put away. where is that girls mother? honestly.

bri will walk with you while you hold her hand, but she has absolutely no desire to do it on her own yet. and she is a good little walker too. but as soon as you let go, she lowers herself right to the ground.

she is stubborn like her dad.

she also talks constantly.

no actual words yet, but something is always coming out of her mouth.

when bobby and i get separated in the store, we can always find each other cause whoever doesnt have brielle can hear her gabbing.

she claps.
waves goodbye,
dances,
and blows kisses.

and in the past couple of weeks we have also been working on bri learning to go to bed by herself.

ever since the day she was born i have rocked that girl to sleep.

im sure some people are judging me right now, but im okay with that. 

i have reasons for doing this, like living in an apartment and not wanting to disturb neighbors by letting her cry herself to sleep.

but mostly it was because my girl is a snuggler. i loved it.

now she goes to bed all by herself. doesnt even cry. 

bobby makes fun of me because i secretly kind of hate it.

she is getting too big.

brielle is the greatest adventure of our lives so far.

and if i could do it all again, i would pick this adventure every single time.
:)