Fun in the Snow

Lyla has been sick this week with a 101-102 temperature for 3 days and then broke out with a rash on Friday. She is doing much better today so we decided to go and play in the snow! She liked sledding but wasn't a fan walking around in the snow. We also tried making snow angels! I think we will need to enjoy the snow a little more while it's here.

Enjoy the pictures!

All bundled up with my sunglasses on
Go faster daddy

I like swinging in the winter time too!

Happy 2011!

Happy 2011 and we hope everyone is keeping warm and healthy! Right after the holidays our family got the nice stomach flu one after another that took a week to vanish. I'm glad that is over with now but all the projects I attended to accomplish with my week off didn't get even thought of. I guess there are always weekends!

Christmas:

We had many Christmas's to take part of this year. We started with the Brown family Christmas and celebrated with Matt's parents and brother and fiance.

Uncle Mike, Aunt Nikki and us

In the middle of Christmas week we celebrated with our immediate family so Lyla could open up all of her toys. Once she opened one present, she wanted to play with it an didn't care about the rest. Opening presents took a while but it is exciting to see the look in Lyla's eyes.

Lyla rolling around in all of her new toys!

We then headed down to IL for Christmas Eve at my parents and Christmas Day at my aunt's.

Looking pretty with daddy

Big smile

New cupcake hat

"I see you" That is Lyla's new favorite phrase with daddy.

Family picture Christmas day. We tried and tried to get Ella in the picture but she didn't want to look at the camera!

Lyla playing with her buddy Keira. They were shy with each other at first but were best buds by the end of the day.

We then had Christmas with my parents! Lyla just loved this snowsuit my mom got her. She had to walk around the house in it along with her new cowboy boots she got from Auntie Kristi.

Playing with Auntie Kristi

Lyla also loves her new hooded towel from Uncle Mike and Aunt Nikki. She picks out deer in Matt's magazines and her books so she just loves the deer towel!

After the holidays, we have been relaxing and catching up on sleep. Lyla continues to add more and more words to her vocabuary and has started to count! She loves #'s 3 and 4!

Lyla also got her first haircut from mom! I just trimmed a little off the back and I think I did a great job (at least we don't see how uneven it probably is)! I'm glad Matt was there to assist and keep her occupied. It's definitley hard to keep a 21 month old to sit still!

Matt and I also had a date night on Saturday while grandma and grandpa Brown watched Lyla. We did a movie and dinner and it's surprising how crazy it is to sit at dinner and not have to worry about Lyla. We will need to do more of this before baby #2 comes!

Updates at the Brown household

We wanted to show off our babies:

Baby #1

Baby #2

Baby #3

As you can see we will be adding another bundle of joy to the Brown household next year! I just had my 10 week appointment last Friday and she confirmed that I was 10 weeks along. Being nauseous, getting many headaches, and being plain exhausted is the fun I've been feeling lately but we are sooooo excited for the next baby. I'm due July 15th and I feel time will fly by.

That's our big news before Christmas! We hope everyone will have a Merry Christmas this week!

Winter Wonderland

We woke up to a winter wonderland this morning. The snow started coming Saturday afternoon through lunch on Sunday. It's supposed to be bitter cold at the beginning of the week so we won't be playing outside anytime soon! Maybe next weekend!

Lyla continues to add more words to her vocabulary everyday. I can't even keep track what words she has started to say! I'm trying to teach her colors and she is starting to say blue and yellow but course on her own terms! Her favorite thing to do is to read her animal books and make all the animal noises. Her favorite is the lion. I need to get this on video some day! She decided she didn't want to learn farm animals yet but instead learn other animals like tiger, bear, monkey, bird, snake, dog, kitty and etc! Whatever makes her happy.

Lyla also continues to be such a little helper. She definitely gets upset with you if you don't let her help you do some chores around the house. I hope this keeps up when she gets older!

Enjoy the pictures!

Lyla trying on momma's shoes

Sitting with daddy and his buck

Being a stinker

I guess this is how she wants to play with her new toy! What a monkey!

All ready to go outside!

Looking cute in my new bunny hat!

Now trying on daddy's boots!

All I have to say is "wow"

I think this video says it all! I guess our little girl can get out of anything she wants to!

November is Here!

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween last weekend. Lyla dressed up as a Brewer Cheerleader and had pigtails and pompoms to show! We went into my office last Friday for our Halloween potlock and to show off our costumes. I ended dressing up as a scarecrow which I believe I've been for a few years now! I love recycled costumes!

Since this was the first time we had trick-or-treaters at this house, I wanted to make sure we had enough candy to go around. I guess I overestimated b/c I believe we only went through 3/4 of a bucket and we have at least 3 buckets of candy left! I guess I will know better for next year!

Here is Matt carving our pumpkins and Lyla drawing below. Matt thought of a easy/fast way to carve with his Dremel tool and they turned out really well. We just don't know where they went after Halloween...they disappeared from our front step the night after!

Pretty girl with long blonde hair

I found Lyla in the laundry room, just sitting on our shoes and smiling! I'm glad I got a quick snap before she got up!

My crafty scarescrow and our pumpkins.....does he scare you?

All dressed up!

Getting candy ready for the trick-or-treaters

Showing off the food in my mouth!

Today Lyla and I are just hanging around home before I head off to Chicago for Kristi's b-day weekend! Lyla gets to spend some quality time with daddy!

Showing off my pretty blues

First time in a ponytail!

19 Months Old Today!

Our little sweet pea is 19 months old today! She continues to be an active and a happy girl.

I forgot to include in the last blog about Lyla's 18 month appointment. She is measuring at 32 inches tall (50%) and 22 lb 1 oz big (20%). The doctor thought she would be a tall and lean little girl.

Some tidbits about Lyla:

• She now has 10 teeth but we are figuring more are coming. She has been a little cranky lately and has been biting on various objects lately. I can say "teething now" but we probably won't see a tooth pop through for another month!
• Words she has been saying for a little while are "thank you" (only on her own terms), "uh oh" (if she drops something), "ow" (if she hurt herself), "mine" (oh does she love that word), "mil" for milk, "no no" along with pointing when Ella or someone is doing something they shouldn't, and she has been saying the other kids names at daycare as well.
• She loves to scribble and color! We really haven't been giving her crayons to play with since everything still goes in her mouth but I broke in and picked some up with coloring books. We will see if the whole house gets a makeover!
• Knows more of her body parts like fingers and toes. We are working on arms and legs right now.
• Still very shy to strangers and will just stare at you if you are taking to her. Every once in a while she will go up to a stranger and try to be their friend!
• She typically is a good little eater. She still loves her peas for veggies and peaches, pears, apples and applesauce for fruit. She also has been eating better at dinner which is nice I don't have to keep feeding her peanut butter and jelly!
• She is transitioning to one nap at daycare but still naps twice a day over the weekend. She has only been napping around 1 hour/day for our sitter and is typically cranky when I pick her up which shows she is a tired little girl. Hopefully she will get out of this stage soon and either take a longer nap or continue to nap twice like she is doing for Matt and I.

I think that is about it! Have a great Sunday.