Brinley's two year old update

Now that Brinley is two, I wanted to write a little bit about what she does in this stage of life, mostly for my benefit so I won't forget.

Brinley is very fun and very busy. She has discovered her independence and is running sometimes a little to wild with it. She loves to color and write in notebooks. We are working VERY hard to teach her that she only writes on paper, not things like walls, wood tables, and our leather couch. Yes she drew all over my leather couch last week with a blue pen, still a touchy subject for me so I'll move on. She is SUPER social! Everyday she asks if she can play with friends and go to nursery. When we are at the store she always waves and asks people "how you doing?" Needless to say we make a lot of friends in public.

Her favorite toys right now are her slide, rocking chair, blocks, and baby dolls.
She also is obsessed with Winnie the pooh. She has a little stuffed Pooh bear that we have to take with us where ever we go. She also loves watching him on T.V.

Another thing she is BIG into right now is singing! This girl sings all day long. Her usual songs include popcorn popping, rock a by baby, the Winnie the pooh theme song, five little monkeys, and as of late the song "popular" from wicked. Last week our primary had a talent show so we took Brinley to it and one of the older girls sang "popular" from wicked. Brinley had never listened to the song before, but she was glued while the girl sang it. After the show and we were home, I was putting her to bed. Usually I sing her church songs before she goes to sleep, but when I started singing "I love to see the temple" she stopped me and said "I don't want church songs, I want popular song." So everyday since then we listen to popular at least five times a day.

A few other random things she does that I want to remember is she has become a major negotiator. Whenever I tell her it's time to leave somewhere she looks at me and says "only 5 more minutes." Or if she wants a treat she'll say "I just want one, just one." After I give it to her she comes back two minutes later and says "only one more mom, only one!" If I go in a room to check on her and she is doing something that she knows she's not suppose to do, she says to me "Go Mom Go, go out of the room." I guess she thinks she'll get away with it if I'm not there.

I honestly don't know what Greg and I did before we had this little monkey. She keeps us on our toes like most toddlers do, but we sure love her and love watching her personality develop.

This was the first time she ever fell asleep in a random part of our house. The only place she has ever fallen asleep is her bed or the car.


Here she is singing.


Here she is building one of her tall tall towers.


Eating a cupcake at her birthday party.


Rocking in her new rocking chair.