9 months old

Brooklyn is 9 months old!

Wow.  She is not a little baby anymore.  She is a big baby. 

(Well, she has always been a big baby :))

oops.....she leaned forward and rolled down the hill....and I was too far away to stop her

what she's doing: crawling everywhere, pulling herself up in her crib (I love this and love going in after she wakes up to get her), pulling herself up on all the furniture, playing well by herself for longer amounts of time, waving "hi" and "bye" on command, says "Da da" all day long, gets excited when she sees her mom and dad.

what she likes: her binkie, her blanket, watching baby Einstein, watching Mom - doesn't matter what she's doing, being tickled, being scared (ha ha...this is my new favorite thing about her lately....I'll go out of the room and hide and call for her.  She comes crawling over and I jump out and yell boo! and first she shakes and then starts laughing hysterically), eating other people's food, going on walks in the stroller, riding in the grocery cart at the store, watching other people, bath time.

what she doesn't like: getting dressed - she cries every time I put something over her head - absolutely hates it, water - I have to make her drink water and it usually just ends up all down her shirt, being thrown up in the air - used to love it - now hates it, when something is taken away from her.

And here of course and some more pictures of her...

standing up on the couch....notice she is wearing Christmas pajamas - I bought these before she was born, size 12 months, and that's what size she wears now.  I thought we better get some use out of them in case they don't fit at Christmas.

love my happy girl!

 and I had to post a picture of these boots :)

this is what Brooklyn does...

to stay busy when I work from home 2 days a week.

 - takes off the wrapper and eats a sucker.....

yes I'm bad and let her eat a sucker, but I was watching her the whole time. And she LOVED it.

 - goes through our mail and rips up all the magazines and coupons

 - pulls out each spoon/whisk/spatula/etc. from the yellow tin

 - got in and ate some white peanuts that were in the box her Christmas present came in.....from her Grandma Sorenson

 - goes through all the Ensigns we have

 - opens the entertainment center door and pulls out all the movies

 - pulls the rocking chair on top of herself

 - goes through my make-up drawer and attempts to eat it

She sure is getting more and more busy which I'm not so sure about yet, but she also plays great by herself...so I can't complain.  She is so much fun.

latest snack addictions

Lately I have been addicted to these 2 snacks, one healthy and the other not so healthy...

VEGGIE CRISPS

I LOVE these.  I am shocked that I like them so much because just looking at the bag I think they look disgusting.  One of my friends at work had them one day and I tried them and finished off her whole bag.  They are so, so good.  I went to Costco the next day and bought a big bag for $4.

COOKIES & CREAM CHEX MIX

I saw these at the store the other day and decided to buy them and try them out.  John and I finished off the bag that night.  I think they are even better than the Chex muddy buddy mix, which I also love.

You should give these a try if you haven't already.

she's a movin'

I found this post that I had saved as a draft and just realized I never published it.  This is about 2 months late, but better now then never.

Brooklyn has been scootin' around for a little while now, and I was finally able to snap a few pictures of her in motion.

Here she is going for her cheerio container...

John's Birthday

I have been a slight slacker about blogging lately and need to catch up these next few days. 

First = John's Birthday.

John turned 28 on the 27th of September.

We have been looking lately into getting a backpack carrier for Brooklyn to carry her in when we go hiking or do other things, so that is what John got.  We went to REI and he picked out the one he wanted. 

We tested it out that night by hiking Ensign Peak.

It was a fun night spent together and Brooklyn loved being in the backpack

We are excited to use it more.

Monday night (the night before John's birthday) we had a dinner with just my siblings to celebrate John's, Pete's (the 24th), and Lindsey's (the 25th) birthdays.  We had spaghetti at our house and chocolate cake and ice cream.  (Unfortunately, Pete was unable to come last minute).

 there are 38 candles on that cake.....28 for John and 10 for Lindsey

On John's actual birthday he had school and work all day, but he was able to get off a little early and meet me at Red Robin (his choice) for dinner.  Jeannette watched Brooklyn for us and it was so nice to have the time alone for a couple hours.  We picked up Brooklyn and came home so she could give her presents to John.....a big box of oreos and a case of diet DP :)

Sunday (Conference weekend) - we had the Mortensen side over to celebrate his birthday.  We had hamburgers and hot dogs and John's cute nieces made him a birthday cake.