To be 2

Our little 'Boo Boo' (Hadley's affectionate name for Bryndel) has been changing daily.  Two is such a miraculous age!  Sure, 'terrible' at times, but absolutely terrific most of the time.  From her innocent curiosity, to her incessant 'why' questions, to her enthusiasm for e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g, we love having her around! 

She wants nothing more than to be, and do, and go where ever her big sisters are (including out into the cold snow)!  And, bless their hearts, they let her join them just about every time, unless it involves their special lego creations. 

She would also like to be her big sisters as well.  Some little girls might walk around in their mom's heels, but Bryndel routinely sneaks around in her sisters' shoes and even their clothes :)  

With that said, I think she also realizes what a sweet gig she has when those big sisters head off to school each morning... Calling me 'buddy', and happily talking about "Hadee Pipawl sool."  Translation = Hadley & Piper are at school, so we can be buddies, Mom!  At least until they come home and build me cool forts, let me glue things, and read to me, then THEY are my real buddies :). I have also done my best to turn her into my coffee buddy; it's just so much more fun when you have someone to share a cup with.

Our mornings seem to be filled with coffee, reading books, laundry, and finding a project she can get her hands dirty while doing :)  I thought painting with a lego would be SO cool, but why paint with a lego when you have hands?  Duh!

She's also a really great helper in the kitchen - getting the girls' lunches ready each day, making up their water bottles, or licking the batter off the mixer :)

I took her shopping the other morning dressed like this, and the checkout gal told me I had my very own 'Cindy Lou Who' :).  I think we do!

Bryndel is also blessed by the time she gets two mornings a week with Kyle. Nothing lights up her little face like a 'Daddy Date' :)


















Right around Bryndel's 2nd birthday at the end of August, I started to get a little anxious about her lack of complete words.  She had a lot of sounds that I knew what they meant, but she did not have any consonant-vowel-consonant words that others might understand.  Hadley & Piper went off to school... and Bryndel's language literally exploded! She routinely strings three, four, and even up to seven words together to make herself known.  She has also since begun to refer to herself as Me & I, vs. 'Na Na' like she had for so long.   And much to my chagrin, her sweet little words are very 'fronty'.  Her K & G sounds are produced at the front of her mouth as Ts & Ds instead.  In addition, that little 'fronty' tongue really really likes to stick out of her mouth for an awesome lispy TH sound instead of Fs, Ss, Zs, Shs, Chs, and Js, hehehe.  I think I just might have my work cut out for me!  With that said, her speech could not be any cuter or sweeter.  We adore having this two year old around.  And can't wait to hear what she has to say next.