Arboretum and 15 month check up

A few weeks ago we met up with our friends, Jill and Isaac, at the Arboretum. It was a beautiful day and the kids had a great time! The great pumpkin festival was still in full swing so there was lots of playing with pumpkins!

Such nice kiddos sharing pumpkins with each other!

Brooklyn couldn't believe how big these pumpkins were!

A little posing outside the entrance

Posing in front of some mums

A house of pumpkins!

Look how excited those kids look to be taking another picture!

Brooklyn also had her 15 month check up a few weeks ago. She's still a light weight and "average" height (sure!) according to the doc. And is still in the 90th percentile for head circumference. I blame Greg! She's doing so much new stuff lately. Our new words include bubbles, pop, puppy, thank you and oh wow! She's learning sign language faster than I can look up new words! She likes to use all the words she knows at once if she really wants something. So you'll get please, thank you, more, all done all at once. She's a bubble blowing machine, loves to jump and go on walks, still takes 2 naps a day and sleeps almost 12 hours at night (I love it!), loves giving hugs and kisses to Mommy and Daddy and still has 3 teeth! I think that's all for now! We're looking forward to the amazing weather this weekend and a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Gymboree

So a couple months ago we bought a Groupon for 4 weeks at Gymboree. I took Brooklyn to one of the play classes a few weeks ago and was a little disappointed because I felt like we could do the same stuff at the mall play area or at the park. I also peeked in on the music class and it was very similar to what we do at the library. But there was one more class that they offer and it was an art class so I thought it might be something we could try. Too bad you have to be 18 months to participate and the Groupon expires at the end of the year. So Brooklyn's birthday was moved up 3 months and we went to our first class today! She did amazing! See for yourself!

The teacher picked out green and pink for Brooklyn to paint with. She was very impressed that this was Brooklyn's first time painting!

We had to get an extension put on for Miss 90th percentile!

Mommy did the gluing and Brooklyn did the feather coloring.

She painted this turkey using a feather and then shook some glitter on!

We also played with cornmeal which took Brooklyn a minute to get in to. She kept brushing off her hands when she touched the cornmeal. Eventually she started playing with the toys and not worrying about getting her hands dirty. We played with Play-Doh for the first time too! What a wonderful experience! I'm getting ideas for art projects at home. Apparently Brooklyn is ready for some!

Gracias, Tia Katie!

Thanks for my beautiful rosary! This is how I like to wear it! I walked around with it on all day! Thank you for remembering the first anniversary of my Baptism! I hope I get to go to Italy one day too!

UT vs. Baylor game

We went down to Austin this weekend for the UT football game. We took 2 delicious breaks at the Czech Stop in West on the way down! Despite the good guys losing, we had a great time at the game. Brooklyn loved looking over the railing at the band. Any time they were on the field, she was leaning over to get a better look. She also read the program to see how both teams were looking. She fell asleep after A LOT of pacing in the hallways and was able to get some sleep in the car on the way back. We got in around 2:30 Sunday morning and she started stirring at 6:30 and finally woke up at 7:45. I miss those weekends of sleeping in!

We were able to meet up with some of Greg's old roommates and college friends who live in Waco and Austin while we were down there. We pointed out Austin landmarks to Brooklyn as we crept along stuck in Austin traffic. Overall it was a nice, quick getaway weekend. Thanks for inviting us down again, Ryan!

Happy Halloween!

We took Brooklyn to the neighborhood Halloween party last night and then we went to a nursing home close by to go trick-or-treating. She figured out pretty quickly that getting candy from strangers was an awesome thing! She started holding out her hand for more by the end! Then we came home and handed out candy to the little kids (No one in their teens, driving around in a car or carrying a trash bag to collect candy should be trick-or-treating in my opinion! I know I sound like an old lady, but I don't care!) OK, back to cute babies on Halloween! Here are pictures that I took with Brooklyn today. She has the best faces when she runs down hills!