Brie Update

If I could sum up Brie's most recent developments I would say.....TALKING.ALL.THE.TIME!!!!!

She says anything and everything, putting 3-4 words together, basically talking in full sentences.  It really kind of seemed like it happened over night.  She went from sometimes putting 2 words together, to stringing together multiple in the course of a few weeks.  She starts almost everything with 'a'; so any sentence or many words she puts an 'a' in front.  Some of the phrases or words we hear the most are:

• 'A fall down' - Anytime she falls or anything drops this is said, usually numerous times. 
• 'Under da bridge' - loves to walk under our legs, or under anything and says it is a bridge
• 'A baby' - loooooves her baby dolls
• 'Me watch George' - its really the only show she watches, Curious George, thank goodness there are numerous seasons on Netflix!  

There is just so much talking, it is non stop all day long.  If you ask her to say a word she doesn't know, she will either take a stab at it or just say 'yeah' if she thinks it is took hard. I guess with how big of talkers both Alec and I are I should not be surprised she is a little motor-mouth!

When we have people over, she usually takes a little bit to warm up.  But usually after a rather short period of time she is hamming it up and showing off! 

We seem to be over the awful sleeping thing.  Just recently things have calmed down and we are all getting much more sleep!  No more having to sleep in her room, no more getting up in the middle of the night screaming, and she goes down pretty easy for both naps and bedtime.  AMEN!  That was a rough 6 weeks that I do not care to ever repeat.  But I am glad we didn't do anything drastic and just let her work through it on her own timing. 

When she is mad she does what we call 'Bull-Eyes'; where she furrows her eyebrows and squints her eyes.  So we all say 'put your bull eyes away!'.  Well she has started doing this funny thing where we mimic her face, and go from 'bull-eyes' to 'happy-eyes' and back and forth as fast as she can.  It is seriously hilarious.  I should get a video, but here are some pictures of each. 

Bull-Eyes:

Happy Eyes:

We are outside quite a bit, especially with all the garden picking I have been doing recently.  She tends to just go from one thing to the next, comes in a checks in on me every once in a while in the garden.  She doesn't really like going in the garden, the plants rub on her and she tends to get yelled at for stepping on plants.  

20 Weeks

Half way (ish) through this pregnancy already!  Some days I can't believe how fast it is going, and other days I feel like it is still a REALLY long ways off.

I have been feeling the baby move much more recently now, we are all set on the name, and I made our 'To Do Before Baby List'!  The list is pretty ambitious but I think we can accomplish it.  It includes a few more house projects, such as getting new carpet in the two bedrooms downstairs, painting the guest room, and painting the master bathroom. 

Here is our little peanut at the ultrasound Friday.

 The belly is growing and growing!

Mike and Allyson's Wedding

The highly anticipated day of Mike and Allyson's wedding finally arrived!!!  Everything went great, we got amazing pictures (obviously, it was my mother in law taking them!), and everyone had a great time! 

We started the day off at 0900 at the church for hair and makeup.

(Of course had to start the day off right with Starbucks!)

 

Our fearless leader!  Put up with all the craziness all day long! Including dodging rain drops, an uncooperative toddler, and huge wedding party that struggled to pay attention.....

Such a gorgeous dress....and here is a little money saving tip for those getting married out there......she borrowed it!

Just like Alec and I's wedding day 6 years ago, it was raining.  Thankfully not near as bad as it did then, we were still able to go outside intermittently and get some pictures.  We just alternated outside and indoor pictures at the church, it actually worked out perfect!  The original plan was to head to Calvin College to take some pictures with their great landscape, but we nixed that since the weather was so on and off.  It actually turned out great though because this way we had tons of timing and there was no pressure for timing, we got lots and lots of indoor and outdoor pictures. 

Quick getting Briezy ready before our family pictures.  She did ok....didn't really want to smile or pose for pictures.  

Love my sister :)

Brie LOVES her  'Auntie' and 'Mikes'  (especially Uncle Mike....she is going to miss her housemate!)

The ceremony was gorgeous and so wonderful, Mike's brother-in-law is a pastor and married them. 

We did bubbles on the way out, which really lead to some cool pictures!

We stopped at the river inbetween the ceremony and reception to take a couple pictures, and they turned out great! 

A fun way to celebrate our 6 year anniversary!

4th of July Party!

We had our 2nd annual 4th of July party here at our house!  The weather was amazing, it wasn't too hot but still warm enough to swim.  Everyone had tons of fun!

 The classic 4 stacker!

Mark and  Emily and their dog-baby, Tyson.  He is never too far from them!

Jenna found her own person pool.

Baby DeLange at 17 weeks & Baby Nagy at 22 weeks!  Can't wait for these little stinkers to play together!

My niece, Claire, broke her leg the beginning of the summer :(  But thank goodness for a water proof cast!

Brie had slept for a really long time for her nap, and then woke up super clingy....turns out she had a temp of 102 and felt awful.  She perked up a little after some drugs, but it was a rough few days.  Poor muffin.  

The grill master strikes again!

Brie was LOVING playing with Aunt Sarah, lots of giggles.  

Helping Uncle Jordan fling the frisbee

Even Josie 'enjoyed' the fun :)

Our delicious treats!