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Sunday, July 25, 2010

5 months, Brooklyn 35 months

First of all I can't believe Brooklyn is almost 3. It seems like she gets bigger everyday. Things she is doing now: loves playing with her "kids" her dolls, loves playing with her little dollhouse and blocks, digging in the sand (making a garden), playing school, swimming, reading, painting,dressing in her princess costumes, and anything make believe. It is so fun listening to her talk to herself. She also loves her brother and wants to hug, kiss and climb on him constantly. She took a little tumbling class and loved it. We got passes to Legoland so she really enjoys that.
She is doing really well in the pool and will swim to us without floaties, maybe 5 yards or so. She is so not afraid of the water, but is afraid of waterslides, we are trying to break that.

Brooklyn will start preschool in the fall, her first day will be on her birthday. She is ready for school, she knows all of her capital letters, and most lowercase, she knows numbers 1-10 and can almost count to 20. She can spell her name, Brycen's name, my name and Tom's name. I can't wait to see the gains she gets when she is in school.

Brycen is getting so big, he is looking like a little boy and not a baby. He is rolling over from back to belly... he seems to have forgotten how to roll belly to back. He is almost sitting up, he can sit resting on his hands for a few seconds. He loves the water, we took him in the pool and he was all smiles. He enjoys playing with his toys, putting everything in his mouth, and he LOVES his rainforest Jumperoo. He loves Brooklyn, he smiles and giggles when she talks to him. He is a really happy and easy baby. He went through a rough patch with sleeping and was up every couple of hours for the past month, but this last week has been good, and last night slept 8-4
which was nice. He still is swaddled and was getting out of it everynight but lately has been staying in it which I think has helped with his sleeping. He is taking 2 long naps and a short nap a day. He goes down perfectly once I wrap him up. He smiles at me then you can see his eyes start to roll back. He loves his swaddle. We tried some cereal with him a few weeks ago, he doesn't seem quite ready for it, his tongue still pushes it out so we will wait a few more weeks. I weighed him yesterday on our scale at home and by my calculation he is about 16lbs 9oz and probably 26in.