Cooking with Chef Bryn

With Brynley, pretend play is where it is at right now. She loves her play kitchen, dressing up, cleaning, and acting like a froggie or a doggie. She often asks us to tie a baby blanket around her shoulders to she can be a "superhero". One day she asked me to put the blanket in on her head and she was calling it her "hair"!

Here's Chef Bryn cooking in her kitchen with her long blanket hair. Roman was patiently waiting for some of the pretend food and then he started gnawing on a starfish instead. Photos taken 1/10/12.

January Spring

Thank you, God, for January days that feel like Spring!

Things to remember - Roman

Slept through the night once (sat, jan 28) until 7am or so!!

Usually wakes up 2-3 times a night between 7pm and 8am

Takes two naps, but they aren't very long or consistent...9am-ish and 1pm-ish

Lunges at your plate of food when you hold him

Got his first tooth around the end of December...he was working on it for WEEKS! It is the bottom front left. Now the bottom front right is coming in.

Blue eyes!!

Army crawling EVERYWHERE. Gets in dog's water dish, chews dad's shoelaces...he is into everything!!

Says "mamamamamama" (loves his mama!)

Good at bathtime

Has that killer dimple!

An interview with Brynley

This interview took place on Thursday, January 19, 2012. Commentary that I've added is in red.

Favorite color: "yellow" - funny, I'm not sure she even OWNS anything that is yellow.

Favorite animal: "horsey"

Favorite food: "toast" - i don't really think so; it just happened to be what she was looking at during our breakfast interview...haha

Favorite drink: "red juice" - juicy juice 100% juice fruit punch

Favorite TV show: "Mickey Mouse" - as in Clubhouse. She's only been watching it for two days!

Favorite song: "A, B, C, D, E, F, G, K..." - she sang the whole song with some missing letters. For example, H-I-J (always)


Favorite thing in the whole wide world: "place" - not sure she understood the question!

Favorite toy: "Elephant" - Elefun game

Favorite book: "Doggies" - by Sandra Boynton

Happy Boy!

Mommy trying to practice her photography skills

Roman posing (above)

Ummm...ya, that is dog hair on his chin and a crusty clogged tear duct eye. Just keeping it real!

I love you too, Roman Bear, more than you'll ever know!

Goofy

Brynley got some dress up clothes for Christmas...including this funny wig. Isn't she cute?!?

Seven months old

Dear Roman,
You are already seven months old! Then again, you are ONLY seven months old! I can hardly remember what life was like before you joined our little family. Your smile, and that dimple, melt my heart every day. You have the greatest belly laugh. You think your sister is the funniest thing!

At seven months old, you:

• weigh 15 lbs 6 ozs
• are getting very close to crawling. You army-crawl, scooch, twist, roll, and turn to get where you want to go
• eat spinach, peas, green beans, bananas, apples, pears, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, carrots, prunes...
• still have beautiful blue eyes
• sleep from about 7pm to about 7am with a few wake-up times in between
• take two naps a day...the first at 9am
• are cutting your first tooth...and the second doesn't seem far behind (bottom two front)
• babble, make all kinds of funny noises with your mouth
• cry when I leave the room
• pull hair! OUCH!
• love your toys...especially your steering wheel, duck, and roly poly ball

I love you, sweet baby boy!!