Happy Halloween!

We have a walker!

Brynn has turned the corner with walking this week! In the past couple of days, she's actually started walking more than she crawls. Now that she has the hang of it, she loves practicing and will walk back and forth everywhere, totally proud of herself.

Ready to pop

It looks like Lil' Dwayne has decided he's not as anxious to join us as Brynn was! I went to the doctor at 36.5 weeks and she told me I was 3 cm dilated, 80% effaced, and she'd be really surprised if I made it to my next appointment. Well, here we are almost 2 weeks later, and there is no sign of him making an appearance very shortly! My fingers are still crossed, but my doctor let me schedule an induction next Monday at 39 weeks if I make it until then. We are so excited to meet him!

36 weeks


38 weeks

17 months old

Our little girl is almost a year and a half! She looks so grown-up to me now.

Brynn has a lot of cute headbands and hairbows, but it's almost impossible these days to get her to keep them in her hair for more than 30 seconds. This week I tried pigtails for the first time to see if they would last longer - so far, she can't pull them out, and I think they look pretty adorable!

At 17 months, Brynn also:
* Loves the Little Tikes cozy coupe that we "trash picked" for her! I saw it out with our neighbors trash and made Dwayne go get it - about 20 clorox wipes later, it was as good as new other than being faded. She loves climbing in the car, shutting the door, getting back out and doing that over and over (and over) again.

* Has an ever-growing vocabulary - I've stopped keeping track of her new words because there were too many! Her favorites still include "Go away!" (learned thanks to Bailey), "Up, please" and "Ucky!"

* Tries to imitate everything we do - including blowing her nose, helping Daddy hammer, doing squats with me (I was trying to encourage the baby to come out!), and combing her hair. She also loves to pull Dwayne's toothbrush out from under the bathroom sink and "use" it. Thankfully she doesn't seem as enamored with mine!

First steps!

Brynn is still taking her time with walking, but has made some big progress over the past couple of weeks. She took her first couple of steps on her own on 9/25, walking from our couch to the ottoman and back a few times. Then last Sunday at our church picnic, she took at least 7 or 8 steps in a row - it was the first time she wore hard-soled shoes and I think that might have helped! She still only walks when she wants to...but we know she can do it!

Little Bears Fan

That's my bed!

I recently fixed a big rip in Bailey's dog bed and put it in the living room. Brynn thinks it is the perfect spot to read her books... Bailey is not so sure he likes sharing.