Hair, applesauce, and coloring (but not all at once)

The only way Brooklyn will stand still long enough for me to do her hair is if I let her play in the water in the sink. She calls it "washing" things.


As I mentioned in a previous blog if you ask her to say octopus she always says applesauce, so today we were at the store and they had a cute little octopus for a dollar and I got it for her, and of course she calls it her applesauce. Actually as a side note, now if anyone is laughing at anything she just randomly says "applesauce" because she thinks the word makes people laugh (since we would always laugh when she would say applesauce for octopus.)
(Pretend the first picture of her holding her octopus is one from the late 70's when they used to always put the double image on your portraits...I had the camera setting wrong.)


She also LOVES to color! We have lots of pictures on our fridge. If she really gets going she will just color for an hour or so straight. She is our little artist! (=

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I love to see the temple

Brooklyn's new favorite song is I love to see the temple. She even sings most of the words along with me. She also loves I am child of God, and knows most of the words to that too. Tonight when I was putting her in bed she wanted to hug me while I sang it. That was just one of those wonderful moments that make life so great. (=



Brooklyn also loves Hakuna Matata from the Lion King and goes around singing "It means no worries..." in her cute 2 year old voice.

Daddy's Girl

I realized there are no pictures of Curtis and Brooklyn on here, and there should be since Brooklyn loves her daddy and loves to play with him! She likes it when he gives her shoulder rides, and when they run around the house tickling each other. Every morning when she wakes up she asks me if Daddy is at work, because she wants to see him. If she gets hurt or in trouble she always runs to her daddy. She is just a little daddy's girl!

Moms

I was reading my sister-in-laws last blog entry and she talked about all the "hats" women wear, and it reminded of the study someone did about how much women/mothers would get paid for all the different jobs they jobs they do. I couldn't remember the exact amount they said (somewhere in the 6 digits I know) so I searched online and didn't find the exact study I remembered but I found this website that is supposed to calculate how much you would get paid for all the jobs you do...It is is kind of fun...so all you moms can check it out...although I know we wouldn't trade our families for anything $! ( I think you will have to copy and paste the link, it didn't come across as a hyper-link...sorry)
http://swz.salary.com/momsalarywizard/htmls/mswl_momcenter.html

"I can do it myself!"

So Brooklyn has reached the I want to do it myself stage. One of the things she has started wanting to do herself is get dressed. I took some pictures of this because it is just so cute. When she puts her socks on she pulls them up as far as they will go (the socks aren't really knee highs or thigh highs, they are supposed to be rolled down.) She also thinks it is easier to put both socks on one foot...I guess because when she tries to put the other sock on the other foot it keeps getting caught on her toes, so it is easier to put it on the foot that already has the sock on it, it slides on much easier (you should try it!)

This particular dressing she put her pants on all by herself, and she did great. I even told her there are 2 holes, one for each leg. So I went back to check on her and she had the pants pulled all the way up, with the foot holes as far up her legs as they would go, and the waist of the pants around her ankles. I have to hand it to her she listened when I said one hole for each leg...
She also likes to build really "tall" towers-all by herself (I am not allowed to help.)

And she likes to hide or run away when mommy wants to take her picture.


Random cute things
When we were getting ready to leave the other day Curtis told her to come
tell me she was ready to go and she came to me and instead said "Mommy I'm cute."

Also, whenever she gets dressed and has her hair all done she always wants to show daddy and daddy tells her-"Oh you look so pretty" Or "Oh you look so cute!" So yesterday Curtis was all ready for church and Brooklyn told him "Oh that's cute daddy" (telling him he looked cute in his church clothes too.)

"Why?" and Stickers

Today Brooklyn decided that it was time to start asking "why?" This morning I told her she needed to brush her teeth and she said "why?" and I said so you don't have stinky breath and so you don't get owies (cavities) in your mouth...and she kept saying "why?" She has done that with a couple other things today too. I don't know why (hehe) she started this but for now it is cute...I know that she will only start asking why more now and as time goes by it might not be as cute, but for now I am just enjoying her new "talent."

She also loves stickers, but has decided lately that she doesn't like to put them on paper. It is way more fun to stick them on clothes...mommy's clothes or her clothes (or even Daddy's if he will let her.) Today she decided to stick them all on her shirt (see pictures.) There were probably at least 50 of them.