My birthday getaway

For my birthday Curtis surprised me and said he wanted to go to St. George.
Friday we drove down. It is was a pretty good drive, except when we got a ticket from the not very friendly police officer. (In our defense Brooklyn had just told us she needed to go potty, and the speed limit down there switches so much it is hard to keep it straight, but the officer didn't ask us why were speeding or anything like that like they usually do, and I had just told Curtis he probably needed to slow down-a millisecond before we passed the cop...grrrr anyway, that was the least fun part of the trip.)

We checked into our hotel and went to a pizza place to eat.

  

  

 

And swam in the pool a lot (Brooklyn LOVES the pool!) 

And she loves being the "teacher" for Curtis and I and showing us how to do things (she was showing Curtis how to kick)

We tried In and Out Burger for the first time, then Curtis watched Brooklyn while I got to shop at the outlets. We went to Chile's for my "Birthday Dinner" because I love their Cajun Chicken Alfredo Pasta, and the Molten Lava cake. 

We even went through Zion's! (None of us have ever been before.) It was so amazingly beautiful! 

 Brooklyn's favorite thing was throwing rocks in the river.

On our way home-snacks and sleep!

It was a very fun b-day getaway! 

Horse, dolls, and dance

 

Brooklyn riding her bouncy horse with her hula-hoop lasso and chocolate mustache. 

 

Brooklyn loves to line up her Polly Pockets, Princesses and Barbies by or on her toy box...

  

 

 

Using the bar at dance class

Brooklyn loves to dance!

Baby teeth, eyes, blanket and grammer

Brooklyn thinks it is so funny to call daddy "mommy" and when she does that Curtis teases her by calling her "baby." The other day Brooklyn told Curtis "You can't call me baby because babies don't have any teeth and I have teeth."
Good reasoning for a 3 year old...I think she will probably be a detective or a lawyer one day. =)

Today in church Brooklyn was looking at my eyes and I guess I looked away and she asked "Do your eyes move mommy?" And I said "Yes!" Apparently that is a little known fact. Then she started seeing what other parts of her head would move (eyebrows, nose, lips, tongue...)

Last night Brooklyn found a pretty small blanket in her closet and insisted she needed to put it on (in addition to her regular bigger blanket) when she went to bed. I had to unfold it as much as possible to cover her. A little bit later she yelled for me to come in because her blanket wasn't covering her any more. Then a while after that she was crying and I went in to see what was wrong and she told me "The blanket isn't listening!" Apparently she tried to get it to cover her when it came off again and it just wasn't cooperating. This time however I was a little smarter and told her maybe we should try a different bigger blanket that would "listen" better. That solved the problem. =)

The other day Brooklyn had a friend over and they were playing with a baton and a noisemaker toy and they were pretending they were their "sticks." And I went in to check on them and said something like "Brooklyn got a lot of sticks huh?" to her little friend and Brooklyn jumped in and said "has"  to correct my use of "got." OK I know that is pretty sad when your 3 year has to correct your grammer, but I just was amazed that she knew to correct me! OK maybe she will be an editor or an English teacher instead of a detective or lawyer. =)

Warning-Eating donuts and ice cream can turn you into an orange hair head

Brooklyn after eating her donut (guess what color the frosting was...) 

Brooklyn eating Girls Scout Cookie Ice Cream (not good to have in the house when mommy is dieting...)

 

 What happens if you eat both in one day...

 

 

  

  

You have lots of fun and turn into an orange hair head! 

Playing dress up

Brooklyn dressing up as Tinkerbell (or a butterfly, it keeps changing.)

Wearing some of her beautiful jewelry...

Just a cute picture of Daddy and Brooklyn (even though Daddy is making is making a little bit of a funny face. =)

A few days ago we were looking for Brooklyn's little Cinderella doll (we haven't been able to find her for about a week.) I told Brooklyn we needed to think of the last place we saw Cinderella. Brooklyn's answered "skating on the ice!" Because we saw Cinderella skating at Disney on Ice a couple months ago. =)

Brooklyn suprises us a lot by using words I didn't know she knew. Her new words lately are "complete," "island," and "otherwise." She has also started the "why, why why's" and the "that's not fair."

Have I ever mentioned how much I love being a mom? I really do! Even on the days when Brooklyn fully embraces her age (I believe they are called the "horrible three's") I still know that all too soon she will be all grown up and I will miss her being little! I really do love everything about being a mom. I just hope we can have more children, so I can enjoy it even longer! (And Brooklyn really wants to be a big sister.) 

Arave Family Party 2010

Every year on New Year's Day a member of my mom's family reserves their church and all of my mom's siblings and their families and my grandma go there and have lunch and play bingo and basketball. It was great! Happy New Year!

Brooklyn ate 2 1/2 frosted sugar cookies (by "ate" I mean just the frosting) so she was a happy girl.

Also today, I was telling (not to be confused with lecturing ;-) Brooklyn that a little doll house she had wouldn't fit in her-already full of Polly Pockets and other treasures-baby crib, and she just kept trying to put it in, until finally she said "OK mom, change out."  And I said "What?" And she said "Chill out." My 3 year old told me to "chill out!" OK it was pretty funny, especially when she couldn't remember exactly how to say it and told me to change out. =)