The Little Things of Brindi

Brindi has really began putting words together and I have learned she has quite the imagination and probably is a lot smarter than I give her credit...here are a few things she has been saying and doing this summer...

• Brindi's first prayer..."bess daddy,mommy...umm... pop-pop,grammy,pop-pop, grandma amen"
• Whenever I tell her something is all gone, her response is "mommy buy more... apple juice or mommy buy more diapers.
• Her favorite songs are Bingo, E I E I O, twinkle twinkle, popcorn and wheels on the bus.
• When it is time for bed she now has to give both of us a kiss on each cheek, a kiss on the lips, and a hug. Whenever she puts her babies to sleep I now have to do the routine too and the babies have to give kisses also
• Last Sunday, Joe and I had just sat down to eat dinner after church and we were calling for Brindi to come and eat. Well, I went to find her and there she was sitting on her potty pooping...Joe and I were floored, anyway, the next day I begged her to just wear underwear and not a diaper, but she cried and screamed. Well after changing her later, I managed to get her to not put a new diaper on and not 30 minutes later, she tells me she has to pee, so I take her up stairs and she pees, again I am surprised because she is so set on wearing a diaper and she hasn't seemed to be able to grasp the concept of peeing. Well after seeing that she knows when she needs to go, I hid all the diapers and it has seemed to do the trick she is now doing pretty well at going potty. Everytime she goes she gives us a high five and bumps fists...and of course she loves her "treats" and never forgets as she claps her hands and says "Yay num nums (yums)" after she goes.
• She loves her babies and does everything a mommy would do, she rocks them, sings to them, puts them to sleep and tries to feed them. We went to the park this week and we forgot her baby, but that didn't stop her from pretending she had one. Everywhere she went that make believe baby went too. It was so funny.
• While at the park, we of course had an accident :). Well I changed her and we ran home because I had to grab something and then we ran back to the park. This time there was a little girl who was playing by where Brindi had had her accident, so Brindi starts yelling "no, no, no, play I poopy, I poopy, yucky, no play"
• She loves to walk around the house calling her cows, she will beep her horn on her play keys and then go "moo cows, moo cows"
• She loves her temple picture from Grandma Lovell and always asks to go to the temple and tells me how gramma, pop-pop, mommy, daddy, pop-pop, and grammy go to the temple.
• She has learned to say skipures (scriptures)and loves her picture scriptures.
• She can't say the "sw" in swim or swing, both of them are "im",but they are her favorite things to do. I am about ready to hid her swimsuit because she wants to wear it everyday and it is becoming a battle.
• Whenever I lay down or say I don't feel good, she tells me "momma's baby hurt".

It's a...

...GIRL!

We are really excited and a little surprised to be having another little girl. This pregnancy has been pretty tough on Celeste, so we thought we were for sure having a boy considering Celeste didn't even know she was pregnant with Brindi because it was so easy. During the ultrasound we kept thinking to ourselves its going to show up any second but nothing ever did. We both thought it would be best to have another girl, a little sister to Brindi. So we are pretty excited about our new addition. Brindi is just excited about the baby. We don't think she understands the differences between a little brother or sister. Now its on to thinking about names. Any suggestions?