Toddler Fracture

We've had a pretty rough 2012. There's been a lot of illnesses, injuries, and bills adding up. On the bright side it can only get better :)

The end of January I was babysitting for a friend at her house when Brooklyn and her friend Reya went outside to jump on their trampoline. I was watching the whole time and Brooklyn got on jumped up once. landed, and fell forward screaming. I saw the jump so I didn't think anything of it. She was yelling for me to come. I had to put Avery down so I told her I'd be there in just a sec. Then the way she sounded I got scared and thought I was going to go out and see her legged snapped in half. I ran out and it looked fine. I carried her in and laid her on the couch. She stayed there the rest of the time watching everyone play. When we got home I laid her on my bed with a movie. Still not thinking it was serious. She didn't walk the rest of the day or the next two. She asked me one day if I would lay her in her bed and then play with her toys so she could watch! :) I would say that we should take her in, but then we kept thinking she'll be fine the next day. She started crawling around when she wanted to go somewhere. We bribed her with ice cream and chocolate if she would walk to us, and still no. That was a big sign! She started walking with a limp. Finally I took her to McDonald's to see if she would go play on the play place. She loves that. She started running to it and when she landed on her left leg she fell. So I called the Doc and took her right in. I felt bad I'd waited 6 days to go in, but the Dr told me a story about his daughter and how she had a broken arm for 10 days before he finally took her in for x rays. That is much worse, he's a doctor! :) Anyway we had x rays taken which showed swelling, but couldn't see a fracture. He said 40% of the time in kids it doesn't show up. He felt that she still had a toddler fracture, but said to just watch her over the weekend and if she was still limping we had to see the Orthopedic Specialist. We had to go see her and long story short Brooklyn got to sport a fun purple cast for 3 weeks.
She thought it was cool until we wouldn't take it off for her to go to bed. It took her 2 weeks to sleep through the night without waking up. It had to have been so uncomfortable for her. I also felt bad because the cast was slightly angled so she walked on her toes the whole time. I thought she was going to have a major calf muscle.
Last Thursday we went and had the cast cut off. The nurse told her the machine was going to be super loud and would tickle not hurt. Brooklyn was very brave and laughed through the whole time. It was so funny. Her face was so red from laughing hysterically. It was more of a nervous laugh, like she was told it was going to tickle so she didn't know what else to do. :)

Purple cast.

Showing her cast off.

 Leaving to get the cast off! She's got her other boot ready :)

 The nurse explaining what she's going to do.

 She wanted to hold my hand. She's laughing, not crying.

 Laughing.

 Prying it open.

 So happy to have it off.

 Examining her leg.

 Now checking out the cast. She then said "Ewe stinky!" :)

 Going to the hot tub to celebrate with daddy!

(Avery was sick so I stayed in.)

"Baby Fire" Brooklyn's Adele Cover

Brooklyn watched a little of the Grammys with us and a week later we were getting ready for church and heard her singing. We grabbed the camera and let her perform. She was singing Adele's Rolling in the Deep nonstop. She calls it Baby Fire. She doesn't have the words down, but she's got the tune that impressed us. What was really impressive to us was she has only heard that song one time during the Grammys! :) She's promised to take me as her plus one when she's there someday for herself!

There were many videos taken, but I'll spare you and only post these 2.

She was so funny. She announced who she was and what she was going to be singing, and when she was done she would say, "I'd like to thank....." :) What a goof ball.

This video she was making up her own words.

She's a Walker!

We recorded this video on Valentines, but she actually started taking a couple steps a week earlier. I walked into the room one day and Avery was standing in the middle of the room and took 3 steps towards me. I texted Bryant. He didn't want me to incourage it so that way he could watch. I'm so blessed to be able to stay home with my girls. I don't know how the dad's do it going to work everyday.

*Sorry we didn't realize the camera fell for a little bit. You can still see her feet though :)
*Also Dad if you watch this I've turned into you. I pushed Brooklyn away! They have a video of my little sister walking between my parents and he keeps yelling, "Go away Kate." :) Now I get it, ha ha

Valentines 2012

Our Valentines Day did not go at all how I had planned. Didn't have an ingredient for the breakfast I had planned. Didn't get back from grocery shopping and the errands I needed to do for the evening in time to do the lunch I wanted. But it was a great day overall. I LOVE my little family!

Brooklyn picked out a donut from the grocery store for breakfast.

 During the day Brooklyn had fun writing in Valentines for her grandparents and she made Valentines for her cousins (sorry guys they haven't made their way to the mail box yet :( but real soon, promise!) While she was busy with that I made Bryant a homemade Angel Food Cake. He really loves that, and I thought it would be a great Valentine to him. 

Brooklyn makes Bryant dance with her almost daily. He's always having to dress up and take her to the ball :) He's such a good daddy to play along with her. We found a cute Valentine with that very thing as a pop up scene. She could not wait for him to get home from work to give it to him.

 As soon as he walked in she forced him to open her Valentine.

 Showing him the chocolate.

 She is very affectionate :)

 Avery got yummy yogurt melts and Brooklyn got a tin of M&M's and the candy hearts.
But....

 Daddy also got them a little Nike sweatsuit.
(I didn't know about this)

 Cute Aves with her Valentines.

 Bryant gave these to me. Way too much! The reason he did this is because I had an unexpected tooth accident and racked up a major dentist bill a couple days before my bday. I was going to spend my birthday money on those shoes, but instead whatever I got went straight to the dentist. Bryant knew I really wanted them and things only stay in the employee store for so long and he worried they would be gone. It took a little bit to convince me to keep them, I'm glad he did. So sweet thank you!!!


 This was our dinner with jello hearts.


 She didn't know what to think of this.


 Trying it...

 and I'm pretty sure she loved it :)


 Brooklyn also loved them.

 The Angel Food Cake, YUMMY!

Valentine Photoshoot

The Valentines the girls got for Bryant wasn't anything big, but cute. It was a cute little brown box with pink hearts. In the box was a bag of miniature Reese's peanut butter cups. The box had a slit where you could put a photo. I though it would be super cute to have a picture of the girls. I dressed the girls thinking it would be really easy to snap a photo of them. HA, NOT! I thought I'd share the pictures with everyone.

This is the cute Valentine for daddy.

The process to get that cute Valentine:

The shoot got started on a bad note. Brooklyn wanted to hold Avery, and she didn't want her too.

I can never get them both to look at the camera!

The one I went with.

Then when they are actually looking someones hands are up.

This would have been my favorite.

Avery's hands :)

Avery didn't want to stay on the couch anymore.

I thought we could have Avery on the chair and Brooklyn behind her and it would work really well. Brooklyn was excited and Avery hated it!

So I decided back to the couch and we'd do it super fast. But Avery did not want Brooklyn by her.

I don't know why, but I just love this picture. I love the look Avery is giving Brooklyn. This was actually her warning to Brooklyn. 

If Brooklyn touched her she started to cry.

Sweet sister wiping away her tears.

DO NOT TOUCH ME!

Avery grabbed Brooklyn's hand off her chest and threw it over her shoulder. It was so funny!

You can clearly see the snotty nose, but she had streams of tears down her cheeks. :(

So we moved on to individual pictures, and even then I couldn't get her to look at me.

She's happier.

There are sooooo many more pictures I could put on her. It was super hard getting a picture. I am not cut out to be a photographer! But one picture worked well so I'm happy. Plus I have to admit it was really funny to watch Avery freak out at Brooklyn. :)

Brooklyn's first Primary talk.

So much has happened since the last time I posted on my blog. I hope to go back and fill in, but I want to just skip to yesterday first.

Brooklyn was asked to give a talk in Primary. She was so excited. 8 months ago my mom, Bryant, and I gave talks in Sacrament and ever since then Brooklyn has wanted to give "her talk". We tried back then having Bryant help her during testimony meeting, but it didn't go so well. She was not ready. However yesterday she was totally up for it. When we practiced at home she didn't want help. She wanted to give her own talk. :) I was a little worried how it would actually go. I wasn't able to be there due to Avery being sick. It made me very sad. So I sent our camera with Bryant and told him to do what he had to to get the video. I might say that I'm one of those crazy mom's who can't let their babies go, and I am ok with that! :) 

So here it is....

I'm Back!!!

Okay so I never went anywhere, but I somehow got busy (or lazy) and haven't kept up on my blog. I am happy to say that I am back to making an effort! It's not only basically my scrapbook, but the easiest way for our families to stay caught up on our lives since we don't live by them.

If I begin to slack again, feel free to say or do anything to me to make me feel bad and get back to it!