Happy 4 month!

 Today Brinlee is 4 months old!!

She is getting so big. She had her 4 month shots today and did really great considering it was during nap time. 

She is weighing it at 14lbs. 3oz. (65%)

and 24.5in. tall (65%)

And well that noggin of hers is 16.9in. (90%)

She just keeps growing and growing!

This is her today. 4 months and such a big girl :)

She is good at supported sitting

I thought a comparison post would be fun but I started this last month so most of these she is still 3 months in the "older" ones.

*sorry about the wacky picture placement I was fed up trying to get them where I wanted and just posted it*

Bath time

a much happier experience

Bouncer

Look at that size difference!

Binky

She has graduated to a bigger one

Car seat

She moved to the next level of straps

Sunday Dress

no more newborn dresses

 Tummy Time

from falling asleep to holding her head up

 PJ's

from wee little newborn ones to big 3 month ones

(I was actually surprised in the jump in size from these two because she had to wear the newborn ones till she barely fit and then when she moved to 3 month they were really big on her)

Did you notice that cute puffy quilt she was laying on? Isn't it just fabulous!

Thanks Kaelee, we're in love with this adorable quilt!!

Her First Big Mile Stone!

She rolled over today yay!

I'm so glad we got it on video, enjoy!

Brinlee's First Snow

Okay so I'm trying to catch up on some blogs I've been wanting to do. Her first snow was the first snow that we were here in Rexburg for (apparently it snowed a little when we were in Spokane at the beginning of October).

 So this was November 6th 2011.

 We bundled her up and brought her out to see just what snow was. She couldn't have cared less. But we thought it was fun

She had to get a shot with Mommy

 And with Daddy

I'm sure there is much more snow to come, but grateful that it seems to be delayed for now.

These are a few of her favorite things

 Brinlee LOVES her little play gym. That blue flower looking thing is actually a mirror and she loves to stare at herself in it. And she's pretty good at grabbing the birdie and making it play music now.

She has loved bathes ever since she first got a real one 

(she hated that sponge bath nonsense)

A new favorite for her is staring at our Christmas tree, she likes it with the lights on better of course. It's so cute to see her in awe of something so simple.

And of course she likes to hang with her cousin...on the kitchen table :)

Thanksgiving

I know it's a few days late but I do want to acknowledge Thanksgiving this year because I have a lot to be thankful for. I am very thankful for my little family and especially this little cutie who wakes up so stinkin' smiley now!

*Side note: I was trying to be mad at her the other day when she woke up early from a nap but when I came to find her all smiling I just started laughing. I couldn't be mad at such a cute happy baby! 

I know I'm in trouble....

We did Thanksgiving here in Rexburg this year which was a first for both of us not to go home to Spokane. It was fun having our own with our friends Justin and Jessica but I must admit I like it better when I don't do all the cooking! I freaked out when I had to pull the giblets out of the turkey, like really freaked. I was jumping up and down and screaming/laughing. So I pulled out one thing (I don't even want to know what it was) and then Joey did the rest for me. And I totally failed at having everything warm at the same time so there was a lot of reheating going on. So yes Mom and Dad you are geniuses ;)

While I'm on the subject of my parents I do want them to know how thankful I am for them.  I cannot even begin to describe how much I love Brinlee and I am always worried about her. I'm sure that my parents were the same way with me. It's hard, so thank you Mom and Dad.

And of course Joey's parents deserve a thanks as well. He turned out great he really did. I'm sure (really sure) that he gave you some trouble along the way but you did a great job. So thanks for raising my wonderful husband for me! And he is just as crazy about Brinlee as I am.

So did I get pictures of the meal and friends and fun?? nope. To be honest I wasn't too proud of how it looked so why would I bother taking a picture? But I did have to snap one of Brinlee on her first Thanksgiving. And by the time I got one it was night so bad lighting, but stinkin' cute baby!

Look at her holding the pie pan with one hand and pointing at the pie like,

 "Can you believe Mom gave me all this?!"

or "This is my pie don't even think about taking it away!"

or "Look at this thing! And I get it!"

or "Can you believe I ate a slice that big?!"

or"FOR REAL?!"

or whatever you'd like to fill in 

And I wonder why she has such huge cheeks :)

Halloween??

Okay we did have fun at Halloween time I have just been super busy and haven't posted it yet. But it does deserve a post so better late than never right?

So Joey and I decided last minute to host a little Halloween party because our wards thing was going to be kinda lame and mostly for little kids. So we got most of our friends together the Saturday before Halloween and played games and ate way too many sweets.

Let me just apologize in advance for the pictures. Not only is our camera not super great but it was night time, annnd we were too busy having fun to take really good ones. Better some than none right?

Brinlee gets the first pictures because she is the cutest one! meooow :)
(Don't mind the elephant bib, she's our spit up queen!)

And this little kitty has two giant mice for parents. Pretty awesome idea I thought, unfortunately I can't take credit for it. Natalie says it was hers but Joey says it was his...who knows!

Oh and I did make our costumes, I was super excited about how the ears turned out, since I finished them the same day as the party.

I know crappy quality, but awesome picture! Look at how happy that mice is to eat his owl cupcake :)

I guess you could say this was the next cutest baby at the party ;)
(I have no biases)

This is how little Dominic the cow showed up to party, already wasted before it even started!

 Don't worry he woke up and showed off his costume great.

Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of both Kim and Tyler, but they both had pretty legit cowboy hats thanks to Tyler's brother. 

Just a cowgirl feeding her baby cow some milk :)

We did a best costume contest, we all voted and of course Natalie and RJ won with their old people costumes, so Hilarious! Look at RJ's face! They are holding their best costume trophy that I made, I'm kinda sad I didn't take a picture of it close up because it was pretty sweet.

And yes that is our baby kitty passed out in her swing in the background, she sleeps alot.

It was night and so it was hard to get good pictures and since I was trying to snap some super fast before I forgot they are even worse. But I have to include everyone that came!

This is Justin and Jessica. Justin had a pretty scary costume on with a mask and everything but he was too hot in it and I didn't take any before that. Jessica was biker barbie she had some pretty sweet tall black shiny boots that were perfect, I'm sad I didn't get a picture with them.

These are our neighbors Ben and Hillary. I don't think they'd appreciate this picture very much but it's the only one I got of them. Oh and Ben did have his cowboy hat on earlier...

Big Girl In Boots

I first want to just say that last night was glorious! Brinlee slept 9hrs. 40min.! I was so excited when I woke up and was feeling like I got really good sleep to look at my phone in shock of the time! I know it's probably not going to happen every night but I can celebrate right? She wasn't doing terrible before, sleeping 7 hours every night but I just knew she could do better.

 I do owe a BIG thanks to babywisemom.com, it's an excellent blog and just what I was looking for because I knew my philosophy but just had too many questions and uncertainties to get it on my own. When I found this blog I was really happy to say the least and have been reading it since Friday trying to find the little things I could do to help her sleeping and her overall schedule. 

She is a big girl in boots because she finally grew into her size zero boots that Grandma got for her, thanks Grandma!

Aren't they ADORABLE?!

And even cuter with the whole outfit :)

(sorry our camera isn't that great, every time I blog now I want a new one but that's a ways away for us)

 Just kickin' in her new boots

Hahaha I know she's got GREAT style. Okay so we didn't have pants for this cute onesie Wendy got her so I thought it would be funny to just do the boots, Annnnd it was.

 As you can tell I started putting them on her with almost every outfit.

 She is a big girl for a couple of other reasons:

1. She turned 12 weeks old yesterday and is only 7 days aways from being 3 months old, CRAZY!

2. As you saw the last post she is way more interactive and smiley

3. She is out of almost all her newborn clothes, I packed away her last newborn sleepers and I thought that was everything but then I remembered that she stills wears a couple newborn onesies...but she's pretty much only wearing 0-3 month size now, yay!

4. She tried to roll over on me! Okay so I don't think she's actually going to for a while but when I turned around I found her like this....

 I got pretty excited but she's only done that like one other time so she's got a little ways to go still

I know I will find it funny that at only 3 months old I was calling her a big girl, but she's my first and every change is super exciting. It seem like just yesterday she was so tiny at 6lbs 13oz 19in and now she's 11lbs. 22 1/4in.

Smiles

Brinlee is quite the smiley girl lately so I thought I'd share some ones we caught, although now I wish I would have captured more. But hey we were too busy adoring her and her smiles to get the camera most of the time :)

This is the very first smile we caught on camera of Brinlee. It's still our favorite, I don't know that it's necessarily the best one but there is just something about that first one that we can't get over.

One happy girl this morning

Grandma asked me yesterday to send her a picture of Brinlee happily laying on her blanket. To make a long story short this is the best I could do, blog it for her.

Big smiles in her seahawks onesie that Auntie Wendy got her

I love this one because it looks like she just threw her head back and gave a big ole gut laugh

While we're showing off smiles we might as well show off her mega frown or mega pout...she was not happy about me taking her out of her warm bath. Makes me laugh every time!

Are those not the BIGGEST cheeks you've EVER seen!!??

 Let me just say I was so excited when I finally caught one of these because she does it a lot but whenever I get out the camera she won't do it again.

(sorry the pictures not that great I was in a hurry to take the picture while holding her)

Fall Pumpkin Pickin'

On Friday we decided to have a little family outing the U-Pick Red Barn. It was tons of fun.

Look how happy she was that we were going!

Okay maybe Joey and I were the ones who were actually excited. We always joke that we are going to be like Cam and Mitchell with Lily...except not gay and with Brinlee. How they are always taking her to things that she is way too young to care about anyways :)

P.S. aren't her smiles so precious?!

 We packed her up (in her cute Halloween outfit that I made the bottoms for) and headed out

We took some pictures on the hay bales...

All three of us

And went to the pumpkin patch to find us some good pumpkins. 

Where's Brinlee?

 There she is!

 Oh hi there!

All in all it was a great day and we got some pretty sweet pumpkins!