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Brianna loves to dance and make up her own little "special dances".  We finally broke out the Flip and got it on film a few nights ago!


She has one swim lesson left but here's video from this past Saturday's lesson.  She's improved SO much!

The Things She Says...

Brianna-isms

"Mama, if I were covered in mud, you'd clean me up and kiss me all over!"

- This started a few months ago when I was telling her how much I loved to kiss her. I told her that even if she were covered in mud from head to toe, I'd still kiss her all over. She's taken that idea to heart.

"Let's play opposites!"

- She likes to find the opposite of something, like saying Green means stop at a stoplight. Her latest is to say "you don't love me" so that I'll find a crazy way to tell her how much I do love her.

"Who made this for me? Who gave this to me? The next time I see them, I must tell them thank you!"

- She likes to know where things came from and insists on telling the person thank you.

"I'm not giving up mama! I try again!"

- Yes, my daughter has learned that the words "I can't" have no place in our house.

"Next time I at church, I tell God I need a bruder (brother) and sister or two bruders Mama!"
- If I have twins next time, we know who we need to talk to...just saying.  She really wants a little brother, so much so that she randomly ran up to a little boy at the mall and gave him a hug because "he was so cute mama and I just needed to hug him!".

2nd Round of Swim Lessons

Here's a clip from today's swim lessons at Emler.  Brianna did fantastic considering she missed last week and at the lesson before that, she wouldn't come anywhere close to doing the songs, activities, going under water or floating on her back.  Its amazing what a difference a few weeks makes!

Its been a crazy month....

First, my apologies to all the family that's been asking for pictures and updates.  I hope to remedy that today.  Secondly, there's been far too much going on with my job, our business and Brianna to cover in one post so I'll try to keep it to just the highlights.

Here she is today in a dress my mom made for her.  Silly girl won't smile without sticking her tongue out so to get a cute picture, I told her to dance.  That did it ... she loves to dance and hop!

It was splash day at school on Friday so she was very happy to have her swim suit on!

How Brianna and Daddy spend their days when Mama is traveling.  Justin had the day off when I happened to be on a business trip, so they had a daddy/daughter date day.  They ate lunch at El Chico then spent the afternoon playing at the mall in Denton.  I think she's a pretty happy girl when she's hanging out with Daddy!

Before swim lessons ...

 After swim lessons...need I say more?

These next few pictures are from Mother's Day, which we spent with Justin's family in Prague, OK.  His grandfather is a rock hound and Brianna absolutely loves to play withe his "pretty rocks".  They live on a farm and there were several baby calves to watch, as well as fish to "pull out of the water".  I think she caught two all on her own on this trip!

 My three favorite little girls!  They are all growing up way too fast!

Sharing an ice cream cone with Nana.  I met Justin's parents one Sunday to pick up a welder from them that Justin needed so we all had ice cream together.  Brianna informed me she only likes her ice cream on a cone, not in a cup.

And last but not least, she likes to help me put my suitcase or briefcase in the car in the mornings.  I guess she's gotten used to all my travel because she's not really fazed by me leaving any more.  Of course, she gets to have all kinds of fun with Daddy when I'm gone so its not like she's missing out on too much!

I think that's about it.  My parents spent a weekend here with us recently, but they have all the pictures on their camera and haven't sent them to me (hint, hint Mom!!) so once I get them, I'll share those as well.  I had to clean out my iPhone just to take pictures of her today because its completely full of apps for her to play and pictures of her.  I'm beginning to hint to Justin that I need a new one so I can pass this one on to Brianna.  I never thought I'd be giving something like an iPhone to a toddler as a toy, but that's the world today I guess.

Love you all,
Lucretia

Just a few pictures

Its been a busy week around our house and its only Tuesday!  Here's a few recent pictures of Brianna.

On Saturday, she woke up from her nap missing Daddy so I took her to see him at work.  She kept telling me she wanted to go see him "where the motorcycles all played" so off we went.  She was in absolute delight over all the shiny pretty bikes.  I think she touched every single one of them and because she was so cute about it, the staff didn't seem to mind too much.  Of course, we snapped a few pictures of her "riding a motorcycle!".

On Saturday's when I have to get my allergy shots, she loves to go with me but gets very concerned for me when it comes time to get the shots.  She holds my hand, squeezes my finger and tells me "I help you be brave mama".  She even clapped for me when it was over and then asked if she could have a stamp for helping me be so brave.  She's such a sweetheart!  I think what she likes the most though is all the magnetic drawing boards they have.  Since I have to wait 30 minutes after the shot before I can leave, we've got time to kill and thankfully, she has just enough attention span to make it if I can keep her engrossed in art and counting and drawing shapes.  She gets pretty intent on what's she's drawing!

And she loves her Moab Puppy!  She knows all the commands and gets a little bossy about it sometimes when he doesn't do exactly what she wants as quickly as she wants.  We're working on having a little patience as well as helping Moab realize he needs to obey commands from her too.  But, sometimes, they can be the most loving pair, like this morning.

Now that is a sweet picture of my two precious babies!

Riding Her Tricycle

Brianna is finally tall enough to fit her little tricycle!  Of course, that's mean she's grown a couple inches since December but oh well....

So Proud!

I'm not going to embarrass Brianna by posting a picture of her on her little pink princess potty seat, but I'd like to!  Its been a week now since we took her to Walmart and let her pick out her own potty and big girl panties and I'm proud to say she is doing fantastic!  She's still learning to listen to her body but with a little help from mommy, daddy and the teachers at school, she's gone 5 days with no pee-pee accidents!  She wakes up dry every morning now and wants to use her potty "so I can take my vitamins!".  Even though she was already getting her My First Flintstones every morning, she somehow thinks they are her reward now. 

Needless to say, I'm very proud of how quickly she's learned to use the potty.  I think the fact that she told me before we got the potty that "pull-ups just easier mama" when I'd ask her why she wouldn't tell me she needed to potty had something to do with it.  I swear she's too smart for her own good some days!

(and for those of you wanting pictures ... I'll try to post some this weekend.  You can always find pics on facebook though on either my profile or Justin's.)