Oh the quirks of a 20 month old. Brenner's latest is "fixing" everything. I first found this out by tearing a piece of bread in half and giving it to him. A tantrum followed - "no, no, no - it's broke, fix it!!!!". Cute at first now just frustrating especially when he is eating a cracker or
pretzel. We have tried to tell him that now he has more pieces - how wonderful. Or some things just can't be fixed. Brenner's routine has changed this summer as Matt has been home from school. Now - Papa has to put him to bed and mommy
gets told "Bye-bye" with a wave. It is so sad :( He continues to build his vocabulary daily and really surprises us with the people's names he remembers. His memory is great too - his favorite book is "
Seuss" There's a
wocket in my pocket. He knows all the rhymes and shouts them out when you read it - so cute.
This is what we like to call the calm before the storm! So peaceful. I think our neighbor nailed it - he has 2 speeds - 90 mph and
konked out!
Bond, James Bond.
BHP loved the water guns we got him. Mostly he drenched himself and watered plants.
We sneaked over to our neighbors to splash the girls - we were on the losing end - I got soaked. So we decided to put Brenner in his life jacket (thanks Grammy
Vo) and let him have his first dip in a big pool. He had a blast!
I had a basket of clothes that needed folding - Brenner found a use for it. I asked him what he was doing. His response was "
laxin" (relaxing). Now if I could just get him to fold the clothes. He was counting his fingers while
laxin'.
We had such a busy weekend.
Krystee babysat on Saturday night (kudos to her - her all-star softball team is heading to state - yeah!) and on Sunday Jack came over to play. The boys were suppose to play in the pool - but it rained all day - well until Jack got ready to leave when the sun came out - go figure!
Brenner and mommy in the pool. He loved it but didn't want to be too far from mommy or papa. He really liked "jumping" into the pool into Matt's waiting arms. He is doing this new thing - when he gets dressed - swimming trunks or whatever - he will look at you and say "handsome" - it is too sweet.
Aunt Lynnie, Krystee, and me - the team ended up being number 2 in state but Krystee did great. She stole multiple bases, made some awesome slides, and had a great line drive down the third base line to bring in another run in the last inning.
Brenner seems to be saying "man I can't believe that call!". He spent about 6 hours at the ball field and did well - he was the team mascot according to the coach.
We went to the zoo with the Grandma Val, Aunt Lynnie, Uncle Chris, Krystee, and Colten. The boys are watching the chimpanzees in this picture - they were all so intent. We didn't make it very far into the park because we entered meltdown mode (all of us not just Brenner) by early afternoon. But he liked the penguins, bears, tigers, apes, and butterfly house.
Brenner, Krystee, and Jo in the amphibian house. Brenner refuses to get into a stroller - so we did a lot of carrying because he can't seem to hold your hand when walking. I totally get why there are those kid leashes but I still can't quite do it. Anyway - Brenner loved the train ride. Even tonight as I was putting him bed we were singing a song about the zoo (to the tune of Mary had a little lamb) and I thought BHP was sleeping. He looked up and said "train fun" so then we sang about the train. How funny. I guess I didn't realize he listened to the words during this night time routine.
