Life

Life has been busy but normal around here lately. Our nice warm weather is ending and fall is here :( So much for all of our outdoor activities we have been doing lately. This past Saturday was beautiful so I took Brooklyn to the Tri-State band parade in the morning and then we went to the park with Grandma Marilyn and Papa Harley, Emma, and Addison, and then went fishing at night. Brooklyn loves days where there is a lot going on!! This week is a short week for me at school but unfortunately I have the Heartland Teacher's Convention at Dordt on Thursday and Friday. I used to look forward to these meetings, but now that I have Brooklyn I would much rather spend the day at home with her :) She is such a goofball lately. I get such a kick out of watching her. Tonight my mom stopped by and it is so funny to see Brooklyn interact with her. It puts a smile on my face :) Now, on to the pictures...


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Fishing again--this time off of the dock

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Not too smiley today...

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So everyone thinks I look just like my cousin Addie. What do you think? (I know...my cheeks are WAY fatter...just look past that!)

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Here's a video of Brooklyn being herself :)

Gone fishin'

So Brooklyn found a new hobby this week--fishing!!! Last night we took her fishing and for an entire hour she sat holding a fishing pole, staring at the water without making a single sound. It was the cutest thing ever! The minute Eric or I would try help her hold the pole or grab it to reel in the line, she would grunt and pull it away from us. Too bad we waited until mid-September to discover this new love. Here's a few pictures of our night.

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A truly beautiful sunset. What an awesome God we have!

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My favorite...so cute!!!!

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Another one of my hobbies....watching the Twins with Dad :)

We are back in the routine of school and things are going well. The first 2 weeks were an adjustment for all of us (including my students), but this week it finally seems like we are in a "normal" routine. Brooklyn has been sleeping through the night this week which is AMAZING!!! She still gets up every day between 5:00-6:00 which is a little early for me, but as long as we are not up with her a lot during the night, I am not going to complain. We have tried pushing her bedtime back an hour, in hopes that she would sleep a little longer in the morning, but that doesn't work. It usually results in her having a meltdown for that hour we are trying to hold her off and then she still gets up at the same time the next morning. She occasionally will still wake up during the night, but usually we just put her pacifier back in and put her blanket by her face and she will fall back asleep. The last 2 nights we didn't even have to do that so we are hoping this trend continues!!

Other than that, we haven't had much going on. We have been having beautiful weather so we have been spending a lot of time outdoors going on bike rides, walks, and playing in the park. I just love this weather!!! I don't have any fun or exciting pictures to post so these will have to do for now.

Brooklyn and her big fat cheekers (with a little sweet potato residue....this is what she looks like after Dad feeds her :)


Contrary to what it may seem in this picture, Brooklyn actually does love going to the park!

Have a great rest of the week!