February in a {big} nutshell

Tyzer, our super hero.  

Looks like we've got Iron Man underneath Super Man.  

Oh yes, he wanted to be muscular and strong, so he put the padded Iron Man suit on underneath the shirt.  Sometimes he'll wear his Spider Man suit underneath jeans and a button up shirt, so he can be Peter Parker, then rip off his clothes to be SpiderMan. 

He is so awesome! We love this kid.   

Clean boy, hair slicked!

 Ty at preschool.  Practicing writing letters.  

Ms. Sundi helping the kids. 

We love his preschool.  And he loves it too!

Emery is a very willing and good little helper when she wants to be.  Ty and Em both always want to help me mop the floors.  Spraying the squirt bottle and then pushing the mop around is the funnest cleaning job to do!  It takes a million times longer when they do it...and I don't have the patience to let them do the whole thing.  They wouldn't last either!  But Emery is so anxious to grow up and be a mommy!  She asks me all the time, "When am I going to be a mommy?" in an annoyed, anxious voice.  Then the next day, "Am I a mommy yet?  Why is it taking so looooong?"  It is pretty cute.  But I try to tell her that she doesn't want to grow up yet.  It's way more fun to be a kid!  

 Em has such a silly personality.  There have been multiple times where we are sitting at the counter or couch and she'll say, "Hey mom/dad - look at me!"  and she'll be pulling this crazy face.  We start laughing, then she'll start to laugh.  She just thinks of crazy things in her mind, does them, we laugh, then she realizes that that's pretty funny, and laughs too.  I just love her.

She is obsessed with Frozen right now, and knows most of the words to the songs.  She always pretends to be Elsa.  She'll try to dress like Elsa and do her hair like her.
She loves girly things... necklaces, rings, lip gloss, shoes, PINK, sparkly things... The other day we were at the store buying a few summer clothes, and all she wanted was pink...
It's been fun to see her in primary, because she really enjoys it, and she needs to have that time away from Ty.  Something separate that's just for her, and Ty has his own thing too.  That's why we've signed her up for a preschool next year.  Just twice a week she'll go for a few hours, but I think it will be really good for her socially, emotionally, and mentally!  We are all excited!

 We got a TRAMP!  They absolutely LOVE it!  The weather has been really nice some days, and nice enough on other days that they're out there at least 5 days a week!  We'll see how long those side nets last.  They're always leaning on it, and pushing off from it to run across the tramp.  So far so good.

Brinley.  

We all love our baby Brinley. 

Her round face, big cheeks, blue eyes, long brown hair!  

She is pure joy!  

At the beginning of this month, she really started to master the crawling.  She took her first little shuffles right before she turned 7 months, but has since mastered it.

She loves this car.  It moves and plays songs and beeps a ton.  Whenever she's fussy, I'll stick her in front of this car and she immediately stops crying, rocks back and forth dancing and smiles big!  Funny girl.

These are some of Brinley's favorites! A bottle, stuffed animals {or babies}, and that pool toy!  She LOVES that pool toy!  We stole 2 of them from Yaya's and keep one on hand at all times.  

She also LOVES dogs.  There's Rusty in his cage below, and she crawls up and tries to reach in and touch him.  He licks her fingers and she laughs!  They are buddies.  It's adorable.  Let's hope she continues to love Rusty as she gets older.  Right now she's the only one of the kids that isn't afraid of dogs not on a leash.

 Poor Brinley in pain from teething.  You can tell she's just miserable in these pictures.  Slobber all over her shirt, watery eyes, trying to be happy, but it's just too tiring!

 She has been sleeping LOTS lately.. and it's been hard sleep.  Like, she's growing, teething, in pain... and she just needs quality sleep!  Wish I could get that kind of sleep more often!

 All 3 kids in the bath for the first time! Haha!  The older 2 were so excited to bathe with Brin.  They just love Brinley so much, it's so cute.  They think she is the funniest and the cutest baby in the whole world!  They look after her and play with her and just love her so much.  Brinley can't wait to be big, but Ty and Em can't wait either!  They'll all have lots of fun together!

Ty and Em got every pillow in the house and laid them all out!

Ty and Em play well together most of the time, and then they fight the rest of the time.  It's funny to see where their imagination takes them.  There are no limits to their imagination.  When they play "family", Ty is the dad named Paxton, Em is the mom named Abby, or sometimes they'll name themselves Tyler and Emily.... very smart.  Just variations of their own name.  Haha!  Then Paxton and I will be the kids, and Brinley is the baby of course.  Or they'll pretend to be sharks, whales, snakes, dinosaurs, giants, trains, pirates, cops, super heroes, princesses, lizards, Frozen characters, bad guys, babies, scripture prophets, and I'm sure I'm missing a few others.  I love their creativity.  They demand our attention and participation constantly though, since we play a role in their storyline.