Big

Today they came and measured for carpet. Any time someone comes and measures at our house Brita feels the need to get out a measuring tape afterward and measure things. Today we measured my belly. 44 1/2 inches. Brita's is 20. Now you know.

Going to bed too late

Last night Brita went to bed a little too late. It was pretty easy to tell by the time we got to scripture reading. There was a lot of crying involved. And wailing.

But before that it was pretty fun. Brita climbed into a laundry basket and didn't want to get out. So I changed her diaper while she was in the basket and got her into her pajamas while she was in there and then she even brushed her teeth while in the basket. It was all kinds of fun.



Sorry for the not so great picture. My camera battery is shot. So one picture is about all we get.

Crazy schedules and random Brita stories

Schedules have been crazy since we got back from vacation. First was the kitchen renovation, and Monica started work at three instead of eight, then Peter started working nights and days, so things have been crazy. There were a couple days this week where there was at least one person in our house sleeping for 22 1/2 hours a day. Most of the time I just got bitter and jealous that it wasn't me. Hopefully they'll get better soon.

Today Monica was going to ask Brita if she wanted to go get the mail with her, so she said, "Remember what we used to do always do but haven't done in a really long time?" Brita said, "Cook."
So true.

Last Saturday when we were on our way to Sweet Tomatoes (an all you can eat soup and salad) it was kind of late for dinner and Brita was kind of hungry, so I was giving her shredded wheat in the car. She kept asking for more and more. I asked her what she would do when we got to the restaurant and she was already full. She said, "Eat!"
It's true that girl just eats and eats.

One day I got tired of her closing the bedroom door, knocking on it, and waiting for me to open it, so I was holding it open by sticking my feet in the way. She figured out what was going on and I thought she would just try to move my feet. I was prepared for battle, and I was pretty sure I was stronger than her. She walked up to my feet pulling the door behind her and said, "Excuse me." I moved my feet. I'm such a sucker for that little girl.

The night after my ultrasound Brita fell asleep holding a picture of the baby. So cute.
The night Scott and Katrina left Brita fell asleep clutching her popper toy. And today for her nap she fell asleep clutching a picture of Peter's family. It gets less cute when there is hysterical crying involved.

Today Peter, Brita and I were praying before lunch and Brita was playing with her spoon and generally not paying attention to the prayer. (She was a little concerned with whose day it was.) After the prayer Peter said, "Well someone wasn't folding their arms during the prayer." Brita said, "Aunt Monica?"
It was even funnier because Brita had caught Monica not folding her arms once and made a big deal out of it.

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While we were on vacation we did about 3228 pieces worth of puzzles. You'll notice it's not a usual number of pieces--that's because most puzzles were missing between 1 and 11 pieces. I think there were fifteen puzzles that we did. I don't really like doing puzzles that much, but it was fun to do them there. Not to mention we made the world a better place by leaving notes as to which pieces were missing.

Here's a picture of the first round of puzzles that we did. It's less than half of what we did altogether.



I wanted to get all the puzzles done, but we didn't finish the last one that we were working on (it's kind of discouraging when what you have gets pulled off the table) and we didn't start the very last one. But all but two isn't bad.

Brita the amazing

Brita's vocabulary is expanding like crazy. She is always coming up with new things and I often have no idea where they come from.

Just now Peter was reading the shapes book to her and she named most of them by herself including a diamond and a semicircle.

The other night as she was supposed to be going to sleep she started practicing her sentence structure. She kept repeating "Stewart is home" or "Ensley is home" and going through all the people that we had been telling her were at their own houses. It was pretty cute in its own little I'd-rather-she-just-go-to-sleep way.

Lately she's been telling us what's going on as it happens. Yesterday she told us that she peed twice right after it happened. And she chose to pee on the tile instead of the carpet. Brilliant.

Anyways, I like her. I think she's pretty amazing.

Pictures!!! and a clean kitchen at long last

Some of what we've been up to lately

Yesterday Brita was rubbing her eyes, so I asked if she was tired. She said yes. I told her I was tired, too, so she started to rub my eyes for me.



We have had a crazy last few weeks.

We went and visited my parents, which was really nice. I like being home. We left from here Thursday at noon and Peter still got overtime that week. We stayed until Sunday after church. I mostly sat around doing nothing, but Peter did a lot. He started on a website he’s working on for my dad and helped Dad with his computer questions. And he figured out what was wrong with Mom’s computer. And he drew an elephant for Pamela. It was fun to be there.

Then we went on vacation. Peter’s great-great grandfather’s family reunion was last week in Michigan. We spent a week up by Lake Michigan. The big family reunion was Saturday and Sunday and then we just got to hang out with Peter’s family for the rest of the week. It was really nice. We did lots and lots of things. We climbed sand dunes and toured a lighthouse and picked flowers and lots more. We also did a few puzzles.

We came home on a Saturday (the 15th--this is why I shouldn't write blog posts and not post them--all the days get off). On the Thursday before my sister and her family came to our house. Scott is fixing our house for us. So we got home to a new countertop in the kitchen. He did the backsplash and painted the living room and kitchen, too. Katrina took the kids to Thanksgiving point on Tuesday and on Wednesday we went to the zoo. I shouldn’t go to the zoo. I think I have officially become the mean and grouchy aunt.

So maybe we have low standards

We went to the Stake ice cream activity tonight. We went to socialize, since we were coming back from dinner and were all stuffed. (By the way, Sweet Tomatoes is way good.)

So at the activity our very nice neighbor came and talked to us while we were waiting in line. And Peter waved to our old bishop. And we told the balloon lady that Brita wanted an elephant. And Brita showed her balloon elephant to a nice man who was sitting on the ground. Then we came home.

See--we're great socializers. We talked to two people and even met someone new. Go us.


Brita with what is left of her balloon elephant. She really liked it.

Palm pilot

Brita's been playing with Peter's palm pilot lately. Today she discovered that a pen worked for drawing pictures as well as a stylus. Unfortunately pen leaves a mark, so the the palm pilot had pen scribblings all over it. As soon as I noticed what she was doing I took it and started licking my finger and wiping off the screen with my finger and my shirt. Brita was pretty sad about losing her palm pilot and her pen, so I asked her which one she wanted and she said the pen, so she drew with a pen on paper for a while. Then she wanted the palm pilot back, and I gave it to her with the condition that she only use the stylus on it. As soon as she got it she started to lick her fingers and rub them on the screen and wipe it off with her shirt.

Okay, who wants to do what?

Because I don't want to do any of it.

I present to you my to-do list.

You've got to hate it when company is coming. ;)