little brynny turned 1 last thursday and had her first taste of cupcakes. YUM. she celebrated by having some of her friends over (xander and emilio) for a pizza party and cupcakes. then we went out to a japanese dinner with daddy where bryn ate a TON of salmon, rice and edamame (and her first taste of ice cream).
then that weekend, both bailey and bryn celebrated with their friends at kidville. it was mayhem with SO many kids but fun was had by all (and most importantly, we had a brief window of time where none of us were sick. knock wood.) the aftermath was pretty frightening for me. so many presents. EGADs. donations here we come. but how to teach humility and stop this trajectory of entightlement? something always in the back of my mind with no clear answers. breathe.
ok, not to diverge... back to TURNING ONE!
yesterday, bryn had her 1 year doctor visit. she was said to be quote, looking GREAT, end quote. she's 50-75 percentile for height and 10-20 percentile for weight (meaning she's not as "gordy" as gaby claims she is). what was SUPER CRAZY was that she didn't cry AT ALL during her vaccinations or blood draw (yes that was vaccinations plural). apparently little brynny is SUPER TOUGH.
next up bailey's real birthday. PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!
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addendum to my entitlement fears. a ha. just let 'em fail.
gaby took this video of bryn cruising by from the kitchen. it is one of my all time favs.
bryn had her 9 month check-up not too long ago (yet slightly delayed due to hurricane sandy). she got a clean bill of health. 2 shots later and a sticker for big sister bailey, we were cleared to leave the dr's office.
THEN. she got sick. 101 degree fever for almost 4 days. she was completely out of it. so on day 4, just as her fever was breaking, i brought her back to the dr.
hooray! nothing serious, fever gone.
THEN.
bailey's nose starts to run and she gets a cough.
THEN.
i wake up with a sore throat and matt says he doesn't feel good.
NOW.
bryn's nose starts to run again.
vicious cycle of sickness.
oh well. hopefully we'll get better before we get worse.
in the meantime, here are a couple videos of the girls. the first video is of them from the monitor (supposedly napping) and the 2nd is of brynny waking up from a nice, long morning nap, waving to mommy. :-)
also, note that brynny now has 8 big teeth (4 snaggly ones on top and 4 pretty straight ones on the bottom). also, she is crawling like crazy and will probably walk soonish.
our crazy muppet costumes :-)
the trick-or-treating gang (sammy as batman, jackson as robin, evan as the UPS man, nico as dr. qt patootie, bailey as kermit and bryn as animal).
bryn really enjoyed getting, holding onto and gnawing on candy (wrappers). she felt like a real "big girl". fun was had all around.
bailey waiting for trick-or-treaters to come to our door.