Brynley- 12 months

Our little girl, is not so little anymore! Brynley turned ONE this month!!   This was a busy month for our family.  We had Thanksgiving, Black Friday shopping, Brynley's 1 year pictures, preparing for Christmas, and of course we celebrated Brynley's 1st birthday. 

 

 

Meeting Santa for the 1st time @ Willowbend mall with Easler families.

 

 

 Helping daddy rake the leaves

Hosting Thanksgiving at our home.

 We decided to start the tradition of having Brynley put the star on the top of our tree!

 Brynley is going to be a big sister!!!!!

 

 Brynley in her new chair from the Pottery barn.  This was her birthday present from mommy & daddy!

 

Brnley had a great time at Leah's bday party!

ICE at the Gaylord Hotel with the Easler families.

Brynley was a little too young to really enjoy this, but we still had fun. 

 

Visiting Santa with the Hogue Family

Brynley wasn't very into Santa this year.....

 

Brynley's 1st Birthday Party!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Christmas Day at the Hogue house.

 

 

 

 

Christmas morning at our house.  Brynley got a kitchen from Santa! 

 

 

 

Brynley really enjoyed the holidays and did suprisingly well being surrounded with all of our decorations in our house. She never really bothered with any of the ornaments on the tree, which was good.  For Brynley's birthday, we wanted to get her, her very own chair from Pottery Barn.  We gave it to her a few weeks early, which was a great idea in hindsight.  I think the chair is what really motivated her to start walking on her own!  We would practice with her nearly every night, and once we gave her the chair, whe would practice walking from her chair to one of us.  Eventually, she took her 1st steps on November 30, 2012!  Ever since then, she was all over the place and became very sturdy on her feet.

This month was very busy with fun activities due to the holidays.  I love this time of year!  We hosted Thanksgiving at our house again for Jeff's family.  We started a new tradition: we are going to have Brynley or one of the kids put the star on the top of the tree every year!  She was too small to really do it this year, but I thought it would be a fun tradition to begin with our families. 

We took Brynley to see Santa for the first time with my family and their kids.  Brynley enjoyed the playing with the snow before seeing him, but once she sat in his lap, she was just mesmerized.  Hopefully she'll smile next year.....I am just glad she didn't cry.  We also took Brynley and joined the rest of the Easler family to ICE at the Gaylord. We had a fun time, but Brynley wasn't really into it. She was just too young, and we had to hold her the whole time, which was tough due to the huge jackets we had to wear. Afterwards, we walked around the hotel, and then grabbed lunch at one of the restaurants. This month, I also took Brynley to a birthday party for Leah North. They had a bounce house which Brynley really enjoyed. 

We threw her a 1st Birthday Party on her actual birthday- December 17th. We invited our close family members, and everyone came for the festivities.  I had ordered B a cute outfit, which we also used for her 1 year pics.  We hosted the party at our home.  We had snacks, and of course, cake!  We ordered Brynley her own smash cake and cupcakes for everyone else to enjoy. She did a pretty good job with the smash cake, but wasn't too intersted in eating the sweet cake; so we helped her a little bit. She opened lots of presents from her family, and loved them all!  She was so great at the party and everyone enjoyed seeing her have fun. The morning of her birthday, we joined the Hogue's for breakfast with Santa.  It was fun, but Brynley wasn't too fond of Santa. :)

Brynley also started eating more table foods this month, such as: yogurt, raviolis, and pasta.  She tends to eat more at dinner, and still feeds herself with her hands, but has started using the spoon more.  We also weaned Brynley off of formula this month and started her on whole milk. That was a pretty easy transition.  She has started talking a lot more, and says: "uh oh".  I can pat my head now, when prompted, and loves to look at touch and feel books, and still loves dancing!

BRYNLEY

1 year stats

Height: 30.5 inches

weight: 25 lbs.

Brynley- 11 months

BRYNLEY PAIGE

11 months

Such a big girl in her jump suit!

Messy eater, but doing a great job feeding herself independently.

Antlers Up!  Go Rangers!

Aunt Stina and B
This was the evening Kris and I attended SYTYCD!

Parent's Pool is really coming along!  Is it summer yet?!

Look at me standing!

Having a "ball" at the neighborhood party at the park!

Mommy and Brynley!

Me and Jeff at the Zac Brown Band concert

Ready to celebrate my 1st Halloween!

Mama & Papa's Halloween Party was SOOO much fun!

Halloween party at Daycare





WEEE!!

Brynley and her awesome teacher- Ms. Monica

Brynley and her best friend- Addison

Trick or Treating in Frisco

Daddy took B to her 1st house!

Aunt Wowo and Ally (Super girl), trick or treating.

Finishing the night off with a snickers bar.....she didn't really eat it, just sucked on the wrapper.

Brynley loves drinking daddy's egg nog!

This was a fun month, becasue Brynley got to enjoy her 1st Halloween!  Brynley is starting to stand independently for longer periods of time.  She can take a few steps around furniture as long as she holds onto something.  Each evening Jeff and I have her practice walking from one to the other.  She can take about 4-5 steps on her own!  She loves walking around with her walker too.  She is crawling very fast now too, so she is always on the move! She didn't sleep that well this month, becasue she developed a double ear infection.  We co-slept a few times this month, and she would sometimes get up 1-3times a night.    We are still rocking her to sleep and she is still taking 2 naps a day.  In regards to eating, she has begun to feed herself much better.  She loves ravioilos of all kinds, and loves to feed herself.  She doesn't like sitting in her high chair, especially at restaurants, which makes it difficult to go out to eat. She is saying lots more words now too, such as: "a da"- when she sees something, "hello" and likes to hold the phone to her ear, and "Ah!"- loves to scream and has found her voice!

For Halloween, I wanted our family to dress up in themed costumes, so Jeff and I agreed on the Flinestones.  Jeff was Fred, I was Wilma, and Brynley was Pebbles.  It was so fun!  My parents hosted a fun Halloween party at their house and had a great crowd.  We had costume contest, a haunted house, and lots of games for teh kids. It was so much fun!  We also took Brynley trick or treating for her 1st Halloween.  Since she can't walk yet, we took turns carrying her up to the doors with her cousins, Ally & Michael (we went trick or treating in Frisco).  She did fairly well, and we are looking forward to her next Halloween when she can try it more independently.

We also attended a neighborhood party at the park this month.  It was pretty fun and we met some nice neighbors.  Brynley's daycare also had a Halloween party that I attended.  They had a petting zoo!  I got some great pics of B at the party!  She just loves her daycare, friends, and especially her teachers- Ms. Monica and Ms. Mary.  Jeff & I also had a night away and attended the Zac Brown Band with Bret and Bryan.  We had a great time!

11 month stats
24 lbs.

Brynley- 10 months

Brynley Paige

10 months

All Smiles!

All the cousins at the pumpkin patch!

Brynley loved all the pumpkins and even tried eating the hay.

Brynley loved trying out Gymboree

Love watching her sleep....such an angel!

Brynley came to the "Pink Out" Shepton game!

Loves dinner time!

Hanging out at momma & papa's house with her cousins.

The State Fair of Texas!



Brynley loved the petting zoo.



Brynley loved the car show too!  Watch out world!

Celebrating our 3 year wedding anniversary with dinner and a plane ride over Dallas!

The kids love visiting their Pa-pa-pa!

This was yet another eventful month of many "firsts". Brynley can now pull herself to stand up. Her balance is getting really good. She also loves to walk while holding onto things, such as the couch and coffe table. We did get her a walker, but she isn't fond of it for too long, but loves to use it at Gran Mommy's house. She can also clap her hands and has grown to love the song, "If Your Happy and You Know It". We sing it all the time now. She always gets to happy! She is sleeping GREAT this month. She has been sleeping anywhere from 9-11 hours straight! She has started trying more table foods and really loves chicken and macaroni and cheese....like her momma! Brynley can also say "mama" (9/24), and can say "bye bye" and will wave when she says it (9/29). We can't wait to hear what she will say next!  Jeff and I also celebrated our 3 year anniversary.  We had a nice dinner and then took a plane ride over Dallas.  It was pretty awesome.  We ended up meeting up with Jenn Roberts and James and hung out in Deep Ellum.  I was pretty tired since we stayed up much later than I have in quite some time!

We did some fun activities this month. Jeff and I took Brynley to the Texas State Fair for the 1st time. She did really well and seemed to enjoy it. It was hotter than expected so we didn't stay too long. We did the petting zoo, car buildings, dog show, and walked around a little in the kiddie midway area. She was still too small to try any rides this year, but I am sure we will be able to try some out next year. We also took Brynley to her first pumpkin patch with her cousins and Mama. We took lots of great pictures and she really seemed to enjoy the pumpkins; especially the hay, which she tried to eat!