Hallie

Random photos of Hallie for the month

 She loves to play pretend and always wants to be "the baby." 

 Her own selfie

Kiddos

I feel so incredibly blessed to be a mom to my two kiddos! I feel lucky to experience this kind of love that I have for them. They are my life and I am totally obsessed with every inch of them!

Holding daddy's hand on the way to church. Couldn't get much sweeter than that!

Brooks

Brooks is 20 months and I am just crazy about him! He is the cutest little toddler around!! It is fun to listen to him learn to talk and watch his personality grow!

He often requests for me to put on this Iron Man costume for him. He doesn't ask for me to put on him any of our other dress-ups, however. This one is really the only one that is "boyish." Funny to me that he already seems to know boy things from girl things.

 He is a snuggler and it is my absolute favorite thing about him! He snuggles when he is tired, when he is sad, when he goes to bed, when he watches TV, and just because. It melts my heart every time and there is never a time I don't soak up all the snuggle time he gives me!

 Taking a bite out of Hallie's peach. I love watching these two play together. Hallie seems to get on Brooks' nerves more than Brooks gets on Hallie's nerves.

 I have these faux apples as a centerpiece on my dining room table. One day, while I was upstairs, Brooks decided to take a "bite" (sometimes multiple bites) out of every single one of the apples! Little terd!

 He loves wearing daddy's "at" (hat)

 He wasn't sleeping, he just thought this was a comfy place to lay his head for a bit. Haha!

 Hallie was playing stamps and Brooks picked up the stamps, held them to his ears, and said "Ello," pretending they were phones. Haha!

 This little terd can move the stools all by himself, climb the counter, and open cupboards. 

**I had to call Poison Control on him this month. :( While I was upstairs, Hallie decided she wanted to get a Band-Aid out of the medicine cabinet, I think this is what attracted Brooks to this cabinet in the first place. Hallie unfortunately left the cabinet door open, and Brooks decided to climb up the counter and see what was inside. He grabbed the Ibuprofen bottle. The lid was not on properly and so the bottle opened with ease. Hallie came running up the stairs to me and said, "Mom, Brooks has some medicine." I ran downstairs and Brooks was on the floor with about 20 pills of Ibuprofen around him. The drool on his face was pink-tinged so I know he at least tasted some of the pills but I wasn't sure if he ingested any. 

I asked Hallie how many pills she thinks he had in his hand and she said "One...maybe a few??" So, I called Poison Control. Luckily, Ibuprofen is a fairly "safe" medicine for kids to take and the guy I talked to said he would need to ingest like 15 pills or something before they would be worried enough to have him seen. I was quite confident he didn't do that so we watched him the rest of the day from home. No diarrhea or side effects evident and he acted normal the rest of the day. I am so so grateful that all he got into was Ibuprofen because there are so many worse meds he could have grabbed from our cabinet! We now have a medicine cabinet lock on the door so this never happens again!!

 He LOVES otterpops! He would eat a whole box of them a day if I let him. This otterpop got all over the place and he was a mess! So sticky and covered in grape juice. Yuck!

Gymnastics

I love when I am allowed to watch Hallie's gymnastic class once a month! She is the cutest and has a natural talent for tumbling. She loves doing it and I love watching her be happy!

 Her entire class

 She is SO close to getting her back walkover!

Amazon Vine

An Amazon vine purchase! I'm not even sure what the purpose of this SpongeBob thing is. This is by far the stupidest thing Russ has gotten from vine thus far. He thought it was hilarious though!

 Hallie loved it too! I told her I was going to give it to the DI and she cried. Ha!

 Russ' happy face, my not so thrilled face

 What I think of the SpongeBob head

 Another vine purchase, some super long socks! Not sure why he got me these but he made me put them on to take a picture of. I was also cleaning the house at the time. That is quite the outfit I have on though.

Birthday Campout

Annual Russ and Hallie birthday campout! Hallie looks forward to this so much! The weather last weekend wasn't so great but tonight it was perfect. Russ set up the tent in the backyard and they watched a movie with popcorn and treats after Brooks went to bed. I love that they have this little tradition with just the two of them!

 We watched the new Aladdin. Hallie stayed up till like 10 PM and then was up around 7 AM the next day. Russ slept in the tent with her while I slept inside with Brooks. 

Soccer 2

I'm so far behind on my blogging! I was working on Brooks' baby book for so long that it took time away from blogging. Here it is December and I am blogging about September!! I don't remember much about this game other than I believe that most of her team was out of town this week and Hallie played the entire game! She was rosy cheeked when the game was over but she did awesome!

I love when she gets all aggressive and attacks the ball! 

Brooks and daddy taking a walk around the field 

 Someone's grandpa on the team sponsored these jersey's. So cute seeing that Ahlberg last name on the back of her jersey. She got to choose whatever number she wanted and she chose 11.