Brooke

Last week I officially entered the ranks of being a mother of a toddler who drew all over the walls.  I thought it was safe to leave Brooke unattended for two minutes while I went to the bathroom.  I was wrong.  I must never make that mistake again.

When leaving the bathroom I noticed a huge smudge on the wall.  Upon closer inspection I saw it was art.  I scolded Brooke and got a rag for her to help me clean it up.  Brooke immediately went to ANOTHER wall and started scrubbing.  That’s when I noticed THAT entire wall was covered with scribbles.

Today I was eating breakfast.  Brooke came into the kitchen and said, “Trouble.  I in trouble.”

I glanced her way thinking how cute she was.  It was then that I registered what she was saying…and I noticed that her hand wielded a black crayon.

Brooke walked me into the bedroom and showed me the TV.  The screen was covered in scribbles.  Brooke looked from me to the TV, threw her arms out wide and said proudly, “Ta da!”

Thank goodness for Magic Erasers.  If this keeps up, I’ll be buying stock.

Our good friends, the Lintons, abandoned us.  Last week they moved.  We have been in mourning since.  We knew this day would come eventually, but that didn’t make the parting any easier.  We did our best to pack in a lot of fun with them before they left.

We put the girls in their matching dresses and tried to get a cute picture of them together one last time.  Once again, our attempts were foiled by the girls’ inability to all sit still for the same two seconds while we snapped the picture.  We thought we would get a good one because Brooke and Emma sat down and were hanging out, but Ava wanted to run, as you can see.

Here’s a good one of Ava giving Brooke a hug:

We had a cookout.  Afterwords there was badminton.

And this was the girls’ new favorite game–having the dads drag them all over the lawn on blankets.

Last week we spent the week up at Rebecca’s parents’ house.  Brooke loved being there.  She loved it so much that she never wanted to sleep, so when she did actually sleep it was a pretty big thing.  I managed to document one of those rare occasions with this cute picture.