The Week and Mother's Day!

Forgive the backwards order of the pictures! Colleen was trying to cheer Brighit up while she was eating, and Colleen took this picture of Brighit.
We've all been since in one form or another for the past 4 days, and here is Colleen trying to help make Brighit feel better. Both girls have a small case of the croup and Brighit isn't tolerating it as well as Colleen. Those are Colleen's new giraffe jammies she got a couple of days ago.
This is the after shot of the next picture. The girls were feeling really lousy, and this is the afternoon of the 6th...
and this is the morning of the 6th..Big difference!
Here are some awesome pictures of the girls at the park. You can totally see Brighit smiling as she swings, and yes Colleen did pick out her outfit that day!




Too cute!

We are also doing The Ryan's PKU Walk in a couple of weeks. This is close to our heart as Brighit has PKU and any precious dollars that can be raised can help with research so that she might have a more varied diet in the future. If you would like to help and donate, just contact me and I'll let you know how to do it!

Pretty Little Ladies

Brighit keeps amazing us with all that she is doing for an almost 14 month old! Colleen didn't have much interaction with kids at this age so all she had to copy was me, but Brighit has Colleen to copy and that is letting Brighit do things that Colleen didn't do at this age. Brighit climbs all over, actually plays with Colleen and us, and is picking up a ton of words! 75% of the time if you had Brighit something and say "here ya go Brighit" she will say "thank you"! We couldn't believe what we heard at first either, but she has said it multiple times so it must be so. There are a lot of times that she does that and we can't believe what we have just heard! She is oh so close to walking and we can't wait until she does! She is a hefty little girl and I will be glad when I don't have to carry her everywhere all the time.

Colleen is doing a great job going potty. This past week it seemed like there were less opportunities for her to use the potty here at home. I thought we were home more but the chart shows her using the potty less, but she didn't use her potty pants that often. I guess it was cooler and so she wasn't drinking as much. With the warmer weather that's coming hopefully we can change that. She does hold it when we go to the store, not even using her potty pant then, but waiting till we get home...AMAZING!

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