Thursday, March 29, 2012

Capturing Bree

Its so very amazing how fast our little girl is growing up! She turned 31 months old yesterday.  It is mind blowing to think that in just 5 short months she will be 3!!! Brady and I try to video tape and take pictures as much as possible to capture the moments that are passing by much too quickly but I also am coming up with some other (hopefully creative) ideas to do so! For each of her future birthdays, we are going to interview her with 10-20 questions about her "favorites." It will be awesome to see just how much her answers change from year to year.  So I wanted to start now and with some of the questions to see how she answers and then again at her third birthday we will ask again and see if the answers are different.  Here is our interview!


Bree's Favorites:


Most beautfiul color: Blue
Greatest toy: "Hampstoms"  translation: Zhu Zhu Pet Hamster
Most delicious fruit: Blueberries
Most amazing tv show: Dora the Explorer
Yummiest snack: Raspberries
Coolest animal: Rhino
Best way to start the day: with Oatmeal
Greatest book to read: Teddy Goes Night Night
Words to sing: Baa Baa Black Sheep
Favorite cereal: Cheerios
Best sport to play with Daddy: Golf
What do you want to be when you grow up: A flower :)


Listening to her answer these questions was just too cute!! Made me laugh!


Another way we are capturing her "funny" moments..... Anytime Bree does something to make us laugh, we are writing it down on a small slip of paper and then we place it in a jar we have just for this.  Then on New Years Eve 2012, we will read all of them and fill our night with laughter of all the ways our little angel has filled our year with joy.

Catching up

Where was winter?  I really really am upset we did not have any snow.  I was so ready for us to build a snow man with Bree, snow angels, snow ice cream!! With the small amount of snow we did receive a mini snowman was built and Bree got to at least play in SOME snow. 


The first week of March is always fun for our family.  We head south to Austin for the Girls State Basketball Games.  It is three days of A LOT of basketball!! Whew!! This is the third year that Bree has attended and as we thought back over all the years that she has gone, its amazing how she has gone from sitting in her carrier sleeping in 2010, just sitting in our laps and falling asleep when she was tired and barely walking in 2011, and then this year, she was all over the place! We had to take a bag of toys to keep her occupied! But all three years she was wonderful and wasnt any trouble at all.  Sort of a mini vacation for us: hotel, great food, and my precious little family!!!








We couldn't wait for Brady's spring break to finally start! We were so ready to spend a week with him, and it was well deserved for him. The long haul from Christmas break to spring break is tiring.... oh I remember well! The first weekend of spring break we went to Oklahoma to stay with Nonnie and G for a few days. Of course, Bree had a blast having them to play with for four days! I am sure they were worn completely out once we left. While there we met with most of the family and had dinner at a mexican food restaurant in Norman and did a little shopping (looking around) together. It was a great time. We loved being with them and spending that time together!






After we came back to good ole Texas, we took Bree to the Dallas Zoo. We had been to the Ft Worth Zoo before we had Bree, but never the Dallas one so we wanted to give it a try. I'm glad we did! It was great and Bree loved it. She couldn't wait to see the elephants, the giraffes and the crocodiles. She played in the little kids area, watched a bird show, and rode the monorail. The few days before going to the zoo, that was all she could talk about! She would name all the animals that she hoped to see. From the amazement in her voice when she saw her favorite animals to the beautiful smile on her face, we knew she had a blast on her trip to the zoo!