Fun Brooklyn Stories

Here are some fun Brooklyn stories I wanted to share...

JAM
Brooklyn has gotten very, very interested in the little pieces of lint that you find between your toes after wearing socks for a period of time during the day. To most of us, this is called toe jam, but Brooklyn simply calls it "jam." She frequently, about six to eight times a day on average, sits down on the floor, pulls and tugs at her socks, trying desperately to get them off to look for jam. If she can't get her sock off, she'll whimper a bit and ask for help. She'll sit there for a good 5 minutes examining each crevice before standing up which means she is done. Not only does she examine her own toes, but her fingers too, and Mommy's and Daddy's toes and fingers too!

FIRST TIME IN A MOVIE THEATRE
On Saturday, Kevin, Brooklyn and I went to see Bee Movie thanks to my parent's generous ticket giving! To sum up our experience, I will link to Kevin's hilarious take of the events that occurred. Here's the link. I really think she enjoyed the movie, it was very cute!! She did score a new outfit out of the whole ordeal.

OOPS!
Brooklyn really got to use one of my favorite words she says "oops!" yesterday afternoon. I was on the computer checking my work email and Brooklyn was sitting in our home office coloring. Our computer desk has a couple shelves to the right of it where she sets up shop. She will bring a small chair from her bedroom and sit down and color. She has a couple pads of paper there and some crayons and a pencil. As I was looking at my email, I looked down and noticed that the paper pads were no one to be found, but she was sure working hard on her artwork on the desk shelf. Uh-oh! We haven't had to have the conversation yet that crayons, markers, pencils, etc. are to form artwork on the paper, coloring book, etc. not on walls, furniture, ourselves, etc. So, we had that conversation yesterday. She looked surprised that this wasn't an okay thing to do, but she did say "oops" and "I sorry Mommy." I reassured her that I wasn't mad, that we need to be a bit more careful. She said "ya."

OUR LIL' CINDERELLA
Brooklyn has really gotten into cleaning. She is such a big helper and will often offer to help wipe off the table, clean up the floor after a water spill (that she made in order to have the chance to clean it up!), wipe Mommy's, Daddy's and our beagle's mouth after we eat, sweep the floors with a broom, use the weed blower outside as part of fall cleaning, loading the dryer, etc. You know if she wants to help out when she says the phrase "I do dat." She wants every opportunity to help out, and like I said, she will make messes in order to clean it up. So, so cute! Kevin and I always joke about child labor laws, but we wonder what happens when the child willing asks to clean!?!

Of course, there's a million stories to share about what the precious girl is doing, but those are just a few of my favorites! She is really growing up TOO fast!!