So in honor of the new year I am going to start blogging more often (hopefully). I guess I will start with Brisa's birthday party. It was a ton of fun. That fun was a lot more time and money than I had originally thought it would be, but once I started planning I really couldn't stop. Brisa loved being the center of attention, every time someone new would come in she would run up to them and let out the most excited squeal. During the whole part she would run around in the middle of the living room and make everyone clap for her. My baby loves to be the center of attention! I wonder where she gets that?
All the decorations.
Loving her new bike!
yummy green cupcake.
What does the blue one taste like?
120 balloons in case you were curious
Tired and ready to go home.
So now that Brisa is a year old life in the Bunn household has gotten a million times better! Brisa's room has been transformed into a toddlers dream! She has tons of toys, a table to sit and draw at, and her favorite thing, music! We have started spending a lot more time in her room and as a result she is much easier to take care of. She will even hang out in there with Chad while I make dinner, which is a huge step from the crying at the baby gate she used to do anytime either one of us tried to go in the kitchen. She loves getting her toys out, and sometimes loves to put them away. She loves dancing around to the primary songs cds that my mom gave us. She loves playing with all of her stuffed animals. She loves to run in and out of her room screaming while you chase her. And when she isn't doing any of that she is getting all of her clothes out of the hamper and trying to put them on while wearing her stacking rings as bracelets. So basically her room is our favorite place in our apartment at the moment!
Her shoe collection (more shoes than daddy)
Playing Piano at her table
Her bike and wagon.
Her toy shelves and the toys that wouldn't
Brisa is turning out to be a very good eater! She will eat just about anything we give her, as long as it isn't broccoli. One of her favorite things to eat is hamburger. She will pick all the meat out of her spaghetti, or tacos, or anything else with meat in it. Last night we ended up just giving her the meat sauce because she threw most of the noodles off her tray and onto the ground. She also LOVES olives. She was introduced to them while eating enchiladas a while back, but she fell in love with them at Chad parents Christmas party in Fresno. She loves to put them on her fingers and eat them off. since then she has turned into an olive eating fiend. At her birthday party she went up to everyone with a plate and pretty much demanded that they give her their olives. But hey, she was the birthday girl so I guess she deserved them!
She says "hi" and waves at everything and everything (including walls). She loves dogs and it is one of the few words she knows how to say. She also knows how to say mom and daddy and hey. She uses the word "hey" when someone walks by her without looking or talking to her. She is so used to our family giving her tons of love and affection, that when someone doesn't she notices and demands that they pay attention to her. She has also started whispering lately. I'm not sure where she learned it because Chad and I are both very loud people, but she loves to whisper.
Brisa loves kisses. Every morning when she wakes up Chad and I bring her into our bed to snuggle/sleep for a couple more hours. And every morning she grabs my face and makes me give her tons of kisses. Se has even started giving me kisses randomly during the day. She will just come over and pucker her little lips and kiss me right on the mouth. I have tried to give her my cheek and she is not satisfied. I have to pucker my lips and make the kiss sound, or she wont stop. She also has started giving me hugs. today I was picking up all of the puzzles She dumped our and she came from behind and wrapped her little arms around me and rested her head on my back and whispered "hi". It was so cute, I thought my heart was going to explode!
So I haven't been keeping up my blog very well lately because I haven't had time. Usually my day consists of taking care of Brisa, going to the gym, eating dinner, putting Brisa down and going to bed. I thought I would just post some pictures and a few of the key things that make Brisa so special, and maybe just some fun stories.
Brisa is a goofball. She laughs if I am laughing and smiles whenever we take pictures together. She loves to feel like she is one of the grown ups and tries to fit in. It is so cute! Last Sunday Brisa was making everyone laugh in Sunday school. She was crawling around and pulled herself up on the back of a man's chair (it wasn't a folding chair, it had a back) and was hitting it because it made a loud noise. Before I could grab her she was laughing and screeching and slapping the chair over and over and looking around at everyone laughing and having a blast. As soon as I got back to my seat and we sat down she squirmed out of my arms and started crawling towards a water bottle under a chair about 15 feet away. Of course the sweet woman let her have it and she started hitting it and laugh/ screeching again. Then when she saw me coming to get her she climbed up on the lady's legs and was smiling at her until I took her out to play in the foyer.
Brisa is a social butterfly like her mama. She loves attention! We went on a hike on saturday and she waved at everyone that walked past us. She gives the biggest smiles to anyone who will talk to her. I love taking her out because she is so good! People always come up to her and she always smiles and does a fake laugh. She knows how to work it!
Brisa is an explorer! When Brisa wants to go somewhere she takes a deep breath and crawls really fast. I can always tell when she's on a mission because she breaths really hard the whole way and doesn't stop until she gets where ever she is trying to go. She likes to see new places and isn't afraid to crawl all around peoples houses. We have to keep our eye on her because she loves to explore dangerous things sometimes.
Brisa is determined. Her two favorite things are the computer and the kitchen. If she ever sees me pull out the lap top she is in my lap in no time at all. I swear I never even see her coming. She loves when I let her hit all the keys. If she is ever really really sad the computer is my secret weapon. We have to block off our kitchen with chairs now and most of the time she is content to just stand up and watch me in the kitchen, but sometimes she just has to be in there with all the action and she tries to sneak in. So far she can't do it, thank goodness!
Climbing over the arm of the chair to the laptop on the end table.
Brisa is beautiful. I know that all babies are beautiful, but Brisa is especially beautiful ;). A couple weeks ago this woman in our ward that is Brisa's honorary Grandma said something funny. She said that Brisa is the, and I quote, "most gorgeous baby" she has ever seen. Then she told me that she had cute grandkids, but Brisa was gorgeous. It was so funny! I think that her personality is what makes everyone love her so much. She really is a friendly little peanut.
Brisa thinks that she is a grown up. She laughs when we laugh, smiles for pictures, and hangs out with us. A couple weeks ago at Aunt Cindy's house everyone was sitting on the ground in a circle almost and Brisa just crawled over and sat down. No toys no nothing. Just sitting with the big kids watching what was going on.
So Chad and I have been trying to get Brisa to take a bottle. It was not going well... Every time we would get the bottle into feeding position she would freak out! So I decided that I would just keep nursing her until kindergarten if that's what she wanted because she is way more stubborn than I am and I'm pretty darn stubborn.. Meanwhile Brisa has been waking up every couple hours at night and making Chad and I into Zombies.
Well on Monday she slept for 5 hours straight and when she woke up I couldn't tell which side to nurse on. Now for all of you out there that don't have a lot of experience, after that long not nursing it should be very obvious which side she should nurse on. So I got a little worried, but brushed it off for the most part.
Well the next day I noticed every time I nursed her she would still act hungry after and I was having to feed her real food right after breast feeding her. So I got even more nervous.
Well yesterday morning it was pretty obvious that I have run out of milk and I'm just not making enough for her at all. Needless to say I panicked because my little princess won't take a bottle. I decided I has to try and dedicate a whole day to trying of I had to. So I went into the kitchen and got bottle ready and sat down on the ground with her. She came right over and I thought for sure she would just let me give her the bottle and it would be a miracle and I could tell Chad I was the winner and ultimately the better parent. (until then he has been the one primarily in charge of getting her to take a bottle). Well that didn't happen... She screamed grabbed the nipple and squirted formula all over both of us. The rest is a blur. I decided to give up and try again later so I put the bottle down and let Brisa crawl around.
Then something crazy happened she sat down, picked up the bottle, put it in her mouth, and laid down on my lap! I was so surprised I didn't know if I was happy or angry. She obviously wanted the bottle, but wanted it to be her idea to drink it. She finished it so fast I had to go make her another one.
Later that night I made her another one and thought that since she liked it earlier it would be easy to get her to drink it now, but again she freaked out when I tried to put it in her mouth. So I handed it to her and she laid back and drank it.
Needless to say my baby is crazy. She thinks she is so much older than she is and has a mind of her own. She can throw a fit like no one business and most of the time I don't see it coming. She gets it from her mama I guess! :)
P.s. she slept through the night last night. I guess I was just starving her. Poor baby!
I haven't posted lately, partly because I have been so busy, and mostly because I forgot I had a blog. Brisa is moving around like crazy! Now that she can crawl and pull herself up on anything she is unstoppable. If we leave a chair pulled out from the table she will crawl under there the first chance she gets. Yesterday we were visiting with Nana and Brisa was crawling around while Chad and I laid on the couch. Then we heard her talking and it sounded like she was right next to us. So we looked over the arm of the couch and she was hiding under the end table. I think that she likes to go in forts! As we speak she is pulling herself up on a big speaker we have by the TV trying to change the song.
Brisa is also a giggle box. I'm sure you all saw the video of her at the beach laughing every time I pretended to drink out of her water bottle. Well a couple weeks ago Chad was feeding her dinner and I was relaxing on the couch. I couldn't see her face from where I was sitting. I was drinking my gatorade and heard the cutest little giggle. So I looked at her and she was leaning in her chair peeking around Chad watching me drink with the goofiest smile on her face. It was the funniest moment! Another time she was getting tired (always her giggliest time of day) and I was going to feed her. Every time I would get her in position to latch she would start laughing. It went on for a while until she finally started to nurse. It was so cute!
Brisa also loves to follow me around. I don't even carry her around the house anymore. I just lay her down and walk wherever I need to go and I know that she will always follow me. For example I will leave her in the living room and go to do my hair, and by the time I get my curling iron plugged in she is there trying to get in my lap.
Our little angel baby has been a lil demon lately. She has been teething for what seems like forever and it is taking its toll on all of us. She wakes up all night long and only wants me to hold her. I always for some reason wished that I was a mom when I would see babies that only wanted their mommy. I was looking forward to it even. Now I feel so stupid! It is not fun at all. My arms hurt and I'm tired and cranky all the time and it makes Chad a little sad I think.
I always seem to catch Chad and Brisa doing the cutest things. She loves her daddy SO much. He can always make her laugh, even if he is just talking to her. So I took some candid shots of them doing their thing.
Here they are looking at pictures of the family.
Brisa really liked the Snort.
She even made him go back and re-read it..
Brisa wanted to watch Chad register for classes.
She let him try it for a while.
But she was eventually forced to help him.
Good thing she was there to help!
And just to prove I also spend time with her.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Brisa is the cutest little baby that I have ever seen in my life. This morning I was awake watching her sleep and she was squirming all over the place until she finally found the comfiest position:
And no, we don't have disgusting stained sheets. Thats where she was drooling when I laid her down on our bed originally. Once Chad and I got up she was able to spread out the way she likes:
She is such an angel. Chad wanted to say goodbye to her before he left on his field trip to Diablo Canyon, but she wasn't waking up. So we tried to wake her up:
I accidentally stopped the video, so you miss like 2 seconds. Dang touch screens, but here is the one that immediately follows that last one:
After all of our morning bonding Brisa and I met up with Chad at the park. It was her first time and I wasn't even sure she would like it, but we put her in the swing and she loved it!
By the time I thought "hey, I should get a video of this" she was getting pretty tired. Swings are just so soothing I guess. Its a lil boring, but you guys can watch it anyways!
Then we bought all the Shrek movies and my love bugs snuggled.
It was dark so I turned on the flash and was able to capture these pretty shots.
