23 and counting

It is crazy to think that in a month I will have a two year old. Seriously, where did the time go? It is fun to see Brooke become her own little person. I feel like she's grown up so much just in the past month or so. She's so smart and is saying and doing new things daily.

*If Brooke has a runny nose and I don't have a tissue on hand, I just use her shirt (gross, I know). So when I was sniffly Brooke came up to me held out the corner of her shirt to me and said "nose?" Like, "here mom, you can use my shirt"

*She loves to help. She can take her plate over to the garbage, scrape it, and then I lift her up to put it in the sink.

*She is obsessed with books. She constantly has to be holding one and requests one to sleep with each night. Even though the lights are off, I can hear her in her crib turning pages and reading to herself.

*Loves kitties. We have a kitty who has adopted us. We don't let it in the house, but that doesn't stop Brooke and the cat from "meowing" to each other, or stop Brooke from trying to share her food with it through the sliding glass doors.

*Prays often. We say at least 3 prayers during dinner at Brooke's request. While we pray, Brooke is over in her chair saying her own jibberish prayer. Then if she wants to say it all by herself she'll put her finger on her nose (you know, like when you hold your finger up to your lips to signal, be quiet. Brooke hasn't quite gotten it, so it's a finger on her nose) and goes "shhhhhh" Then she'll fold her arms and say her own prayer, the only thing we can make out is 'A-Men!"

*is so cute to say "thank you" when you give her something. She even says thank you to the boys passing the sacrament when it comes to us.

But all this is not to say that Brooke doesn't have her sassy side too. The terrible two's are alive and well at our house!