Brynn's Store

 Just a little fun playing on Friday...Brynn is really developing a little imagination and she wanted to have a "store".  So she was laying out things in her room that we were "selling" in her "store."  Then to help practice numbers we laid some number cards by the stuff and that was the price.  So her "bitty baby" got the number 20 card because "it's really 'spensive" and her chapsticks got a 5 card because "are those 'spensive mommy? I think they are 'spensive. Is 5 'spensive?"  HA!

Ignore her "popsicle" moustache and Emory's crazy hair above...we had been at the Water Park that morning.  

Love special times like this just playing with my girls.  I am loving Brynn's budding imagination!

Brynn's First Day of Footprints - 3's Class

Last Tuesday was the first day of preschool at our church preschool, called "Footprints."  This year Brynn is in the 3's class with Mrs. Kristi and Mrs. Ginger!  Our preschool is three days a week...Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9-2:30.  

Here are some pictures from her first day...(we laid out her clothes the night before and then somebody bedazzled her outfit that morning all by herself....HA!)

The girls had gone to Nonna's a couple of times the week before because I had to work at church a couple of weeks before the kids first day, but we will pretend like this was "Emory's first day at Nonna's"...doesn't she look thrilled?? HA!

Normally, Brynn comes with me and we have to be there at 8 to start our morning jobs, but for the first day, Ryan brought her.

 Putting her backpack under her name-tag...

She has done SO WELL so far!  Last year the first month was quite an adjustment and I would have to run around the church sneaking around so she wouldn't see me.  This year I can just walk by her classroom and deliver stuff, talk to her teachers, etc. and she will just wave and keep working/playing!  She has already been working on tracing her name, some letters and numbers, and learning new songs.  She has also been playing "school" frequently...here are some of the things she has said to us out of the blue....

• She walked in while I was changing Emory's diaper one day and says "I'm looking for a star student!" 
• She told me it was time to listen to her story and I needed to sit criss cross.  Then she said "mommy...don't forget to put your spoons in your bowl!" (hands in your lap).  Then she looks around and says "Emory, when I'm reading a story you need to put your toys away!"
• And when she "plays" school we have to call her "Mrs. Kristi!"  HA!

I am so glad she loves it so much and is doing so well.  A lot of the kids in her class were in her class last year, and it's so fun to see them all growing up!  

Emory Faces

We took a few pictures of Emory the other day to use in her little birthday invitation.  So sweet!

LOVE THIS LITTLE BABY (yep...she is STILL a BABY!!!!!!!!!!) TO PIECES!

Forts and Icing

Snapped some pictures of the girls playing the other day...Brynn was attempting to read to Emory.

Then they got their chairs out and were making a "fort."  Actually, Brynn just spread a bunch of blankets around and Emory would crawl up the chairs and roll onto the blankets and pillows...they were quite entertained!

Brynn loves to help "decorate"...I always make extra cookies in case one breaks or I mess up, so I usually have stuff left over for her to mess with.  The other day she decorated some baby cookies...I was pretty impressed!  She was so proud of herself because she was trying to "stay in the lines" on her pink cookie.  She did a pretty good job!

And yes, my table is always so much fun to clean when she gets done.  I don't know why I don't put something down...someday I'll learn! =)

Emory - 10 months (at 11 months! HA!)

Contrary to the title of this post, Emory just turned 11 months old!  WHAT?  I just can't believe it!  Anyway - I was going through the pictures on my camera and realized I never even posted these!  Since she's already 11 months, I'm not going to write anything down about 10 months, but I still wanted to post these from her little photo shoot.

She is crawling all over the place, pulling up, and getting into everything!  =)

Brynn took these next few pictures...

And then she wanted to "hold" Emory for a picture...I think Emory's face is PRICELESS!

HAPPY 10/11 MONTHS EMORY! (11 month post coming soon.)

Cookie Pics

Here are some cookies from the last few weeks...

My friend Sonya's birthday party...she loves serving in Kenya.  (To make these Ryan actually used the iPad to trace an outline of Africa and then I traced it on the cookie before outlining it).  I thought they turned out really cool!

Sonya's favorite things..music, coffee, Africa.

My pastor's wife sells Rodan and Fields and she always orders some for her meetings.

Disney birthday party for sweet Birkley!

Paxton's dog-themed birthday party.

A church had a wind/water/waves VBS theme and ordered these for one day of their snack.

Evidently my pastor sneaks his wife's Rodan and Field's cookies so for his birthday he got his own batch.  He played football at Baylor and I was so excited to get to make some football cookies!

"Girly moustache" cookies.

Lots of Frozen cookies...someone remind me to charge $10 a cookie next time I have to make Anna dresses...HA!

Lots of dresses for wedding shower favors...(sorry I can't figure out how to turn these pictures around).

Now that I'm back to work three days a week at our church preschool I'm trying to only take 2-3 orders a week for my sanity...HA!  It really helps that I usually plan out my week on Sunday night and figure out how many batches of dough I need for the week.  Then I usually mix all that up on Sunday or Monday night and store it in the fridge.  I usually bake ALL the cookies for the week on Tuesday and then go from there.  It has gotten a lot easier because I know how to store my icing ahead of time, and I can keep the icing and start on a batch of cookies, stop, start again if I need to, etc.  It has turned into a fun little side job and I'm really enjoying it!