Our Visit to the Pumpkin Patch

Last Sunday we packed up the car, including Auntie Robin and headed off to Buttonwood Farm. In the fall they offer a hayride around the grounds ending at the makeshift pumpkin patch. If you don't live around here - they are well known for their delicious (and expensive) ice cream. We met our friends Tina & Gregory there, Gregory is just a little younger than Brooke. After our hayride -complete with a stop to feed the cows we disembarked in the pumpkin area. If you had a hayride ticket you were entitled to a pumkin so we all picked out our favorite. Brooke was most interested in the bottoms of the pumpkins, many of which she remarked "its gross" after taking a peek.

Seasoned Traveler

In the middle of September, Brooke and I travelled to PA to visit with Uncle David before he finishes his college career. We went with several other family members (enough to require 3 hotel rooms) and really had a great time.

Brooke has been on several trips and is quite accustomed to staying in hotels. She particularly enjoyed the flat screen TV in this hotel.

The words you don't ever want to hear from daycare....

I generally call daycare every day, mid morning to check on our Princess. When I called on Thursday I was horrified to hear "Brooke bit Thomas on the cheek" .... I swear I almost dropped the phone. While Brooke is one tough cookie, a "biter" she is not.
As you might imagine she had a time out when this occurred and then apologized to Thomas and his Daddy. When I told Paul about it he shared that same deer in the headlight look that I had when I heard. He then asked "Did it leave a mark?" and "Are we going to get sued?" Yes, it left a little mark and no calls from lawyers yet.

Brooke's First Haircut

On September 24, Brooke went for her first haircut. She walked into the salon like she owned the place and was happy to take a seat in the booster in the big chair. Then much to the amazement of all, she sat right there and never moved. It really wasn't a haircut, it was just a trim. It is still curly and looks adorable in pigtails. She looks scared, but she really was quite interested in the whole process. Here's a video of the finished product.

Pee-Pee on the Potty !!!!

Since late July, we've been working on potty training. We have potty DVDs, books, and a little potty in the kitchen, family room, upstairs bathroom AND a portable potty seat to take with us when we are out and about. In other words, we are WELL equipped. All that being said, she will NOT go to the potty for Paul or I or anyone else really but Carol (Brooke's daycare teacher). In the beginning we fought with her to "try" and over the last few weeks she has been a more willing participant - but still NOTHING in the potty. WELL that all changed tonight! I started the usual routine "Please try to go potty before you eat dinner", she went to her potty and sat and within in a minute I SWORE I heard something .... but wait, can it really be? Brooke looked at me with a big smile and said "Pee-Pee on the potty Mommy, all done" Maybe we reached a turning point???? I am going to pretend for at least tonight that we have!

Who doesn't love a cowgirl????