Hey everyone!
I can’t believe it’s already the end of May! Things have been so busy around here, as usual! But busy in a good way! This month we celebrated Brett’s 29th birthday and Logan’s 3rd birthday.
Ashlynn is now (almost) 4 months old! She will be 4mos on the 27th! I can’t believe my last baby is so old already! She is such a wonderful baby! She is really good at sitting up with help. She loves to be up high where she can see everything that goes on. She is such a people person! Her absolute favorite thing to do is look at you and talk! She will smile really big and coo at you for as long as you’ll sit and talk to her. I can definitely tell she has Waterbury blood in her. She loves music and will “sing” when she hears music. Ashlynn just loves life in general! She is easy going and goes with the flow really well! I know that this is probably her just smiling because Brett was talking to her, but it’s still a cute story. One day when Brett was talking to Ashlynn, he asked her, “Do you love Angie?” When he said that she got this knowing smile on her face. Then he asked if she loved Brittany, Logan, Mommy, and Daddy. Each time she had the same face. It was so cute and the only time she’s ever done that particular face. Ashlynn loves to play with toys that she can make do something. Her favorite toy is this duck toy that is actually for crawling babies. The ducks spin around and the toy rolls. She loves to make the ducks spin and watch them go round and round. It’s so fun to watch her play!
Logan turned 3 this month. It’s hard to believe that he is 3! We currently have 2 children who are 3 years old in our house. Logan thinks it’s so cool that he is 3 like Brittany! If you ask him how old he is he says, “I three like Bitany.” He is such a fun little boy. He loves to play with his sisters and make them laugh. He definitely knows how to make people laugh. Brett and I joke that he is the next Tim Hawkins. For his birthday we had a Cars theme. We ended up just inviting 2 families over for dinner and cake. It was nice to have a low key party for once! Brett and I made Logan a race track Cars cake. It came out pretty good, if I do say so myself! I had this idea in my head, and realized that the cake I had in my head was about twice the size of the cake we actually made. Needless to say, I had to nix some of my ideas. Now it’s time to start planning Brittany’s cake. I have a month and a half until her birthday and she wants a princess castle cake. Brett, Brittany, and Logan always go into Brittany’s room and “talk” each night before bed. I am not allowed in there. It’s a time for just the three of them. Apparently at the moment they don’t actually talk, they do shadow puppets on the wall. I figured out what they did in Brittany’s room when one day Logan was doing puppets with his hands. He had his index finger and thumb talking. He used both hands and one had a high voice and one had a low voice and they took turns saying, “Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.” I cracked up and had no idea where he got that until I told Brett about it and he told me about doing shadow puppets with the kids.
Brittany graduated from preschool, for the first time this month. It was fun to see what they have worked on all year! She did much better singing and performing this time. We think that she did so bad at Christmas because she was just having a really bad day. Brittany loves school and loves her pre-school teacher. My goal for her this summer is to teach her to read. She is so ready for that. I bought her some little reader books and we started on the first one. She is doing really well so far. I got the first book out and read it with Brittany. When we were finished, I put the book away, and Logan came up to me and wanted to read the book too. Apparently I’ll be teaching him to read this summer too! Brittany loves to dance and sing. She is always prancing around the house making up her own songs. It’s quite funny to listen to her. You never know what she will be singing about. I really want to put her in dance in the fall. Hopefully that will work out!
Brett turned 29 this month. The kids and I went to a pottery painting place and painted a coffee cup for him. I put Brittany and Logan’s handprints and Ashlynn’s footprint on it. It turned out really good! While I painted the cup, I had the kids pick something out and paint it. I had the people turn them into a magnet and they gave him that for his gift. They were so proud to show him what they made!
All in all things are going great here in Arizona. We are enjoying being a family of five and so thankful for all of God’s blessings! I hope you are doing good.
Love,
Brett, Cherise, Brittany, Logan, and Ashlynn
