Big Girl Bed

Don't let that pretty little face fool you. This girl has been quite the handful lately! Between Tim & I and Brynn's school we decided that because she's so advanced mentally maybe we should start treating her like she's a big girl because she is getting bored with things her age. One of the things we decided to try was making her crib into a big girl bed. (it's a transitional crib so we basically just take the front bar off) So far so good with that! The first few nights I jumped up and ran in to make sure she hadn't rolled off but now I think we are all comfortable with the idea. She loved that she can crawl into it anytime she wants and I'll find her lying in there singing to herself often. I will still take any advice anyone can give when it comes to the terrible twos though! Oh and I think she looks so much like my mom in that bottom picture, so funny because I don't look anything like my mom.

RIP

I think I know why I've never had a pet and why the plants in my house are not real. I kill them all. Our dear friend Fishy, the Beta we have had for only a week has passed away. I'm pretty sure I overfed the poor girl. She would get so excited when I would feed her that she would almost jump out of the bowl and Brynn loved to watch her eat and talk to her! It wasn't an overnight thing either, she really hadn't moved for the past 2 days, she put up a good fight. Of course we aren't going to mention the death to Brynn, I am going to Petsmart in a few minutes to get a replacement Fishy. So bad I know.

Jackson, Mississippi

This monkey was hilariously camera shy!

This is Brynn's post crying for 5 minutes face because I forced her to go on the carousel that she kicked and screamed to go on. I don't know who this girl is but I'd like my sweet baby back please!:)
Brynn loved the elephants, we had to stare at them for a good 15 minutes.

Fun at Chuck-e-Cheese!!

Playing on the slide!
Brynn playing slam-dunk with her daddy.
Tim's most favorite stop on the trip.
As you can probably guess we made the 2 hour trip across the Mississippi to visit Jackson for the weekend. We packed a lot into our 48 hour mini-vacation but it was fun to visit somewhere new! First I have to point out that Brynn has made some good and bad changes since she made the big leap as a 2 yr old. Good change- she FINALLY sleeps through the night on a regular basis! Bad change- the girl is a pouter/whiner/drama queen!! Everything is an issue to her and gets blown way out proportion. If anyone else was on the elevator at the hotel the girl would lose it, if her shoe is buckled the way she wants it to be she will lose it, if the elephant wouldn't look at her it was the end of the world! I love her but we all have our limits. We did manage to drag her to a lot of places we thought she would love. We had heard alot about the zoo in Jackson and I was pleasantly surprised at how nice it was. We also took her to Chuck-E-Cheese because every kid has to go to Chuck-E-Cheese, little did I know that my husband was deprived as a child and had never been either so he was pretty excited too. She warmed up there pretty fast then she was able to sleep the whole way home. It definitely made me want to see more of Jackson one day, next time I think we might make it a mommy and daddy trip though.

New Addition

So we have a new member to the Hopkins family! Brynn is on a crazy fish kick lately so I thought what better to get her than her first pet. She picked which fish she wanted as well as the stones and alligator. I told her to smile in the middle picture and that's what she did. Quite and improvement from what she usually does when I say to smile for the camera. (she puts her head down and puts her fingers in her mouth) The fish doesn't have a name, we just call her fishy. She isn't very creative when it comes to naming her toys. Her stuffed bear is named Bear and she calls her build-a-bear monkey Monkey. This morning in the car she kept saying, "Have a great day Fishy!" "See you later Fishy!" "I'll be right back Fishy, then we can play in Brynnee's room." The girl has personality for days.

Our Entertaining Judicial System

So back in April I got pulled over as I pulled into my driveway, aparently I was speeding earlier down the road. He wrote me up for 15 over, I know there's no way I was going that fast, and I was really not happy about it. I haven't had a speeding ticket in 6 years! So when my court date came I was ready and I realized really fast that they mean business. No cell phones, no leaving to use the restroom, if you have a baby with you that starts crying you have to leave but you aren't allowed back in the room, no shorts allowed and all guys had to have belts on their pants, their pants at their waist and their shirts tucked in. Thank goodness the names were called in alphabetical order because there were easily more than 200 people in there. So the judge called me up and asked what happened, I told her I have a 2 yr old that was distracting meso I wasn't paying attention to how fast I was going. Then to my surprise she said all of my fines and costs were waived and I was free to go. First time ever in my life that I got out of a ticket! The judge must've been a mom.