Kids say the cutest things!

Every night before Sophie goes to bed, we go through the (seemingling endless) bedtime routine...

Bath, a Dora/Diego show (while lotioning up, jammies, milk, etc.), then family scriputre study (aka - reading a short section of the scriptures and trying to explain what happened), family prayer, potty, night-time diaper, brush teeth, book, Sophie's prayer, hugs & kisses, tuck-in, more hugs & kisses, singing, and finally... more hugs & kisses.

We've been saying family prayers and Sophie's prayers for quite some time now and she does most of them herself (her prayers anyway) and sometimes we help just a little. I've been meaning to post one of her night time prayers on the blog for quite some time and I keep forgetting... so here one is. It is SO cute. What a sweet little girl.

"Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank you for Mommy, Daddy, Brielle. Thank you for Grandma & Poppa, Kassi & Joey (her aunt & uncle), and cousins.

Thank you my toe-nail polish. Thank you mom-go-exercise and I go play. Thank you for Dora. And big Dora. And Dora doll. And Diego. (All of these are her 'little dollies' that go with her doll house.) Thank you for watching TV (I promise we don't do this much, it's just one of her favorite things). Thank you for the library.

Help my owie right there (as she lifts up her pant leg and pointing - I guess showing God just which one she means). Help it feel better.

(This is the only place I help) Please help me to sleep. Please keep us safe and healthy.

Name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

How'd 6 months go by SO fast?

Brielle is doing great! She's now almost 6 & 1/2 months now and I just have no idea where the time went! It seems to be going even faster than it did when Sophie was little... I wonder how fast it'll go with a 3rd or 4th kiddo. Maybe that's why those crazy people have 17 of them... :)

She's sitting up like she's been doing it for ages and rolling all over creation. She's also pushing up on her arms but not her knees yet. And she loves eating! lol (As you can see from pictures!!) I nurse her and she gets at least 2, if not 3 bottles a day, plus1 to 2 meals of baby food. lol She's a pig ;) lol She loves baby cereal and sweet potatoes the best. (We haven't done any fruits yet though, just cereal and veggies.) This is also sooo different than Sophie. Sophie would breastfeed and drink bottles, but basically hated all other food. Plus, she was such a skinny-mini. She was always like in the 10th percentile (or lower). Brielle is pretty steady at 50th percentile. (And they both are at the top of the charts for height! :)

What I love the most about her is that she's such a joy. She smiles at practically anyone who talks to her, sneezes, hiccups, dances, laughs, smiles, talks, or breathes. She sits there with me while I bathe Sophie and just rolls with laughter at Sophie's splashing. She had been sleeping through the night for a couple months, but I've been trying to get us on a nap schedule and it seems to be back-firing - she's waking up at night now! ugh. We'll get that figured out though.

Anyway, she's doing great. I don't know exactly her weight - her apt wasn't exactly at 6 months (it's next week), but I'm guessing 16 - 17 lbs. Ahh, what a fun little girl!