Tales From the Crib

The other day, to give Mommy a much needed break, Travis took Bree out to Parker Lake park, just the two of them. Apparently, while they were there they walked out onto the fishing dock to see if they could spot any fish in the water. While they were looking Travis told Brianna she should say "Here fishy fishy fishy!" Not long after that they actually spotted a fish, much to Bree's joy. (Although, please note that this is Trav's story to tell, he posted in on the Taylor family website forum and is calling me a thunder-stealer again. Can I help it if my blog is more popular? Can I?)

Well, anyways, apparently Bree has decided that the fish calling method works well to call anything, or anyone, she wants to show up. This morning when she woke up she was yelling "Here Mommy Mommy, here Mommy!" Actually, I never quite know what my little "alarm clock" will be yelling out first thing in the morning. Some days she just cries but other mornings she's called "Mommy, where are you?" or "Where'd Mommy go?" or "Help! I'm stuck!" just to name a few.

Evenings are also interesting with Bree as bedtime rolls around. Of course, there's the usual book-reading and lengthy prayers. Lately though, Bree's wanted to say prayers twice every night. We'll get done with our prayer and she'll immediately be saying "Last time Mommy, last time," meaning "let's pray one last time." But, this second prayer is always markedly shorter since I always just say, "Okay, Dear God, Bless Brianna. Amen." But, that seems to satisfy her, and I mean, I can't say no to wanting to pray! The main variable to bedtime though is which little toy Brianna chooses to take to bed with her. We always let her choose one or two things to take to bed so she doesn't feel isolated and can entertain herself if she's not ready to go to sleep right away. Tonight she picked out her kazoo and also her little plastic clacky thing. (What's it called, the thing where it has a handle and like 3 round things on the end and you bang it against your knee?) So, for about 15 minutes after we tucked her in we could hear the sounds of kazooing and percussion coming from her room. :)