THERES A MONSTER AT OUR HOUSE.

Did I mention that Brystal is a Monster? Well she is, and she is a pretty mean sounding one. She growls and roars at us whenever we growl at her. She is really scary. But her growl is bigger than her bite.

BRYSTAL DOESN'T LIKE GRASS

This was Brystal's first experience sitting on grass. She wasn't too sure about it at first. She couldn't put her foot down on the grass because it bothered her too much. After a little while she ended up really liking the grass.

WELCOME HOME!

In case some of you were wondering what I've been up to lately, there is an explanation for why I haven't been blogging lately. First of all, my camera battery has been dead, and I haven't gotten around to recharging it. Second, we just bought our first house! Yeah!! It is a brand new home just a couple of blocks from the elementary school here, and it's a two story 4 bedroom house. We are soooo excited! We love it. We have spent the last week closing on it, and packing and painting and just being exhausted, and we are barely half way done. Phewf! We were so excited about this house because we really tried very hard to buy a house that was still in our same ward, and guess what? The day after we bought it, they SPLIT our ward! What the? So now we are in a new ward! It is sad leave some of our friends, but a good chunk of us are going to the new ward, so we will definitely have some friends there. And they have already made me the Mia Maid advisor in the new ward and I haven't even met any of them yet. But I'm excited, apparently, the new ward needed some good strong members, and since our ward was "too strong" if you will, they took some of us to help out both of the wards be able to grow and develop stronger. So, it will be a new adventure once again to get used to a new ward in our new house. But that is what life is all about, new adventures! I will show more pictures of the house once we get settled, and of course more pictures of Brystal, I know you all are missing her.

TIME FOR THE GREEN STUFF.

I almost forgot. Brystal is now eating her vegetables. This is her first time eating green peas. I was hoping we'd get a good reaction from her, but nope, she just ate it like it was nothing. Just like her dad. So sorry if it's a boring video, but of course, it is an exciting time of life for little Brystal. She has also been eating crackers and those baby biskets. Note to self, don't give your baby one of those biskets unless you are headed strait to the bath afterward. I'll get pictures of that another time.

5 MONTHS OLD!

Well, Brystal is 5 months old now, I can't even believe it. Luckily no shots this time, but she is learning new tricks every day. She can now blow rasberries. She is so close to rolling over from her back to her stomach, I have a feeling it will be mastered this weekend. She is quite the chatter box, always babbling and singing. She can sit up by herself for almost a minute without tipping over. She eats rice cereal like a champ, and has learned to hold her own bottle. Not to mention now she is finally sleeping up to 10-11 hours a night now. Heaven. She just gets better and better every day.

Here is her new Jumparoo toy. She hasn't learned how to bounce herself in it yet, but enjoys her time just looking at the toys and lights and music playing and uses her little fingers to spin the little wheel around.

Do you see those little stick legs poking out? You can often find Brystal doing this when she is in her swing or even when she is just playing on the floor, and she does it when I am trying to change her diaper. She has done this since the day she was born. She just sticks her legs straight out and leaves them like that. I don't get it, but I think it is pretty funny. This isn't a very good picture of it.

I'M 4 MONTHS OLD NOW!

Brystal went in for her 4 month check up the other day. She now weighs a wopping 12 pounds 7 ounces now, which is a little more than double her birth weight. She did great! Except for the part where they stabbed her again! I had to close my eyes this time when they did it because it really hurt my feelings last time. I just didn't want to see the look on her face when she got poked. But she took it like a big girl and she is ok. The Dr. told her how adorable she was of course, and was happy that she could do all the tricks she is supposed to do at 4 months like rolling over and such. But the most exciting thing of all, is now we get to try cereal! I was so excited. But after giving Brystal the cereal, I don't really think she was as excited as I was. We will just have to keep practicing until she gets good at it. She didn't seem to know what to do. She even gagged a few times. Poor thing. I can't believe how big she is getting.

BRYSTAL ROLLS OVER!

Today I was just trying to show Nate how well Brystal was playing on the floor and holding her head up by herself, when all of a sudden she started to roll over. She mostly looks like she just tumps herself over without knowing what just happened, but SHE DID IT! She gets a little scared after she gets on her back for a minute, but then she gets over it when she sees how excited mommy gets that she just lost her balance and fell over.