Birthday Questions - Age 7

1. What is your favorite color? Peach
2. What is your favorite toy? LOL Doll or Play-Doh
3. What is your favorite place to go? The Variety Store
4. What is your favorite TV show? Some Assembly Required
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner? Tacos
6. What is your favorite thing to wear? Star shirt (what she's wearing right now - teal star on gray sweatshirt with teal pants)
7. What is your favorite game? Charades for Kids
8. What is your favorite snack? Cheese and Crackers
9. What is your favorite animal? Flamingo
10. What is your favorite song? One Thing Right
11. What is your favorite book? That's a tricky one. I don't know.
12. Who is your best friend? Sawyer
13. What is your favorite cereal? Lucky Charms
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Swing off of the pole of the tree house but I can't do it anymore because you think I broke my leg.
15. What is your favorite drink? Lemonade
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Nothing. I mean my pink blanket.
18. What scares you? Momo
19. What is your favorite car? Our truck
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Police

20 Questions for Myelle - Age 5

1. What is your favorite color? Pink 
2. What is your favorite toy? Doll
3. What is your favorite place to go? Freddy's
4. What is your favorite TV show? Doc McStuffins
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner? Stromboli
6. What is your favorite thing to wear? Those black pants that have gold hearts and that greenish blueish shirt that has like circles.
7. What is your favorite game? Candyland
8. What is your favorite snack? Goldfish
9. What is your favorite animal? Pig
10. What is your favorite song? You Are My Sunshine
11. What is your favorite book? Baby's Birthday
12. Who is your best friend? I have a lot of best friends. Hadley and Sawyer and Brynne.
13. What is your favorite cereal? The marshmallow cereal
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play with the cones you got me for Christmas (just opened yesterday).
15. What is your favorite drink? Apple Juice
16. What is your favorite holiday? Valentine's Day
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Nothing
18. What scares you? Like noise!
19. What is your favorite car? The Highlander
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Teacher

What Baxter Has

Baxter sleeps with the kids. Myelle just came out of her room saying, "Mom, I was just wondering something that Baxter has. What does he have?" I said, "he doesn't have anything." To which she replied, "I was touching something Baxter has. What does he have?" Not knowing what to say I asked her, "was it his nose?" She said, "maybe it was his nose." Brett, trying not to laugh, said "don't touch Baxter's nose anymore" as she made her way back to bed. We'll never really know. Nor do we want to know.

20 Questions for Myelle - Age 3

1.     What is your favorite color? Pink 
2.     What is your favorite toy? Babies
3.     What is your favorite place to go? To the store
4.     What is your favorite TV show? Charlie Brown
5.     What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner? Peanut butter & jelly
6.     What is your favorite thing to wear? Jammies
7.    What is your favorite game? Candyland
8.     What is your favorite snack? Goldfish
9.     What is your favorite animal? Kitty Cat
10.   What is your favorite song? Twinkle Little Star
11.   What is your favorite book? Twinkle Little Star
12.   Who is your best friend? Emersyn
13.   What is your favorite cereal? Fruit Loops
14.   What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play and jump
15.   What is your favorite drink? Chocolate Milk
16.   What is your favorite holiday? Halloween
17.   What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Bunny
18.   What scares you? Witch
19.   What is your favorite car? This one
20.   What do you want to be when you grow up? A grown up

Pretzel

Myelle named Grandma Tammy's new dolly... her name is Pretzel. She's very well cared for by Myelle, who also named Great Grandma GG's dolly Rapunzel.

Hair Twins

People often ask where Myelle gets her curls from. It's pretty obvious it's from the Brack side when she's with her cousin, Conley...

Icebox

Myelle pointed to the cooler and asked, "Can you move your icebox back over here?" Between this and her Charlie Brown obsession, I'm pretty sure she was born in the wrong decade, maybe even wrong century. Not sure where she even heard the word icebox...

Potty Training

Lately, we have had potty training going on around our house. Right before Myelle had her adenoids out and tubes in, she was doing really well for about a week. She was having some accidents but staying dry for the most part. Then she got the stomach flu and had bad diarrhea so I had to put diapers on her, and then the surgery and I was gone on vacation the following week so we kept the diapers going a little longer. When all that was over with, she was not responding well to going on the potty chair again.

One week I finally had enough and decided to give her a little tough love. It seemed to be working, although not always fun. We had been rewarding her with a couple of jelly beans for going potty and anything and everything for poop. If she refused to go, she got a diaper put on and put down for a "nap like a baby." If she blatantly goes in her pants, she got punished (spanked or whatever). She seemed to be resisting wearing underwear so I bought some pull-ups (even though I said I never would) hoping that would be a good transition between diapers and underwear. Eventually, this worked and she is now fully potty trained. She's even staying dry at night. This picture was taken after daycare one day. She got one sucker for good behavior and one for keeping her pants dry all day -- she had both opened before we pulled in the driveway.

Birthday Questions - Age 2 1/2

Since tomorrow is Kyler's birthday, he answered his annual 20-question survey. Myelle wanted to do it too, so here are her first set of questions - right around the time of her half-birthday. I don't think the understood the last two questions, but she did pretty well on the rest.

1. What is your favorite color? red
2. What is your favorite toy? a baby
3. What is your favorite place to go? on an adventure ride
4. What is your favorite TV show? Charlie Brown
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner? noodles
6. What is your favorite thing to wear? a dress
7. What is your favorite game? cards
8. What is your favorite snack? cereal
9. What is your favorite animal? caterpillar
10. What is your favorite song? Twinkle Little Star
11. What is your favorite book? Curious George
12. Who is your best friend? Emerson
13. What is your favorite cereal? Chex
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? play baseball
15. What is your favorite drink? orange juice 
16. What is your favorite holiday? pumpkin and the ghost
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Snoopy and Woodstock
18. What scares you? a monster
19. What is your favorite car? Billy Butler
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? getting a house

Random Pictures

I took the kids to Kohls one day and as I was returning something, they found this giant Olaf and were pulling around the women's department.

This was Myelle's first time bowling. She wasn't really into it at all, but the tiny bowling shoes were adorable.

Shh... the baby is sleeping (under the blanket -- she always covers her doll's face with the blanket for some reason).

One day at lunch, the kids took it upon themselves to pray without being told.

Feeding her pink baby...

Eating pizza at Papa's store. This girl loves her pizza!

She thought she was pretty cool having her hand disappear in the dry ice bucket.

Dada reading bedtime stories to kiddos in jammies. So sweet! Makes Mama's heart melt.

Watch out for the gwubs! For some reason Myelle has always been a little afraid of gloves, so when she gets some she always tries to scare people.

I walked in the bathroom one day and she was making butterflies with these. Recently, Brett asked her to get him a band aid and she came downstairs with a pantyliner. Clearly we have some learning to do sometime before puberty.

Papa took Myelle on a bike ride. She rode her tricycle all the way around Community Drive (down Main Street, past the fair area and community building, and back on the access road between the swimming pool and high school). It was a long ride for a 2-year-old on a tricycle.

Names

Myelle is making up names of kids in her magazine. So far she has had Ella, Shelly, Boyce, Woodstock, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Salvy, Little Red Riding Hood, and Moustakas.

Moose

Mellie says, "I look like Moustakas!"

Stations of the Cross

I wanted to take Kyler to the living stations of the cross tonight and of course little sis wanted to tag along. I'm pretty sure she got more out of it than her brother. She asked lots of questions and was very concerned about the weeping women of the 8th station. She came home and told Brett, "We saw Jesus at church. He died. He's all gone. The ladies are really sad." But we also talked about how HAPPY they will be on Easter Sunday!!!

Update 4/30/15: Myelle did not forget about this. Each time we go to church she asks if Jesus and the ladies will be there.

Big Big Big

Myelle: This is a big big big cup.
Me: Yes, you have a big big big cup because you are a big big big girl.

Myelle: And you are a big big big mama. You're a HUGE mama!!

Me: (lol) Thank you!

Burn it Real Quick

Myelle is pretending to cook and keeps saying, "I gotta put this in the oven right here so I can burn it real quick."