Helpful in the Kitchen

For some reason Brooke loves my salad spinner. She loves to take it apart and play with it as you can see here . . . she has the inner basket on her head!



She calls the basket she is playing with a "bucket" in the first few seconds of the video. Her vocabularly is expanding so quickly. My favorite word is how she says the word hot. Brooke drags the H out and says "hhhhhhhhhot!" It is so precious.

Bucket from Jaira Grathwohl on Vimeo.

Learning to Throw

Throwing a ball from Jaira Grathwohl on Vimeo.

Stop and Smell the Roses

On Sunday, Brooke was playing at Nana and Poppy's house and Nana showed Brooke how to smell the roses at her house. So Brooke was outside playing at home and she walked right up to our rose bush and stuck her nose in it just how Nana had showed her two days ago. It was priceless!

Stop and Smell the Roses from Jaira Grathwohl on Vimeo.

Mattress Play Time

Brooke loves when I change the sheet on her bed because she gets a kick out of playing on her mattress. As soon as she saw me pulling it out of her crib she got really excited. She is such a monkey!

Mattress Play Time from Jaira Grathwohl on Vimeo.

Reading

Brooke has really started to love books. She wants to read the same books over and over and over again. She doesn't really wait for all the words on the pages but she still loves it. She will cart a book over and won't be content until she's sitting in your lap. Daddy is more creative with his reading style.

Daddy Day

Daddy day meant that Brooke got to experience her first McDonald's pancake!

McDonalds pancake from Jaira Grathwohl on Vimeo.

Fall Fun

We took Brooke out to visit this farm that has pumpkins and animals. It was windy and chilly but Brooke didn't seem to mind. She particularly loved the roosters.

First Bruise

Brooke got her first big boo boo on her forehead. I hate to even say how it happened because it sounds so terrible but she was walking around in the school parking lot at Christian Fellowship and she fell and her head hit the curb! OUCH! She is very tough though because she didn't even cry very much! These pictures were taken the following day and don't even look too bad!

Stroller

Brooke got this stroller as a birthday present from her Auntie Jan and its made for this little doggy to ride in it, but Brooke and her daddy have other ideas for it!

Stroller from Jaira Grathwohl on Vimeo.