seven months

If she looks really long in this picture, it's because she IS! Bryn had her 6 month check-up last week (three days before she turned 7 months!). She is 26 inches long, which is the 75%!

If she looks chubby and delicious in this picture...it's just FLUFF! She only weighs 14.5lbs! (10%)! She is by far, the smallest of all the fries. (BTW: her head is also in the 75%!) She has two teeth, gorgeous blue eyes that stop strangers in their tracks, lots of poody rolls (despite the fluffness), drool that doesn't end, a skiff of strawberry blond peach fuzz on top, and the tiniest, skinniest little feet I've ever seen. Bryn loves to jump in her jumperoo, play with the aquarium mobile blanket, laugh at brother and sister, and flirt with EVERYONE! At family parties, I can tell who has held her last by her signature she leaves behind on her admirers...a soggy shoulder. Bryn has the happiest, most easy-going disposition that all find remarkable. Which made it even more sad last week when she was so sad and sick with her 3 shots she got at her check up.

But now, she's all smiles again.

Hard to believe that such a sweet, dainty little girl could leave such a site...

OOPS!! What's that?!?!?!?!?

That is what happens when you get Bryn to FINALLY drink the bottle of prune juice, so she will FINALLY do the deuce. It was a deuce that would put a gorilla to shame. Filled the diaper so much that it all wouldn't fit and a tennis ball size pile fell out of the diaper, onto the floor.

Now I'm hungry!

4th of July!

Happy Independence Day!

We celebrated the 4th by hosting a potluck BBQ with our family and neighbors. It was SO much FUN! Everyone brought food to share, we had a bike parade, and we all chipped in and rented a GIANT slip n' slide and our neighbors set up their blow-up water slide, too. Then we ended the night with a BANG from some fireworks.

BIKE PARADE!

We decorated bikes and then the kids paraded them around our cul-de-sac. Of course, the little boys (Benson, Gavin, and Ike) kinda played musical bikes, and rode each others and random undecorated ones out of the garage. But they had fun!

Fun or Not Fun?

Benson has decided that swimsuits and sunscreens are the root of all evil and cries and screams when I put them on. He wouldn't even get near the water when he was in his swim suit. As soon as we dressed him in regular clothes, he was more than happy to get wet. What a nut.

Bailey is always ready for some hydro-fun!

Oh, did I mention it was over 100 degrees with the heat index?

So Bryn hung out with Papa indoors...away from the heat and water, and crazy kids!

My little Sunday Patriots!

Not only did they have cute matching outfits to wear on the 4th of July (courtesy of Guh W.), {which I didn't get a picture of, because they were too busy running around with friends/cousins} but they had matching 5th of July (Sunday) outfits for them (Courtesy of Guh L). (Little did she realize! Bailey's dress is from 2 years ago, Benson's shorts from Christmas, and Bryn's outfit was Bailey's...5 yrs ago!)