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These are cool things that you stand on and then turn the wheel and you spin round and round. Very fun, very dizzy, but very fun

Izzy is being…Izzy. She makes us laugh all the time. She can now talk really well, and say anything. She has started talking in full on sentences, and some of the things she comes up with are quite funny. It’s fun to try and hear her try out some of the bigger words she’s heard some of her siblings say. At the dinner table yesterday, she sat down, looked at all the food and proclaimed it looked “Won-de-fo” (that’s wonderful for all those that don’t speak 2 year old). This morning Nate was tickling her feet and she looked at him crossly and said “Dad, yet go my piggies”. She is also extremely stubborn. Her favorite thing to do is pester Jack. Her favorite way to pester him is to grab his shirt. She doesn’t pull it or pinch him, she grabs on and won’t let go. It makes him very angry, and the angrier he seems to get, the more she seems to enjoy it.
I think the highlight of this month for the kids, was being to meet Brandon Mull in person. He is the author of the “Fablehaven” series of books. The kids and I have been reading them together, and they just love them. He was doing a book signing for his new book at the Costco nearest us. So I took Cole and Riian and we waited in line so that he could sign their book. His publicist was walking through the line with post-it notes asking what names each person would like on their book. He would then write it on a post-it, hand it to you and then when you got the table you could give it the Brandon. So he wrote both Cole and Riian’s name in the book and they thought that was such a cool thing.


Nate and I are doing well. We celebrated 11 years of marriage this month. Nate is playing on the softball team at his work. They play every Thursday night, so we have been up to see some of his games. He has also starting golfing with some of the guys from work as well as bringing his bike to work so that they can ride some of the trails during their lunch break. He came home Friday limping and said he had hit his knee a couple of times on his bike while riding. He now has a very ugly looking bruise on the side of his right knee. I am just trying to feel better. I have been sick the better part of this month. I went to the doctor at the beginning of the month to check my iron levels and they were low again. My doctor told me that he was a little concerned because the treatments I am getting should last much longer than they do. So we are currently in the process of trying to figure out where all the blood is going. We have a couple of tests and things we are doing and hopefully will have something figured out in the next couple months.
Well, that’s about it from the Brown household this month. I’m sure there will be much more exciting things to follow in the next, so stay tuned.






This little girl is now another year older. My baby is now 2. We took down the crib and got rid of the changing table, not because she's potty trained, but because she has to scrunch up to much when she lays on it. She is our last, and it is kind of exciting being done with the "having babies" stage. From now on travel will be easier because we don't have to pack the port-a-crib. Nor do we have to pack any extra baby food. I don't ever have to worry about "feeding the baby". She can feed herself, all I have to do is put something in her hand or on her plate. Now we are just waiting for when she is potty trained. She had a fun birthday. She kept singing Happy Birthday to herself all day. Her big present was a "big-girl" bed so she received some little presents last night. She enjoyed the cake, but wasn't sure what to do about the candles so Daddy had to come help her. We have a rule in our home that after birthdays and Christmas any presents the kids get are theirs and theirs alone for 24 hours. Meaning they don't have to share for 24 hours, I usually find after about that time they are a little tired of them and are willing to share. Jack is having an especially hard time with this as Izzy received an alphabet fridge magnet set and won't let Jack play with her.
She looks a little rag-a-muffin in these pictures, but that's just because she was having so much fun playing outside and her ponytail was falling out.
I realize from this last picture you would think that it was cold out. It's not, but it is a little windy and Jack has an unexplainable irrational fear that his hair is going to blow off... I really wish I was kidding. ..

