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Mall, Lake, Sunday

We had a nice weekend, mostly at home. We decided to do a little shopping at the mall on Friday night and Saturday we took the four-wheeler to my parents' lake place and visited with them there. Today my good friends stopped by for a visit on their way back from visiting back home and Brynn and I made monster cookies.

Brynn asked us twice to check the weather to see if it was supposed to be cloudy tomorrow. She doesn't want Phil to see his shadow! 

Piano lessons on Friday night.



Brynn thought the self-playing piano at the mall was pretty cool. Here she is by it with her 'money bag,' as she called it. Ha.

Brynn brought some of her own money to the mall and was itching to shop in Claire's. She found all kinds of goodies in there, but ended up settling on a crown, bracelets and eye shadow. She was looking at some hair accessories on the wall when she asked me, "is this eBay?" Hahaha.





Mmm, socks.

Our 'policy' around here on screen time had been 20 minutes a day, and that was after homework, piano practice, etc. were all done. Well, Brynn would rush through all that stuff and then every night ask to have screen time. I just didn't like how it had gotten to be that she didn't take her time to the things she was supposed to be focusing on like school work and practicing piano. And I would rather have her reading, playing with Clara or having us all spend time together. She's just so much more productive and creative when she's not on the computer or my tablet. She will write or draw and come up with such neat things when she has the opportunity. I wondered, though, how I would be able to back away from this routine now that we had already allowed the privilege in the first place and for quite some time now. But I made a decision this week for no more screen time during week nights; just on weekends now. As I suspected,  I was met with resistance at first. I told Brynn it would be freeing once she got used to the idea. ;-) There were a couple of nights of whining about it, but I think she has accepted it now. We'll see how she does this week.  I know I already feel better!

Getting in her screen time for today.



Playing a game of Sorry at Grandpa and Grandma's cabin.

Staying warm



Big girl is six months old tomorrow. She is working on sitting up all by herself. She does pretty well, but is still quite wobbly. She started toppling over right after I took these pictures
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"Oh, hi, Mom."


Our friends Eric and Sonja with their daughter Lexi.

Dad took a Suzie selfie.





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theweckerlys said…
Haha, I am cracking up at the eBay comment! That is priceless. And I bet she had a blast shopping in there. I don't think Reagan and Elise even know that store exists. Love the pictures of Suzie sitting up with her boppy! Big girl!!
February 2, 2015 at 6:28 AM
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