Our 24 hour playdate with Marina

Brenna's pal Marina's mommy, Keri (who has become one of my great friends) is a labor and delivery nurse who works 12 hour shifts from 7pm to 7am.  I am tired just thinking about how hard she works and the hours in which she does it.  Marina's dad is a firefighter who works 24 hour shifts.  So every once in a while when these shifts overlap, and when her grandparents are unavailable, Marina needs a 24 hour playdate with a pal and Brenna and I were happy to host :-)

Brenna had been giving me a lot of grief over the past week so I was a little nervous about how having 2 would be, but honestly Brenna was so much better behaved with Marina here.  They didn't fight at all.  They had so much fun playing and after having Marina for 24 hours, I think I might venture to say she's the easiest of everyone in the playgroup. 

Marina is like a little monkey and can climb in and out of Brenna's crib in 2 seconds.  She loved taking all of Brenna's stuffed animals, throwing them in the crib, then climbing in the crib, throwing them out, and climbing out.  She did this over and over again to Brenna's amuzement and delight.  Brenna just kept looking at her climb in and out and wanted so badly to be able to do it too.  She kept saying to me "I want to do it all myself...Momma help."  And I'd help her get in the crib with Marina.

We took the girls to the carousel at Downtown at the Gardens where we met up with Ella Kate and the girls had so much fun running around and playing. 

Marina didn't want to ride the animals.

Next was the wishing well/fish pond.

Round 2 Carousel Ride

After lunch, we were driving home and the girls were both looking really tired.  Just as Brenna nodded off, Marina yelled "WAKE UP!!!!" At which point Brenna woke up and thought that was hysterical and they had a shouting/giggling match for 5 minutes yelling "WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP" back and forth before Marina fell asleep. 

After perfect naps by both girls, we went to the park and then ended the night looking at Christmas lights.  Everytime we'd see a Santa, Marina and Brenna would go "HO, HO, HO"

In the morning, we made breakfast and played for a little while before Marina went home.

Later that day, Brenna woke up from her nap and said "Where's Rina?"  I want to go play with Rina." She obviously had fun with her buddy.

Brenna's First Haircut

Well the time finally came to get Brenna her first haircut.  I was nervous about it because she really doesn't like me messing with her hair (yes mom, I know it's karma but let the record show that I will never make her sleep in pink spongy rollers) and I have to bribe her with princess gummy vitamins every morning to get her to let me brush through it.  I originally wanted her to get her first haircut at Disney back in November but she wasn't feeling it and I certainly wasn't going to make an issue out of it and put a damper on our Disney day since it was more for me than her anyway.

But her hair was all sorts of scraggly and uneven so we went to Limelight, a cute little hair salon for kids in Jupiter and were really happy with the whole experience.  They let her pick from a list of about 30 DVD's to watch and she picked the Little Mermaid and got to ride in a Hummer while they cut her hair.  At first she started to cry and fuss and didn't want to sit there and I thought for sure we were going to have to abort this mission but thank goodness the hair stylist pulled out the big guns and gave her a lollipop which saved the day! 

It came out so cute!  Here are some fun post haircut pics from December!

Disney World 2010

In November, we made our first trip to DisneyWorld with Brenna and we were lucky to have all the grandparents, Aunt Cookie, Mandy, Stephen, Nick and Alex along too!

Brenna LOVED driving!!!!  She didn't want to get out of the car when the ride was over. 

Waiting to ride Buzz Lightyear

It's a Small World

Look at that precious face!

The highlight of the entire trip was when Brenna got to meet Mickey and Minnie.  She is normally terrified of anything in a big costume like that but she loved on Mickey and Minnie for as long as they'd let her. 

Here's the video of Brenna meeting her idols, Mickey and Minnie!

Cutie pie Alex in Minnie's Clubhouse

Taking a power nap on the Winnie the Pooh ride

She still talks about seeing the castle "where the princess lives"

Souvenirs on the way out.

SeaWorld the next day.

What happens after a long day....

And we're up again!

Playing back at the resort.