Fishing Fun!

Matt’s brother Christopher came into town last weekend after a work conference in DC.  They had originally planned to go sightseeing and visit a few museums.  But if you know a Brown, you know that nothing is more fun than fishing.  Once Christopher heard how good fishing was around here, they changed their plans and went fishing two days straight and only came home when they caught their fishing limit.

Believe it or not, this is Matt’s brother Christopher.  Yes, they look incredibly alike…to the point that my girls kept calling him “the boy that looks just like Daddy.”  Call me crazy, but I think Uncle Christopher rolls off the tongue a little smoother.

Further proof that at least one of my children is genetically related to me!

So my mom has been scanning pictures from our childhood into her computer and periodically emailing them to us kids.  Its a lot of fun to see.  But just today, my mom sent a picture of my first day of school, which would be almost exactly Sydney’s age.  So you have to admit that there is a slight resemblance…or am I just fooling myself again.  I always joke that if they didn’t come out of me I would doubt that they were truly mine, but maybe that’s not really the case. (Even though they really do look like 95% of their genes come from the Brown side!)

 

This is my first day of Kindergarten.

 

 

 

 

And here’s Sydney earlier this summer.  So we really don’t look that much alike, but there are some similarities…right?

 

 

 

 

 

But there’s still that 5% of my genes that’s lurking somewhere hidden in these other two.  They are definitely Matthew’s children.  No mailman accusations around here!

 

Yea, they’re definitely his.  But they sure are cute.

Itty Bitty Milestones

Well she did it!  Sabrina rolled over.  It feels like she is growing so quickly, and I don’t know if its because I’m so distracted that the milestones take me by surprise, or if she really is a quick learner.  Either way, she sure is cute!

 

She’s such a content little one that it didn’t even bother her to be stuck like this.  She just sucked on her fingers and hung out.

 

 

Sydney’s first day of school (8/31/2010)

Like every other mom out there, I was nervous for my little girl to start school.  I was so frazzled and nervous that morning that I didn’t even remember to take a picture of her getting on the bus.  But here she is getting off and loving it.

She has an amazing teacher, and is already learning so quickly.  I’m astounded by how quickly she is soaking up new concepts. 

I have to say though, Sydney was nervous about starting school.  (She had a terrible preschool experience in New Jersey.)  However, she was finally convinced that school was okay when I told her she got to ride the bus, eat in the cafeteria, and play on the playground…every day!  You can tell what’s the most important to a 5-year old!!!

Sabrina’s baby blessing

8-1-10

What a beautiful day!  It is always wonderful to reflect on the blessings of a new baby.  Sabrina has been an angel, and definitely what I need right now in my life.  I couldn’t ask for a more pleasant or peaceful third child.  

I’ve made all three of my girls’ blessing dresses and I had fun putting them together.  They are all so different and bring back so many memories of that time in our lives.  Who knows if I will get the chance to make another one…but I kinda hope so!

Chloe’s 4th Birthday Party

A kind of beach party…

So its been tradition for Chloe to have her birthday at the beach since we lived on the Jersey Shore for all of her other birthdays.  So of course she wanted to have a this year’s party at the beach too. We did the best we could with pulling out our little plastic swimming pool and making a “sand castle” cake.

 

But of course, I told Matt he had to finish putting together the playset before the birthday party, and so the night before my mom was helping him putting it together just after flying in from AZ.

The Elusive Smile

So Sabrina has definitely been our mildest baby (especially when I am careful what I eat).  But you would think by the pictures we have taken that she wasn’t very happy because no matter how hard we try (or how tricky we think we are) we haven’t been able to capture her smile.  We were lucky enough to get a picture of Sydney and Chloe’s first smiles just as they happened, but Sabrina is easily distracted and will not smile if the camera is anywhere near.   We have a whole collection of near misses, taken just after the smile disappeared.    

 

 

 

 

 

I even got to a point where I was frustrated at just missing the cutest smile and, in frustration, begged Chloe to make her smile.  She was more than happy to help me out in her own little way.

 

 

 

She’s been smiling since she was 4 1/2 weeks, so its been nearly 3 weeks of near misses, but I am happy that we can finally share her cute smile---even if its only a half smile and its a little fuzzy. (Notice how she had to be looking away from the camera!)