Brielle is starting to talk more and more every day, but one word that she struggles with is Hyrum. She started by calling him "baby", then "Harm" which progressed to "Harem", and now she just calls him "Hummer". It's so cute that we have a hard time not using the nickname as well! We want to call him Hyrum so Brielle can learn the proper enunciation, but more and more often we find ourselves talking to Hummer!
Brielle recently discovered that she could open the fridge on her own, and now several times a day she'll open the fridge door, rummage around for a few minutes, and then bring to us whatever it is she'd like to eat.
At least four times a day she brings us the ingredients for chocolate milk.
Those are some pictures of our complex (and how they found a sunny day to take the picture on I will never know!)
Across the street from our apartments is a lake (Martha Lake) with a few playgrounds for the kids. You can see our apartment buildings in the background.
This is our complex.
This is our pool.
Here are some pictures of the inside of our place.
We have a gas fireplace.
Our place has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a walk-in-closet in the master bedroom, a laundry room with a nice new washer and dryer (as opposed to just having them in a closet like some of the places we looked at, we have an actual room, so we can hang things up should we feel inclined!)
Except I didn't sell my hair....I donated it to Locks of Love, a non-profit organization that makes wigs for children with medical conditions that cause hair loss. Locks of Love
Hyrum was blessed last Sunday and he was a perfect little angel. While he was being blessed he just smiled and laughed at everyone (as opposed to screaming, like his sister had done!)
Hyrum's nickname is "Happy" because he is such a happy kid! He's always smiling and gurgling and cooing at us, so so cute! We sure love our little boy!
But the highlight of the trip was without a doubt riding on the ponies! Brielle was so excited to see them and pat them, and once it was her turn to ride one, and she was placed on her pony's back, her face just lit up with a huge grin that she wore the whole time. 
When she had to get off she kept following us around asking for "more, more?" while doing the sign language for 'more' as well to emphasize how much she wanted to go again!
Jonah, Brielle, and Elizabeth in the tub.
All the cousins watching a movie, and by the looks on their faces it's a very intense part of Winnie the Pooh!!
Cute Streadbeck Cousins! Brielle, Jonah, Katie, Emma, Hannah, and Elizabeth.
One day I was putting Hyrum to sleep in a different room and Brielle was being unusually quiet (always a foreboding omen). When I came out I found her like this, she had dragged out the baby bathtub from the den and had pulled a blanket over her to go to sleep like the baby. Her newest thing is doing whatever it is that Hyrum is doing, and I must say it's awfully cute. The only difference in the scenarios here is that while I put Hyrum down with a pacifier, Brielle found a sucker in my purse and was using that (after unwrapping 7 other suckers and sucking on each one just long enough to stick it to the couch).
In the above picture she is trying to do the dishes and in the bottom picture she is "helping" me cook dinner.
A good big sister trying to make the crying stop!
When we got home, instead of following us to the house, Brielle went across the parking lot on her own and sat on the curb to admire her candy. No matter how we called to her, bribing and cajoling, she still refused to come. She had a bucket full of candy and a spot to sit, no way was she going to go home and let her parents take it all away and hand it out in smaller and less frequent portions than she would like!!
Getting ready to spend the night on the curb with her candy!
Our cute little monkey, he slept the whole time!
