"Time Changes Everything"

We've always heard that saying and can honestly agree that there have been many moments in our life where this has been true. However, the idea that time changes everything could not more accurately describe our life recently. For the past 2 weeks Brenden has been at his MawMaw's house and we are amazed that the past 2 weeks have brought some MAJOR changes to both of our kids. After 2 weeks at MawMaw's check out Brenden....

That's right...our boy is now swimming with only water wings!!!!

This is amazing to us since we were trying to figure out what would be best to get him for our beach trip this summer and after two weeks of swimming with MawMaw, he has mastered this skill and can now run and jump in the water all by himself thanks to the independence of water wings. He loves this and was so proud of his progress when we picked him up! Here are a few more of him showing off this weekend...

While Brenden was away we would have assumed that things would have been much calmer and quieter at our house. Things were definitely different without him here, but we're not so sure about calmer and quieter! During the past 2 weeks Bryleigh has really found her voice. She was constantly squealing (all in good fun thank goodness) and "talking" most of the day. We were surprised by how loud she would get sometimes while she was playing. She also spent this time without her big brother mastering this...

That's right...Tinkerbell is now pulling up on EVERYTHING!

She is definitely showing more of an interest in things that are happening within her line of vision while standing than she is in what is happening on the floor at this point. She has still not mastered the grace and care that is needed to get down from this position successfully, but we're working on it daily. We knew that she would work hard to gain skills like this in the hopes of keeping up with her big brother, but we never would have guessed that she would master it while he was 2 1/2 hours away.

Regardless of how sad we are to watch them change and grow so quickly in front of our eyes. We're still proud of their hard work and all that they accomplish each day.

We feel like "bittersweet" sums it up nicely! :)