Persuasion

Kameryn has started a new persuasive techinique. She's getting pretty good at it and uses it to her advantage quite frequently. Here is how it works:
Step 1: Kameryn wants said thing (bubbles, a bath, candy, a movie)
Step 2: Kameryn asks for said thing
Step 3: (This is the new persuasive technique) Kameryn uses one of the following sentences:

said thing will make my tummy feel better or said thing will make me happy

For example, yesterday she found bubbles and said to me "Will you open these for me? They will make me happy"
My favorite is that almost anything will make her previously perfectly healthy tummy feel better. I won't even know she has a tummy ache until suddenly a movie would be the perfect cure for her ailing stomach. Silly girl.

Pansy Mouse

We had an experience today that will alter the history of the Bowen family forever. I, Brittany Bowen, (the wife no less) killed a mouse with my bare hands...okay, actually it was with a broom, but still. "Now, " you may ask yourself, "isn't that usually the job of the husband?" Yes! Yes it is! However, as I found today, that universal truth is not so in the Bowen house. Just imagine for a moment; poor helpless me, so scared to death I am shaking, staring down a mouse with a broom in my hand while my husband stands back in the family room ready to jump on the couch should the mouse flee. Chivalrous right? It was only my will power to finally do something brave all by myself that empowered me to slam down the broom. Not a fun experience. I don't like mice! (Apparently, my husband likes them less) But, as much as I don't like them, I, by no means, enjoy killing them.
Mice, of course, will be an innevitable visitor in our house; we live in a trailer next to a dairy. Not forever, of course. But we will be in the country forever, and country means mice. I just hope I don't have to do that again. I can't wait until Cooper is old enough and he can fight my battles for me. Until that day, I have to be Brittany: the incredible, invincible, mouse killer extrodinare. (long title, but I deserve it!)
Just so you know, I made Brandon take me out to dinner for my heroic efforts. I don't really like eating out but the thought of cooking in my kitchen after I had just killed a mouse in there gave me the heebee jeebees. I also made him buy me flowers. We're still not even yet. That was a big deal! Yuk! I will never be the same... but I did it. (Go me! I guess...)

Mom My Ride

Gwen sent me to this link and I thought it was funny enough to go on my blog (obviously) Click for a quick mommy laugh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEFE3B0Rje0

Jump! Jump!

The Bowen Family is now the proud owner of a trampoline. We have been wanting to get one for a long time, and we finally had the money so we said: Let's go for it!!

Kameryn loves her trampoline and has been making us jump since it made it's debut in the back yard. She just can't get enough of it.

Daddy doing a "bum-flop"

Kite Flying Fun

Music Prodegy

The other day while I was busy folding laundry, Kameryn was ammusing herself with Mommy's choir music. She was so cute singing the song and holding up her music. I was so proud of her.

Pretty Pretty Princess

Last weekend, Aunt Mandi came to babysit Kam and Cooper while Brandon and I went to the stake prom. Kami was so excited to see "Ann Manny" and had to take her back to her room to play. Since it was a special occasion we broke out the dressup. Kam had so much fun putting on makeup and jewelry with her "Ann Manny". Unfortunately, Mandi hasn't quite mastered the child watching technique and she allowed my daughter to dump a whole container of glitter all over her floor. Silly "Manny" (Just teasing, by the way, it was totally a lack of supervision on my part... as usual)

Princess Kami and Princess Mandi

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