Welcome, Baby Celia

On Monday evening at 6:11 p.m., we welcomed into our family a new Breheny: Celia Penelope Breheny. She weighed 7 pounds, 3 oz, and was 20 1/4 inches long. Despite all the concern from the ultrasound technicians that she was measuring short, she came out in the 80th percentile for height.

Santa claus

Nyla doesn't like the idea of Santa coming to her house. She Just wants mommy and Daddy to get her presents. We wrote him a letter the other day telling him not to come to our house. She also wants to get out the ladder so she can go up on the roof and tape up the chimney. I think we'll just put tape over the fireplace.

Flower Girl

Nyla as the flower girl at Andy and Victoria's wedding.

Fun at Boyds Orchard

Our First Visitors!

Grandma Esther and Grandpa Jim with Nyla on our hike through the Red River Gorge



















Us near Creation Falls.


















Pat and Nyla on the Rock Bridge.

What a face!

Nyla blowing out her birthday candles.

Geography according to Nyla

Nyla's new shower curtain has a huge map of the world on it, and she's been learning some impressive geography for a 3-year-old: she can point out Africa, China, Iowa, and Kentucky. However, I was a little suspicious that she was memorizing the specific colors on that map, and would struggle on a new map in which Kentucky was not necessarily blue. Over the weekend we showed her a new map and asked her where Kentucky was. She looked at it, puzzled for a while, then said, "There it is!" She was pointing to Lake Superior.

Nyla quotes

Nyla continues to be fond of big words. Some recent examples include the following.

Nyla to Wyndee in the morning: "You're tired in the morning. I'm tired too. I recognize that."

Nyla on whether she would would like to move back to our condo: "No. It's too suspicious."

Nyla after spilling some cottage cheese on herself: "Mommy, I had a disaster."

Another cute thing she says lately is "not exactly," which is quite amusing coming from a 3-year-old. As in, "Does your grilled cheese sandwich taste good?" "Not exactly." "Do you want to sleep with this [really creepy-looking] stuffed Yoda doll in your bed at night?" "Not exactly."

Happy Birthday Nyla!

Nyla and her birthday cake.









































Nyla on her bicycle. She has been asking us for one for a while now. She was super excited to get it as a present. Her reaction was the ideal reaction a parent wants when they give their kid a gift.

Campus

The Brehenys headed out for a walk around campus today. We all enjoyed the pretty flowers:

Nyla sat on a 300,000,000 year-old fossilized stump:

And everyone enjoyed the amphitheatre:

Boxes

We finally got rid of our boxes. Getting rid of a few at a time via curbside recycling was going much too slow, so I flattened them all down, packed them all into the back of the van, and headed to the County recycling center (on the way, I passed an ideal spot for the next time I have to conduct a shady business transaction).

However, we did save two boxes to build Nyla a cute little house:

Wyndee's getting bigger

Wyndee's really starting to show these last few weeks:

New car

Well, we actually bought our van a little while ago, but we've been slow to take pictures of it. We decided on a used (2007) Mazda 5:

It's what's called a "mini minivan". You probably can't tell from the picture, but it is quite a bit smaller than a regular minivan (and gets much better gas mileage as well).

A few more picture of the house.

Nyla in the living room, or the ballroom as she calls it.

Her favorite thing to do lately is pretend she is Cinderella. Then she has conversations with her imaginary stepsisters, Anastasia and Drizella, as they get ready for the ball. They aren't mean stepsisters they
are nice and friendly.







Our bright pink bathroom. Nyla's favorite room when we moved in.





















The dining room. Thanks for the table and chairs Aunt Vicki.

Eucharist

During the day on Tuesday Nyla asks me out of the blue, " Mommy why did you go up there and get that Eucharist?" I really was not sure how to explain something like that to a 3 year old. I was also really shocked that she remembered and used the word Eucharist. Much later that day she suggested that's what we name the baby.

Preschool

Nyla had her first day of preschool today. She absolutely loved it. She has been talking about it and her teacher Miss Lisa all day. We visited together on Tuesday, she thought the place was great, so today she was really excited to go back. We got there and she didn't cry or anything about me leaving.

Two Nyla Moments -- One Cute, One Disturbing

Last night, I went in to check on Nyla and shut her nightlight off, but I couldn't find her anywhere. Eventually, I found her -- she had put all her blankets in her football toy chest, climbed inside, and fallen asleep. Wyndee and I shared a chuckle over that one.

The disturbing moment -- Nyla jumped on Wyndee's belly and said, "You don't have a baby anymore. I killed it, actually." Creepy.

Also, we bought a minivan (used). Pictures to come.

settling in

"Ta-Da!"

Our packing paper.
Nyla found our winter clothes as we were unpacking.

Getting settled in - 1

We set out our toadstools that Grandma Chief gave us. Nyla thought they would make great chairs, Just like Pat when he was little.

Today we had our ultrasound and found out that we are having another girl. Nyla has been pretty insistent over the past week or two that the baby would be a girl, so I thought she would be pretty excited. But just to show how argumentative she has been lately she got all mad and told us she wanted a brother instead.

The weirdest place Nyla has ever fallen asleep

This picture was taken yesterday. I let Nyla lick the spatula and bowl after mixing up some pumpkin bread. Then she just laid down and fell asleep with her hand in the bowl.