Sierra Says...: Kelsey and Brookelynn

On the 20th, we had my cousins Kelsey (left) and Brookelynn (right) over. Kelsey is three and Brookelynn is turning two in a week. As you can imagine, they did some pretty cute stuff while they were here. The first of these things was when they wanted to perform the song "God Bless America" for us. Just in time, my sister grabbed her camera and started recording it.

After Kelsey was finished singing, we got a second performance from just Brookelynn. She only knew some of the words and kept repeating them over and over, but it was just so cute!

My mom has been saying that we need to figure out a way to keep exercising over the summer, so My sis and I figured that having our cousins over was a pretty fun way to do it. How is this exercise? Well, between whoosh (hold them by their arms and swing them into the air), swing (hold them by their arms and twirl them in a circle), horsey rides (sit them on our backs and walk around on our hands and knees), running around for hide and go seek, hot air balloon (wrap them up in a towel and carry them around in it), and pulling them up and down our long hallway on a towel, I think we got a pretty good work out! Here are a few pictures we took of the day's activities:

This is me and my friend Marcea carrying Brookelynn down the stairs. For some reason, the girls only liked being carried up and down the stairs. (The guy in the background is Jonas, Marcea''s brother.)

This is us holding Brookelynn again. This time she wanted to look out the "window" in her hot air balloon for the picture.

This one is Kelsey, happy to finally get her turn on the balloon. She had been waiting very patiently and watching her sister.

Unlike Brookelynn, Kelsey wouldn't look out the window no matter how many times we asked her to, but the back of her head is pretty cute too. :-)

This is the only picture we got of the towel pull. Kelsey is still trying to get onto the towel. We put them both on the towel and pulled at first, but got tired after about two times, so we made them go one at a time, which they didn't really get until we started pulling when only one was on and the other was left behind. Then they got what we were doing and waited eagerly for their turn.