Finally an update!

Well, it's going to be short, and of course all about Brooklyn! But we are just all wrapped up in this sweet little girl. She keeps us on our toes and is definitely growing up way too fast! Brooklyn will be a year old in a MONTH!!! CRAZY. David and I are just us, we're busy with work and I recently got called into the primary secretary position which I am LOVING it's so much fun. I wanted to highlight a few of the new things Brookie is learning to do!

*Standing up all by herself (learned how to stand up holding a ball)
*Pulls herself up on ALL furniture, toys, people, etc.
*LOVES..and I mean LOVES dogs
*Says Mama, dada, dog, and barks at all animals
*Sings when Music is playing
*Dances with music
*Plays with other kids, and LOVES them
*Crawls EVERYWHERE
*Occasionally takes steps (when she thinks we're not looking)
*VERY balanced!
*LOVES noses
*Gets extremely excited about balls, dogs, and food
*Really likes eating hot dogs
*Has five teeth two top, two bottom, and one molar
*Is currently working on getting three more teeth (two molars).UGH
*"blows" kisses by smacking her lips together

Brooklyn is just the sweetest baby ever!!! I love to spend every day with her, she brightens up my day by giving sweet kisses! She is usually a happy baby, she's a little nervous around people but will eventually warm up to everyone! She babbles all the time and is usually pretty good at playing by herself so that I can get things done, however, if I'm in the kitchen she's crawling all over my legs and wants to be picked up to see what it going on. I can't believe that in a month my little sweetheart will be ONE!!!! So sweet!

One Heck of a week

WOW that's just about all I can say for this past week! Wow and UGH. I'll do a time line of events to highlight all of the craziness.

*Sunday night, arrive in Pocatello, enjoy a few hours with David's wonderful aunt and Uncle, who happen to have a wonderful home, and are kind enough to share it with us.

*Monday, Brooklyn learns that she loves the little weeny dog and thinks he is great, until he barks...that scares the heck out of her causing her to topple forward and have her first real Crash. Causing me to CRY, be heartbroken because she was on my lap and I couldn't stop her fast enough. :(

*Monday, Brooklyn learned to crawl real crawling! She's been doing the army crawl for a while, but she just got up and started crawling like hey I've been doing this forever.!

* Tuesday, had a pretty good day except I had to go to the primary care center for a HORRIBLE UTI. Which is where I'm predicting our next bad thing came from, read on.....

* Wednesday, actually a really good day, went shopping with David's aunt, found some SWEET deals, Brooklyn was SO SO SO good for me all day long. She was so happy and playful all day! We came home, she took a nap, woke up and had some food. She ate almost all of her food when suddenly she started throwing up...SO MUCH! She didn't stop throwing up, stayed up all night sick sick sick! Poor baby, her first real illness, which also, made me cry (I'm kinda wimpy).

*Thursday, Brooklyn was still sick and not real active, she was pretty lethargic all day and just snuggled (when I wasn't cleaning her mess up or changing her dirty bum). I love that she snuggled with me but sad that it was because she was so miserable.

*Friday, David called me in the morning saying he didn't feel well...oh great! We were supposed to be going home this night and he said he would come home early and we would just leave...I said, NO WAY we will just wait until you are better the best decision ever! He was so sick, poor husband. Brooklyn was also still sick this day but she was getting a little better.

*Saturday, we woke up and decided to start getting ready to go home. We headed home and everyone was better! I was so excited that this virus happened to slip by me! WRONG! I got sick this night at 12:00 and didn't sleep at all...sick sick sick. Not a fun virus!

*Sunday, ME-sick sick sick, everyone else, HAPPY and HEALTHY, which is good!

As I sit here tonight David is well again, Brooklyn is on the mend, I think the left over "sickness" is from her top tooth trying to come in. David left a few hours ago for another week in Pocatello and I think I'm going to go to bed pretty darn quick! David gave me a hard time the other day for not updating our blog so here we go! Oh and he told me to change the background... This is for you honey!!!

Fun new projects

Look how much fun I've been having! I created these fun new blog backgrounds, and the one I'm currently using! Tell me what you think.

Holidays/Eight months

So we have been a little busy the last couple months. We had a tough couple weeks with finding out that we were pregnant and then we ended up having a miscarriage. It was and is tough but we are looking forward to eventually trying again and we just enjoy spending time with our little Brooklyn in the meantime.

Brooklyn is SO much fun right now, she is army crawling everywhere, and she's getting so good at it. She LOVES toys and will roll/crawl so that she can get at them and play. She turned eight months old on Christmas day and oh was it fun. She wasn't as active with the wrapping paper as we thought she would be buy oh does she love all the gifts. She was SPOILED from everyone! She got clothes/toys/blankets, and so much more. She would get fixed on a toy and just spend time playing with it and then she would move on to other things. Here are all the new fun things that Brooklyn is doing in a list:

-Army Crawling
-Rolling ALL OVER
-Has BOTH bottom teeth (top are coming FAST)
-Blabs all the time
-Stands up on objects
-Will NOT sit still in your lap
-Gives GREAT kisses
-Loves suckers
-Knows how to operate her toys
-Sleeping pretty much through the night
-Eats pretty much anything we give her

Basically she is the best thing ever. We sure enjoy her sweet spirit in our home. She is such a happy loving baby. I feel so blessed to stay home and enjoy watching her learn and grow.

Our holidays were a lot of fun, mostly because of Brooklyn but also because we got to spend time with families. It is so nice to live close and be able to share the holidays with both of our parents, siblings, and Grandparents. We just really enjoy all of their company. Please enjoy some of the pictures of the holidays.

Six months...can you believe it!

So my little princess turned six months old...I just cannot believe it. She is just changing every day, she is such a happy baby I couldn't ask for anything better! We went to her doctor the other day and he was saying that at this age is when they start to get stranger anxiety, not Brooklyn. As the doctor was saying this about her getting stranger anxiety she was laughing and smiling at him! He was surprised, not us, I swear she likes other people more than us sometimes. She is such a flirt, anytime we go anywhere she smiles at anyone who walks by. She knows no stranger.

6 month stats:

Weight: 16.4lbs-40th percentile
Height: 26 1/2 inches 75th percentile

She still REALLY hates the car seat. We went on a trip to Pocatello and she did not enjoy the ride down one bit, lucky for us she slept almost the whole way home.

She is quite a talker..she babbles at us all the time, especially in the morning time. She started saying Ba ba ba and loves to talk to her dad.

She sits up all by herself really well now, unless she sees something she wants then she dives for it and sometimes crashes.

She LOVES to eat, so far she has enjoyed everything we have tried....except chicken. Hopefully she will like real chicken because we eat a lot of chicken.

She is still not sleeping through the night, I have no idea what to do, we've tried "scheduling" naps, and feeding times. She wakes up to eat at about 2-3 every night. And she whines a couple times for her paci. I just hope she grows out of it. It's not too bad I suppose.

We just love this little girl and the sweet spirit she is in our home. She is her daddy's little girl all the way, but she is my princess. I feel so lucky to be able to stay home with her and watch her grow and change. I am so grateful for my husband and family and all they do to support us and the love they give Brooklyn.

I decided to do a little mini photo shoot with Brooklyn, she's so fun to take pictures of!








by the end of this she was so angry at me! But she's so darn cute!!!

Happy Halloween..a little late

For Brooklyn Halloween was just another day :) she dressed up as a little bee and went and saw her Grandpa and grandma Bennett. We met them in Nyssa to see my dad's mom at the assisted living where she is staying, all the people gather in their foyer and hand out candy to all the trick-or-treaters that come in. Brooklyn and Stella had them all going. They were flirting/smiling at everyone and everybody just thought they were so cute. After that we went to my parents house and had pizza and saw some trick-or treaters. It was a good time.

Just a quick update

We took Brooklyn to the Pumpkin patch this year and it was a lot of fun, she was so good! She is almost 6months old and here are the fun things she likes to do:

*Loves to put her toes in her mouth!
*Is such a happy camper in the mornings...which means Cranky at night
*Sits up all by herself
*Loves toys and is figuring them all out
*Can grab toys and pass them back and forth from both hands
*Doesn't mind being on her belly as much, she gets tired of it because she can't crawl
*Scoots around slowly
*Loves to eat!
*Loves to play with people
*Very ticklish on her sides
*Loves to play peek-a-boo with blankets and has figured out how to move the blanket off so she can peek.

These are just a few she is getting so smart every day. We love our little girl and could not imagine things without her. She is the center of our universe.