Happy 1st Mothers Day

Well the first part of my Mothers Day was wonderful. We woke up had coffee and then went to breakfast at Cracker Barrel, it was wonderful! But then dreaded time had come where my friend Kristal and I had to get on the road for our 7 hour drive to Birmingham, Alabama. Chris followed me over to her house and I said my tearful good bye there. We shared a lot of tears on that trip. I am so happy to be home. I have included some pics of My mothers day. Chris and Brooke gave me a beautiful necklace with mother in child surrounding a pink heart.....I LOVE IT!!

Spring Cleaning, Brooke Ashley style!!

So Brooke's favorite thing is to get into everything!!! She loves to take the clothes out of the dryer as I am putting them in and she loves to take stuff out of the cabinets and throw them on the floor. If she is not supposed to have it or its not a toy then of course she wants it. There is never a moment to sit and relax when we are at home...she is always on the move. She is so much fun these days and little comedian at that. She can make any day better and make me laugh out loud at some of the small things she takes joy in....in case you have not already figured it out....I am IN LOVE with that little girl. I have included some pics of Brooke in her poodle 1st birthday out fit....some of her playing under her excersaucer, and some of her cleaning out my cabinets.

Sleep, Sleep and thats right More Sleep.

So after going thru a lot of our vacation pics I noticed we had a lot of pictures of Brooke sleeping....Disneyworld is a vary tiring place especially for an 11 month old. Since we have gotten home she has not slept as much...all she wants to do is her new favorite thing, which is stand up. I have included a few of the sleeping pictures. The last ones, she was falling asleep on Its a small world and Chris took a picture and she sat up and gave him that look....too funny.

Brooke's First Vacation

All and all we had and ok trip...I would not say it was great nor would I say it was money well spent. I did enjoy watching Brooke see all the differnt things Disneyworld had to offer. She pretty much hated the characters...some more than others. It really all came down to how much effort they put into making her feel ok. If they rushed her, she would have a meltdown. We all had our hangups on this trip. Brooke's 2nd tooth broke thru the gums on Saturday night so that would def explain some of her actions while we were there...but she was such a trooper. Everyone kept commenting how good she was for her age. I got flu like symptoms on Wednesday from our trip, where I was vomiting, running fever, I lost my voice and such basically felt like "poo". Chris's back was hurting him so bad he could barely walk so we had a very laid back trip. Brooke started standing up while we were there free hand. She has started pulling up more since we have been back home, but there she would put both hands on the floor and put her butt in the air and stand up. Some of her pics from vacation she looks more like a little girl than a baby and that makes me a little sad...but she is so much fun these days. Here are some more pics from vacation.

Vacation Pics

These are pics from Main Street USA in Magic Kingdom and MGM Studios.

Florida here we come !!

So we are all packed and ready to go to Disneyworld. I am so ready for this vacation, I hope it goes well. Brooke has not felt good the last couple weeks and I am hoping this trip will not be to hard on her. It was to late to cancel or I think we would have. She had a great day today, so hopefully she is on the road to recovery. I took a couple pics of her in one of her swimsuits(she has 3) and her sunglasses and her imitation crocs...too friggin cute. I will plenty of happy pics to post when I return. So enjoy!!

Stinky ol Virus

This by far has been a rough few days. Brooke has been running fever, vomiting and diarrhea. She has a bad ear infection in one of her ears and they are thinking she might have rotovirus. So far today she has had one bottle and that is it. She turns her head everytime she sees her bottle. I am hoping she takes something soon, otherwise a trip to the ER might be in our future. Here are some pics of her and a video of her rocking the rockin chair. and her new thing with her foot every time she hears music she gets the foot a going!!!