More like My Mom Everyday

So I have heard a lot of people say that Brooke favors me and some say she looks just like Chris....she changes with every pic we take...but she does look a lot like my baby pictures...I stumbled across my kindergarten pic the other day and you can def tell she is my kid. Also I think my sweet girl is going to get my curls. The back of her little head is full of curls and the front looks like I flat iron her hair...its so funny.


Brooke on the 4th of July

Me In Kindergarten


Sweet Curls!!

A Quick Update

We have been so super busy getting packed up for the move and trying to get our house leased for the 2nd time (long story). Brooke is growing and getting bigger by the day. Her new things are playing chase....she loves for you to tell her that you’re going to get her and chase her...she giggles and laughs so hard. I have also taught her to hold up one finger when you ask her "Brooke, How Old are you?"....it’s so cute. She is again teething like crazy, poor thing they are hurting her and she has bit me twice. She is back to gnawing on anything she can to get some relief we had a few weeks of teething free pain but that is gone....On another note our house will be finished this Friday the 25th and we will close on the 30th and move in on the 1st. Here are some pics from the last week or so and some of the new house





Pics of the house...BTW my walls are not as yellow as they look in these pics, they are more of a Butter color.



Cruising in my car...check out my new striderite shoes...aren't they pretty.


Teething is rough, good thing Mom lets me have her bracelets for chewing!!

Lazy Sunday....

for Brooke anyway...So we are moving in 3 weeks(tentatively) so I am packing the house in my free moments(haha) free moments with a 13 month old are few are far between but I have managed to keep her entertained so I can get some things done. I was packing up the kitchen when I came across these plastic paper plate holders that I was going to put in the give away box when I decided to give them to Brooke....she literally played with these for an hour or so. I would stack them up and she would strow them out and then we would repeat the process...she then would take one and take a lap around the living room and come back to the kitchen with it....needless to say they have not remained in the give away box...I have a lot of packing to do and you just have to go with what works.





Hanging out on the dishwasher....don't we all at some point in life!!



I love to look out the window and watch my doggy brother and sisters


Riding my pink Princess Horsey!


More cheese Please!!

Brooke was stir crazy apparently because I started missing her because she was so quite so when I went to find her, I discovered she had climbed into her car by herself and had the belt in her lap ready to go...so even though it was literally a 100 degrees with a 100% humidity at 330 in the afternoon I took her for a quick hot stroll. She was more than excited. Our neighbor was cutting his grass so she was very interested in watching him, she is so nosy that I very rarely can get pictures of her looking at the camera.





I was trying to climb up in the window and fell down and hurt my bum...diapers just don't cushion the bum like they used to.

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th everybody. We stayed home today pretty much all day and packed. We did ge out for a few minutes to visit the grandparents and to check the progress of the new house. I have included a few pics from today and one from a year ago today...my how she has changed.

C E Byrd High School Class of 1988

Hard to believe that Chris graduated 20 years ago..and a lot of his classmates have children in high school and we have a one year old..haha. They planned a meet and greet Thursday evening, a dance like prom thing Friday night( I stood my date up because the baby was not feeling well) a picnic Saturday and the Reunion Saturday night...it was a lot but they had around 40 or so and most were from out of town. Chris had a good time catching up with everyone...he was Mr. Popularity in school...involved in everything and from what I heard a real player...I have heard that before, but he did have a lot of girlfriends back in the day. It was so fun hearing all there stories of teachers and such...I graduated from the same high school but it was 7 years after Chris so a few things had changed...here are some pics from the weekend. There are a few of Chris...more of Brooke (sorry when she is with me she steals more camera time, can't help it) Oh I might add that every pic Brooke is eating...that is because that is all she did that day was eat...haha about time!!

My Daddy had a Birthday

and CAKE....and I love cake. Chris's birthday was Thursday so I got him a cake from Brooke both of them loved it. She had it everywhere, she made a bigger mess with this cake than she did with hers....I think it was because this was whipped icing and easier for her to handle. We had a good weekend, did not do much but hang around the house mostly. Brooke is very close to walking, she will walk a long the furniture and leet go for a second but then soon grasp back on. Her new favorite thing to do is crawl thru the banister post in our entry way...sometimes she will crawl thru at an angle and get stuck its really cute. She has been tugging tugging on both ears, I was so hoping all this was behind us. I am hoping that they are better soon. I will keep you posted. Here are some pics and videos from the weekend.

Our First Trip to the ER

Well I picked Brooke up from her sitters and we got home and Brooke was tugging on her ear that we lost the tube from....she had tugged so much that her earring was so tight her ear was purple. So we go to get the earring off and her ear starts bleeding pretty bad. So Chris tries to get it off and the pearl broke off of the post and her ear starts swelling around it. It is now impossible to get this earring off. So I decide to take her to the ER. We get to Suttons Childrens and sign in at 645PM and finally get called back at 940PM. The charity hospital LSU was not taking any more patients because they were filled to compacity so every ER in the city was feeling the rath. So we get back there and the nurse and PA look and decide that they will lube it up and pull it thru the back, that was not going to happen because the post was to big. So they decide to strap her down and numb her ear and try and cut the post out. After numbing the ear the lobe had swollen so bad that they could not possibly see the post any longer. So the Doc comes in and says that the are going to have to cut her lobe (oh NO) but lucky the PA decides she want to try an little longer and sees a sliver of the post and snips it...and the earring comes off. They wound up cutting the other earring too because we could not get it off either. I have never and hope I never will again see my beautiful daughter cry this hard. She was so upset and screaming so that I almost passed out. I feel somewhat responsible for getting her ears pierced but I know that had she not had the tubes she would have been fine. Below are some pics of what is left of her first pearl earrings.