Number 2 Is On The Way

So far, this little baby has been giving me a run for my money. It has been a very different pregnancy from the first one, but they are all different. All of the lovely symptoms that accompany pregnancy started much earlier with this one, but it is all worth it in the end.

At 8 weeks (6/20) we got to hear the heartbeat and see everything going on in there. So far everything looks good! The little bean was measuring 8 weeks and 4 days.

June Updates

Well June was a very big month for Brooke. She had her first boat ride which she absoutely loved, we took our first beach vacation to LBI, and .... Mommy and Daddy told me that her that she was getting a baby brother or baby sister! (Due 1/30/2009)

The boat ride was awesome, PopPop even let her drive! LBI was great too. Her favorite part of the beach was jumping in the water with daddy and playing at the water park (even though when she got to the top of most of the slides she shook her head no, and walked back down the stairs instead of sliding down the slide).

Oh yeah, about that baby brother or sister, Mommy said it is supposed to come in January.

We will see how that goes because at this point she doesn't like sharing my mommy....we will work on that though. If she does have to share her mommy does that mean that she will have to share her toys too?...

Conceiving and Telling Eric I was Pregnant With #2

Before you get excited this post is about finding out I was pregnant with Brandon (#2), not a #3...............Should be dated MAY 2008, but I am writing about it now:

I told a few people about this, but never wrote it down, but I think it deserves to be written somewhere even though Brooke may hate me for it later.

We were trying to #2 since our wedding in March, so I had been keeping track of my cycle pretty closely. So anyway, I'm glad the Boston Celtics won the conference championship against the Detroit Pistons (2008), because it was my lucky night....and also Brandon's. Just think, if they hadn't won, I would have had a pissed off husband and therefore no Brandon...get me?

It is pretty pathetic that I remember this, but for some reason after having Brooke, the frequency of such events has seemed to decline :) Anyway, it is obvious I got pregnant.

I think it was about 10 or 11 days past my guesstimated ovulation date (28 day cycle), I took on of the cheap dollar store tests. (I had just gone out that weekend and about 10 since I figured I was going to need a few over the next coming months) So I took my first of the 10 test in the morning before work and there was an ever so faint line. It looked like an evaporation line and it was really barely even there. Hearing horror stories of early accuracy on dollar store tests I didn't really think anything of it or get too exited. I did spend a descent amount of time that morning at working looking at poas.com or pee on a stick. com, or some website like that comparing my "line" to other dollar store tests. It is a pretty good reference, but again, I wasn't getting excited or anything.

After telling all of this to my SIL she was freaking out, saying how she would be out buying the expensive test and how she couldn't believe that I wasn't freaking out sitting at work not knowing. Being that it was only 10DPO I figured that even if I took another test, it would probably be negative since it wasn't my morning pee.

Well I guess it kinda work on me, so I went to Cost Cutters in Parsippany and picked up one of the EPT Digital tests. So there I am, in the bathroom at work, peeing on a stick......and PREGNANT....I couldn't believe it. I was sooo excited!!!!

So this takes me to the story of telling Eric. I couldn't come up with something too cute, but I decided to wait until he got home and have Brooke hand him the PG test. He was in the kitchen and off I sent Brooke from the other room with the test saying go take this to Daddy. At this point she was just over a year and on her way to give it to Daddy, she put it in her mouth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had put the cap back on and everything, but it was still really gross and really funny at the same time. Eric saw it and after reading it his response was, "What the heck is this"....followed by "I didn't think it was happen that fast" Well, we all know it only takes once. (Married March 15th, last AF was April 25th).

When I say BARELY a line...I really mean it:
Baby Test 10DPO


10DPO-But there are some shadows


EPT Digital-Mid-Morning Pee, 10DPO

May Flowers

The month of May flew by. Brooke's favorite past time is being out side, end of story. She gets very upset when she is told that outside is closed for the day. She spends a lot of time out there with the dog and with her sand and water table, minus the water.

She is getting bigger and bigger each day. Her words are getting clearer (mom thinks so), and she is talking more. She moved to her big girl bed this month. (Mom is jealous becaues she didn't have a full size bed until she graduated college.)

She loved her first trip to the zoo (Turtleback Zoo).....eventually. She wasn't so sure at first, but she warmed up to the idea. She "all done'd" the turtle and the carousel, but loved the monkeys and the penguins.

April Showers

Brooke must be the only child that cries when I tell her the dishes are all done. Her latest request includes going up the the kitchen chair and trying to push it to the sink herself to do the dishes with mommy. Give it 10 years and I am sure this will change.

Lately she is obsessed with going outside and does not enjoy it even when we open the door to let the dog out. Aunt Kris thought that the fusses were because she wanted the dog back inside, but no, Brooke just wants out.....all the time!

Since the spring has started, Brooke now looks up in the sky and tries to mutter "bird" but Emma is still he favorite word. We don't know if she thinks of Emma 24/7 or if she just likes saying it. We also learned that the sand in the play table is not for eating (I wish I had my camera to capture that moment).

Brooke enjoyed her first time to the bowling alley. She actually pushed the ball down the lane and then squated there until it hit the pins, watching the ball slowley roll down the lane. Good thing we didn't pay by hour :)

It's Official

Eric and I finally got married!! It was a long day for Brooke but we all had a great time. Come back in April to see more formal pictures taken by the photographers. As of this month, Brooke is walking and sometimes running all over the place. I guess you could say she is a full time walker trying to get Ty up to speed so they can give Aunt Kris a run for her money. Brooke likes this talking thing but still get confused. Every baby she sees is "TyTy" and every other kid she sees is "EmmaEmma". Some of my other favorite new words are turtle and PopPop. Well she is off to go chase the doggie so I better go!

1 Year Old Already!

I can't believe Brooke is one already. Time flies when you are having fun. She finally has 2 teeth, as you all could see from the Christmas card, her one bottom tooth was flying solo for quite some time. She is only 18 and a half pounds so she is still riding around in the back of the car facing the "wrong" way. She is taking a few steps here and there but she is not a walker yet. She will be soon though so keep checking back for new pictures and some more updates.