Brooke had a big month this month. She enjoyed the Farm and Horse show for the first time. After Daddy made Mommy paranoid about animals gone wild, Mommy and Brooke successful rode and elephant...without ending up on a segment on Animal Planet.
Brooke seemed to start an obsession with shoes this month. No matter what size or who they belong to, she want the shoes on. Hopefully this won't turn into a Jimmy Choo obsession later in life...
Also this month, Brooke survived a whole week without Mommy. While Mommy was off for her MBA in Pittsburgh, Daddy was left to take care of Brooke. I think the majority of people were more worried about Daddy, then about Brooke. Daddy receive offer for help which included offers to take Kacee off his hands and numerous call asking how being Mr. Mom was going.
Well, everyone survived with flying colors even if that meant animal crackers for breakfast every morning.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
July Updates
For the second year in a row now Brooke has slept through the 4th of July fireworks. This year we were lucky enough to see them from the front porch, while Brooke didn't even move during all the ruckus.
She had my 18 month check up and she is only 22 and a half pounds and 30 inches tall. She has graduated into the 25th percentile for both categories now. As daddy like to points out, She is just about 1/2 mommys height.
I have started playing the "Where's mommy's baby" game with Brooke this month. I proceed to lift of mommy's shirt and aim right for the belly button! (she will get it eventually...I hope!)
She had my 18 month check up and she is only 22 and a half pounds and 30 inches tall. She has graduated into the 25th percentile for both categories now. As daddy like to points out, She is just about 1/2 mommys height.
I have started playing the "Where's mommy's baby" game with Brooke this month. I proceed to lift of mommy's shirt and aim right for the belly button! (she will get it eventually...I hope!)
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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.
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?...
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?...
Monday, May 12, 2008
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
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
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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.
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.
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