Baby Food Time. . .

Well, Brooklyn is now old enough to start eating her little heart out.  You can tell from the picture that she's not to sure about this whole deal and she would WAY rather nurse than have to eat this stuff!!

Valentine's Day

We were so excited about all the Valentine's we got from family. . .Thank you SO very much!!


It's so funny how kids get excited for ANY day where they get to each a whole bunch of unhealthy food. . .today was no exception.  The boys have been counting down the days until Valentine's. . .I can only hope this continues when they are married and have wives (yea, right!).  They've been looking forward to exchanging their Ninjago cards with their friends and celebrating at their class party.


Brooklyn and I headed over to the school for the boys' Valentine's Day party.  I was in charge of games and let me tell you I wasn't too excited about the whole thing.  It's not easy to do a party game when you also have a 5 month old to take care of. . .did I mention the party was during naptime?


Ryan and Brandon had a BLAST!!! 

Ryan playing his game. . .

Yum!!  Pizza!!

A pencil for the winners. . .

What's New?????

I just wanted to share a few pictures so you can see how much my kiddos are growing.  Time goes way too fast. . . .

Brandon posing. . .

Ryan posing. . .

 Brookie entertaining herself

Such a happy girl

This is the boys' FAVORITE picture. . .It says EVERYTHING you need to know about my kiddos :)

Brooklyn at 5 Months. . .

Well, I knew that a difficult month had to come my way and 5 months, although delightful in some ways, was the pits in others.

• Brooklyn only likes to lay on her back with her feet in the air.  It was quite a feat to get a 5 month picture with her all stretched out :)
• This whole "Bottle Business" is for the birds!!  I think I've spent $50 on different bottles just praying that Brooklyn would magically fall in love it.  No such luck. . .
• We're rolling over!!!   I kept waiting and waiting for the day and FINALLY now I can stop stressing out about the whole thing. (Funny, I kept telling everyone that Brooklyn was just going to do things at her own pace yet deep inside I'm thinking, "Hello child, you're 5 months old and you should be rolling!!"  Just imagine how this Mama is going to react when we get to the walking stage. . .the boys were walking at 10 months. . .that's a lot of pressure!)
• Sleeping at night. . I'll rephrase that NO SLEEPING AT NIGHT.  So much for my all of my bragging in months 1,2, and 3.  I'm paying for it now.  Brooklyn is still waking up several times during the night and it is very draining on me.  Nate can't really help me out because half the time the girl is voraciously hungry and wants to eat.  So I keep telling myself that this year is flying by (it really is) and she won't be a baby forever. . .tear, tear :(
• Her eyes are still the most beautiful blue color in the world.
• Her hair is definitely going be red and she has quite a bit of peach fuzz on the top at this point.
• No signs of any teeth at this point.