All About Sweet Brooklyn

Since my last post was all Reagan, this one is for Brook. She's not nearly as quirky (yet), but mostly smiley and adorable.

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Last Sunday after church, we went to a hibachi place with the girls. A first. Reagan loved it, but Brooklyn immediately lost it when he lit the grill on fire. She was FREAKING out. (this is one of her quirks, I guess. She is a TOTAL wimp.) The manager brought her this lollipop. Again, a first for her. I managed to get it away from her so she'd eat her lunch, but we went right back to it after she ate.

This is the squirt with her new walker! They pimped her ride!!! It is now a nice shiney gold and red, and the front wheels swivel. Her first one only went straight, now she is learning to steer AND walk at the same time. Big stuff!!
Every new thing we throw at her, she takes it and runs (literally!) with it. She can do laps around our coffee table with it now, steering like it's nothin'. Soon, we'll take off the rear brakes and she'll have to learn to stand up in it without pushing it back. But, baby steps again for now. Notice though, that this time we were practicing without using the sling! Again, a new trick.
LOVE this face.

Gotta love the big grins, too!

(serious trippage on the pants... we quickly fixed that, but it's a constant battle when she doesn't have on her boots. And if you look close enough, you can see that I guess I need to mop my floors... AGAIN. The knees of a crawler give too much away!)

She is REALLY into phones right now. And by right now, I mean the last 6 months or so. Baby rattles, cell phones, shoes, calculators, remotes... they all go to her ear like this:Btw, isn't that outfit PRECIOUS?! Thanks Julie! Wish it were still long-sleeve weather!!

These were awhile ago, hence the long sleeves. Busted out the bouncy castle, and it was B's first time to get in. She looooooooooooved it.
I love the static hair on both of them!

This would be why my girl still wears onesies. Poor thing is going to SWEAT in them come summer, but with her still crawling as her trusty mode of transportation, onesies are needed. Shirts hang everywhere, bunch up, and her scar hangs out. Which I don't care about showing it really, but some people probably don't want to see it! Anyways, look at that happy girl!

Man, she is BLESSED with those Baby Blues. Enlarge this to get full effect.

This girl LOVES to play with toys. Probably more than Reagan does. She will grab a toy and actually sit and play with it for a good while. The piggy bank is a huge fave. She can actually put the coins in by herself in the top as of the last couple of months. And of course she is so proud.

Here, miss thang has grabbed her boots to tell me she wants to walk! MASSIVE improvement from the girl who would cry everytime she saw them! If you haven't seen her boots yet (can't remember if I put pics up or not), aren't they cute and girly?!

Pretty Girl.

Again, sitting and putting the letter blocks in her train.

Look at her with that fork!!!! She has gotten quite good with it this week, and INSISTS upon eating with one. She can only do it with "stabbable" foods (hasn't quite gotten the scooping motion of a spoon yet), so if we are eating something that won't comply, we HEAR about it. But hey, I'm so proud of her! Such a big girl thing to use a fork to eat!!!

I caught this right after the "look what I did, Mom" grin on her face. You can still see her eyes smiling, though. I love how her eyes smile.

This is a rare photo of B with her mouth closed. It doesn't happen too often, but she is giving us more and more "mmmmmmm" sounds these days. Baby steps with this too, I guess. She also gave me a few "Fffffffff"s today for the first time. Even repeated it after me. Hey, it's something! Pray for all of us with this whole communication thing, please. B is SERIOUSLY frustrated that she can't talk, so she grunts and fusses constantly to get what she wants. She does sign, which is helpful, but it always starts with a fuss. Drives Reagan crazy especially! R has started spontaneously praying throughout the day, "Jesus, PLEEEEEEEASE help Brooklyn learn how to talk!" I guess that is a healthy way to deal with the frustration. But man, we are all frustrated and learning some patience. The girl knows exactly what she wants when she wants it, and wants SO BADLY to tell us. She'll get there..... but please pray about this.

Since I had the camera out, she EAGERLY points to her new hat sitting on the table, then signs "Please." Wanted her new hat on! I stuck it on her head, and she "cheeses" for the camera. Goofy girl.

LOVE my sweet Brookie Brook. She is getting so big so fast, and we couldn't be prouder of the precious girl she is!