Brooklyn's latest discoveries

• She learned how to wave a few days ago and thinks it's the greatest! Still a spastic wave and it's adorable!
• She has two teeth! She got the first one over a month ago and the second came a few weeks later. Still waiting for some top ones to come on down!
• She loves funny noises. Grandpa taught her to make noise when he wiggles his hand over her mouth and she LOVES the change in pitch. Anytime we put our hand over her mouth she starts "talking" so she can hear herself make crazy noises.
  
• When she hears the bath water running, she books it (ok, not that fast since she still only army crawls :) to the bathroom. She loves bath time and can't get enough of it!
• She went through a phase a couple months ago where she would shake her head "no" all the time. Well, it's back! Tonight, we played a game. I would shake my head "yes" and then she would get a big grin on her face and shake "no." Already being contrary..starting young :)
  
• She loves walking along furniture and is getting pretty brave with it (but still cautious enough that I don't have to be right next to her when she's doing it). She is such a scaredy-cat when it comes to standing on her own. As soon as she realizes no one is holding on, she sits down. I'm not sure what's come over her because she used to be such a wild one. But I'm actually grateful that she isn't too much of a dare devil.
  
• She has already had her share of bumps and bruises. We've hit that stage and there's no going back. I put her in our bed the other night (she's still not sleeping through the night consistently) and I couldn't sleep very well so I went and slept on the floor. I told Curt she was next to him. Well...apparently she can no longer sleep on the bed. We woke up to a "clunk" followed by screaming. She fell off the bed onto her head and definitely got a nice goose-egg complete with a rug burn. Yeah, definitely no "Parents of the Year" award for us! And on top of that, my parents have hardwood floor upstairs which has led and will lead to many more injuries I am thinking.
  

She makes us smile and laugh everyday! She has the sweetest disposition and loves to smile at anyone who will smile at her. She is definitely spoiled living by (and with) all of her grandparents and she thrives on attention! Sometimes we just wish she would be sleeping through the night (she is almost 1 afterall), but then we remember how easy of a baby she is and we would have another like her any day! (Ok, not for a while maybe :) We have been SO blessed to have her in our family and couldn't be happier!

March Madness...

And I'm not even talking about basketball! March has been a busy month, full of lots of holidays and celebrations!

First, we celebrated Uncle Tate's 18th Birthday on March 7th. (Well, we celebrated Uncle Troy's birthday in spirit on March 4th.) For Tate's birthday, we made delicious gyros and had Death by Chocolate for dessert. Can't believe the baby is an adult (at least legally!) Brooke was happy he had a birthday so she could play with his balloons!


Then, we celebrated Mardi Gras (a day late). We waited for grandpa to get home from Minneapolis. We made yummy Jambalaya, and attempted to make a King Cake, but since I was in charge of the yeast part, it didn't rise and was a bust! But we still enjoyed the jambalaya and masks and necklaces. Even Brooklyn liked the dinner and chowed it.


Next, we had Pi Day on 3.14 :) Unforunately, we didn't take any pictures but we had Shepherd's Pie for dinner, complete with Very Berry and Pecan Pies for dessert.

And then, we couldn't forget our heritage a few days later. We had to have the traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage for dinner on St. Patrick's day. I've trained Curt to like it, and he even says he likes the cabbage better every year, surprisingly! We had green pina coladas with our dinner and of course, dressed up in green (except Curt who forget it was St. Patrick's Day..you can tell he's not Irish :) I made a green Jello cake per Curt's special request for dessert (he's been begging for it for over a year since we had one that Sam's mom made.)


Can you find the common denominator in all of our festivities? Yes, we do like food, and themed food is the best! We have had a fun month, and we're totally enjoying Curt's spring break this week. Brooklyn loves having daddy all day for a week! And even though the celebrations are over for March, we have a special someone's birthday to celebrate on April 1st. That's right, Brooklyn will be 1 in just over a week! Not sure how that happened, but we are excited for her party!