Just for Laughs!

So, I've had some complaints lately that my blog is boring...SORRY! It's certainly not because our lives are boring right now and definitely not because Brooke is boring! I just haven't caught her latest on video/camera lately. So, hopefully this won't be boring. I was looking through some old videos the other day and found this one of Brooke laughing. She was about 3-4 months old. I love it because it sounds just like her laugh now! The second one is from the other night when I was trying to get a good laughing video of her (best done by one of daddy's tickle-attacks!) Enjoy!

St. Louis Visit

We had a nice visit in St. Louis this weekend to celebrate Mommy and Aunt Jen's birthday and to celebrate Rosh Hashana. Brooke enjoyed spending time with all her family and some friends. Since she is in a big girl bed at home and way to big for her pack-n-play, we decided to get her a travel bed. She absolutely loved it and was very excited about her "bacation bed!" and she slept great on it!

Below is Brooke helping Grandma cook for dinner Saturday night.

..and a little coloring...

Playing with Gabriel

While in St. Louis, we got to have a nice visit with Stacey and Gabriel. Brooke and Gabriel had a fun time playing together.

Happy Birthday Mommy!

Thursday I had a nice surprise when I got home from work: Brooke and Daddy had baked me a cake for my birthday! Brooke was very excited about it and told me, "We baked you a cake ALL by ourselves!"

We then got to go to St.Louis to celebrate with Aunt Jen. Whenever we asked Brooke who's birthday it was she would say, "mommy's and aunt jen's!" She was excited about more cake too!

GO MIZZOU!

Grandpa Stuart and Grandma Barb came to visit this weekend. Brooke ended up with an ear infection but was still able to enjoy watching the Missouri Tigers and playing with Grandma and Grandpa. She only felt bad for about a day and is already back to normal!

Grandpa, Brooke and Daddy in there tiger shirts!

Building a tower as tall as she is!

Visit to KC

A few weekends ago (I've lost track!) we went to KC to see some friends Saturday night and then we got to see Oliver's new house (and his mom and dad!) Brooke got to spend Saturday night with her Aunt Arianne while Jason and I went out. Below are some pics of Brooke and Oliver.
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, these are literally the only 2 pictures on my camera from the last 3-4 weeks. Guess we haven't been doing anything too exciting! Grandma Nickell came to visit this weekend and she and Brooke had a great time, but no pictures were taken. The "big girl bed" update is that it is still going great. She still won't get out of bed until she calls for us to come in her room! I hope all of her transitions go this smoothly!

Giving Oliver a hug!

Big Girl Bed!

Today we converted Brooke's bed to a toddler bed. We have been talking about it for a while and she was very excited about it. She has never tried to climb out of her crib and she actually usually doesn't even stand up in her crib until we come in her room so we didn't have a good reason to change her to a bed. But, she is getting heavy to put in and out of the crib and at some point we need to get rid of the binky and potty train, so we figured we'd tackle one milestone at a time and that this would probably be the easiest.

After Jason changed her bed this morning, Brooke ran around saying, "big girl bed, big girl bed!" and kept climbing in and out of it. The picture above was not posed, she just climbed in and started reading her book! She did great with her nap today and called for daddy when she woke up and was still laying down in her bed. He had to tell her she could get up! (We are hoping to keep it this way!)

So, hopefully this transition to "big girl" will continue to be this easy. Jason and I did feel a little sad moving our baby out of a crib. On another note, Brooke is telling us that she is going to give her binkie to her baby cousin, so if we haven't gotten rid of it by January, we are hoping to get rid of it then!

It looks like she is posing in this one but she was actually sound asleep! She had been asleep so long we were trying to get her to wake up so she would sleep tonight!)

Here is a pic of our big girl in her new dress Grandma Nickell and Aunt Arianne bought for her!